Tag Archives: Cambiasso

Zanetti and Jazzmaster D.

There is method in the madness: a deliberately anarchic approach where improvisation is prized above all else, a cauldron of character-forming uncertainty where real men will float to the top like alphabet spaghetti. No doubt the words said tinned pasta spells out will be transcribed onto the first team sheet, too. All this talk of having the team decided already is just a fudge for fat bloggers to chew on, chum for the chumps. He said it last month, we just weren’t listening: “The players aren’t going to have any excuses, they’re going to run and run.” What we failed to understand was that they would be running from a team of automated fire-breathing dragons controlled by Wolf from Gladiators. Continue reading

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Argentina 30-Man Provisional Squad

As you read pegamequemegusta’s cat is bathing itself furiously and shooting recriminating looks at its master for the overflowing litter tray, yet such is our excitement that we cannot stop, for Diego Maradona is meeting with whatever members of his … Continue reading

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Trapattoni, Dunga & Maradona

So has Maradona matured as a manager or is he turning into his erstwhile nemesis, Dunga? Has he become a purveyor of dull, negative football sure to be undone the first time they come up against a good team or go behind in a game? Or are we seeing the genesis of a World Cup winning manager, a pragmatic Maradona intent, as so many times before in his long career, on getting the best from apparently limited resources and/or compensate for lack of time to impart his wisdom with a strategy no doubt learned on the potreros of Fiorito and which could be pithily summarised on the back of a napkin as: “Stay back there and just give the ball to me; i’m better than you.” Continue reading

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