Must be a bet he and benty had about the game yesterday
Yeah they have this bet every year, where the loser had to wear the kit of the winner.
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he should know all about being an embarrassment
The best show by a mile on talksport is the trans euro express with Danny Kelly and a host of respected European and world football journalists between 9pm and midnight. Its fast becoming a regular Sunday night wind down listen.
Its so different from every other show on the station.
It wasn’t even that bad. In the pantheon of cringe signing videos, it was bottom tier.
I’m sure if we went through the library of Chelsea/Spurs signing videos, we’d find multiple S tier candidates.
Why did you watch it so Jamie ya bell
He’s alright considering he’s a spurs fan but whenever I hear his voice it takes me back to that 4-4 game and him being on the radio that night as they got their late equaliser
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https://x.com/xgphilosophy/status/1972786915947766019?s=46&t=eJpgg6uHWRsStnASv-OePg
- Team O’Neil
- Team xG is not useless
- Abstain
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I abstained. Understanding data is essential to being a modern coach. But it’s not the full picture, sometimes you have to go with vibes. A good manager can use both, then there’s O’Neill.
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xG is meaninless in isolation of a single game, but if there is a high xG over a period of time it indicates to me that the team are at least creating decent chances. I also think (might be confirmation bias in my head) over time results align with xG
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I think some data analysis in football becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Data suggests a certain type of shot produces less goals, less of those shots are taken, less goals are scored, as a crude example.
XG is homeopathy of football statistics.
It will work in certain pocket of scenarios or games but at the end of the day, you don’t want to rely on a chance medicine.
Data is useful but XG is absolutely bollocks.
I expect to win the lottery, doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.
I expect to not crash my car if I’m racing on a track, doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
Hipster stat at best.
Good teams score high xg and bad teams score low xg. Then people claim that that means more than the teams being good or bad.
xg, stupid metric viewed in isolation. The more data that’s collected over time, the most useful it is. e.g. look at expected goals of a club or specific player’s last 50 games vs. actuals. Tells you who is clinical at creating/scoring and who is shite.
xG is a pointless stat for nerds 
Anyone who watched Palace vs Liverpool, take a look at the ‘xG’ for that game then ask yourself if it makes sense. That’s all I’ll say.
Obi Mikel spouts a load of Anti Arsenal nonsense and then finds himself invited on to Talksport 
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