Alex Stewart
@afhstewart.bsky.social
CEO @analyticsfc.bsky.social
Lego, bats, maps.
Lego, bats, maps.
The worst thing about this awful article is that it genuinely suggests that 'performative reading' (which seems to be reading in public and/or secondhand books) equates in men to "f***boy behaviour; casual cruelty hides behind their finely crafted feminist image". Utterly wild to make that jump.
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The worst thing about this awful article is that it genuinely suggests that 'performative reading' (which seems to be reading in public and/or secondhand books) equates in men to "f***boy behaviour; casual cruelty hides behind their finely crafted feminist image". Utterly wild to make that jump.
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🦇 Today is #OneHealthDay, a unified approach that recognises that all sectors must work together to achieve the health of animals, the environment and humans.
Bats, people, and their ecosystems are closely connected, and so actions to support one part of this system also benefit the entire system.
Bats, people, and their ecosystems are closely connected, and so actions to support one part of this system also benefit the entire system.
Bats & health communication guide - Bats and health - Bat Conservation Trust
The goal of bat conservationists and bat scientists across the globe is to help bats and our natural world thrive, without minimizing the risks of conta...
www.bats.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🦇 Today is #OneHealthDay, a unified approach that recognises that all sectors must work together to achieve the health of animals, the environment and humans.
Bats, people, and their ecosystems are closely connected, and so actions to support one part of this system also benefit the entire system.
Bats, people, and their ecosystems are closely connected, and so actions to support one part of this system also benefit the entire system.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight
![screenshot of a Justin Klugh tweet from October 28, 2015:
JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2bjwvguncd35fna7ruckjtw/bafkreiczbp37nmuosnvgyrbv3nfdxupczam3ezjeri5cpio36htjuyiisy@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight
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⚽ 🇸🇪 Analytics FC's work with AIK Fotboll is making a real impact
AIK’s Head of Football Strategy, Jeremy Steele, has given an update on our partnership with AIK’s is having a tangible impact on scouting, recruitment, and performance reviews. Find out more below:
analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
AIK’s Head of Football Strategy, Jeremy Steele, has given an update on our partnership with AIK’s is having a tangible impact on scouting, recruitment, and performance reviews. Find out more below:
analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
Analytics FC Collaboration with AIK Fotboll Making Real Impact - Analytics FC
AIK's Head of Football Strategy, Jeremy Steele, has given an update on how a partnership with Analytics FC is having a positive impact
analyticsfc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
⚽ 🇸🇪 Analytics FC's work with AIK Fotboll is making a real impact
AIK’s Head of Football Strategy, Jeremy Steele, has given an update on our partnership with AIK’s is having a tangible impact on scouting, recruitment, and performance reviews. Find out more below:
analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
AIK’s Head of Football Strategy, Jeremy Steele, has given an update on our partnership with AIK’s is having a tangible impact on scouting, recruitment, and performance reviews. Find out more below:
analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
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🦇 Amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill are likely to be discussed @houseoflords.parliament.uk today. The Bill ignores and disregards the need for evidence and will not benefit the economy, our natural heritage or society. Updated briefing here:
Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Biodiversity policy & advocacy - Bat Conservation Trust
The government published the Planning and Infrastructure Bill in March 2025, this outlined its proposals for reforming the planning process. Although th...
www.bats.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🦇 Amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill are likely to be discussed @houseoflords.parliament.uk today. The Bill ignores and disregards the need for evidence and will not benefit the economy, our natural heritage or society. Updated briefing here:
I swear if one more commentator says Agyemang "causes chaos" I will reach into my TV and throttle them
October 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I swear if one more commentator says Agyemang "causes chaos" I will reach into my TV and throttle them
Sarina is a brilliant coach and I love what she has done in general, but at some point we have to start giving meaningful chances to new players especially in midfield.
October 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Sarina is a brilliant coach and I love what she has done in general, but at some point we have to start giving meaningful chances to new players especially in midfield.
English football’s focus on possession over transition causes so many problems when the international side comes up against quick strong sides with a core of NWSL attacking players.
