What has The White Stripe's 'Seven Nation Army' got to do with Positional Play?
And, is it the greatest guitar riff ever?
What links the ideas of Carlo Ancelotti and Carl Jung?
Is Antonio Conte a radical futurist?
This, and much more, in the latest episode of The 3rd Circle.

🔬The 3rd Circle Podcast - New Episode
Episode 2: Equilibrium is now available via the links in the post below.
@martinrafelt.bsky.social and I lurch wildly from concept to concept as we struggle to maintain balance during our latest venture into The 3rd Circle...

🚨🎙️The 3rd Circle Podcast

Episode 1: In The Beginning, There Was Now is available now on Apple Podcasts.

In this first full length episode, Martin and I sketch out some of the currents and forces that have shaped the game's recent tactical history...

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By abandoning traditional notions of positional structure teams can challenge man-markers more radically.
Just how far are the defenders willing to travel with their marks?
I think there are big advantages to be gained with more extreme density and movements in the ball-zone.

In his recent article @jamiemkemp.bsky.social noted how Racing Santander's tendency to swarm together around the ball can cause confusion for defensive marking schemes.
www.lapausa.digital/p/racing-hav...

Enjoyed this on the rise of man2man defence in Germany.
In addition to positional rotations/tweaks and overloading build-ups described by Bergas I think Relationist proposals offer very relevant attacking solutions vs man2man defence.
See Toni Gagliardi's writing on this.

"We [humans] are so dependent on centralized control of complex functions that it is sometimes impossible for us to understand how the same task could be accomplished by a distributed, noncentralized system".