How To Watch Football: 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, On and Off the Pitch

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The premise of Pat Kirwan's "Take Your Eye Off The Ball" is simple: outside of the typical sideline shot that highlights most NFL plays on TV, there are a thousand-and-one other things transpiring that can give clues as to what is really going on beyond just following the flight of the ball. As such, I wrongly assumed that the target audience would already have a relatively good understanding of the game. I learned quite a bit from this book, since I've come to realize I don't have a very deep understanding of many aspects of football. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). I particularly enjoyed reading about the history of football and the philosophies of different influential managers and their effect on the game today as well as the intricacies of the transfer market and contracts.

Football is the most popular sport in the world, and TIFO is one of the world's most popular football channels. Such a book is meant for someone just starting to watch the game, or atleast with an intent to do so. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. g. Grade A, B or C) and fans should look out in particular for lower grade matches, where availability is sometimes greater.It is essentially a written summary of some of their popular videos, with illustrations to go along. He has spent time working with the Jets in the past, and definitely knows what he's talking about, but doesn't go overboard in details. I will be desperately trying to get some of my non-reading football crazy friends to read this in the months ahead.

It was fun and easy to read like their YouTube videos are fun and easy to understand, but there's so many topics in there I would've loved a deep dive on like Johan Cruyff ideas or the concept of creating space in football. Also, bear in mind that this book was written in 2009, so a lot of things, like active players and schemes, may seem antiquated. Did learn about some new tactical concepts like pressing triggers and half spaces which I found interesting. will not learn anything more than few pieces of trivia, which can be found online as much more interesting reads, and for free.But I think I was also expecting for it to bridge some kind of gap which it didn't really do, whereas the podcast actually did a better job of it for my understanding.