Report: York Festival of Ideas with author Daniel Gray 'The Delights of Football'

On Saturday 7th June 2025 we had the honour of hosting author Daniel Gray at the University of York's Festival of Ideas.

Daniel has been on our radar since 2018, when his book Saturday, 3pm, was recommended. It was therefore a treat to finally meet the author and to share with our audience the opportunity to hear him read.

Daniel read selected passages from three of his books, including several from his more recent 'Delights of Football' series.

Daniel's writing has drawn comparison to the artwork of Lowry, for his ability to find delight in every day life in a way that resonates with his audience.

There was something for everyone in his observations on receiving the fixture list, watching referees fall over, the smell of pies and fried onions in and around the stadium.  He paints pictures with words and even the few people in the audience who weren't fans of football enjoyed the poetic prose.

Sighted in the audience was our guest speaker from last year, Dr Tosh Warwick, who kindly photographed the event.

Photo with thank to Dr Tosh Warwick

The Soccer Mad Boffins series within the York Festival of Ideas continues to draw and sizable, enthusiastic and diverse audience. We thank everyone who attends and to the university and especially the festival organisers, in particular Joan, Naomi and Caren, who have believed in us since we began and without whom these events would not be possible.

A complete list of our Festival of Ideas appearances is included below, with links to Youtube for those which were recorded and still available to watch online. Note that this does not include appearances at other events such as York Researchers Night, at which you may also have met us:

2025 with Daniel Gray 'The Delights of Football' click here to watch

2024 with Dr Tosh Warwick 'Lost Football Grounds' click here to watch

2023 with  Dr Alexander Jackson 'Curating the World's Game: An Audience with the National Football Museum'  click here to watch

2023 with Dr Duncan Stone 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' click here to watch

2021 with football Referee Keith Hackett 'Rules of the Game: On and Off the Pitch'

2019 with investigate journalist David Conn 'The Business of Professional Football'

2019 with football agent Daniel Geey 'Done Deal: Premier League Big Business'

2018 with former FA Chairman and Director-General of the BBC Greg Dyke on 'The Business of World Cup Football'

York Festival of Ideas 2025: The Delights of Football

 

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• Saturday 7 June 2025, 3.15pm to 4.15pm
• Location: In-person only at Ron Cooke Hub, Campus East, University of York (Map)Admission:
• Free admission, booking required

Book tickets

From sportswashing to ticket prices, we hear much that is critical about modern football - but what remains magic about the game? From the beauty of floodlights to the glorious moment when a referee falls over, Daniel Gray, author of the Delights series of football books and owner of a Bootham Crescent turnstile, lyrically celebrates the simple joys of the beautiful game.

Join in the conversation at an event hosted by York’s Soccer-Mad Boffins Alex Gillett and Kevin Tennent of the University of York.

Daniel Gray is the author of the Delights series of football books, Stramash and Homage to Caledonia. For a short period in the early 1990s he was the finest left-back in his village, once marking Gordon Strachan’s youngest son (the one who didn’t become a footballer) out of the game. A Middlesbrough supporter, Daniel began attending football matches in 1988 and has never recovered. He has worked in a psychiatric hospital, a library and in television and politics.

Paris 2024 is here!

It feels like Euro 2024 with disappointment for England has only just gone - but another global sporting megaevent is here already - the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic games. With 329 events in 32 sports there will be plenty of action to keep us going! The men's and women's football competitions are no different. Although football has its own World Cups for men and women (as often covered by us here!) the Olympics still play an important role. 

The men's competition is really a sort of global 'age group' tournament, with teams allowed to field only three players aged over 23, while in women's football the competition is open to players of all ages, making it a secondary world cup! 

As usual we sat down before kick off to predict the tournaments ourselves, and also randomly, with a dice. 

 

Men 

Alex predicted that Spain will repeat their Euros triumph - ultimately with a 4-2 victory over North African hopefuls Morocco. He predicts Argentina will win the bronze medal triumphing 3-0 ove Japan in the third place match. Morocco won their controversial game against Argentina yesterday thanks to a VAR decision so their rise through the tournament looks like it is on! 

