We welcome a new contributor to Joys and Sorrows. I met almajir at the first Blues fans forum. Since then he has become a friend of mine. He has his own blog where he writes about the Blues among other diverse topics. Check it out here. His first article here on J&S, tackles the issue
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Watching the World Cup it was interesting to see how the successful sides employed a variety of formations to get the best out of their players but very few relied on the traditional 4-4-2 formation. England’s reliance on this and their strategy of getting players to fit it made them look like dinosaurs compared with
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