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South Korea2 - 1Czechia
Submitted my PhD at half time (yes, at 5am). Thought I was hallucinating In-beom’s goal. But turns out the true nightmare of Korea’s World Cup was still to come and I’d be painfully, completely alert to how much we’d stink the entire place out
Cambridge United0 - 0BarnetA reunion with an old and dear friend (and his fiancée) in Cambridge. Complete borefest of a scoreless draw BUT great atmosphere in the away end. Singing “Cambridge is a shithole, I wanna go home” despite being one postcode over from the Abbey >>>. Went for a postmatch pint at the Free Press afterwards and spotted/ said hello to club captain Danny Collinge. The closest ‘away day’ I’ll ever have
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Leeds4 - 1Newcastle
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Crystal Palace4 - 0Lech Poznan
Background to Jon Mackenzie’s book launch of The Spectre of Pep with Joe Devine. Great talk; asked a question about the uptake of Guardiola’s ideas on the international level and the women’s game, in view of Spain’s dominance in both spheres. Got me thinking about how we speak about tactics in siloed terms across men’s and women’s game, as well as club and international
