Optajoe S Football Yearbook 2016

Author : Duncan Alexander
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781473536678

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OptaJoe's Football Yearbook 2016 by Duncan Alexander Pdf

Kane or Vardy? Pep or José? Pulis or ... anybody else? Football is a game of opinions. A world where received wisdom and the law of the hunch reign supreme. But football is becoming more intelligent. The history books may say that Leicester City winning the premier league ‘defied logic’, but if you looked more closely, they were always going to win . . . From distances run to pass success rate, shots on target to corners won, counter-attacks to tackles made, Opta, the world’s leading sports data company, records everything. But what does it all mean? And how can it add to our love of the game? From the author and statistician behind the popular OptaJoe Twitter account, what follows is a hugely entertaining and insightful guide to football in 2016, analysing data from the world's greatest teams, players, leagues and tournaments. Stats can never tell us everything, but combining cutting-edge analysis with wry humour, this book debunks countless myths peddled by pundits, managers, and even players. The ideas that follow are both surprising and satisfying, but may also leave you with the feeling that ‘yes, that’s what I was thinking all along’.

Author : Duncan Alexander
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781473536777

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Outside the Box by Duncan Alexander Pdf

In football, numbers are everywhere. From touches in the opposition box to expected goals, clear-cut chances to win-loss ratios. In the modern game, these numbers help provide the narrative, the drama, and the conversation. They are scrutinised in order to justify results and to predict future outcomes. They even dictate transfer policy and drive clubs to achieve the impossible. But when did the numbers become so important and what do they mean? In Outside the Box, Duncan Alexander looks back at twenty-five years of the Premier League and beyond, uncovering the hidden truths and accepted myths that surround the game. Using the archives of OptaJoe and never-before-seen data, we discover why Liverpool have gone 27 years without winning a league title and why Lionel Messi is the best player in the game’s history. Or is he? Insightful, wry, and hugely entertaining, Outside the Box is an enlightening and accessible account of football across the decades, analysing data from the some of the greatest seasons, players, teams and managers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 1842223127

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Opta Football Yearbook 2001-2002 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Serial publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121731413

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Serials in the British Library by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nick Holt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781473528529

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The Periodic Table of FOOTBALL by Nick Holt Pdf

You can never take what you love too seriously and The Periodic Table of Football celebrates this fact. Welcome to The Periodic Table of Football. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you’ll find Pelé to Sepp Blatter – 108 elements from the football pantheon arranged by their properties and behaviour on and off the pitch. This expert guide spans over 150 years to offer an original perspective of the beautiful game.

Author : Wolter Lemstra,William H. Melody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107073586

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The Dynamics of Broadband Markets in Europe by Wolter Lemstra,William H. Melody Pdf

First in-depth analysis of broadband developments in Europe, combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, with chapter contributions provided by in-country experts.

Author : Donatella Della Porta,Sidney G. Tarrow
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0742535878

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Transnational Protest and Global Activism by Donatella Della Porta,Sidney G. Tarrow Pdf

Sociologists and political scientists from Europe and the US explore how global issues are transforming local and national activism and the interactions between local, national, and supranational movement organizations. In addition to describing recent events, they adapt concepts and hypotheses developed in the social movement literature of the pas

Author : Tim McGarry,Peter O'Donoghue,Jaime Sampaio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136658631

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Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis by Tim McGarry,Peter O'Donoghue,Jaime Sampaio Pdf

Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and coaches to obtain live feedback of match statistics and video sequences using flexible internet systems, systems that have become an indispensible tool for all those involved in high performance sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis is the most comprehensive guide to this exciting and dynamic branch of sport science ever to be published. The book explores performance analysis across the four main contexts in which it is commonly used: support for coaches and athletes; the media; judging sport contests, and academic research. It offers an up-to-date account of methodological advances in PA research, assesses the evidence underpinning contemporary theories of sport performance, and reviews developments in applied PA across a wide range of sports, from soccer to track and field athletics. Covering every important aspect of PA, including tactics, strategy, mechanical aspects of technique, physical aspects of performance such as work-rate, coach behaviour and referee behaviour, this is an essential reference for any serious student, researcher or practitioner working in sport performance analysis, sport coaching or high performance sport.

