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That time when I wrote this seven and one half years ago

submitted 36 days ago • 296 comments

Understand Everton and West Ham are both considering a move for Sunderland midfielder Dan Neil.🔴⚪️

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to get anything substantial achieved in January is almost impossible in football. The transfer window brings chaos, however prepared you are if others are acting irrationally then you are forced to be reactive. Then nothing actually happens until the last 72 hours anyway.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

How big is the revenue gulf between clubs in England's top two divisions? #10 in our Graphical Imagery series is out now: gamestate.substack.com/p/graphical-...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about FreeOurFeeds, a new $30M plan to take back social media from billionaires www.usermag.co/p/freeourfee...

submitted 46 days ago • 19 comments

29 years ago today: Glentoran play Linfield with an invisible ball. A Christmas gift of seasonal shite to the football world…

submitted 64 days ago • 7 comments

The ability to quickly watch and ACCURATELY predict future output is hugely important in football. I haven't got time so please pretend that I wrote a long blog comparing the best football talent ID people to Chick Sexers and react accordingly. psmag.com/magazine/the...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Leeds among the clubs understood to be keeping tabs on Louie Barry with Aston Villa set to recall 21 y/o from Stockport and send him on loan at a higher level. Barry has 15 G/A from 19 apps in League One this season. www.teamtalk.com/leeds-united...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Man, Leeds are just SO so good this season. In any typical Championship season there are like 2-4 excellent teams and then [Everyone Else]. This year Leeds are miles apart in performance, and one of the best defensive teams I can remember in the league.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

www.nytimes.com/athletic/596... Great to speak to Nancy on the topic of Japanese players in the EFL

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Ha ha, I was thinking that yesterday #lufc

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

I made this point in June, that football at the elite level was becoming more tactical homogenous. That said, when there’s an orthodoxy then heterodoxy can flourish as a practical alternative.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Hiring multiple high profile staff into overlapping roles. Do you really need a Technical Director, Sporting Director, Director of Recruitment, and CEO (previously a Football Operations guy)? What do they do all day?

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

On Colin Hendry’s birthday, a reminder of when he got the ball at Maine Road… and morphed into Franz fucking Beckenbauer.

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

EXCL: Leeds United have explored the conditions of a potential move for Real Salt Lake attacker Diego Luna, recently named MLS Young Player of the Season. Nothing to suggest any deal is imminent but interest is there. Also competition from Europe. #LUFC www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

submitted 83 days ago • 4 comments

I’ve often pointed out changing a manager without changing players is unlikely to make much difference. Clive points out 14 of last 15 new managers in EPL won less than 5 of first ten games.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

It has now officially been two weeks since the last small boat was recorded arriving in the UK. The 16th Nov was the last date and every day up to 30th Nov had 0 arrivals. This coincides with the arrest of the man responsible for supplying a large number of the boats was arrested on the 14th Nov.

submitted 88 days ago • 25 comments

The advertised role of a sporting director is to look after the long term of the club, building up systems and processes. In reality every time a sporting director changes so do most of the staff (recruitment, data etc). I know of clubs on the third rebuild in 5 years, building up from scratch.

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

1971 reminder that every generation of football fans thinks that flair players aren’t given as much freedom as they used to be (they may, of course, all be correct)

submitted 92 days ago • 5 comments

What a clearance from Struijk in the first half #lufc

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Players to have scored multiple goals 𝗮𝗻𝗱 provided multiple assists in a #UCL match since 22/23: ◎ Lionel Messi vs Maccabi Haifa ◎ Kylian Mbappé vs Maccabi Haifa ◎ Olivier Giroud vs Salzburg ◎ Galeno vs Shakhtar Donetsk ◉ Charles De Ketelaere vs Young Boys 🆕

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Brighton striker Evan Ferguson is currently available for loan in January. Story with @samwallace.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Finish. #FalkirkFC #Crap90sFootball

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

The year is 2005. Scunthorpe and Brentford give us a masterclass in sticking your foot in. Feast your eyes on this chaos. The ball is just an innocent bystander…

submitted 95 days ago • 13 comments

Ao Tanaka vs. Swansea #LUFC

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 96 days ago • 710 comments

Ukrainian boxing legend (and brother of Kyiv's mayor) Wladimir Klitschko responds to Joe Rogan...

submitted 95 days ago • 1427 comments

Sol Brynn, Finn Azaz and Emmanuel Latte Lath are all named in the @whoscored.bsky.social Championship Team of the Week 👏 #UTB

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

It’s the late, great Frank Worthington’s birthday. You remember him. What a fucking maverick.

submitted 97 days ago • 10 comments

Oops, Darren Anderton is out injured again

submitted 100 days ago • 55 comments

Wintery conditions across the country have led to matches being cancelled. No such cop out for Glentoran and Linfield in 1995 who not only faced snow but also the orange ball bursting at half time. The show must go on… #Crap90sFootball

submitted 100 days ago • 8 comments

Efficient spending peaks at around 8th place in the Premier League, and the margin of return on each £ decreases thereafter. Being bad is expensive too. Transfers matter so much that you should probably pay whatever it takes to be better at them.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI: mrktinsights.com/index.php/20... Replicating the Brighton model is feasible. Here is how your club could do it too (but probably won't).

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments