The 3rd Circle

Muffi Burhani makes his inaugural journey into The 3rd Circle to help Jamie and Gorka pick apart the remains of the EPL's showpiece face-off.
No stone is left unturned as our crew sets controls for the heart of Manchester City vs Arsenal.
Jamie voices his concerns about straight-line wingers, Muffi delves into the intentions behind Arteta's squad-building ethos, and Gorka makes numerous self-proclaimed hot-tactical-takes - some of which even survived the Edit.

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Jamie and Gorka shield their eyes from the alluring glare of objective football theory as they place aesthetics front and centre of our experience.
Our hosts draw on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant to help explain why we can never establish contact with 'the-game-in-itself'.
Can we ever analyse a game objectively?
Does best practice exist?
Why does any of this even matter?
It's a philosophical deep-dive into The 3rd Circle.

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It's a Friday the 13th round-up show as Gorka joins Jamie in The 3rd Circle to slash through the narrative machine.
Why does Eberechi Eze look so out of sorts in Mikel Arteta's maximum efficiency super-system?
Is Guillem Balague the true voice of European Football?
Gorka picks through the shredded remains of Hansi Flick's Barcelona.
And we marvel at the chaotic energy of Kim Hellberg's high-flying Middlesbrough.

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Jamie embarks on a solo mission into The 3rd Circle to weigh up the risk vs reward of central attacking.
Why are coaches so hesitant about playing through defensive blocks?
What are the assumptions influencing tactical thinking?
Why are the strategies of Racing Santander and Middlesbrough important?
As usual, Space is at the heart of it.
But, are we controlling space, or is space controlling us?...
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This is the second part of Jamie and Martin's discussion around Karl Marius Aksum's implementation of a perception-based coaching methodology with Swedish champions Mjallby.
Despite the meagre resources of the small fishing village, Mjallby were able to gain significant advantages as a result of Aksum's innovative techniques.
But how does a concept as vague as 'perception' actually cash-out in the real-world of football tactics?
The 3rd Circle follows in the footsteps of Kandinsky, Boulez, Cantor and Deleuze by positing the relevance of diagonality.
In doing so, we transcend the straight line logic of the vertical and horizontal by setting course on a new, oblique trajectory for football coaching.

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