mark thompson

In this case it's the % of goals coming from set-pieces in the rest of the Euro men's Big Five leagues, but it seems to be a weird (English?) journalism convention

Why do articles do the thing this article does where a headline stat is given in paragraph 1-3 and then some similar, context-providing stats are given (without the original stat) right at the end of the article?

"The next morning, I woke up to an inbox full of bile. [...] One of the most frequently found words in these emails was the f-slur. [...] During a match, I got several login codes from PayPal when I hadn't tried to sign in, forcing me to change my password before [someone got] access to my account."

I feel bad for Tottenham Hotspur but this is tremendous content

I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is

the original is like this 👇

What *would* Football 2.0 look like? If football execs worry about its popularity with younger generations, they should look at action, drama, and culture, not shorter formats.

Alt blog title: Will Somebody Please Convince Me About Kings League

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data nerd thing I'd love to see on football coverage: trajectory tracking to measure how much shots like that Osula goal curled

I regularly check out of BlueSky for about 72 hours and when I come back I'm overwhelmed with the realization that many people I like very much need to check out of BlueSky for about 72 hours

Grim but important thread.

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Caley's meat wall, and I'm 95% sure that's my (our, Twenty3) vis on the screen

This is the future 2014 analytics twitter were gunning for

k, maybe the press were right to just focus on set-pieces

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Really good podcast on the Premier League streaming service deal for Singapore

(As ever from The Athletic, particularly about this kind of thing)

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[checks tonight's Premier League fixtures]

Oh, I see why everyone's talking about set-pieces (there's nothing Of Note to build up to)

Well… I made a TikTok about my story and the platform is now using it to hawk wireless mics 😶‍🌫️ Too perfect lol

New business model: go on social media and say (eg) "LLMs will never be able to use statistics to fact-check financial journalism."

When someone pipes up "No, that's easy. I can make a Claude skill!" I reply "Nah. No way."

Then when they prove me wrong, I copy the skill. Step 3 is profit.

What *would* Football 2.0 look like? If football execs worry about its popularity with younger generations, they should look at action, drama, and culture, not shorter formats.

dang, can't believe I wrote a whole blog about sports tinkering with their rules to make them more action-packed and fun, but came at it from a 'stale possession' POV for football and not the set-pieces POV

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Check out the list of player xG and how many are attackers

(Complaining about Arsenal being boring makes less sense during *this* game imo, when they spent a good deal of the first half breaking at pace against Chelsea)

I wish pre-season tournaments did more of it. The games are heavily about fitness and fan/commercial engagement anyway, and you'd get feedback from top players and managers without affecting proper competitions

That Trossard pass that Caicedo intercepted will get replayed so much if scores stay this way to full-time

Football execs have been worrying about kids watching 90-minute matches for as long as I can remember.

But being fresh to ice hockey, I'm like 'ah, I see why that rule exists, and that one'. Often, to make the sport more *enjoyable*. And it's similar in other sports

I do not think we have developed good "outcome measures" for agentic coding right now, and so the most reliable and long-term strategic thing you can do is remember that you already know there are things you know you need: you need developers to learn and team cultures to be healthy

Yeah, 'kids won't watch a full match!' is a weird hobby horse that I remember hearing when *I* was a kid, which has never made much sense when scrutinised

One of the WSL's must-watch players atm imo

Not necessarily in a bad way completely - they're gonna be different audiences to an extent - but the main MLS account had walk-in and warm-up videos of James Rodriguez at the Minnesota game in their stories and posts, which the MLS-es account doesn't 🤷‍♂️

This QT sent me down a brief rabbit hole of checking out the MLS insta content and the difference between the English account and Spanish account is weird

This is a really good article and relevant to recent developments in MLS media.

It feels like they can’t figure out who their target audience *should* be, so nothing really lands.

There are great MLS stories, believe it or not, but the league can’t figure out how to connect anyone to them.

And also Kings League, which I still struggle to figure out the benchmark for (and there's similar with women's football tbh -should the benchmark be men's 11-a-side football, or new-sport ventures like Kings League, Sail GP)

What *would* Football 2.0 look like? If football execs worry about its popularity with younger generations, they should look at action, drama, and culture, not shorter formats.

There's also threads pulled into this around women's football, particularly recent comments by Villa's head Maggie Murphy about finding who their '12pm Sunday' crowd should *be*.

Sport is inextricably linked with fun, and with culture

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