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sport & selling

A collection of 373 issues

Steal Scores

The absorbing Ladies draw at this year's Wimbledon grass court tennis grand slam tossed up an interesting stat for me, apparently relatively new to the game. Steal Scores are where you win a point after having been on the defensive earlier in it. As opposed to points won when attacking;

Elite Football Strength & Conditioning

The football season, the most ridiculously scheduled yet thanks to buffoons and the allegedly corrupt at FIFA, on top of previously the most crazily ran couple due to you-know-what, is now done. Pepball ascendant at home. Next Summer's continental nation knockouts loom excitedly over the horizon. Apart from transfer saga

Verkoopfilosofie

I touched recently on the differing core approaches to elite level football presently battling for supremacy. There's been a number of progressions in how the game ought be played, since first codified in mid-19th Century England. Tactically in more recent times, the 'Total Football' of 70s Dutch masters help give

Avoiding The Asterisk Deal

There's a lot of t*lk about the football team of the age - perhaps any age - sullied by the alleged underhand financing of oppressive petro-state gazillions. Pep Guardiola's pitchside stewardship of Manchester City remains stellar. His genius unblemished by association. Yet here's a definition, from wikipedia; "an asterisk

Your Guardiolismo

The above graphic comes from the London broadsheet The Telegraph. It charts the first-half of what the Spanish press later described as an "earthquake" suffered by Real Madrid at the hands of Manchester City in the UCL SF, 2nd Leg "thrashing". Stats from the opening 45-minutes of this astonishing masterclass

When You Think About The Win

I read the words reported of (legendary, game changing) former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger in the build-up to this week's EPL title decider with (genius, game changing) Pep Guardiola's present day Manchester City. In the aftermath of his club's defeat (nay, hammering), the journalist now described his words as "a

Video Platform Race To Our Tomorrow

With the Aussie F1 GP today a lot to do to stop sending those still engaged after the first two foregone conclusion snoozefests heading for the exit, I'm reminded of this thirty-seconder from last year's ad campaign of video platformers, Webex. [Their most recent joint promo is this longer 3-min

Ideas Meeting Not IRL

Plans for International Ideas Day? pic.twitter.com/VOogHx0I9G — Modern Toss (@ModernToss) March 2, 2022 Here is contemporary commentary on The Beautiful Game. No, not that one. The sorcery of Pep, Ralf's Wingless Wonders, jumpers for goalposts and all that. But more likely, the crunch of Chopper Harris, through tragic

Approach Span Platform Fail

I do love the Before/After trope. The sport of golf has plenty of courses of world renown. Right up there, is perhaps the golf course, St Andrews' Old Course. Standing on its small stone bridge at the 18th, the Swilcan Bridge, being the prized bucket-list selfie shot of note.

Relative Age Effect

In news that will be no surprise to those born during the N Hemisphere Summer, young sports teams are comprised predominantly of those born in the Autumn. This is due to the seasonal nature of the sporting calendar. Coinciding as it does, to run alongside the academic year of September