One of the saddest effects of our poor form during 2011 has been seeing how lesser teams no
longer fear us.
The psychological advantage of having most opponents assume they would get nothing out of
playing us has been whittled away by a series of unfortunate events.
Throwing away a four goal lead at Newcastle; losing to relegation-bound Birmingham in the
Carling Cup Final; league defeats to the likes of West Brom, Stoke and Bolton:
All these and more have turned our shiny armour of invincibility into a tattered and battered
old coat of rusty chain mail, pock-marked with holes.
Blackburn Rovers 4 Arsenal 3
For all I said that it was time pressures which precluded me from blogging as much as I used to,
it's also that I don't really see the point of writing the same thing over and over again,
especially when other people are also writing the same thing.
From the Evansville Courier Press, May 7, 2011
With a local Mother's Day youth soccer tournament going on in town this weekend, expect to not
only see several young soccer players in action but also "little league parents."
A sports psychologist I once worked with described a little league parent less as someone who
has children who engage in youth sports, and more as a parent who looks out on the field and sees
their own head on their child's shoulders.
Regular presenters, Chris Dixon, David Stubbs and Chris Roberts will be discussing the
philosophy and psychology of football from the Corinthian spirit to listening to Eminem before the
start of matches, while sports psychologist Iain Greenless will reveal why goalkeepers fear,
amongst other things, the colour red.
Last July, in his first press conference as Brazil coach, Mano Menezes said that he was aiming to
include a sports psychologist in his back-up staff.
Brazil had just lost their heads as they bowed out to Holland in the World Cup quarter-finals and
Menezes was aware that in 2014, on home soil, the pressure would be much greater.
Last July, in his first press conference as Brazil coach, Mano Menezes said that he was aiming to
include a sports psychologist in his back-up staff.
Brazil had just lost their heads as they bowed out to Holland in the World Cup quarter-finals and
Menezes was aware that in 2014, on home soil, the pressure would be much greater.
The Arsenal and Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner is often castigated for his over-confidence and
big-headedness, but his Danish team-mate Thomas Sorensen reckons that the Gunners' striker used to
be even MORE big-headed when he was younger! The Arsenal sports psychologist Jacques Crevoisier
recently said that in tests for ‘self perceived competence,' (i.
