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All passes are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Anyone who’s played the game understands intuitively that existing soccer stats such as possession, shots and corners are limited at best and misleading at worst.
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As the post mortem begins for France after their 0-1 extra-time defeat to Portugal in the Euro 2016 final, it’s worth pointing out that France started the game at a serious disadvantage.
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It was some good old-fashioned Greek logic.
When José Mourinho sat down at his first press conference as Manchester United manager, he summoned some reasoning that dates back to 384 BC and the northern periphery of classical Greece. More recently, it’s a mental model that’s been applied by Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City.
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In most traumatic situations, it’s helpful to zoom out. In a week, for example, when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and England lost to Iceland, I recall a conversation I had with my father-in-law late last year when Vladimir Putin was advancing on Ukraine. As a committed historian, I asked him how long he estimated it would take humanity to zoom out and focus on, well, humanity.
“Oh, another 4,000 years.”