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Why The FA Cup Is A Competition Of Two Halves

There are two FA Cups. The early rounds still produce giant-killings. The late rounds have become a closed shop of billionaire clubs. Saturday's Chelsea-Man City final, between two sides who have spent nearly €8bn on transfers between them, shows what happens when football's oldest competition splits in two.

Pressure Is A Privilege. Why Tom Hiddleston got football psychology right.

"Pressure is a privilege," Tom Hiddleston recently explained. "The chemical that you produce when you're nervous is the same that you produce when you are excited. I choose to say that I am excited." The clip went viral. In a moment that Ted Lasso would be proud of, the actor had just paraphrased one of the better-evidenced findings in performance psychology.