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Cup draws should be made as part of a short 'Live Lounge' set with a musician and/or celeb. Each cup would (unofficially) have their own genre. *bangs gavel*

Very proud to have put together SCOUTED: Volume I, our first digital magazine of 2026, along with Tom and Jake. Plenty of hard work put into it, and the product speaks for itself. If you want to get ahead of the curve on the future of football, make sure to download Volume I.

Really good podcast ep of Counterpressed with Maggie Murphy of Aston Villa's women's team pca.st/episode/c77e...

Related, listening to a podcast where someone mentions that their OpenClaw assistant thing was costing $20-30 in tokens per day. Don't know if that's representative but no-one else on the pod went 'woah', so guessing it's at least close. There's some kinda class/income analysis to be had here

again, skill issue

Every time I hear/see people talk about hyper-personalisation of content I struggle to reconcile it with the clear signals that people love watching stuff together. The Traitors, Super Bowl, Winter Olympics.

a free look and a fine finish is very representative of this match for City

worth saying that this is heavily a case of City ruthless mentality. When they've hit a bit of resistance on the edge of the defensive third, 8 times out of 10 they've gone 'nah, we can push through this' rather than turning back for a spell of keepball

City 4-0 up before half-time against Leicester, type of one-sided game we've not seen in the WSL as often as a few years ago City have made the most of their 1.9xG, but the fact remains that that's 1.9xG in just 40 minutes

lol, Miedema has racked up SEVEN shots already tonight. After 36 minutes.

A secondarily weird thing: Shaw's post-shot xG lags behind her xG by a bit over 1. (finishing hasn't been hot) Tallies with my feeling of 'oh, bad miss, but she's still scored a brace' that I've had a couple of times this season

Slightly crazy WSL stat from this season: Bunny Shaw has the most xG, around 16 (she's playing rn) Next closest is about NINE xG back (Viv Miedema, also playing rn), around 7

Hadn't put 2 and 2 together, but it feels _a thing_ that YouTube and Reddit both eventually removed downvote counts. Pretty clear that putting blockers in the way of negativity spirals is generally a good thing

A whopping 16 WSL players in Japan’s squad for the Asian Cup, which begins March 1. On top of the actual tournament itself being a spectacle, it’s going to be fascinating to see how teams cope with those absentees and how it could impact the race for UWCL, for example. www.jfa.jp/women/news/0...

In 2010, Michael Cox coined the term 'inverted wingers', a tactical feature that would dominate football for at least a decade. In 2026, Michael Caley* coined the term 'meat wall',

ooft

Need to update my list of soccer analytics and tactics accounts, tell me who's posting good stuff

Will never not find it amusing that big advances in the LLM space over the past couple years have been, like, 'take notes'

I think this incident is funny, but we should start thinking now about how to deal with scaled-up versions of this behavior, not just spam PRs but also bot-enabled blackmail and harassment campaigns.

I hadn't realised (or ever thought about) ice hockey being 60 minutes, while stopping the clock. No wonder they have rolling subs

So this is dystopian as hell and I can't believe this is real... AI agents are now writing takedown blog posts to shame maintainers for not accepting agent-generated PRs. github.com/matplotlib/m...

related, has Pep Guardiola ever watched this sport?

is there a spielverlagerung for ice hockey?

yeah, that's not a particularly good policy from bluesky

At NHL/Premier League level, is it easier to: - carry the puck in open ice or carry the ball in open field at high speed (how much do you need to slow down from your fastest non-carry pace) - control and keep the puck vs control and keep the ball in congested areas

since 2015-16, no non-big 6 team has taken this many shots in a PL game (most is Southampton took 33 v ... Sean Dyche's Burnley in 2016-17), most any team has taken is 37 (3 times, including Man Utd v ... Sean Dyche's Burnley 2016-17)

as it stands, Sunderland (11th) now below Newcastle (10th) on goal difference (+-0 to -3)

People traditionally focus on the race for the title, European spots, or avoiding relegation. atm in the Premier League, there's also a rare midtable race, of who will finish higher: Sunderland or Newcastle (As it stands, Sunderland (10th) lead by a point)

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Got the UWCL match (Paris FC vs Madrid) on, and it's good to know that the rain is swamping vast swathes of western Europe, and not just north-west England

There's a blog for that imo football's about space control and ball control, relative to your opponent, on both sides of the ball. Out-of-possession quality going up either forces in-poss styles to change to maintain advantage, or it's BarclaysBall www.getgoalsideanalytics.com/the-four-qua...

also whatever feedback and adjustments you can make based off a pitch control model equivalent have gotta be so different, with so much movement and speed. Would it be more like basketball, about working out routines to pull players out and craft a half-decent look?

The physics modelling of hockey player movement must be wild (in comparison to football/soccer players at least)

me, as of yesterday

Dyche Lasso being confused about all this will fill episodes one through five

this sport is amazing

the English Ted Lasso: Sean Dyche rocks up in the NHL, screws up the ice to frustrate higher-quality teams, and rocks the world with long puck hockey

if I knew anything about ice hockey tactics (and had data and, moreso, time) I'd be lacing up my analytics skates tomorrow

can't believe that - having worked almost solely in football - I've been blessed by a sport with a spherical ball

Got an ice hockey data question: does it make a meaningful difference what 'orientation' the puck is in to executing technique? Is that a thing that an Old School Hockey Type might moan that xG doesn't factor in?

Women’s Super League Football, the organisation which oversees the top two tiers of women’s football in England, is monitoring developments with X’s artificial intelligence tool Grok due to concerns regarding its creation of sexualised images. More from @charpur.bsky.social bit.ly/4ai5rn6

skill issue AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It || "[...] employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so." hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

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Realised that this is just the Douglas Adams theory of technological development

Bravo to journalist @romain-molina.bsky.social for having ceaselessly investigated sex abusers in the world of football and defied those who protected them, from France to Haiti and Gabon, at great personal risk to himself. Thanks to his work, another of those criminals has been arrested.

A single ball knower would build a setting to delay our feed up to 5 minutes when we’re watching the sports games.

Not being able to hear the ref's on-mic decision is the icing on the cake

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