Kevin predicted that Argentina would see gold instead, with their younger generation looking to repeat the World Cup triumph of their elders. Spain would win silver after a tight but exciting final, losing 2-3. Egypt would enjoy a favorable tournament and win bronze, narrowly over Ukraine, winning 0-1 in extra time in the third place match. 

The dice as ever predicted the most interesting outcome - Japan will be champions, after a 6-6 thriller with Iraq, a team famously tipped by sporting economists Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski to eventually rise to world dominance. Argentina would have to content themselves with the Bronze, after beating Egypt 0-1. 

Women 

Great Britain failed to qualify for the Olympics after England, who were representing them, finished as runners up in their Nations League group in December 2023 - but there is still plenty of action to enjoy, as we give other nations a chance at Olympic glory! 

Alex predicted that the victors will be France - in spectacular fashion, triumphing 5-4 over a Brazil in a spectacular final match, ending on extra time. Expectations on the home side will certainly be high. 

World champions Spain would win Bronze after a 1-2 third place match, with former serial World Champions Germany missing out. 

Kevin predicted that the Brazilians, whose performance has gradually improved in recent years, would triumph - with a 3-2 win over Germany in the final. The French would have to content themselves with Bronze, in a 2-0 win over Australia - so often the fate of host nations who do well in a tournament only to be pipped at the post!

On the dice, Columbia were predicted to be champions, triumphing 2-0 over Australia in the final. Canada would get bronze, beating Nigeria 1-0. 

So now we know what we think will happen over to reality-  who's going to win the two gold medals on offer?

Euro 2024 Quarter Finals

Lo and behold!  The Quarter Finals of the UEFA European Championships 2024 kick off on Friday 5th July.

Here our our predictions:

	AG	KT	Dice
Spain v Germany	0-0 0-2 AET	2v2 5v4 pens	4 v 3
Portugal v France	2-3	2v1	5 v 2
England v Switzerland	2v1	1v1 2v2 AET, 4v3 pens	0 v 0,  1 v 1 AET, 5 v 3 Pens
Netherlands v Turkey	2v3	2v0	0 v 0, 0 v 3 AET

Alex tips Germany, France, England and Turkey to progress

Kevin chooses Spain, Portugal, England (just!) and Netherlands

The dice favour Spain, Portugal, England and Turkey.

As usual, we present this info only for fun and do not encourage anyone to use these predictions to inform gambling decisions.

UK General Election - party manifestos on sport compared

Anyone living in the UK won't have failed to notice that a General Election is taking place, as well as the Euros!  Politicians are increasingly likely to use football as a source of popularity and the governance of football has become a political issue, with the current government attempting to bring in financial regulation of the game.

In the name of public service we have gone through the manifestos of the five parties currently leading in the UK wide opinion polls to bring you a summary of their policies towards sport and football in England (for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland sport is a devolved issue).

We offer no support or endorsement of a specific party here but simply seek to summarize the facts out of public service.  So here are their policies presented in alphabetical order with a brief comment:

Conservative

Introduce Independent Football Regulator

Stop clubs joining breakaway leagues

Implement Carney Review of Women’s Football and support participation of women and girls

Continue Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme

The Conservatives essentially envisage continuing as they are - the Independent Regulator legislation ran out of time.

Green

Invest £5bn in local sports, arts and culture

Keep local sports facilities open

End VAT on 'cultural activities'

The Greens have few policies on sport and focus on the grass roots side rather than the populist potential of the elite game.

Labour

Introduce Independent Football Regulator

Stop clubs joining breakaway leagues

Support grassroots clubs to expand access to sport

Introduce consumer protection to stop ticket touts

'deliver international events with pride and seek opportunities where we can'

Labour are adopting the Conservative approach but interestingly with an interest in stopping ticket touts and a minimal promise to host mega-events where it might be relevant - but deliberately avoiding naming any specific event.

Liberal Democrat

Introduce Independent Regulator but with powers to impose 'a fairer financial flow to well run clubs', include human rights questions in propriety tests for owners and directors, and require clubs to have EDI action plans

Boost participation in sports and physical activity by investing in leisure centres, swimming pools and other grassroots facilities and supporting community sports clubs.'

