#239 - Müttley Crüe, Aroused Lightning and Welsh Washing
Elis James and John Robins
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Is That Relevant?
I think if you try and take numbers and data too serious, it can be a bit dry. Fans don't really care about numbers or data per se. What they care about is stories and stuff they can tell their friends ... I think that's the kind of ethos. The analyst who was credited with creating the long ball game - he'd studied loads of goals suddenly in sort of the top two divisions... His use of statistics was actually very bad, wasn't it? Yeah, he's a bit of a strange figure. He was a sort of wing commander. In the eye, yeah. And then he decided to go to Swindon,. Then he collected this data manually on pen
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