Dortmund have scored 71 goals this season

[Rosco]

On a slightly different note, do you know if there is going to be an alternative to Grantland? I loved that site.

Well as you probably know Simmons has hired 4 of the senior staff already to work on a new project, and podcasting is part of it. So I'm guessing they'll have a replacement, but ESPN are done with it

 

[darkstarexodus]

Well as you probably know Simmons has hired 4 of the senior staff already to work on a new project, and podcasting is part of it. So I'm guessing they'll have a replacement, but ESPN are done with it

God I hope so.

My Internet life is empty without it. RIP Grantland.

 

[peekay]

Well as you probably know Simmons has hired 4 of the senior staff already to work on a new project, and podcasting is part of it. So I'm guessing they'll have a replacement, but ESPN are done with it

I know about the podcasts. They are already available on soundcloud. I hope he starts an alternative grantland soon. Loved that website.

 

[tony]

Mike Goodman, who was on Grantland wrote better football articles than any and every English journo.

He displayed a level of understanding and no nonsense factual analysis that would put them all to shame.

But by all means continue to read the brains trust that inhabit the English media, with their outdated bollocks that's lapped up by idiot fans everywhere.

I was intrigued so I did have a look, sorry but the bloke is a complete numpty. And yeah I do have a thing about these arrivist american so called experts - tosspots the lot of them. Statistical analysis has served us so well since these yanks came in.

 

[Rafiagra]

This whole 'club having a philosophy' is a bit over-egged. Of course it figures that a team doing reasonably well playing one style will continue to do so if a new manager comes in with the same thoughts, compared to it not going so well if a manager tries to play a different style.

Check out Moyes and Van Gaal as evidence compared to what Ferguson's Man Utd was. Its not rocket science that all of those players don't fit the mould required of them and so don't produce results. We've chopped and changed over the years - from Evans, to Houllier, to Benitez, to Hodgson, to Dalglish, to Rodgers. The only real link in transition was Houllier to Benitez insofar as they both liked counter attack. The rest was a real mishmash.

Its our old 'Bootroom' approach, i.e. a method that promotes continuity. The key is that its built upon success.

 

[Judge Jules]

Strange post. You start off saying the club philosophy thing is over-egged, then the rest of your post goes on to back it up.