[Featured Article] Twitter Feedback July 2016

Good stuff here from @paul_grech - ‘On Cultured Football’ (interesting sportswriting project) https://t.co/wQNjNMazPN

— Brian McDonnell (@sixtwofourtwo) July 1, 2016

Smashing @paul_grech interview with Jed Davies (aka @TPiMBW) ahead of the release of his book on Marcelo Bielsa - https://t.co/6WfYLuyOOj

— Brian McDonnell (@sixtwofourtwo) July 3, 2016

@paul_grech @TPiMBW good lord that is good reading! Can't wait to read the book.

— Robbie Dunne (@bobdonadini) July 3, 2016

“Best In Football Writing This Week: The Boy Who Made a Legend Cry, Success in the Faroe Islands and…” @paul_grech https://t.co/0LT0tmqtqI

— Dr. Christoph Wagner (@wagnerc23) July 4, 2016

Breaking Down Bielsa's Philosophy of Football: Jed Davies is one of those special coaches who ... https://t.co/YtgFX30KR0 By @paul_grech

— GB Football Network (@britfootballnet) July 4, 2016

Breaking Down Bielsa's Philosophy of Football https://t.co/SCFMhyWmHh Interesting @paul_grech interview with @TPiMBW @CoachingFamily #Bielsa

— Andy Edwards (@andyeeeee) July 4, 2016

Breaking Down Bielsa's Philosophy of Football (@paul_grech & @TPiMBW): https://t.co/uT0dIZ55Rb

— Football Articles (@BestFootyPieces) July 5, 2016

@KieranSmith1 @TPiMBW @paul_grech
Jed always has interesting things to say, I enjoy his work

— OnsideSoccerConsult (@Onside_SC) July 5, 2016

Excellent piece on Bielsa & his philosophy. A bit long but gives as much insight as promised. @paul_grech https://t.co/gfEJjD0XJu

— Mervin LR (@Milestonemonger) July 5, 2016

@paul_grech didn't you write about this? https://t.co/nsSzHQzJlr

— Lee (@LeeCarus) July 8, 2016

Fantastic article. Recommend ALL coaches to read #Bielsa https://t.co/Yj839mUlQm

— José Manuel Figueira (@JoseCoaching) July 9, 2016

Leandro Damião has arrived in Rio for his medical with Flamengo. Here's @paul_grech on the striker's career so far. https://t.co/bhpjcD9WXb

— The Botafogo Star (@TheBotafogoStar) July 11, 2016

Terrific interview guys, some terrific content in here for everyone to easily digest. https://t.co/GbsoMD7P6N

— Ally Bain (@allybain) July 12, 2016

Enjoyed doing this with @paul_grech features #lofc, @GaryLineker and a certain Hungarian coach. https://t.co/yKJoiSP54f

— James Masters (@Masters_JamesD) July 12, 2016

If you want to hear of the best football writing of the week, recommend you join Cultured Football. https://t.co/YnBca0O7Om

— Tony Mee (@coachtonymee) July 17, 2016

Once again I recommend Cultured Football, absolutely boss football writings weekly digest. Thanks to @paul_grech: https://t.co/9GkUKZhUya

— Ivan Potapov (@ingumsky) July 18, 2016

The Benefits Of Writing Down Ambitions: There aren’t many children who dream of becoming accou... https://t.co/okAnYV2FHw By @paul_grech

— GB Football Network (@britfootballnet) July 18, 2016

@paul_grech @bristolicadc Thank you Paul - I like this.. pic.twitter.com/UC0aov4E14

— Andy Edwards (@andyeeeee) July 19, 2016

Leandro Damião - The Man Who Should Have Been King https://t.co/bT7FrPy2yY via @paul_grech for @TheBotafogoStar

— BewareFlyingFooty (@bewareflyingfb) July 20, 2016

The one for those nursing a football hangover

One of my favourite childhood memories is the Saturday morning walk to the stationery. I’d then hand all my pocket money in exchange for football magazines. No sweets for me, the coins in my piggy all went towards Match magazine and Guerin Sportivo (the latter with the excuse that it helped my Italian).

Once a month there was the added bonus of World Soccer magazine which, in those pre-internet days, taught me all I needed to know about football in Brazil, Australia and everywhere else in the world. Remember there was no amazon.com back then: to get a book you often had to buy it off a catalogue and postage rates were obscene.

The full article can be found on the Merlin Publishers' Blog.

[Football] Five Questions For Cultured Football: James Masters, Sports Writer

James Masters is a writer whose articles often go beyond the simple reporting, opting instead to look at the social, historical and political connections that add colour to the stories. He has written for every national newspaper in England and currently is a sports writer for CNN as well as a football contributor to The Times of London.

For his sins, he is also a life-long Leyton Orient supporter.

The full interview can be found on Cultured Football.

[Football] Breaking Down Bielsa's Philosophy of Football

Jed Davies is one of those special coaches who never stays still.  His curiosity fuels a desire to look closely to why certain ideas and coaches work better than others.  His first book on Tiki-Taka delved deeper into the system than anything else that was written on it, dealing not only on the coaching of the system but also its evolution and the philosophy behind it.

Now he has turned his attention to Marcelo Bielsa.  One of the most influential coaches of the modern game, Bielsa is widely respected as a visionary and a coach whose ideas have a wide reaching impact.  Davies will analyse these ideas in an upcoming book (The Philosophy of Football: In The Shadow of Marcelo Bielsa) and spoke to Blueprint for Football over why he felt that the Argentine manager deserved so much attention.

Full article and interview can be found on Blueprint for Football.