Football is renowned for its kneejerk analysis and a debate on yesterday evening’s Monday Night Club on Radio Five Live plumbed new depths in speculating over the relationship between Steve Bould and Arsene Wenger at Arsenal, with opinions scattered around like so much confetti and little evidence to back the arguments up. It’s good, therefore, when a serious minded, analytical study emerges to throw light on an important issue and today, we are pleased to highlight a newly published paper that brings sophisticated statistical methods to bear on a key issue. The journal Economics & Finance Research is available open…
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Book Review: The Long Way
The Long Way by A. E. Greb Published by Wholepoint Publications June 2012, £1.50 ASIN: B008A3BLGG A week away from this season’s FA Cup third round, it seems appropriate to look back to A. E. Greb’s account of the 2011-12 competition, published in the Summer as an eBook, a collection of the blog posts which accompanied his ten month peregrinations and which concluded with Chelsea’s win over Liverpool in May (at this point I’ll admit that the result of that particular encounter had escaped me – and this from a boy who could at one point tell you all the showpiece occasion’s goal…
Is this Tranmere Rovers Vintage the Real Deal?
The general disbelief at Tranmere Rovers’ spectacular beginning to 2012-13 has all the same brought with it a highly pleasurable set of sensations – with most onlookers happily surprised at the Wirral’s finest’s unbeaten start and clear lead in League 1. Even the manager himself has seemed perplexed in front of the microphone – for while clearly confident in his players’ abilities, he is aware as anyone of the limitations placed on a club of Tranmere’s size by budget and resources. Those doubts persist. Ronnie Moore himself, in an interview with our sister site The Seventy Two, during his last spell with…
10 Players Looking for a Contract
With just three weeks to go before the start of the season, one of the most surprising aspects of this summer is the enhanced quality of the ‘out of work’ list – a roster of players that can be pondered with increasing incredulity here. In the past, the directory was populated with the kinds of players one might expect – journeymen who had reached the end of their shelf life and eternal fringe performers. Not so now – the ledger of those still seeking a club includes England internationals such as James Beattie and Emile Heskey, while the tally doesn’t only contain veterans. The…
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