Tuesday, July 24, 2007
If you ever feel that British football clubs are too dependent on hunches, and feeling, and splashing millions on players who look good but don't do much, this is a story to keep an eye on:
Billy Beane could change the way you think about soccer.
Yes, that Billy Beane. It's getting old, this business of running a contender at half the price. This isn't the year to brag about it, not with his A's on pace for their first losing season since 1998, but this is a reasonable time for the general manager to try something new.
Try a foreign language. Translate "Moneyball" from baseball to soccer.
That's Moneyball, probably the most influential sports book of the last decade.
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Billy Beane could change the way you think about soccer.
Yes, that Billy Beane. It's getting old, this business of running a contender at half the price. This isn't the year to brag about it, not with his A's on pace for their first losing season since 1998, but this is a reasonable time for the general manager to try something new.
Try a foreign language. Translate "Moneyball" from baseball to soccer.
That's Moneyball, probably the most influential sports book of the last decade.
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