Protect sports and arts funding via National Lottery

Introduce consumer protection to stop ticket touts

Place levy on gambling companies

Expand free-to-air coverage to include more football as well as rugby, cricket, golf and tennis

Generally support and encourage EDI in sport

The Liberal Democrats are the most interventionist of any major party - they also progress the Independent Regulator but with a much bigger footprint by adding human rights and EDI factors as well as looking at participation.  They want to regulate gambling, a big sports-related product more, and more sport on telly, too.

Reform

'protect country sports'

Reform have kept their sporting policy simple - defend hunting which they say helps the environment. Tally-ho!

So we can say that where parties consider elite sport they generally offer more regulation of it - but to different extents - for the Greens and Reform, presumably the status quo would continue, and professional football would be left to regulate itself.  All except Reform consider grassroots sports with its broader community and health impacts important in some way - but again there are subtle differences in policy.

We hope that this has helped those with an interest in sport and football policy in England to decide who to vote for come July 4th!

Celebrating Ten Years of Soccer Mad Boffins with a Euro 2024 Tournament Prediction

It was June 2014 when we founded this blog. The launch coincided not only with our FIFA scholarship to research the business and administrative history of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, but also with the start of that years FIFA World Cup, the 20th edition of the tournament hosted in Brazil.

We followed the tournament with various comments and fun posts and who could predict that we would still be going strong in 2024!?

Speaking of predictions, the first time that we attempted to predict the scores and outcomes of a football tournament was the following edition, Russia 2018.  Which leads us nicely to the present.

Today, Friday 14th June, is the start of the UEFA European Championship. Of the British teams, Scotland face Germany on the opening evening, whilst England play Serbia on Sunday 16th.

BBC pundits generally favour England or France to win the cup which can you read by.following this link.

Sky Sports report betting odds also favour the cross-channel rivals but show that Germany and Portugal are close behind, see here.

The NY Times in collaboration with The Athletic has a more statistical approach, showing Germany as having a squad 'built to win', Portugal as 'having worked the goalkeeeper more than any other team' and Belgium's Lokaku as being a top striker.  England, they sneer dismissively, will be heavily reliant on Harry Kane's goals. See here.

Being free thinkers, we make our own predictions, as well as randomly rolling a dice as a control test.  Using our football knowledge and gut instinct, we have some interesting ideas:

On the group games for Scotland and England:

Scotland

Game	AG	KT	Dice
Germany v Scotland	0-2	1-1	0-3
Scotland v Switzerland	3-2	0-1	1-4
Scotland v Hungary	1-0	2-1	3-0

 

England

Game	AG	KT	Dice
Serbia v England	0-3	1-1	1-0
Denmark v England	0-2	0-2	2-6
England v Slovenia	5-0	1-1	2-0

 

Regarding tournament progress, both Alex and Kevin see the Brits as qualifying from their respective groups, itself a huge achievement for the Scottish bravehearts, but are less confident in England than the professional pundits or bookmakers, predicting a Quarter Final exit.  The dice rolled that both nations will crash out in the Round of 16.

Progress

Team	AG	KT	Dice
Scotland	R16	R16	R16
England	QF	QF	R16

The UK General Election will be held just days after the round of 16. As we reported in our 2021 chapter on sport and populism Harold Wilson lost the 1970 General Election just days after England crashed out of the 1970 World Cup to Germany. Rishi Sunak must be pretty confident that England will progress to the Quarter Finals too!

In terms of who will win the tournament:

Winners

Alex (AG) : France (winners), Portugal (runner-up)

Kevin (KT): Portugal (winners), Croatia (runner-up)

Dice: Croatia (winners), Ukraine (runner-up)

Over to YOU

Who do YOU think will win? How far do YOU think that England or Scotland can go? Please leave us a comment below.

PS: We hope that you enjoy the Euro 2024 tournament and in celebrating 2014-2024 of Soccer Mad Boffins.  Please read the above article for fun, we offer no advice nor encouragement for betting/gambling on the tournament and do this prediction exercise solely for entertainment and to see if we can be more accurate than the pundits!

Predicting the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup

 

1.0      INTRODUCTION

This analysis is based on predictions for the knockout stages of the FIFA Womens 2023 World Cup Finals, which took place between 20 July  - 20 Aug 2023. The objective of this report was to have a bit of fun and to see how accurately we could predict the tournament.  Two academics (Dr Alex Gillett and Dr Kevin D Tennent, both editors of Soccermadboffins website) recorded their predictions at each stage (Group, Round of 16, Quarter-Final, Semi-Final and then Final as well as third place play-off) just prior to each stage, once the competing teams were known.

