🎙️🚨 Martin Rafelt and I will be recording a special Champions League Final analysis episode of The 3rd Circle tomorrow (Monday). Look out for it dropping shortly after. ⏺️⏺️⏺️

Who knew the PSG 5 x 0 Inter CL Final would provoke so much analysis!? This ended up being a 2.5 hour discussion (mainly because Martin wanted to talk about soup) so we're gonna chop it into two separate episodes. Look out for the first one very soon.

🎙️🚨 The 3rd Circle - NEW EPISODE Episode 7: Champions League Final Analysis (Part 1) Enter into The 3rd Circle to explore the tactical details of PSG's historic 5 x 0 victory over Inter in Munich. Dribbling, positional rotations, pressing aesthetics and much, much more...👇

📻 Listening to "The Third Circle" take on the @PSG Internazionale game. By Jamie Hamilton and Martin Rafelt 👍🏼

🎙️🚨 The 3rd Circle - NEW EPISODE Episode 8: Champions League Final Analysis (Part 2): 'The Limits Of Control'. Control, freedom, complexity, post-human football and the symbolic significance of PSG's Champions League victory. Listen via the links below...👇

Lag es wirklich nur an Ausfällen und Pech, dass Nagelsmanns Team zweimal verloren hat? Martin Rafelt und Karoline Kipper über zweifelhafte Mannorientierung, Probleme im Offensivspiel und einen Spieler, der sich in die Startelf gespielt haben könnte: rasenfunk.de/nationalteams/… #dfb

The Fools of Spielverlagerung proudly present: An Article about an angle. Diagonality is here. Diagonality remains the most influential concept in our internal ecosystem & this collaborative deep-dive gives it finally its deserving in-depth treatment spielverlagerung.com/2025/06/12/tac…

Always happy to be part of the foolish jesters.

Grateful for the opportunity to join the Schalke 04 coaching staff. Thank you to Miron Muslic, Frank Baumann, and the entire club for the trust. Excited to get to work!

CL analysis like no other: positional Vs positional, echoes of the past and the philosophy of soup 🍲 The 3rd Circle's analysis on the biggest European club game of the year. Go listen! Part1: open.spotify.com/episode/6Rc4ib… Part2: open.spotify.com/episode/3UN2IG… Jamie Hamilton Martin Rafelt

Rest in peace, Diogo Jota. One of my favorite players, such a brilliant mind. It's so sad.

4 years ago when my lad was at his lowest, Diogo took the time to record this for him and it helped more than he will ever know. It was a small task, but it meant to so much and I would have loved to have thanked for him personally for it. Thank you Diogo ❤️

i invented a really good game at the pub the other day: it's called 'Name A 28-Year-Old Footballer'. you and a mate try and name a footballer who is 28 without looking, then you check. the feeling of getting a hit is incomparable. Scott McTominay

clearing out my cupboard and found all the spielverlagerung articles i'd printed out when i was 12 ffs

I recently had the pleasure of discussing the future of football with Martin Rafelt. This episode was made for the Norwegian Football Coaches Association. Non-Norwegian speakers can skip the intro and enjoy over an hour of Martin’s insights and knowledge. open.spotify.com/episode/6LNbYw…

🎙️ Folge 1 ist da! Der neue SpielverlageruNG Podcast ist gestartet – und wir legen gleich los mit zwei Rückkehrern in die Bundesliga: dem HSV und dem 1. FC Köln. Wie stehen sie da? Wo geht’s taktisch hin? 🎧 Jetzt reinhören: spielverlagerung.de/2025/08/03/spi… #HSV #Effzeh

.Tobias Escher: Deine Bücher haben mich inspiriert und einen Einstieg gegeben, der mir eine völlig neue Perspektive geboten hat. René Marić: Der Austausch mit Dir war jedes Mal so intensiv, dass ich danach quasi wieder bei 0 angefangen und völlig neu über das Spiel nachdachte.

Mourinho comments on football's recent tactical revolution. "I think the problem is when people want to make copy-paste without having the conditions for it. If you want a full-back playing inside, you need a player with a certain adaptability. If a full-back is weak on attack,

“Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays.”