Brilliant brilliant WTA final this evening. Just fantastic.

Cardiff’s win against Southampton is totally inexplicable. 1-0 down after an hour, with nothing to play for, against a top team chasing automatics. Feels in English leagues “nothing to play for” really means much less. I’d be fascinated in a cross-country comparative study.

First time for everything: choosing a game based on commentary duo preference.

Top 10 goals + assists leaders in each of the big 5 leagues - how many are domestic players?

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🇫🇷 5
🇩🇪 4
🇪🇸 3
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English attackers dominating the Premier League ranking, with two more in the Bundesliga and La Liga top 10. An amazing success story from where England was.

Omar Chaudhuri Their first ever victory against Rangers too!

Quite the upset in the Scottish Premiership with Ross County winning at home against Rangers. In terms of pre-match odds, roughly equivalent to Burnley beating Man City at home, and in terms of budgets more like Blackburn Rovers winning against City.

Tough one to explain for those not watching

And yet a point more than Klopp would have got with a similar performance in his last season at Dortmund.

How does the result from the Man City vs. Arsenal match this weekend impact the title chances of the top 3?

One of the best bits of my job is getting to evangelise about the use of data in sport, and hopefully shifting some perspectives about analytics in the process. Thanks to ECA for the opportunity today at their inaugural Sports Director Workshop

Maybe I’m late to this, but creating private Lists, themed by account, and pinning them to Home has massively improved my experience of this platform. Keeps me away from the doomscroll of For You and enables me to easily catch up on a particular sport or group of accounts.

Omar Chaudhuri Cardiff away to Middlesbrough in 2008 according to Wikipedia. So yes, rare as hens teeth

“Ifab is also likely to confirm another trial of punishing time-wasting by goalkeepers by awarding corner kicks.”

🤞this would be a great rule change

thetimes.co.uk/article/bcb741…