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‘It’s a lonely job’: Neil Warnock on management, Guardiola and his ire for Ferguson
The Guardiantheguardian.comWhat football had not witnessed, Anderson and Sally felt, was an analytics revolution. Plenty of people were reading the numbers and taking note of what they said: these are the players who have sprinted the most, these are the number of shots we have taken and the rest. But nobody – as far as they could tell, at least – was trying to find out what
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‘workmanlike’ players were selected instead of ‘stars’ and the appeal of the ‘David Beckham’ narrative (the instinctive belief that good-looking players are somehow better) was rejected.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
a bobby (another nickname, based on the name of Sir Robert Peel, the nineteenth-century Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police)
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
With a love of adventure and penchant for the impossible, dad, husband and captain Matt Knight was recommended to me by a mutual friend as the ideal man to lead my crew.
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Scotland Yard.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Sherlock Holmes
I loved Cromer, a town populated with proud seafaring folk.