The Swiss Ramble blog has scaled the heights of analysis once again with an impressive in depth treatment of Manchester United. As always, there are lots of graphs and data to back up the argument. It must take hours of careful work, but you also need the right skill set to do it properly.
The Swiss Ramble blog has scaled the heights of analysis once again with an impressive in depth treatment of Manchester United. As always, there are lots of graphs and data to back up the argument. It must take hours of careful work, but you also need the right skill set to do it properly.
I do think that he is insufficiently generous to the scope and sophistication of United’s commercial operation. I think that it is unmatched in football. It is all very well to say that anyone could have done it with such a stellar brand, but it still requires organisation, effort and good judgment.
Given the poor performance of other English clubs in the Champions League, a special burden rests on United tonight. It has given critics of the Premier League a useful platform to reiterate that it is not good as it thinks it is. I do think there is something in the criticism that the clubs don’t give enough attention to defence (particularly if you are naive enough to select your back up goalkeeper).
There is a risk, as we have noted before, that the Premier League might be reduced to three places which would cause a lot of angst among top clubs and those seeking to challenge them such as Everton. Paradoxically, the three clubs might get more money from the pool, although the 10 per cent that goes to Scotland is a complication.