Liam Tharme
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1,662 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Liam Tharme’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And people are saying, wait, be patient.
You know, they lost friendlies or they had bad games and they went, it's going to come together when it needs to come together.
And to their credit, we are seeing that now.
Yeah, I think one of the big challenges, and I kind of see the other side of this, I cover quite a bit of athletics, is kind of the development pipeline and the role that academies play and the kind of collegiate system that you get collegiate players going into MLB, NBA, NFL, into track.
They're basically kind of going in
at what is effectively professional level it's what we have over here in the UK in terms of academy systems that's their you know NCAA collegiate system I don't think football quite has that same pipeline so you do get players coming over I think earlier to Europe to kind of just yeah accelerate their development to training the clubs that are over here because they're just at a high level and that's hard because that's also a culture thing you just can't be good at every single sport in the world so I think
they'll try to be but i think you probably just can't um and people have also said that so many of their sports are throwing sports generally it's hand sports it's not you know football is very unique in a sport that's dominantly played with the feet if you don't grow up and i think pochettino said this and if you don't grow up with the ball at your feet and you only start doing that kind of at age 10 age 12 you're just a few years behind in your development and that is going to count against you and that's not kind of anyone's fault that's just how it's been done over there
Yeah, I think there's similar kind of principles.
And there were definitely that against Australia who were playing short and kind of let them do that.
They were trying to go man to man a lot, which makes a lot of sense because they've got kind of speed in that front line.
It's also a simpler way to press it international level where you've got less time to coach a kind of complex pressing structure.
I think so.
But look, he had big decisions to make in terms of his kind of shape, in terms of his approach before the tournament.
People weren't sure who was going to be the goalkeeper, who the centre-backs are going to be, how many centre-backs.
And he settled on the 3-4-3 and I don't mean to scare you as a Manchester United adjacent person with chat about the 3-4-3, but it's working really, really well.
I promise you it can work as a system.
It's not inherently kind of flawed.
And they were really good against Australia at basically manipulating the wingbacks.
And I've done a tactics piece on this if people want to go on site and kind of see it visualised.
But the simple part was the wingbacks were jumping out really early to effectively the US wingbacks.
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