As a contrast with ‘chance’ a third set of predictions was undertaken at the same time by rolling 2x6 sided dice. A roll of 1-3 meant that was how many goals were scored, 4-5 = nil, whilst a roll of 6 meant roll again and whatever number 1-6 is the total number of goals (this was to allow for the possibility of particularly high scoring games). The idea of the third set of predictions by rolling two dice was for comparison, to see if we could perform better than random(ish) chance. We acknowledge that the six-sided dice and our own parametres somewhat limits the ‘random’ score but it gives an approximation, and it is the same method we have used for previous tournaments so it allows comparison.

We thus followed the ‘Analysis Z’ method of our previous tournament production reports, which predicted results and goals based only on actual fixtures.

Results Kevin was the best performer but Alex a very close second place, although both were less than 50% accurate, so this was not a particularly easy tournament for them to predict.

This exercise was undertaken for fun, please do not attempt to use it as informative for gambling practise!

 

2.0      FINDINGS

Firstly, we predicted the group stage, the first phase of the tournament comprising eight (8) groups, A-H. 

The groups each contained four teams and the top two finishers in each group (50%) automatically progressed to the next stage, the ‘Quarter Final’, whilst the two lowest ranked from each group (also 50%) were eliminated from the tournament.

Thereafter, knockout Stages involved teams that qualified from the Group Stages:

• Round of 16 (16 teams)
• Quarter Finals (8 teams)
• Semi-Finals (4 teams)
• Third-place playoff (2 teams)
• The Final (2 teams)

 

2.1      Group Stage

Here’s how we calculated the points, a maximum of 5 points per game were up for grabs (or 180 points overall in this stage)

·       Correct outcome: 3 points (overall)

·       Home goals: 1 pt ( overall)

·       Away goals; 1 pt ( overall)

As our dice could only roll a maximum of ‘6’ we excluded Netherlands 7 goals for vs Vietnam from the ‘away goals’ total.

According to the analysis in the table, Kevin had best overall accuracy (44%) for predicting outcome + goals.

 

Fixture	Actual Score	Alex	Kevin	Dice
New Zealand v Norway	1 - 0	1-2	1-2	2-0
Philippines v Switzerland	0 - 2	0-4	0-4	0-1
New Zealand v Philippines	0-1	3-1	1-0	0-0
Switzerland v Norway	0-0	1-2	0-2	1-1
Switzerland v New Zealand	0-0	0-1	1-1	3-1
Norway v Philippines	6-0	5-0	2-0	0-4
Australia v Ireland	1-0	3-0	2-0	6-3
Nigeria v Canada	0-0	0-2	1-3	0-3
Australia v Nigeria	2-3	2-0	1-0	0-1
Canada v Ireland	2-1	1-1	3-1	6-3
Canada v Australia	0-4	2-2	2-1	0-2
Ireland v Nigeria	0-0	2-0	1-1	2-2
Spain v Costa Rica	3-0	2-0	2-0	0-0
Zambia v Japan	0-5	0-3	0-1	0-0
Spain v Zambia	5-0	4-0	5 -0	0-0
Japan v Costa Rica	2-0	4-0	2-0	3-3
Japan v Spain	4-0	2-2	2-2	1-2
Costa Rica v Zambia	1-3	0-1	1-1	6-1
England v Haiti	1-0	5-0	4-0	2-1
Denmark v China	1-0	1-2	2-3	0-0
England v Denmark	1-0	3-1	0-0	0-3
China v Haiti	1-0	3-0	4-1	2-1
China v England	1-6	1-2	1-1	3-0
Haiti  v Denmark	0-2	0-3	0-1	1-1
USA v Vietnam	3-0	8-0	6-0	1-3
Netherlands v Portugal	1-0	2-2	2-1	0-0
USA v Netherlands	1-1	3-1	2-2	2-2
Portugal v Vietnam	2-0	4-1	3-0	2-3
Portugal v USA	0-0	0-4	1-3	0-1
Vietnam v Netherlands	0-7*	0-3	0-2	6-1
France v Jamaica	0-0	2-1	3-1	3-6
Brazil v Panama	4-0	5-0	3-0	3-0
France v Brazil	2-1	1-3	1-2	2-0
Panama v Jamaica	0-1	0-2	2-1	0-2
Panama v France	3-6	0-3	0-3	1-1
Jamaica v Brazil	0-0	0-3	1-4	3-2
Sweden v South Africa	2-1	2-0	3-0	0-2
Italy v Argentina	1-0	1-2	2-2	0-2
Sweden v Italy	5-0	2-1	4-2	2-4
Argentina v South Africa	2-2	2-0	2-0	0-3
Argentina v Sweden	0-2	2-1	0-3	2-2
South Africa v Italy	3-2	0-3	1-1	0-6
Germany v Morocco	6-0	3-0	2-0	1-5
Colombia v South Korea	2-0	2-2	3-2	5-1
Germany  v Colombia	1-2	2-1	4-2	0-1
South Korea v Morocco	0-1	2-0	2-0	1-2
South Korea v Germany	1-1	2-1	1-1	6-1
Morocco v Colombia	1-0	1-2	0-2	3-0
Outcome	144	66	78	54
Home Goals	48	18	13	9
Away Goals	47	15	15	9
Total Points	239	99 (41%)	106 (44%)	72 (30%)

