Where to read up on footballing topics....

Sheepy99

What are good sites / blogs to read up on topics such as tactics, style of play or things that would be described mainly as off-topic?
Google searches return the vague results when i'm looking to research things like the ' key differences in styles of play between english and spanish leagues ' ( i know what they are , just using as an example ) , or an article on psg's playing style ( would be interesting seeing as how they're turning into a decent side ) or other things like 'why is there such a lack of funding and money in Italy?' which is contributing to the Italian league's lack of teams who you'd be genuinely afraid of playing?

All in all trying to stay away from the 'generic player & club' news stories

anything at all will be helpful, cheers

murtyd17

http://www.zonalmarking.net/

Oat23

spielverlagerung.de if you speak German or you could just use google translate.

Lumbo

http://www.whoscored.com/

rx8

My son runs www.thefootballnet.co.uk you might find something of interest there.

brevity

Sheepy99 wrote: »

What are good sites / blogs to read up on topics such as tactics, style of play or things that would be described mainly as off-topic?
Google searches return the vague results when i'm looking to research things like the ' key differences in styles of play between english and spanish leagues ' ( i know what they are , just using as an example ) , or an article on psg's playing style ( would be interesting seeing as how they're turning into a decent side ) or other things like 'why is there such a lack of funding and money in Italy?' which is contributing to the Italian league's lack of teams who you'd be genuinely afraid of playing?

All in all trying to stay away from the 'generic player & club' news stories

anything at all will be helpful, cheers

Do a search for Michael Cox, he does zonalmarking, but also writes for a number of other sites including the Guardian.

Lovely Bloke

Read "Inverting The Pyramid" by Jonathon Wilson, pretty good book on the history and evolution of tactics.

Mars Bar

http://adinosmanbasic.wordpress.com

His Twitter is https://twitter.com/AdinOsmanbasic

He's about 19 years old and understands more about tactics and movement than most of us ever will!

Winston Payne

In Bed With Maradona certainly have the offbeat stuff covered. They do a list every year called "The 100" detailing that number of young players as well, which always turns up names I'd never heard of before.

ESPN's football section is actually surprisingly decent. Michael Cox for example will often put up articles that aren't on his site, or a take on the game that's more in-depth on one area of the game or facet of play that he didn't focus on in the Zonal Marking blog of the game.

French Football Weekly is A site about French football...though I'm not in a position to say how good it is. It's in English and it was at the bottom of The Guardian's Football page, and I'll take what I can get for this post.

James Horncastle knows his onions about Italian football and that's his blog.

The_Kew_Tour

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Read "Inverting The Pyramid" by Jonathon Wilson, pretty good book on the history and evolution of tactics.

One of best books I read.

GTR63

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Inverting The Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson, pretty good book on the history and evolution of tactics.

He writes a column for world soccer every month about tactics aswell.

CSF

Just go through my posting history and you'll be grand.

Sheepy99

Cheers to all, some good material there at first glance

The_Kew_Tour

Mars Bar wrote: »

http://adinosmanbasic.wordpress.com

His Twitter is https://twitter.com/AdinOsmanbasic

He's about 19 years old and understands more about tactics and movement than most of us ever will!

Thanks for sharing that one.

Kid knows his stuff

Lawrence1895

It's in German alright, but loads of historic stuff there

http://www.11freunde.de/

Dolph Starbeam

GTR63 wrote: »

He writes a column for world soccer every month about tactics aswell.

Also writes for the Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathanwilson

Inverting the Pyramid is a great book.