However people should be very careful how they use these models. It’s important to understand limitations etc… or you can end up making silly mistakes. Plenty of people messed up very badly in baseball before money ball.
The book ‘How To Win The Premier League’ talks about this stuff at a high level. There are various papers available on something like some of these models, though for obvious reasons a lot of details are commercially confidential.
I’ve been thinking for some time that Kier Starmer is just not very bright. He also seems rather gutless and incapable of taking responsibility.
None of these things are great traits in a prime minister.
So many people love easy solutions. Sack the manager is the easy answer, like Brexit and blame everything on immigrants. Fact is there is no easy answer. If there was an easy answer Spurs would be Premiership champions.
Stick with Eddie. His record is excellent. One bad season doesn’t change that.
I remember having the worst hangover on record one Saturday and the guy in the flat below kept playing smoke on the water over and over again and going wrong in the same place, every single time.
What’s the lesson though? The inference, stop crossing the ball and our results will improve, surely comes with a huge side order of correlation does not equal causation.
Likely we end up crossing more when we lack penetration through the middle.
At least in part in thanks to Howe.
Telling that the people demanding office working because human contact is vital now want to replace their employees with AI.
It’s just a straight up good idea. No reason for the situation we have now and it’s hideous for the environment.
It’s almost like shirt pulling has become an instinctive reaction for players now.
On the single most important aspect of him as a manager he produces football that is almost as unwatchable as Arsenal, however effective it may be.
I imagine the stats are even worse now nobody is capable of beating the first defender with a cross but you need a wide threat to stretch the defence. The probability of scoring from a ball down the middle is always going to look better but you can’t play it if everyone is crowding that space.
What intrigues me is why other players cannot cross the ball. I’m not just talking about ours but the standard of crossing in the game these days is woeful. It’s why Murphy’s ability stands out. Is it just because wide players mostly play on the side of their weaker foot these days and cut inside.
Whatever we are doing defensively, we’re conceding too many soft goals, which seem to be down to a string of individual errors.
I think mostly, to be fair, that’s because we often get hit on the break. Usually we are much better when we have time to get in formation. Lazy defending like this is definitely out of character.
Yeah I mean Tonali does at least make the effort to get back but just switches off for no obvious reason.
The more I watch it the more frustrating it is. Murphy, then Bruno should both track the scorer and don’t. Even then Tonali has it covered but for some reason runs to cover the front post.
Tonali who becomes the latest player not to track the scorer. Also at this stage the keeper still on the playing surface.
Good movement and all that but in this still you’d think not too much problem. Two big men on their centre forward and the scorer currently covered but the man on him just leaves him.
He seems to be literally protecting the net. Neither of our goalkeepers ever seem to have any idea where they are.
Ramsdale is not the answer in goal but the defence was no better with Pope. We need a big gobby goalkeeper who dominates his area and can scream at people like Botman when they give the opposition too much space.
Can from 2-1 up.
Time to go 2-1 up.
Probably saw him play against Palace.
Just another example that the rules do not seem to apply to some people.
I think you’re a little harsh but if we got decent money 75+ I’d sell.
www.espn.com/soccer/story... Great article. I wonder if Arsenal have made a similar mistake which explains some of the issues they're facing
Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed.
But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.
What we need is a bidding war.
Labour is so scared of the immigration issue and so driven by the narrative that they have lost their voters to Reform that no matter how ridiculous the news story (Telegraph on prisons, BBC on asylum seekers claiming to be gay) they give in to rightwing talking points too afraid to set things right