Salty Beef Extracts: Grimsby Town, bad behaviour and Alexander Isak’s phantom limb
The in-form Premier League hotshot with a flaw – and more!
It’s funny how a footballer can be absolutely phenomenal but still have a weakness that sticks out like a sore thumb.
Newcastle United are in fantastic form and Alexander Isak is close to a perfect spearhead. Close to perfect, but not quite. Adam Clery, my colleague at FourFourTwo, has broken down Isak’s phantom limb problem in the first of this week’s links.
We also go to Grimsby Town with Daniel Storey, learn about life as a concourse agency worker, see some cool stuff from adidas and Nike, and plenty more besides.
Alexander Isak and Phantom Limb Syndrome (87 Minutes by Adam Clery)
My pilgrimage to Grimsby and the best football ground in England (i)
Proposals, tears and flying pies: my life behind the bar on football’s concourses (The Guardian)
Undermined and under duress, Fonseca leaves Milan with ‘calm conscience’ (The Guardian)
Age of tactical ideologues is over as Spain dominates new era of pragmatism (The Guardian)
‘Bad behaviour trickles down’: exposing football’s integrity problem (The Observer)
Football's financial scandals of the 1960s (Unexpected Delirium)
British South Asians in Football: How 2024 became another landmark year in the English game (Sky Sports)
How 'hurricane' Clough thundered into Forest 50 years ago (BBC Sport)
adidas Re-Release The Newcastle 95-97 Home Shirt (Soccerbible)
adidas Reveal MLS 2025 Official Match Ball Design (Soccerbible)
Nike Launch The 'Mad Energy' Pack (Soccerbible)
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