Author : Derek B. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108723322

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German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900-1940 by Derek B. Scott Pdf

Academic attention has focused on America's influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable. In this ground breaking book, Derek B. Scott examines the cultural transfer of operetta from the German stage to Britain and the USA and offers a historical and critical survey of these operettas and their music. In the period 1900-1940, over sixty operettas were produced in the West End, and over seventy on Broadway. A study of these stage works is important for the light they shine on a variety of social topics of the period - from modernity and gender relations to new technology and new media - and these are investigated in the individual chapters. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Emilee Moore,Melinda Dooly
Publisher : Research-publishing.net
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781908416469

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Qualitative approaches to research on plurilingual education / Enfocaments qualitatius per a la recerca en educació plurilingüe / Enfoques cualitativos para la investigación en educación plurilingüe by Emilee Moore,Melinda Dooly Pdf

This handbook is a guide for researchers in plurilingual education. It introduces notions of collaborative research, action-research, ethnography, conversation analysis and mediated discourse analysis. It also discusses ethics, how to collect and organize plurilingual and multimodal corpora, and write up research papers.Aquest manual és una guia per a la recerca en educació plurilingüe. S'hi introdueixen conceptes de recerca col·laborativa, recerca-acció, etnografia, anàlisi de la conversa i anàlisi del discurs mediat. També s'hi discuteixen qüestions d'ètica, maneres de recopilar i organitzar corpus plurilingües i multimodals, i d’escriure textos de recerca.Este manual es una guía para la investigación en educación plurilingüe. Se introducen conceptos de investigación colaborativa, investigación-acción, etnografía, análisis de la conversación y análisis del discurso mediado. También se discuten cuestiones de ética, maneras de recopilar y organizar corpus plurilingües y multimodales, y de redactar textos de investigación.

Author : Chris Cooper,Colin Michael Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750663502

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Contemporary Tourism by Chris Cooper,Colin Michael Hall Pdf

Now in its second edition, Contemporary Tourism: an international approach presents a new and refreshing approach to the study of tourism, considering issues such as the changing world order, destination marketing, tourism ethics, pro-poor tourism and implications for the patterns and flow of tourism in the future.

Author : David Conn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781473524705

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The Fall of the House of Fifa by David Conn Pdf

The Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise - and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen. 1904: 'No person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit' - Fifa congress A century later: 'Fifa is a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organisation (RICO) enterprise' - A judge in Brooklyn, using a term originally coined for the mafia For forty years Joao Havelange and then Sepp Blatter presided over a Fifa now plagued with scandal - dawn raids, FBI investigations, allegations of money laundering, industrial-scale bribery, racketeering, tax evasion, vote-buying and theft. Now David Conn, football's most respected investigative journalist, chronicles the extraordinary history and staggering scale of corruption. He paints revealing portraits of the men at the centre of Fifa - the power brokers, the indicted, the legends like Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini - and puts the allegations to Blatter himself in an extended interview.

Author : Burkhard Herbote,Vratislav Kuška
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 359823970X

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World Tourism Directory by Burkhard Herbote,Vratislav Kuška Pdf

Burkhard Herbote in association with the World Tourism Organization Now every conceivable association, institution, authority, service, and information center associated with the burgeoning travel trade is systematically listed in a unique Baedeker to the industry itself. This 4th edition puts users in touch with 55,000 sources of interest and information in some 330 countries and territories. Tourism professionals, travel writers, and independent globetrotters will find this directory invaluable on a multitude of fronts -- whether they wish to contact the tourist office in Mombasa or Munich.

Author : Bill Buford
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780804150514

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Among the Thugs by Bill Buford Pdf

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.

Author : Adrian Tempany
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780571295104

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And the Sun Shines Now by Adrian Tempany Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE FEATURED IN THE OBSERVER'S SPORTS WRITERS' BOOKS OF THE YEAR On 15 April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of people traumatised, and English football in ruins. And the Sun Shines Now is not a book about Hillsborough. It is a book about what arrived in the wake of unquestionably the most controversial tragedy in the post-war era of Britain's history. The Taylor Report. Italia 90. Gazza's tears. All seater stadia. Murdoch. Sky. Nick Hornby. The Premier League. The transformation of a game that once connected club to community to individual into a global business so rapacious the true fans have been forgotten, disenfranchised. In powerful polemical prose, against a backbone of rigorous research and interviews, Adrian Tempany deconstructs the past quarter century of English football and examines its place in the world. How did Hillsborough and the death of 96 Liverpool fans come to change the national game beyond recognition? And is there any hope that clubs can reconnect with a new generation of fans when you consider the startling statistic that the average age of season ticket holder here is 41, compared to Germany's 21? Perhaps the most honest account of the relationship between the football and the state yet written, And the Sun Shines Now is a brutal assessment of the modern game.