Here is a list of all the blogs, websites, YouTube channels, and Podcasts I follow to learn more about football and tactics. Everyone on this list I admire and look up to. They gave me the inspiration to write about football.

Analysis

Organizations

I’d love to write for all of these websites one day.

• Cano Football
• Between The Posts
• Breaking The Lines
• Football Bunseki
• Futbol Akademi
• Spielverlagerung.de
• The Athletic
• The Tactical Times
• TheMastermindSite
• Ultimo Uomo

Individuals

Each individual person listed here has their own style and specialty. Most write in English but some post in other languages like Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, etc.

• BallerBantz
• Ball Don’t Lai
• Caped Corners
• Christoph
• Clarissa Barcala
• Dribbles and Nutmegs
• Dominic Wells
• EA13014802
• Functional Play
• Gaurav Mukherjee
• Guillaume on the Grass
• H23Football
• Jamie Hamilton
• jdeposicion
• John Horstmann
• Jon Mackenzie
• Liam Tharme
• Martin Julliard
• Maximilian Aichinger
• Meringos
• Michael Cox
• MinimumWidth
• Peter Motzenbecker
• Tactically Speaking
• Tactics, boo!
• The Dugout with Umir
• The Half-Space
• The Weekly Rondo
• TheMidfieldRole
• Third Man Runs
• Tuesday Night Football
• Umir Talks
• Vybhav Badri
• benfootballtheatre
• Football Diaries
• two-three-five football

Scouting

• Scouted Notebook
• Serbian Football Scout

Club-Specific

I’m sometimes jealous of the club-specific writers because they can dive so deep into the details of a team, and those mentioned below do.

Arsenal

• Cannon Stats
• Edu’s BBQ

Barcelona

• BarcaFutbol
• Tarek Waffling

Charlotte FC

• Charlotte Soccer City

Manchester United

• thedevilsdna.com

Portsmouth

• HancockAnalysis

Liverpool

• Fab
• Samuel

Real Madrid

• Glaskara

Data

Thorough analysis into the data. Great resources for visuals.

• Chun Hang
• stats and snakeoil
• The Power of Goals

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Websites

My go-tos for football and injury news.

• NewsNow
• Premier Injuries

Data

• FBref
• FBref StatHead
• FPL Data
• Understat
• WhoScored

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Books

These are the books I recommend to everyone who wants to learn about the history of football tactics.

• Zonal Marking by Michael Cox
• The Mixer by Michael Cox
• Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson

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YouTube

I am very big into consuming information through videos, especially from these accounts.

Organizations

I’d like to mention that both CBS Sports and NBC Sports offer full 10-15 minute extended highlights an hour or so after each match on their YouTube channels.

• CBS Sports Goalzo
• NBC Sports
• Sky Sports Premier League
• The Athletic FC
• The Overlap
• Youth Football Highlights

Analysis

Some of these channels have a video out right after a game so be sure to check them all out.

• Conor Holden Football
• Football Made Simple
• Football Meta
• HTO Analysis
• Positional Play
• Rimedi
• Statman Dave
• SpreadSheet Soccer
• The Footy Doctor
• The Purist Football
• Umir

Press Conferences

• Beanyman Sports
• Beanyman Sports 2
• HaytersTV

Coaching

• Coach Konstantinos Foundas
• RC Performance Training

Comps

There are many high quality comp channels but if I am looking through the search results, I’ll click on the ones made by these accounts first.

• aranFE
• Brazil Scout
• JM Productions HD
• PBcomps
• ultrasfctv Junior

Entertainment

• Andreas Poke
• StuntPegg
• TalkSport
• That’s Football
• The United Stand
• This is Football

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Podcasts

I have to admit, I’m not a big podcast listener right now. I prefer video and I like listening to music. But if I had the time, and the subject interests me, I’d listen to these Podcasts.

• And Again with Umir and H
• Ben Foster - The Cycling GK
• Football Vision
• No Ratings Pod
• Samuel AP
• The 2 Robbies
• The Athletic Football Tactics Podcast
• The Obi One Podcast
• The Pep Talk: A Manchester City Podcast
• The Rest Is Football
• Tifo Football Podcast
• Training Ground Guru Podcast
• Wolves Express

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Reporters

I prefer following individual reporters instead of news organizations because you get to know each individual’s way of writing, and can better gauge where the quality writing is.

• Adam Crafton
• Andy Naylor
• Chris Waugh
• Colin Millar
• Daniel Murphy
• Daniel Taylor
• David Ornstein
• Fabrizio Romano
• James Horncastle
• Jamie Jackson
• Jacob Steinberg
• John Cross
• Jordan Campbell
• Oliver Kay
• Sam Lee
• Sid Lowe
• Simon Bajkowski
• Steve Madeley
• Thom Harris

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X Lists

Curated lists I’ve made to follow X, formerly Twitter accounts. Lists are the best way to filter out the noise.

• Data
• Data+
• Injuries
• Players
• Reporters
• Tactics
• Tactics Discord
• Video

News Aggregators

• England
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Spain

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This is by all means not a complete list. I’m sorry if I missed adding you. I will continue to add to this. You can find the most up to date version here.

My advice will always be that you must watch a lot of games to gain a better understanding. I have learned everything I know through playing and watching football.