While you’re watching the world cup, Qatar is watching you, then and always

Qatar World Cup 2022 – Qatar travel advice – GOV.UK IF ALL LIVES MATTER, IF SLAVERY IS UNACCEPTABLE, WHAT IS THE FA DOING ABOUT QATAR? “The mandatory COVID app for the Qatar World Cup is basically government-sponsored spyware.” That is a prime fact of going to Qatar and watching the world cup, or indeed using …

Why predicting football is about looking at trends, not individual games

What’s best in the PL: one top scorer or several high scorers? By Tony Attwood The Athletic in its Daily Football Briefing for 31 October 2022 is running a piece which begins, “One year ago yesterday, Tottenham Hotspur were beaten by Manchester United.” They then add that the defeat was “so humiliating that Daniel Levy …

What’s best in the PL: one top scorer or several high scorers?

Arsenal: the horror, the defeat, the win, the unbeaten, the future By Tony Attwood Top scorers are widely and hugely celebrated in English football, and never more so than in the case of Erling Haaland who has scored 17 league goals – an astonishing total.  Behind him in the charts at the moment comes Harry …