Table A showing group stage results and points according to AnalysIs Z

*excludes Netherlands goals for vs Vietnam

 

 

2.2      Knockout Stages

We then predicted scores and outcomes for the Round-of-Sixteen, Quarter-Final, Semi-Final and the Final.

The scores used for purpose of this exercise are those before penalties (90 minutes + stoppage + extra time) although we included penalties too for fun, where we thought that they would happen.

Alex did best in the Round of 16 but only with a mediocre 40%, whilst Kevin could only match the random dice.

Round-of-Sixteen

	Actual Result	AG	KT	Dice
Switzerland v Spain	1-5	2v0	1v1 (4-5pens)	2v5
Japan v Norway	3-1	3v1	2v2 (4v5 pens)	4v3
Netherlands v South Africa	2-0	2v0	4v0	3v2
Sweden v USA	0-0 (5-4 pens)	2v0	2v1	3v2
England v Nigeria	0-0 (4-2 pens)	3v0	2v0	2v1
Australia v Denmark	2-0	2v1	1v3	1v3
Colombia v Jamaica	1-0	0v1	2v0	0v2
France v Morocco	4-0	2v3	1v1 (4-5pens)	1v3
Outcome (before pens)	24	9	6	9
Goals Home	8	3	1	0
Goals Away	8	4	3	1
TOTAL POINTS	40 (100%)	16 (40%)	10 (25%)	10 (25%)

Table B showing results and predictions for the Round-of-Sixteen

 

Quarter Final

Alex again proved okay with a ‘break-even’ 50%.

	Actual Result	AG	KT	Dice
Spain v Netherlands	2v1	0v2	1v4	0v0 (2v0 AET)
Japan v Sweden	1v2	1v2	2v3	1v3
Australia v France	0v0 (7v6)	0v2	1v2	1v0
England v Columbia	2v1	2v0	2v0	0v0 (0V0AET), (1V2 Pens)
Outcome	12 (100%)	6	6	3
Goals Home	4 (100%)	3	1	1
Goals Away	4 (100%)	1	0	1
TOTAL POINTS	20 (100%)	10 (50%)	7(35%)	5 (25%)

Table C showing results and predictions for the Quarter Final

 

Semi-Final

An awful round for Kevin as Alex continued to catch up with him.

	Actual	AG	KT	Dice
Spain v Sweden	2v1	0v2	1v3	3v2
Australia v England	1v3	2v3	1v1	2v1
Outcome	6 (100%)	3	0	3
Goals Home	2 (100%)	0	1	0
Goals Away	2 (100%)	1	0	0
TOTAL POINTS	10 (100%)	4 (40%)	1 (0%)	3 (30%)

Table D showing results and predictions for the Semi Final

 

 

 Third Place Play-off

 

Alex blew his chances here with a paltry 0%, whereas Kevin romped to a 100% victory. The dice did surprisingly well.

