stumblelog

May 12 2010

At Milan, Arrigo Sacchi got fed up of players moaning about his obsession with team shape, and so proved its worth with a simple drill. “I convinced Gullit and Van Basten by telling them that five organised players would beat 10 disorganised ones,” he said. “And I proved it to them. I took five players: Giovanni Galli in goal, Tassotti, Maldini, Costacurta and Baresi. They had 10 players: Gullit, Van Basten, Rijkaard, Virdis, Evani, Ancelotti, Colombo, Donadoni, Lantignotti and Mannari. They had 15 minutes to score against my five players, the only rule was that if we won possession or they lost the ball, they had to start over from 10 metres inside their own half. I did this all the time and they never scored. Not once.

The Question: How important is possession?
Apr 26 2010
Web Directions’ State of Web Development 2010.
Apr 18 2010
Volcanic ash plume originating from Iceland, Thursday 15th April 2010.

Volcanic ash plume originating from Iceland, Thursday 15th April 2010.

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Apr 05 2010

Nobody needs to program an iPad to enjoy using it, except those who have no capacity for enjoyment other than programming and complaining about same.

— Joe Clark eloquently sums up how I feel about the dull ideologue posts from the likes of Cory Doctorow