MY name’s Andrew, and I’m a statto, writes Andrew Beasley. It’s not always easy admitting that to football fans. The mainstream stat sites routinely churn out tweets featuring numbers without context that tell you little or nothing. The CIES...
“LIES, damn lies and statistics.” I first heard that phrase in my A-Level maths class while, ironically, studying statistics (my teacher was the funniest Evertonian I’ve ever met, whose teaching style was to treat his students like adults and let us...
STATISTICS. They’re a recent phenomenon in the game of football, and I’ll be honest, they drive me up the wall. I mean, remember the fuss two years ago? FIFA risking the wrath of national footballing establishments across the globe by introducing the...
By Phil Blundell STATISTICS. They’re a recent phenomenon in the game of football, and I’ll be honest, they drive me up the wall. Football is not a game suited, in general, by statistical analysis, and the new craze of associating any little statistic to back up some...
Talking through the latest Liverpool transfer rumours, or rather, the lack of them after a window in which Liverpool needed more than what they got, and with a squad still lacking depth, have the Reds effectively handicapped Andoni Iraola’s chances of a successful first season?
And given the direction of travel under the soon to be departed Richard Hughes, could any of this mess been avoided?
Rob Gutmann hosts Neil Atkinson, Adam Melia and John Gibbons
