Take the Ball, Pass the Ball documents Barcelona’s success between 2008 and 2012, when Pep Guardiola’s team redefined modern football.

7 years ago

Simple but effective. There are a lot of ways to approach taking a penalty. There’s the Rickie Lambert method, which involves smacking the living daylights out of the ball. Then there is the much-maligned stuttered run-up. There is also the Panenka, the chipped penalty that makes you a genius if you pull it off, and […]

8 years ago

Pure class

10 years ago

A fitted tribute to the man. Barcelona will play their first club game since te untimely death of Johan Cruyff this weekend, and it just happens to be against their biggest rivals Real Madrid. The man who helped create Total Football’ guided the Catalans to their first European Cup triumph in 1992 and was widely regarded […]

10 years ago

A fitting tribute

10 years ago

Genius abridged in one movement. You’ll read all sorts of glowing superlatives and heartfelt tributes about Johan Cruyff over the next few days, following his premature death at the age of only 68. It tells you something about the mark of the man that many respected scribes have excelled themselves with superlative prose in his […]

10 years ago