data scientist @ManUtd | PhD researcher on game model eval @ManMetUni | views my own | he/him
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12 Nov 2025
had a fantastic time talking at the twelve day conference in stockholm this week!
was really cool to be up there alongside some great speakers, thank you for the invite @twelve_football 🙏
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Apr 23
I’m always excited to hear from Jon on tactics, so it’s incredibly cool that he’s written a book for me about it 🥰
(but you can also pre-order!)
Apr 23
Some news: I've written a book about how football has evolved over the last fifteen years or so.
It's called The Spectre of Pep: How Guardiola haunts modern football tactics.
It's out in August and you can pre-order it right now from this link: geni.us/TheSpectreOfPep
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Apr 23
Some news: I've written a book about how football has evolved over the last fifteen years or so.
It's called The Spectre of Pep: How Guardiola haunts modern football tactics.
It's out in August and you can pre-order it right now from this link: geni.us/TheSpectreOfPep
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Mar 5
If you saw my Scotland x World Cup '26 cassette card fixtures designs, I've gone and put both the coloured and plain background versions on my shop! A4 and A3 landscape or vertical layouts available. Click through to get one if you like. madebyfrankie.bigcartel.com 🏴
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Feb 23
Scotland's World Cup '26 fixtures if they were blank cassette designs | 🏴🇩🇰🇭🇹🇲🇦🇧🇷
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Feb 5
Manchester United isn't just our name.
It's a message of togetherness, acceptance and inclusion from our club. Our city. Our people.
We stand with the @PremierLeague and @RainbowDevils in championing equality, making football welcome for everyone.
ALT Illustration of diverse figures holding rainbow flags atop a train labeled 'Rainbow Devils' with Manchester United logo and stadium in background.
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Feb 3
Suggested donation of £10 to attend, but all donations appreciated!
🔗 justgiving.com/page/shifting…
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Feb 3
My lovely 🎹 teacher, Gema, is hosting a charity concert for PawPurrs halfway house, a Wigan-based charity that rescues and re-homes cats in need.
All contributions greatly appreciated!
🌍 Cross St. Chapel, Manchester
⏰ Friday 20th March, 18:30
📷 gema.piano
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Feb 3
My lovely 🎹 teacher, Gema, is hosting a charity concert for PawPurrs halfway house, a Wigan-based charity that rescues and re-homes cats in need.
All contributions greatly appreciated!
🌍 Cross St. Chapel, Manchester
⏰ Friday 20th March, 18:30
📷 gema.piano
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Feb 3
Suggested donation of £10 to attend, but all donations appreciated!
🔗 justgiving.com/page/shifting…
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We're now taking applications for #CMSACamp 2026! Application deadline is Feb 27th - please share with rising juniors and seniors! #sportsanalytics #datascience
Applications are now open for the 2026 CMSAC Summer Camp! CMSACamp is an in-person two-month summer undergraduate research experience hosted by the Department of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
cmu.edu/dietrich/statistics-…
#CMSAC #SportsAnalytics #CMU
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Jan 21
Also might want to check out the Impect Open Data repository:
github.com/ImpectAPI/open-da…
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Jan 21
Heartbreaking to see FBRef losing advanced data from Opta
My player scouting app uses Wyscout instead of Opta, and doesn’t pull from FBRef so if you need a replacement, it could be a start. Even if it’s quite different. Always free
best11scouting.streamlit.app…
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Jan 21
FBRef no longer being able to provide free public (advanced) data is a great shame as public data is how many in the industry get started (including myself!).
Couple of tips in the thread for if you were counting on this data for sharing public work ⬇️
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Jan 21
Which brings me onto my final point: to show / refine your technical skills, Kaggle is fantastic. There are some sports datasets, but more importantly you can search for datasets by type (e.g. time-series) and show your ability to handle and derive insights in different cases.
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I will caveat this by saying this is from my POV as a data scientist where I want to build models / derive insight from raw data. Engineering / analysis skills may not benefit from these datasets as much, but I wouldn’t want to advise too strongly in areas I’m not an expert in!
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