Nearby is Dafydd Steele, a former junior chess champion with a graduate math degree who previously worked in the energy industry. The background of the most recent analyst to be hired, Will Spearman, is even less conventional. Another club might conceivably hire an analyst like Graham, or Steele, or Waskett, and maybe even Spearman. “Otherwise I’ll leave him in peace.”At one point, Spearman went to get coffee. “We’re just starting to ask the question, ‘Why don’t we try to play football in a slightly different way?’ ” Graham explains.

Source: New York Times May 22, 2019 09:00 UTC