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MLS, EPL and NFL on Twitter

11, 12, 16
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It’s that time of year when I should be grading papers, so instead I decide to write a blog post. Since the MLS season ended yesterday with the penalty shoot-out victory of the Seattle Sounders, I was looking on twitter to see how many people watched the big game (about 1.3 mill
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US Soccer and Conflicts of Interest

05, 12, 16
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This is a guest blog by Professor Roger Pielke Jr, who is founder and chair of the Sports Governance Center in the Department of Athletics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. You can also follow his sports blog here and on Twitter at @RogerPielkeJr     In principle, issues re
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Soccer under the Swastika: FC Bayern and the Economics of the Holocaust

25, 11, 16
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Guest blog by Kevin Simpson, author of the new book Soccer under the Swastika  This past summer, the world gathered again to celebrate athletic excellence at the 2016 Rio Olympics and at the very same moment, images continued to emerge from the Syrian refugee crisis that continued to
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Forbes valuations of Major League Soccer

08, 09, 16
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Forbes just published its latest valuations of MLS teams with the opening line “If MLS was a publicly traded company, now would be a really good time to buy,” a quote from Commissioner Garber. The rest of the article seems to endorse the Commissioner’s opinion. Most important of all,
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Football School: Where Football Explains the World

01, 09, 16
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There is currently a tension for boys at Key Stage 2 development age (8-11) where underachievement in reading coincides with a huge engagement in football. According to the National Literacy Trust’s Boys’ Reading Commission, funded by the All-Party Parliamentary Literacy Group,
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Reform of the UEFA Champions League: some thoughts on the Oliver & Ohlbaum report

22, 08, 16
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The media consultants Oliver and Ohlbaum published an interesting report today on reform of the Champions League. I have argued endlessly that the existing structure denies TV audiences something they would like, i.e. more games played among the biggest clubs, and in so doing limits t
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Brexit and British football

17, 06, 16
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A few people have asked me what Brexit would mean for football in the UK and especially the English Premier League where around two thirds of the players are currently not British. The answer depends on exactly what agreement the UK were to negotiate with the EU in the event of a vote
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FC United of Manchester visit Detroit City FC

17, 05, 16
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Ahead of the game next week Stefan spoke to Sean Mann, one of the co-owners of Detroit City FC. One of the great traditions of soccer/football is the international tour. At the end of the nineteenth century many English clubs started traveling to Europe, South America and elsewhere to
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Insolvency in French football

12, 05, 16
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For the last few years I have been researching insolvency in football. My first Soccernomics blog post back in 2012 was about a paper I wrote on the causes of insolvency in English football. I found 67 recorded cases of legal insolvency proceedings in England between 1982 and 2010, wh
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Do not bet on a new era of equality in football

12, 05, 16
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I was looking over my posts from last year and saw this one “Is the Football Season Over Already”  which referred to the dominant start to the season on Manchester City and PSG. I said they would probably both win the league, but not because of their early results but beca
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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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