As signalled by the iconic words of Martin Tyler, it is time for the action to begin. Well, sort of. This may best be described as the soft launch of Top Bins, a pre-season run out to best channel the spirit of dodgy football jokes.
Aside from the ‘boring computer reasons’, this first post also serves as a chance to set out things to come.
These things are up to and including:
- Transfer Tuesday
- Player Deep Dive
- Role Report
Transfer Tuesday
First of all, I promise this will never be reduced to whacking a club name into Twitter’s search and posting every single rumour next to a dodgy mock-up of Messi in a Chelsea shirt with big red question marks floating around.
Instead, the aim is to take one particularly prevalent rumour and look at how it may transpire in reality. Looking at both buying and selling team’s current tactics as well as the profile of the player in question, I will attempt to paint a picture of how the move might turn out.
Perhaps this will lead to the ability in 12 months to retweet an article with a particularly smug caption lauding my skills of prediction, perhaps it will lead to freezing cold takes that I lose sleep over for the rest of my days. I guess we’ll see.
Player Deep Dive
Herein lies the main outlet for my own personal football preferences, in which I can take the liberty to wax lyrical about certain players in modern football. Ideally, this shall cover players who catch the news, but for obvious reasons (cheers Corona) this might not immediately be the case.
So for now, the focus may very well be on my favourite players over recent years, as opposed to seven articles on why Kai Havertz is the second coming. In truth, you’ll be getting an entire novella on the grace and guile of Mesut Özil’s 2015/16 season, and you better love every word of it.
Role Report
Finally comes the most ambitious/ pretentious feature of all. A grand attempt to take a breadth of players who fall under the same role and look at changes over time. An example being either the fall of the traditional No.10 (cries internally) or the acceptance movement towards strikers who don’t score.
All I can really promise here, is that this feature will present perhaps the best chance of all for an active comments section when someone accuses me of mistaking an ‘auxiliary trequartista’ for a ‘pressing false nine’. Oh the joys of Football Manager player roles.
Anyway, this should hopefully create some roadmap for all the content to come in the following weeks. I’m sure at least one of these will be heavily altered at some point, but for now it’s all we have.
