Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

IN THEIR book The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson and David Sally argue that success in football is 50 per cent skill and 50 per cent luck.
Naturally, coaches and players disagree. Nobody wants to believe that all those expensive coaching badges, all those evenings on Wyscout and all those hours on the training ground don’t matter. Nor that the contents of the trophy cabinet were won on the toss of a coin.
And they weren’t, of course. The best players minimise the role of luck by training diligently, making smart decisions and deve...