Decoding and demystifying football

Mark Thompson

What could OGS do with United?

Apologies if this post is a little less structured or visual than usual, illness has struck me down but commitment to newslettering keeps me going. You may have noticed that Manchester United (among other clubs) are IN CRISIS. Depending how you define ‘crisis’. StatsBomb’s expected goals model has them

How to defend the KDB cross

Somewhere in the EA Sports FIFA offices, youngsters with coding degrees and Masters in Angry Birds are adding ‘the Kevin de Bruyne cross’ to next year’s game. By now, I think we’ve all seen that type of cross before: coming from the shoulder of the box, rather than

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How to avoid losing 8-0

Welcome to Get Goalside!, glad to have you aboard. If you’re not already a subscriber to this friendly neighbourhood football analysis newsletter, sign up below. Sign up now Manchester City, clearly peeved at being stripped of the title of ‘City’, came back with a bang to batter bottom-of-the-table dwellers

Nifty Norwich, the Guardiola-killers

Welcome to Get Goalside!, glad to have you aboard. If you’re not already a subscriber to this friendly neighbourhood football analysis newsletter, sign up below. Sign up now It’s official. ‘City’ means Norwich now. Like a WWE (or, its lesser sporting cousin, boxing) title belt, the shorthand has

Drowning at full-back with Davinson Sanchez

Welcome to Get Goalside!, glad to have you aboard. If you’re not already a subscriber to this top-notch content every Tuesday, sign up below. Sign up now It’s been international week in the men’s game and the start of the FA Women’s Super League in the

The basketballification of football

Welcome to Get Goalside!, glad to have you aboard. If you’re not already a subscriber to this top-notch content every Tuesday, sign up below. Sign up now It’s a good thing for us, Marcelo Bielsa aside, that robots don’t play football. Humans and their limits make things