A very subjective look into AWFC

Yesterday was a pretty packed day for me as it relates to music learning, recording and then I had a very long drive to a gig followed by another long drive farther south here in California. All this to say that I haven’t been able to read anything as far as news in the WSL world is concerned, except the Millie Turner thing that I don’t know much about but knee jerk opinion is that I don’t think she did anything wrong. I also don’t think LJ did much wrong trying to get the ball from her… if that was any of our players trying to grab it I would’ve been completely ok with it.

Two things I do want to mention though, which are completely random, are the following: Nutmegs and false 9s, as the title so cleverly discloses. Both of these I feel are misused and also I get why they would be subject to debate or opinion but here are my two cents.

A nutmeg is when you kick the ball between a player’s legs, you then run past them and then get the ball again. This is actually not that difficult of a skill and it happens all the time, but it’s always impressive and cool and adds some “humiliation” to the opponent which is lovely. What is not that big of a deal is just kicking the ball between an opponent’s legs. People seem to confuse these two a lot.

I’m not saying that if Beth does it it’s not impressive, all I’m saying is that it’s not a nutmeg if THE SAME PLAYER doesn’t collect the ball. Then it’s just a pass and it’s wild to me that people freak out so much about it, which isn’t too different than when us drummers are doing a solo and you play some crazy complex stuff and nobody reacts, but then you do some silly stick tricks that take very little skill, all things considered, and the crowd goes wild.

The other concept that I see people mixing up is a false 9 vs a 10. Tons of people talking online about Russo being a false 9 vs Bristol City. Well, to be a false 9 there cannot, by definition, be an actual 9. Stina played as our 9, hence no possibility of there being a false 9 if we have a 9. That’s it. Not much more to expand on this.

I sound like such an asshole and I’m sorry.

d ❤

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