October 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
English football’s focus on possession over transition causes so many problems when the international side comes up against quick strong sides with a core of NWSL attacking players.
If this team didn’t have Russo idk
October 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If this team didn’t have Russo idk
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🌍 Market Analysis – Norway’s Toppserien
@shelatneel.bsky.social looks at one of Europe’s more youthful elite women’s leagues and showcases some of the exceptional talent to be found there
analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
@shelatneel.bsky.social looks at one of Europe’s more youthful elite women’s leagues and showcases some of the exceptional talent to be found there
analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
Market Analysis: Norway’s Youthful Toppserien - Analytics FC
Neel Shelat looks at Norway's Toppserien, a market with real importance for elite-level recruitment and the promise of its youth development
analyticsfc.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🌍 Market Analysis – Norway’s Toppserien
@shelatneel.bsky.social looks at one of Europe’s more youthful elite women’s leagues and showcases some of the exceptional talent to be found there
analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
@shelatneel.bsky.social looks at one of Europe’s more youthful elite women’s leagues and showcases some of the exceptional talent to be found there
analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
I’m extremely over getting AI-generated messages on LinkedIn asking about the football industry. A) AI can be spotted a mile away in this kind of missive; don’t do it! B) how can you be expected to be taken seriously if you outsource saying hello to a fucken robot
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’m extremely over getting AI-generated messages on LinkedIn asking about the football industry. A) AI can be spotted a mile away in this kind of missive; don’t do it! B) how can you be expected to be taken seriously if you outsource saying hello to a fucken robot
What does this even mean my god
It's important to remember that this is how executives in the games industry are talking about art. The workers at Boss Fight and Netflix Games at large deserve better.
October 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What does this even mean my god
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🧵 Thread: I recently explored a few ideas to analyze a team's press in more detail 👇
1️⃣ Pressing triggers
▫️By focusing on the opponent's pass before a 1st pressing action in a sequence, it's possible to separate different triggers
👇 The graphic shows an example, with the 8 triggers that I defined
1️⃣ Pressing triggers
▫️By focusing on the opponent's pass before a 1st pressing action in a sequence, it's possible to separate different triggers
👇 The graphic shows an example, with the 8 triggers that I defined
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🧵 Thread: I recently explored a few ideas to analyze a team's press in more detail 👇
1️⃣ Pressing triggers
▫️By focusing on the opponent's pass before a 1st pressing action in a sequence, it's possible to separate different triggers
👇 The graphic shows an example, with the 8 triggers that I defined
1️⃣ Pressing triggers
▫️By focusing on the opponent's pass before a 1st pressing action in a sequence, it's possible to separate different triggers
👇 The graphic shows an example, with the 8 triggers that I defined
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I think a lot about how most big-city newspapers used to have a a couple of movie critics, a theater critic, a few book critics, an architecture critic, a music critic or two, an in-house cartoonist, at least two or three foreign correspondents, a fashion writer, and a whole staff of photographers
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I think a lot about how most big-city newspapers used to have a a couple of movie critics, a theater critic, a few book critics, an architecture critic, a music critic or two, an in-house cartoonist, at least two or three foreign correspondents, a fashion writer, and a whole staff of photographers
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Sheffield Wednesday are in administration
Without structural reform this stuff will keep happening - it is yet another sign English football needs to get its house in order and move clubs away from owner reliance
Analysis w/Phil Buckingham and @mjslater.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
Without structural reform this stuff will keep happening - it is yet another sign English football needs to get its house in order and move clubs away from owner reliance
Analysis w/Phil Buckingham and @mjslater.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
Sheffield Wednesday placed in administration, set for 12-point deduction
Wednesday will now fall to minus six points after 11 games of the Championship season.
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Sheffield Wednesday are in administration
Without structural reform this stuff will keep happening - it is yet another sign English football needs to get its house in order and move clubs away from owner reliance
Analysis w/Phil Buckingham and @mjslater.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
Without structural reform this stuff will keep happening - it is yet another sign English football needs to get its house in order and move clubs away from owner reliance
Analysis w/Phil Buckingham and @mjslater.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
This is a very fair summary of where it’s at currently
I had the chance to have a tinker on an early build of FM26 last week, here's what I made of it...
trackrecordmedia.org/2025/10/22/f...
trackrecordmedia.org/2025/10/22/f...
