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Football, Statistics and the Middle Classes
Since the commoditization and gentrification of football that got into full swing with the formation of the premiership and the middle classes discovering the game in 1996, there has been an explosion of meaningless statistical analysis to fill the knowledge void of the nufan, and it makes me me puke And like any plague , it's spreading, even people who know the game are at it.
This so called knowledge is used by these nufans to create the impression that someone who has never kicked a ball in their life or watched hardly any live, has a inkling about the dynamics of the game or how it is, can or should be played. There are exceptions, but they are few. Take this drivel as an example http://www.theguardian.com/football/...r-united-title Not only will this cretin be walking around priding himself on his 'knowledge' of the game, but he is actually earning a living from it (a very nice middle class one I've no doubt) and his idiotic followers will be quoting the meaningless shite chapter and verse in their offices and over lunch. Just another example of how football has gone to the dogs, literally |
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Statistical analysis has absolute nothing to do with the middle classes you absolute berk.
It comes from the US. They're absolutely stat obsessed over there, and in fairness it has some merit. Personally I don't feel it translates as well to a fluid, dynamic game like football, although there's clearly something to be taken from it, if you know what you're doing and are open to new ideas. In summary, you're wrong, and you're a dinosaur. |
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It has some value in football but more often than not, is useless or misleading or rather the interpretation or weight it's given leads to those outcomes. Great for Internet arguments though. |
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tbf nobody in those pictures from the football blogging awards (serial stats offenders) looked middle class. They all looked like dweebs and virgins who'd won a mid-2000s footballer's haircut and a Topman trolley dash in a Shoot! competition. There's defo more of the middle class involved in football nowadays but they're more interested in corporate freebies and selfies with millionaires than stats.
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Is that not an obvious point to make? This 'explosion of meaningless statistical analysis', if they are the love of the 'middle classes', is because most modern football fans are middle class. And well, yeah, because the 'middle classes' (I'd like your definition on that btw) are so much more prevalent now. You seem to be wishing for an era of flat caps, jumpers for goal posts and a severe lack of undersoil heating but the world has moved on, for better for worse. Anyway, it's all LVG's fault. Whatever the problem is. |
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