Why This Arsenal Might Be the Best Arsenal We've Ever Seen
Famously, the 2003-04 version of Arsenal played 38 Premier League games and didn’t lose a single one. I wrote about why this season’s Arsenal, who’ve already lost four times, might be even better than them:
Been slacking on sending out other links recently, so here’s a compendium of recent work: -Who are the eight most important players in the Champions League quarterfinals? Enjoy your weekends, all. |
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Is Harry Kane Cursed? An In-Depth Investigation
Friday, March 29, 2024
When I started this piece, I figured all the threads would lead back to a specific moment in April 2018: when Harry Kane claimed a somewhat dubious-looking goal by saying, “I sweat on my daughter's
Everything You Need to Know About the Premier League Title Race
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
OK, not everything. But I looked at every game Liverpool, Manchester City, and Arsenal still have to play — and then I ranked them all, in order of difficulty: City's non-penalty xG differential at
Why Is European Soccer Still So, Uh, I Don't Know, Dumb?
Friday, March 22, 2024
A couple weeks ago, I moderated a panel at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference with the following people: -Sarah Rudd, co-founder of src | ftbl, former head of analytics at Arsenal -Ian Graham,
Is Gregg Berhalter Good? And Why Are Premier League Teams Scoring So Many Goals?
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
After a week off, I've got two for you today. The first: My colleague Jeff Carlisle and I explored a question that lots of angry USMNT fans on the Internet seem to be quite sure of: Is Gregg
How Klopp, Pep, and Klopp-v-Pep Changed Soccer Forever
Friday, March 8, 2024
One last time, huh? Ahead of Sunday's game at Anfield, I wrote about the managers for Liverpool and Manchester City: Although Pep's City are further than ever from Klopp's heavy-metal
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