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Football journalist’s tax shame

04, 12, 12
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I was gob-smacked by an article in this weekend’s Independent on Sunday about the Premier League and corporation tax entitled “football’s tax shame”. The article claimed that last clubs paid only £3 million in corporation tax, despite being “awash with money”. On the back of this wort
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Did Beckham take MLS into the American mainstream?

01, 12, 12
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David Beckham plays his last game for LA Galaxy today in the final of the MLS Cup (though I do remember writing another article in this vein last year when he was supposed to retire, so who really knows?). Since he arrived in arrived 2007 attendance has grown from 3 million to 6 milli
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More Champions League?

27, 11, 12
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Michel Platini said today that UEFA is considering scrapping the Europa League with a view to a possible 64-team Champions League. The driving force behind the structure of competition at the European club level for the last 20 years has been bargaining between the big clubs, hwo wond
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Mas que un eleccion

21, 11, 12
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Catalans go to the polls on Sunday which is being widely interpreted as a referendum on Catalan independence. It is possible that the new government will seek to initiate discussions with the Spanish government in Madrid about holding a full referendum which could lead to a separation
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Soccernomics Tips for QPR Owner

19, 11, 12
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QPR owner Tony Fernandes is to be admired for his loyalty to coach Mark Hughes, who might have been sacked before now by many other club chairmen. But with QPR still bottom of the Premier League, and without a win in 12 games, is Fernandes wise to keep faith with the under-pressure We
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Crime and Punishment

14, 11, 12
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Today’s reform proposals by the Scottish Football League (SFL) got me thinking about the current state of the game in Alba. So let’s say that we all agree that Rangers did a terrible wrong (most people probably agree with this, but Rangers fans may demur). The “punishment” was relegat
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The impact of the London Olympics

13, 11, 12
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The government published the first interim evaluation report on the impact of the London 2012 Olympic Games today. The full report is 256 pages long and deals in detail with four main topics- sports participation, economic impact, community engagement and regenerating East London. The
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Insolvency and English Football

01, 11, 12
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Stefan has written his most recent research paper about insolvency and English football clubs. The link to the full paper is below. Between 1982 and 2010, there were 67 cases of insolvency affecting clubs in the top four English divisions. The paper considers two possible explanations
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Welcome to The Blog

We hope it will be a venue for some of our new thinking on football, money and data. We wrote the book Soccernomics because we believed that systematic data analysis could tell us interesting things about football. Our collaboration is a match of science and art, matching the numbers to a convincing story, something which we have to do in our day-jobs as a journalist and an academic.

Soccernomics had done well in the UK, the US and around the world since it was published in 2009, and we published a second edition in the spring of 2012 with three new chapters telling more stories using yet more data. But there’s no reason to stop there. Thus far, researchers have only scratched the surface of the football data mines. One of the aims of this blog is to talk about some of the research that is going on, and some of the uses to which that data is being put. For this new project, we’re also joined by journalist and consultant Ben Lyttleton, our partner in the Soccernomics consultancy.


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From the Blog

  • Abolition of the transfer system
  • Forecasting the final table for the Premier League 19/20 season: Revisited
  • Forecasting the final table for the Premier League 19/20 season
  • Covid-19 and football club insolvency
  • Soccer Analytics update

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