June 2010
6 posts
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
In 2000, Manchester United were dumped out of the Champions League by spanish giants Real Madrid at the quarter finals. That night Sir Alex Ferguson learnt that it is suicide to line up a 4-4-2 agaisnt a dynamic european 4-5-1. United’s midfield was overrun and the team were vulnerable to swift counter attacks.
In 2010, England took to the field with a 4-4-2 formation agaisnt Germany’s...
The Divine Putter
A few years back a good friend of mine gave me a putter for my birthday. I don’t play golf but I’ve always had a love for random trinkets. At the time I thought ‘if the universe sent me a putter then by god one day I’m going to putt something’. M Night Shyamalan used this very concept, let’s call it fate, as the premise for Signs.
So a couple of years; a new...