Weird one this. We get a million link requests and usually I’m afraid I just ignore them. It feels a bit rude, but you’d be surprised at how many emails I get like this. But I got an email tonight from Mr Mirsad Hasic who runs Soccer Training Guide, and maybe you might want to wander over.
At first glance it looks like any other site, lots of google ads, nothing out of the ordinary. But dig a little deeper and you find that Mirsad has created page after page after page after page of writing, mainly coaching ideas, on the great game. English isn’t his first language, but it’s fine for what he’s doing, and his love of football really shines through. He clearly cares a great deal about the game, and is spending his time writing about it. Good on him. So yes, Soccer Training Guide. Have a look.
Half on this subject, the great Adam Spangler was pondering the absence of a New Yorker for Football type site recently. I know where he’s coming from, but as he says, where are you going to get the time for that? There might be a budget for it over here, but most football fans aren’t going to be interested in long essays about the game. Even Adam’s amazing piece on Clint Dempsey barely got a murmur when I posted it on TiFF. A couple of “wow, didn’t know thats” and then the usual suspects decided it was a good time to remind us that they didn’t rate the player. Well yes, fine, but what about the writing? What about that writing?! Frustrating isn’t the word.
What is there? We have When Saturday Comes, but their longest pieces are two pages, the magazine seems to be thinner every month (if not literally then certainly in terms of worthwhile content). World Soccer is a serious magazine, but they’ve recently dumbed down in an attempt to stay relevant. The world demands shorter, bite-size chunks of everything now. I know Italy has some serious football writing, but I can’t read it. France has l’Equipe every day and France Football twice a week, but while these are ’serious’ publications, there’s no in depth reporting of the sort Adam’s talking about.
Dunno.
Any good sites I should know about? Football sites that are worth a good look. Not news sites, I guess I’m just wondering where else you all go for football reading.
Anyway, I have now been reminded that it’s late. Twice. Best be off….
