Arsenal v Chelsea - 23 April 2024

Yeah, sure. But he's one of the pundits on the Guardian podcast who I find entertaining. Ronay and Wilson, Bandini too, I'd say. Barry can be funny but also curmudgeonly and prone to the tropes. Max can get in the bin.

 

I agree after years of it, the style gets thin, but he does have the some of the greatest quotes ever about Andy Carroll

 

I feel like wilson, who used to be one of the great football writers at the G, is being slowly tormented by his editors and made to write crappy hot takes after the Athletic gutted the place

 

That's the thing - his takes on tactics and history were great

He match reviews are awful. Now they make him write about XG and stuff he clearly hates. I had the impression one of his recent articles about .eth was a pisstake.

 

The "new" way to think about Arsenal and what Arteta is doing has been a bit of a high hurdle for much of what I'll call the old guard to overcome. Wilson, for all his encyclopedic knowledge of history and tactics and history of tactics, nevertheless often falls into that "old guard" category.

 

I think that's the issue. The new school, really started by Ted and the infamous football analytics list (over 10 years ago now!) really changed everything.

It's even become hard to show what is really happening without multimedia

Rugby is currently going through this - people are creating clips on social media where they mark all the little things going on which you'd have little hope of noticing when watching live.

 

I think the AV pod is pretty good for tactical analysis.