And now it's statistical The debates over the worst Premier League signings are as old as the
league itself. One of the reasons that it has been difficult to gauge is that obviously the cost of
players has increased from 1992 to today. However, in their book "Pay as you play" Paul Tomkins,
Graeme Riley [.
Pay As You Play Paul Tomkins, Graeme Reilly and Gary Futcher Published by GPRF Publishing 2010,
£10.99, 978-0955925337 If a book analyzing the finances of Premier League clubs may seem slightly
beyond the remit of this website, the presence among its contributors of two of our Unfortunates,
Ben and William Abbs naturally attracted our notice, as well as the coverage of several teams now
Fernando Torres, Chelsea's number 9 is a post from: Just Football
So much for the whole Didier Drogba or Fernando Torres debate. With one casual pen squiggle in a
chequebook Roman Abramovich (falling out of love with Chelsea apparently) has provided the football
world with the most obvious answer.
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know by now that I'm a "Soccer Dad" - I coach my son's
team of 10 and 11 year olds - as well as a huge fan of trying to generate genuine insights into the
beautiful game by systematically exploiting evidence and fact. So, here are two book
recommendations that deal with each of these passions of mine.
In local news, I'm a complete moron, so with that settled right off the top let's take a quick
peek around the intertubes to see what others have been saying from a Liverpool point of
view...
* Well, at least it looks like Tomkins generally agrees with me on the whole "How about
we take five minutes off from desperately looking for somebody to blame" side of things, as he
talks about obvious signs of improvement being good enough and about the best that could be hoped
for for the time being.
