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Thanks, Gaffer. I understand other duties have precluded weekly podcasts and I certainly do like the blog entries. While I rarely post I almost always read every entry...the podcasts were just the favorite part of my morning commute.

Really appreciate the effort.

Are the podcasts now a thing of the past? I enjoy the blog entries but quite frankly it was always the podcasts that set the epltalk brand apart. I miss the tremendous interviews. I know there was an update a while back stating the podcasts would take on a different tone but...what's happened?

What is strange is that I was watching some old FA Cup replays on FSC and really enjoyed seeing some vintage English football. The thing that I noticed, however, was that I think the tackles were generally horrific. The fact that most of the tackles I saw weren't even punished with a foul (much less a booking), leads me to think tackling in general must be very, very difficult.

I've only just started playing football, at an -ahem- advanced age, and slide tackling is not allowed at all so I don't know how difficult a skill it really is. I would think though that if you can make a good cross-field pass and have basic football skills, you should be able to make a clean tackle. My limited viewing of H.S. football has shown me that the boys (and girls) in High School can normally tackle pretty well without going in either two-footed or with their studs up.