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Bob Pearce
Suarez’s 1st At Stoke – Goal of the Season?
Read moreBy Bob Pearce. Luis Suarez, 2013-14 model. This season he has shown himself to be both a great scorer of goals…
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Bob Pearce
“It’s Only A Model”
Read moreBy Bob Pearce. Flashback to England, in the late fifth century. Exterior. Sunset. Fairly close head-on shot of knights riding…
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Bob Pearce
20 Questions About That Gerrard Injury
Read moreBy Bob Pearce. Gerrard’s hamstring injury, and today’s news that he may miss the whole Christmas schedule, prompted many questions in…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No.13
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. Enforcing behaviour You have referred to tempo many times when we have been talking.…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No.12
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, Bang! How would you define the ‘playmaker’ role?…
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Bob Pearce
Hillsborough Heroes and the Cameron Letters
Read moreBy Bob Pearce. As many of TTT’s subscribers will know, Bob has been mounting a campaign to have the Liverpool…
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Bob Pearce
The Recipe For a Great Team?
Read moreBy Bob Pearce. At the end of ‘What Are The Ingredients of a Great Team?’, TTT ran a survey to allow…
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Bob Pearce
What Are The Ingredients of a Great Team?
Read moreBy Bob Pearce. In May I concluded ‘Who’s the Star, the Players or the Team?‘ with this observation and request.…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No 11. Who Will Blink First?
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. In this issue Bob and Mihail examine the importance of half-time in the tactical…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No 10
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. Let the shape do the work You’ve mentioned pressing several times so far. Could…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No 9
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. The main conductor We talked last time about how the defence and midfield work…
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Bob Pearce
Who’s the Star, the Players or the Team?
Read moreBy Bob Pearce. It was Copernicus who, just before his death in 1543, first proposed the ‘Heliocentric’ model. Simply said,…
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Bob Pearce
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister
Read moreBy Bob Pearce, 11th March 2013. Below is a copy of a letter Bob Pearce sent to the Prime Minister last week.…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No. 8
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. Through, over or around? The more we talk the more I have become interested…
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Bob Pearce
Show Me Something I Can’t See
Read moreBy Bob Pearce. When I was a teenager in the 1970s, football was rarely shown ‘live’ on TV. If you…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No. 7
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. Executed by the feet. One of the few statistics TV commentators are comfortable quoting…
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Bob Pearce
The First Time I Ever Saw The Reds – No. 6.
Read moreBy Bob Pearce. Our series on ‘The First Time I Ever Saw The Reds’ continues with a twist, as Bob…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No. 6
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. A new found fluidity We talked about stretching and squeezing space when in and…
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Bob Pearce
Can We Make Statistics Sexy?
in Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 71 commentsRead moreBy Bob Pearce. Older Liverpool fans will remember a time when there was a very simple rule. If Ian Rush…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No. 5
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. ‘Not Xavi or Iniesta, or even Messi’ The Midfield Midfield is at the centre…
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Bob Pearce
‘Everybody Herzberg’
Read moreBy TTT contributor and subscriber Bob Pearce. How are my team really doing? Am I seeing the ‘green shoots’ of…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No.4
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. ‘The space or the ball’ Last time we spoke about the importance of space,…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No.3
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. ‘Out of nowhere’ Someone once told me that Johan Cruyff had said football can…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No.2
in Subscribers Only, Talking Tactics / / 29 commentsRead moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. ‘To win or not to lose?’ For a manager, is their first priority to…
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Bob Pearce
Tactics for Beginners – No.1
Read moreBy Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. After last week’s intro, the eagerly awaited Q&A session kicks off with Bob asking…