It has been a little over 70 days and 13 games across all competitions since Mikel Arteta took on the role of managing Arsenal. He has the tough job of trying to patch the many holes that riddle the hull of the ship that is Arsenal at the moment. In the short 3 months… Read More »
El 24 de febrero se disputó la final de la Carabao Cup en el Estadio Wembley entre el Manchester City y el Chelsea. El City era el claro favorito, ya que unos días antes habían destrozado al Chelsea 6-0. Sorprendentemente, el juego iba 0-0 y ya se jugaban los últimos segundos del tiempo extra, cuando… Read More »
Last Spring, I wrote a research paper for Professor Ed Tiryakian’s Business of Sport class here at Duke that focused on the source and implications of rampant managerial turnover in the English Premier League. I had become passionate about the topic after Leicester’s February 2017 sacking of prolific Italian manager Claudio Ranieri, who had defied all… Read More »
This past week we read the first few chapters of The Game of Our Lives by David Goldblatt. The discussion of corner kick strategy caught my attention. According to Goldblatt, “English Premier League clubs score a goal from a corner once every ten games” (Goldblatt 67). More specifically, only 11.1 percent of goals came from… Read More »
On the 1st of February, Manchester City confirmed the long rumored news that their current manager, Manuel Pellegrini, would be replaced at the end of the year by Pep Guardiola, the current Bayern Munich manager. Guardiola, long considered one of the best managers in the game, has had a great deal of success at both… Read More »
With the evolution of the English Premier league, expectations are at an all time high. Wealthy investors expect nothing but the best from their team and quite often fabricate erratic and instantneous decisions. The euphoria and prospects of garnering silverware can often cloud judgment and project a directors desires into a far from plausible stratosphere. The… Read More »
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