World

FOOTBALL VS FOOTBALL

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The Late Tackle Magazine Team
22 May 2014

BEN GOULD looks at some of the common practises in American gridiron and says good old English soccer might do well to copy a few of them

To the unconverted, American team sports might as well be from another planet – fiendishly complex and statobsessed, yet simultaneously ultra-tedious, with adverts every other minute to ensure games last for aeons. But although some of those accusations are hard to deny, the NFL – now the granddaddy of US sports – is ultracompetitive and genuinely unpredictable. Remember the heady days when the unfancied likes of Aston Villa and N...

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