October 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is a very fair summary of where it’s at currently
And so it begins.
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
And so it begins.
Not saying a huge style shift guarantees trouble, but if your squad is used to one thing and then you try to get them doing something epically, wildly different, or you try to adapt to do something epically, wildly different, it is quite unlikely to work.
October 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Not saying a huge style shift guarantees trouble, but if your squad is used to one thing and then you try to get them doing something epically, wildly different, or you try to adapt to do something epically, wildly different, it is quite unlikely to work.
Was a real pleasure chatting to Adrian about data analytics in football
BONUS EPISODE:
@afhstewart.bsky.social from @analyticsfc.bsky.social with brilliant insight into how analytics actually work in football.
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@afhstewart.bsky.social from @analyticsfc.bsky.social with brilliant insight into how analytics actually work in football.
podfollow.com/wheres-the-m...
Where's The Money Gone?: Inside The World Of Football Analytics
How do analytics really work in football? Adrian Goldberg gets and inside view from Alex Williams of Analytics FC - a company which has worked with around 30 clubs and player agencies in 14 diffe...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Was a real pleasure chatting to Adrian about data analytics in football
Needs a @atherton.bsky.social Sad Dad Bands entry on each
SUNDAY - DAY 2 OF "TEARS OF A FALCON" FEATURING:
They Just Killed Us - The Poorly Uneducated - From the Standpoint of Water - Haters and Losers - Rocket Man - Many Such Cases - I Like Heat - You're the Puppet - American Carnage - Sad! - Little Marco - Very Legal & Very Cool - Local Milk People
They Just Killed Us - The Poorly Uneducated - From the Standpoint of Water - Haters and Losers - Rocket Man - Many Such Cases - I Like Heat - You're the Puppet - American Carnage - Sad! - Little Marco - Very Legal & Very Cool - Local Milk People
October 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Needs a @atherton.bsky.social Sad Dad Bands entry on each
The face Joe Marler just pulled to the muscle comment absolutely killed me
October 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The face Joe Marler just pulled to the muscle comment absolutely killed me
It’s not wildly unhinged, sorry, but John Le Carré was very, very underrated as a novelist because of the genre thing (this applies to a good few sci-fi’ers too)
Also, Chaucer is way more GOATed than many realise and the Riverside makes it surprisingly accessible (he’s usually taught v badly)
Also, Chaucer is way more GOATed than many realise and the Riverside makes it surprisingly accessible (he’s usually taught v badly)
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It’s not wildly unhinged, sorry, but John Le Carré was very, very underrated as a novelist because of the genre thing (this applies to a good few sci-fi’ers too)
Also, Chaucer is way more GOATed than many realise and the Riverside makes it surprisingly accessible (he’s usually taught v badly)
Also, Chaucer is way more GOATed than many realise and the Riverside makes it surprisingly accessible (he’s usually taught v badly)
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Friday Stat Dump: Saves and Save %
The analytics folk, me included, have for the past decade or so extolled the virtues of evaluating goalkeepers on something like goals against - post-shot xG (G-PSxG).
I don't think that's wrong, per se, but, if that is the only metric, we've got some issues.
1/
The analytics folk, me included, have for the past decade or so extolled the virtues of evaluating goalkeepers on something like goals against - post-shot xG (G-PSxG).
I don't think that's wrong, per se, but, if that is the only metric, we've got some issues.
1/
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Friday Stat Dump: Saves and Save %
The analytics folk, me included, have for the past decade or so extolled the virtues of evaluating goalkeepers on something like goals against - post-shot xG (G-PSxG).
I don't think that's wrong, per se, but, if that is the only metric, we've got some issues.
1/
The analytics folk, me included, have for the past decade or so extolled the virtues of evaluating goalkeepers on something like goals against - post-shot xG (G-PSxG).
I don't think that's wrong, per se, but, if that is the only metric, we've got some issues.
1/