Dots & Crosses
Scott Parker. Not relevant here, but I quite like him. Also, he looks like he's
celebrating the start of a mediocre and overly-long blog on football.
Dots&Crosses is a one-man blog that aims to provide detailed tactical analyses on a range of subjects in football.
Originally starting as a series of posts in football forums across the internet (here! Feel proud you inspired the birth of this piece of ****) in April 2011 Dots&Crosses was started up to provide a base and archive for all the reports produced. Using stats from sources like Opta and WhoScored, D&C analyses both games (in match reports) and specific teams or tactical innovations (through general articles).
The lack of detail and analysis in the mainstream media is alarming nowadays, and the surfacing of such websites as ZonalMarking shows the recent backlash against it. As such, D&C attempts to marry an analytical and unbiased style with the broader, generalised style the media favour today.
Using such visual aids such as Guardian Chalkboards and my homemade (read: *****) diagrams coupled with stats from the sources mentioned above, D&C has so far covered the following subjects:
Is Daniel Sturridge the man to solve Fernando Torres' Chelsea woes?
Covering:
- Danny Sturridge's U21 international role
- Torres' Chelsea woes
- Learning lessons from the past
- How the two could combine
England 1-1 Ghana - Match Report
Covering:
- The ****** game, you idiot.
How Napoli turned Serie A upside down
Covering:
- The startling change in Napoli's fortunes
- The change in personnel
- Their tactics in Serie A this season
- Their brilliant front three
Who can be England's destroyer?
Covering:
- England's new formation
- The pivotal holding midfield position
- The contenders for the role
Aston Villa 1-1 Stoke - Match Report
Covering:
- Uh... take a wild guess.
What next for England tactically?
Covering:
- England's failure at the World Cup (because we all need to relive that)
- The new system under Capello
- Three likely formations...
- ...and a possible 4-6-0
- Oh, and this author's impending collapse through exhaustion since I spent two hours straight writing blog entries. Sorry to disappoint, I'm not quite dead yet.
Not to mention the other posts you can find littering this forum, though they're so out of date it isn't worth picking them up again now. So yeah: Visit here, comment, analyse, disagree with me, suggest articles and follow me on Twitter as @NTMeredith.
Scott Parker. Not relevant here, but I quite like him. Also, he looks like he's
celebrating the start of a mediocre and overly-long blog on football.
Dots&Crosses is a one-man blog that aims to provide detailed tactical analyses on a range of subjects in football.
Originally starting as a series of posts in football forums across the internet (here! Feel proud you inspired the birth of this piece of ****) in April 2011 Dots&Crosses was started up to provide a base and archive for all the reports produced. Using stats from sources like Opta and WhoScored, D&C analyses both games (in match reports) and specific teams or tactical innovations (through general articles).
The lack of detail and analysis in the mainstream media is alarming nowadays, and the surfacing of such websites as ZonalMarking shows the recent backlash against it. As such, D&C attempts to marry an analytical and unbiased style with the broader, generalised style the media favour today.
Using such visual aids such as Guardian Chalkboards and my homemade (read: *****) diagrams coupled with stats from the sources mentioned above, D&C has so far covered the following subjects:
Is Daniel Sturridge the man to solve Fernando Torres' Chelsea woes?
Covering:
- Danny Sturridge's U21 international role
- Torres' Chelsea woes
- Learning lessons from the past
- How the two could combine
England 1-1 Ghana - Match Report
Covering:
- The ****** game, you idiot.
How Napoli turned Serie A upside down
Covering:
- The startling change in Napoli's fortunes
- The change in personnel
- Their tactics in Serie A this season
- Their brilliant front three
Who can be England's destroyer?
Covering:
- England's new formation
- The pivotal holding midfield position
- The contenders for the role
Aston Villa 1-1 Stoke - Match Report
Covering:
- Uh... take a wild guess.
What next for England tactically?
Covering:
- England's failure at the World Cup (because we all need to relive that)
- The new system under Capello
- Three likely formations...
- ...and a possible 4-6-0
- Oh, and this author's impending collapse through exhaustion since I spent two hours straight writing blog entries. Sorry to disappoint, I'm not quite dead yet.
Not to mention the other posts you can find littering this forum, though they're so out of date it isn't worth picking them up again now. So yeah: Visit here, comment, analyse, disagree with me, suggest articles and follow me on Twitter as @NTMeredith.
