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What are the odds of winning a protest at the Olympics?

20th February 20227th March 2022 by lukealexdavis

Flip a coin. Heads we win, tails we lose and they get a few more coins as payment for protesting.

Soccer

How to use data to build a Moneyball soccer team

10th February 202210th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Yeah, science (and soccer)!

Soccer

The phoenix clubs of Yorkshire and their attempts at a renaissance

24th January 20227th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Can these phoenix clubs pull off into paradise again?

Basketball

Dennis Rodman and his former coin-collecting agent

20th January 20227th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

If you learn anything from this post, let it be the word ‘numismatist’.

Soccer

Swiss Ramble’s Twitter thread on Barcelona’s financial troubles

26th July 20217th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

The club that says they’re ‘más que un club’ will need to go on ‘menos que otros clubes’.

Sport

How billionaire sports owners use their teams to avoid paying taxes

12th July 20217th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Scumbags.

Soccer

The dangers of the Premier League killing off lower league clubs in 1992

12th November 20207th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

There were warnings of a financial gulf between the then-new Premier League and lower league clubs. Watch this 1992 news story that investigated it.

Soccer

English football – would the clubs survive a cancelled season?

21st March 20201st January 2022 by lukealexdavis

As football authorities postpone their respective seasons, FiveThirtyEight asks whether English clubs would recover if they were cancelled.

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