 

	Actual Result	AG	KT	Dice
Sweden v Australia	2v0	1v2	2v0	3v0
Outcome	3 (100%)	0	3	3
Goals Home	1 (100%)	0	1	0
Goals Away	1 (100%)	0	1	1
TOTAL POINTS	5 (100%)	0 (0%)	5 (100%)	4 (80%)

Table E showing results and predictions for the Round-of-Sixteen

 

Final

With all three players backing England, current champions of Europe, it was a surprise when another European team beat them.

	Actual Result	AG	KT	Dice
Spain v England	1v0	0v3	1v2 aet	0v1
Outcome	3 (100%)	0	0	0
Goals Home	1 (100%)	0	1	0
Goals Away	1 (100%)	0	0	0
TOTAL POINTS	5 (100%)	0 (0%)	1 (20%)	0 (0%)

Table F showing results and predictions for the Final

 

 

3.0      DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION

3.1 Summary of Predictions

Total number of games =	Alex	Kevin	Dice
Outcome (pts possible) 144 + 24 + 12 + 6 + 3 + 3 = 192	66 + 9 + 6 + 3 + 0 + 0 = 84 (44%)	78 + 6 + 6 + 0+ 3 + 0 =93 (48%)	54 + 9 + 3 + 3 +3 + 0 =72 (38%)
Goals Home (pts possible) 48 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 64	18 + 3 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 24 (38%)	13 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 18 (46%)	9 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 10 (16%)
Goals Away (pts possible) 47 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 63	15 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 = 21 (33%)	15 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 19 (30%)	9 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 12 ( 19%)
192+ 64 + 63 = 319 TOTAL POINTS (319 pts possible)	84 + 24 + 21 = 129 (40%)	93 + 18 + 19 = 130 (41%)	72 + 10 + 12 = 94 (29%)

Table E showing overall tournament prediction accuracy according to Analysis Z

 

From the table we see a very close gap between the two soccer mad boffins but that Kevin wins, with Alex in second place and the dice someway behind. No participant performed well (which we define as being above 50%), and the only true winner was football which proved as exciting and unpredictable as ever.

To cite this publication:

 

·       Gillett, A.G., Tennent, K.D. (2023) ‘Predicting the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup: A report by the Soccer Mad Boffins’. 27th September 2023. Available online at: http://soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2023/09/predicting-2023-fifa-womens-world-cup.html

Also in this series about predicting major international football tournament  scores:

 

·       Gillett, A.G., Tennent, K.D. (2023) ‘Predicting the 2022 FIFA World Cup: A report by the Soccer Mad Boffins’. 19th September 2023. Available online at: http://soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2023/09/fifa-world-cup-2022-qatar-predictions.html

 

·       Gillett, A.G., Tennent, K.D. (2022) ‘Predicting the 2022 Women’s UEFA European Championship: A report by the Soccer Mad Boffins’. 21^st September 2022. Available online at:  http://soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2022/09/predicting-2022-uefa-womens-european.html

 

·       Gillett, A.G., Tennent, K.D. (2021) ‘Predicting the 2020(21) UEFA European Championship: A report by the Soccer Mad Boffins’. 21^st July 2021. Available online at:  http://soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2021/07/euro-20202021-predictions-how-did-we-do.html

 

·       Gillett, A.G., Tennent, K.D. and Fanning, J. (2019). ‘Predicting the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Finals Part 2: Knockout Stages & Overall Analysis - A report by Soccer Mad Boffins’.  12th July 2019. Available online at: http://soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2019/07/predicting-2019-fifa-womens-world-cup.html

 

·       Gillett, A.G., Tennent, K.D. and Fanning, J. (2019). ‘Predicting the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Finals Group Stages: A report by Soccer Mad Boffins’.  21^st June 2019. Available online at: http:// http://soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-womens-world-cup-group-stage-predictions.html

 

·       Gillett, A.G., and Tennent, K.D. (2018) ‘World cup predictions: human brain, advanced statistical modelling, or completely random?’. 2^nd July 2018. Available online at: http://soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2018/07/world-cup-predictions-human-brain-or.html

 

·       Gillett, A.G., and Tennent, K.D. (2018). ‘World Cup Finals Group Stages are over...how were your predictions?’ 29^th June 2018. Available online at: http://soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2018/06/world-cup-finals-group-stages-are.html

 

 

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