statistics in football

Expectation vs Achievement – Loftus-Cheek vs Alli

The wonderkid, an embodiment of hope and excitement. Every club has a young talent, through which many a fan live their hopes and dreams vicariously through. Every so often a young player bursts onto the scene standing above his contemporaries, think ex-Monaco hotshot Kylian Mbappé, Marcus Rashford’s dream emergence before him and the original wonderkid…

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ARSENE WENGER: WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE

Arsenal have started their meltdown to the season much earlier than expected. The #WengerOut brigade are in full voice, calling for Arsene Wenger and Stan Kroenke to leave the club. Such noise usually comes around March where the team makes the scheduled downward spiral into mediocrity. The environment around the Emirates is ominous at best…

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Is Harry Kane Worldclass ?

Why it doesn’t matter if you think Harry Kane is World Class or not…   Harry Kane is in a rich vein of form and seems to have been for the last three years. Having shaken off the “one season wonder” tag, there are now increasingly louder voices calling for him to be considered “world…

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Chelsea V Manchester City

6 games into the 2017/18 season Antonio Conte’s Chelsea faced off against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City side. Chelsea came into the game as favourites after a dominating European performance away at the Wanda Metropolitano, whilst City were 14 games unbeaten in the league since none other than Chelsea inflicted defeat at Stamford Bridge earlier in…

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019 – Stats in Football

019 – Stats In Football [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162232838″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] A Weekly Football Debate Show. This week the panel gives their reaction to last weeks interview with Whoscored.com‘s Chief in Editor Alistair Tweedale, as we talk stats in football and the pros and cons about using statistics to support your analysis of a…

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018 – Stats In Football An Interview with whoscored.com

018 – An Interview with Whoscored’s Alistair Tweedale     A weekly Football Debate Podcast. The week we are joined by Co-Editor of the highly regarded Football Statistics website WhoScored.com Alistair Tweedale. We discuss the role WhoScored plays in the modern game, as well as how stats in football are used by fans, clubs &…

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