In my book, in a chapter on analytics, I wrote that: “what passes for debate between football fans is often just an elaborate parlour game in which grown men take turns to name football players they may have seen play once or twice and say if they are good or bad.”
But it’s not just fans who fall into the trap of logical errors and poor reasoning. I think there’s an argument to be made that football generally is riddled with sloppy thinking. To explore this, I thought I’d try to identify fallacies and biases that are common in football discourse. As I have time, the number will grow…
The Ugly Game 