Do you think the Monaco Grand Prix would have been any better without the mandatory two-stop rule? – Sukhpal The new rule introduced for the Monaco Grand Prix this year was a requirement to use three sets of tyres in the race. The idea was to increase the number of strategic options available, effectively force...
Mikel Arteta says Arsenal will use “rage, anger, frustration” and “a bad feeling in the tummy” to try and overturn the 1-0 Champions League semi-final first-leg deficit against Paris St-Germain. For supporters travelling to Paris on Wednesday, the scene of Arsenal’s 2006 Champions League final defeat, the stomach churns. Arsenal have not scored in any...
How to Win the Champions League: Jose Mourinho focuses on the Portuguese manager’s two Champions League triumphs – in 2004, with Porto, and that 2010 win with Inter. Modern-day Mourinho has had his man-management sometimes called into question – think Dele Alli at Tottenham and Paul Pogba at Manchester United. But, as the Portuguese manager...
There isn’t enough deception in football tactics. There are the ‘dark arts’ of defending, the dummy and the no-look pass. But where are the Trojan horses, the tactical decoys? Players are getting more versatile all the time and (most) managers are too, regularly changing formation between matches and within them. In fact, a lot of...
OpenAI is suing Elon Musk over claims he has tried “nonstop” to slow down its business for his own benefit. The company accuses the Tesla boss of using “bad-faith tactics” against OpenAI to help him control-cutting edge AI technology. Mr Musk sued OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last year in a bid to stop him...
Tamasin Ford BBC Global Disinformation Unit and Africa Eye Undercover footage shows Dr Kelvin Alaneme explaining how he sells UK jobs to foreign nationals Recruitment agents who scam foreign nationals applying to work in the UK care sector have been exposed by BBC secret filming. One of the rogue agents is a Nigerian doctor who...
But Tuchel is a deep tactical thinker and perhaps too flexible to be anchored to these buzzwords. He is not a ‘philosophy’ manager wedded to one idea like Ruben Amorim or Ange Postecoglou. At Dortmund he pressed high and hard, only to drop deeper at Chelsea, where he developed a penchant for double number 10s...