Welcome, everyone to soccer 101. My name is Taylor Rockwell here, back with me.

To make sense of the topics that maybe need a little bit more information is Mr. Graham Ruffin.

Hello, Graham.

Hello, Taylor Rottwell.

How are you?

Good, man.

It's been a long time.

Not since we talked.

We talked about 30 seconds ago when we recorded a Patreon episode.

And about 15 minutes before that, we recorded a full episode.

It's our third one of the day,

but our first soccer 101 since the start of the World Cup. And a little bit even before that,

Graham, I've missed our time together, my friend. So, I enjoy these episodes. And this one is

a good one. It may be embodies or epitomizes why we do these episodes where it's a, we're going

to talk about a term today that we use quite a lot on the show and maybe use it quite

flippantly without maybe explaining what it actually means. So that's what we're going to do today.

Indeed. And along the way, another aspect of these shows that I enjoy, I learn that I've been

misusing another phrase. So that's one that I will try to work on. But today we're talking about half spaces,

what they are, why they're important, which players tend to utilize them the best, and maybe

which managers tend to utilize them the best. So Graham, let's start with the basics. What are

half spaces? Why do we talk about them so often,

especially so often these days? Yeah, so as I say, this is a term that we use quite a lot

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