As a Newcastle fan. The FA Cup game against Villa surely has to be an incredibly compelling endorsement of not going back to a world without VAR in some form

In Defense of VAR - It's imperfect, it's frustrating, and removing it would be a mistake A survey says 75% of Fans want VAR gone. They're not wrong to be frustrated but they're wrong about the fix.

I may be one of the last people out here supporting VAR but I still see it is a net positive overall and something that we should keep working on to improve and get right. www.cannonstats.com/p/in-defense...

Got to add rules experts to every commentary crew. "Let's bring in rules expert Mike Dean here. Mike, what do you see?"

If you fail in your challenge, you lose a sub window. Gotta go full NFL here

ASA and definitely Arielle at ASI where questions were asked if Cooper Flagg needs to leave Dallas to take his career to the next level

Seamless, I got you @arielledror.bsky.social ...i both spent way too much time and not nearly enough time trying to get the sizing and placement right

I did say we should Photoshop people in!

Can't even begin to say thank you to all that came out to ASI. This is maybe the first if not the biggest showing of @americansocceranalysis.com present cast and alums we've ever had in a room.

Introducing Glass Onion by US Soccer, An Identifier Synchronization Tool — American Soccer Analysis By Akshay Easwaran Every soccer data analysis group has had the same jump-scare: they sign data provider contract #2, and suddenly, they need a solution to link teams, matches, and players across th...

There's a new tool from @ussoccer.com and @akeaswaran.me is here to tell you about it. Introducing Glass Onion, an Identifier Synchronization Tool

www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/1/...

FBRef was not only a brilliant resource generally, it made so much WoSo data available that couldn’t be found elsewhere. Absolutely gutting for fans, data nerds, and those of us who feel these things shouldn’t merely be the preserve of people with lots of money

People forget Hemby is actually a Terp. He's just been briefly loaned to Indiana

Actually...

I have serious concerns how we scale up in this setup/group of players. Howe is gonna have to find a way to play outside transitions domestically. Played like this at times last year and a certain striker would just bail us out.

A Guide to the ASA Vizhub — American Soccer Analysis What to know about the newest ASA platform Catalina Bush Have you ever wished that you could picture the game in front of you? Not as a broadcast, or a highlight video, but on a sheet of paper? ...

Love the ASA data but wish you had a helping hand in turning it into fancy plots and graphics?

Introducing the ASA Viz Hub from @cata-bush.bsky.social

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Fans on Historic Grant Field god damn it

It is important to make your guests feel welcome. So this is not a field storming, we’re meeting at the GT

It's quite annoying that in all our we must sign PL proven players mantra that we didn't sign the most obvious one in Jackson

Atlanta's 2025 in one clip.

I'm also not sure he isn't caught at least enough to make the shot not high quality. If it's Elanga, probably a different story

Would be a different discussion if we had a healthy Wilson. Then maybe we sell Isak for a "reasonable" fee but it's just not feasible to go into season with Osula or makeshift Gordon as the #1 and the last thing we can afford is selling Isak and then expect other teams to be reasonable with us.

At 50m, absolutely instant buy. I'd pay that even if Isak ends up staying another year

2024 NWSL analytics survey: A Retrospective look at the state of data in women's soccer — American Soccer Analysis Originally conducted during the 2024 season and only slightly interrupted by Hurricane Helene, these insights provide a valuable snapshot of how analytics have been evolving in the NWSL

You saw the NWSL analytics tiers yesterday, here’s what the analysts had to say when we actually spoke to them a few months back:

www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/8/...

Exciting times: Our first ever NWSL analytics tiers are here. Shoutout @washingtonspirit.com and James Hocken as our first nerd boss. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/8/...

As always clubs/employees, if we're wrong about your role/title or missed someone, let us know.

Wait until he finds out that such coke product is called "Mexican Coke"... He's gonna rename it as American Coke isn't he

I personally think Gordon and Martinelli should be a straight swap*

*I can assure you this has absolutely nothing to do with me being a Newcastle fan and a huge fan of Martinelli

People seem to have this idea that no other big team has ever sold a player for big money that they would have preferred not to

Newcastle is going to have to sell someone of significant value at some point anyway. It's just the reality of a PSR world.

Breaking it down: g+ Sub-categories — American Soccer Analysis By Paul Harvey When Goals Added first entered the public sphere, it marked a major shift in how soccer could be interpreted using data. Although similar models had been developed, it was hard to get...

Sometimes you just need to get a little more granular.

@paulharvey.theoutfield.nyc broke g+ down into its component parts and then broke it down some more

www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/7/... Breaking it down: g+ Sub-categories — American Soccer Analysis

It's also not like Chelsea are short on players. I could understand this more if building depth was needed but that just isn't a problem here. Especially if some of the developmental buys work out in the next 1-2 years

Grace has given Americans credit?! This is borderline a blink twice if you are okay situation

same publication's Publisher Will Lewis, eight months ago, on why they wouldn't endorse a Presidential candidate:

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get.

So why don’t they insist on a vote?

They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.