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sport & selling

A collection of 415 issues

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

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

Autocratic Sportswashing Reclamation

6,500 migrant workers reportedly died building the Qatar stadiums hosting the latest football World Cup. Then there's the harshest of police state jackboot should you be openly, you know, non-heterosexual, a democrat, or even a woman. And how can anyone truly trust any country which outlaws the

Pep's Overload to Tilt Secret

“In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope.” The reveal, according to Pep Guardiola. Does any sport hail as boundary reshaping and mindset shifting a coach as football's pre-eminent genius right

Belief When Bottom Of The League

The latest fly-on-the-wall peak behind the curtain into the EPL dressing room caused its expected afluttering. This season's treatment - hot on the heels of title winners of Pep Guardiola then perma-chaos of Jose Mourinho - followed Mikel Arteta trying to recapture glory days for one-time UCL stalwarts.

Beware The Illusory Breakthrough

> Can you press with this squad? [Manchester] United managed just seven pressures in the final third all game, 14 fewer than Brentford. Ralf Rangnick last season despaired of the lack of basic tactical understanding in the squad; most, he said, had simply never been drilled in ball-oriented pressing. He

Intensity Over Targets & Figures

> "It's never based on targets and figures. It's about the intensity." So spoke cricket World Cup winning 50-over captain of England, Eoin Morgan. Reflecting on Friday's world record score against the Dutch. A total just two shy of the vaunted 500.

Rory Knows You Shouldn't Just Chase The Dollar

> 🗣 "Any decision you make in your life that's purely for money, usually doesn't end up going the right way" Rory McIlroy says his stance on the LIV Series 'has been pretty clear from the start' 👇 pic.twitter.com/UvmyaGec2f [https://t.

Golf Club Marking Can DQ Your Bid

> Hideki Matsuyama gets DQ’d for a marking on the face of his fairway wood. The 📸 🐐 @gdm43pga [https://twitter.com/gdm43pga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] managed to snap this one of Hideki’s at Muirfield. Gotta assume the white areas, which were likely meant to frame the face and

Latest Sport Data Frontier

Earlier in the season, I blogged on how we could adapt the brain-training that saw Liverpool Football Club win England's first silverware of the year on offer. Based around the ability to train players' brains in taking penalties [initial [https://salespodder.com/accuracy-training-cup-winners/] & update [https://salespodder.