Football Tactics in the Data Era

What it's about

In 1950 a Royal Air Force wing commander sat in a stand with a notebook and a torch, wrote down every pass, and became the first performance analyst in football history. His data was rigorous. His conclusion was wrong, and it shaped English coaching for thirty years.

Seventy years later, football measures everything. The second volume picks up where the first ended and asks what happened when the sport finally started measuring itself.