Scotland liked to pass the ball as a team, while England’s players preferred to dribble like rugby players with the ball, surrounded by their teammates for protection. This is actually pretty cool concept to me lol

This match had a huge impact because of this very reason.

The English system was to dribble the ball right into the opposition, then your ‘backs’ would try to recover it and repeat the process.

They were highly sceptical of the passing game, and it was only when they were held to a 0-0 by Scotland that they started incorporating it - England saw themselves as markedly superior to Scotland so a neutral result was a bouy to Scottish style and England thought well, if they can do that, what if we did it too?

English football has had periods at the zenith of innovation, but it’s equally had periods of stagnation and stubbornness.

Even later on, once they’d adapted to passing, the English 2-3-5 system was considered the only way to play football. The numbers on shirts still carry that over, because no matter how teams lined up in their formation, the English would just pretend they 1 goalie, 2 backs, 3 half backs, and five forwards.

We are gonna see some shit at Goodison if they get another 10. That Goodison dog will be trained to bite Premier League executives.

That’s the third paragraph in the article.

Perhaps there’s more to the stories of the people in the game than just numbers.

Fun fact - Sheffield United have never actually earned a Premier League point.

Every match they’ve taken a result from can be handily explained by poor officiating, teams being off their game, lucky falls of the ball, and somehow dominating without scoring.

They’ve never once actually been any good or merited any of their points.

OP did you upload your work zoom call?

When you just write the skeleton and let the language model round out the rest.

Google Translate:

"Following the war situation in Israel, the club’s CEO Itzik Ovadia contacted UEFA today and announced that the club’s youth team will not be able to host as part of the Youth Champions League.

“The club, with the support of the Football Association, announces that due to the war situation in Israel, we must stop the participation of the youth team in the Youth Champions League. This decision does not come easily as the sport and achievements are very important especially in representing the team and the country in Europe, but the situation of the team, which also includes soldiers who are serving the country at this difficult time and not a few staff members who joined the war effort, does not allow the team to go out and compete abroad in this framework.”

The CEO added in his letter: “We are very proud of the participation of the youth team, the national champion, in the European factories and representing the club and the State of Israel, but at this time there are things that are much more important than football. We hope that we will soon return to compete in the factory, already next season”

Yeah well “proper” blokes don’t chuck years of LBGTQ advocacy in the bin for money either, but here we are Slabhead.