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It’s Coming Home (To Roost). Or, How English Football Lost At The Euros, But Won Something Far More Important.

In 2018, I wrote an essay about England’s men’s football team and their performances at the 2018 World Cup in which they reached the semi-finals and lost to Croatia on penalties. Among my usual long-winded, drawn out set of wholly unrelated digressions, I wrote at length – for a change – about the statistics of…

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Some People Are On The Bitch; They Think it’s all over. It isn’t yet… Or, There Go Goes The Fear.

“When it comes to life’s penalties and pressure points, Lane suggests thinking of the critical inner voice as “the yobbo in the crowd shouting at you. If you present it that way, [the player] will say: ‘Well, they don’t affect me.’ Sometimes [it helps to] see your own thoughts as a third person and, when…

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