Tradition and the Individual Talent - The Blizzard

Tradition and the Individual Talent - The Blizzard

There’s more to judging players than goals and medals This piece was written by Jacob Steinberg for issue 0 Strip away the tactics, chalkboards and diagrams and football is essentially about nothing more than goals. Yet while goals ultimately win matches, they cannot decide a debate; they can inform it, colour it, sway it, but they cannot settle it for good. A popular but overly simplistic line of thought dictates that goals equal success and no…