# PFF Rankings: The Internet’s New Obsession with Football’s Hidden Metrics In the vast, ever-shifting landscape of internet culture, a new trend has emerged that’s got football fans and data nerds alike buzzing: PFF Rankings. If you’re not familiar, PFF stands for Pro Football Focus, a website that uses advanced analytics to evaluate NFL players’…
Roberto Olabe: The Quiet Spaniard Who Turned Football’s Global Assembly Line on Its Head By Dave’s Locker International Correspondent Somewhere between the fluorescent glare of a nondescript La Liga training complex and the fluorescent glare of a nondescript Gulf-state hotel lobby, Roberto Olabe is probably explaining—calmly, in that Basque-inflected Spanish that sounds like a lullaby…
Tim Lewis, Arsenal’s quietly lethal non-executive director, has spent the last three years doing something that would make most arms dealers blush: weaponising a football club. In boardrooms from Mayfair to Manhattan, the former City lawyer—nicknamed “the scalpel” by colleagues who still have their fingernails—has overseen the transformation of Arsenal from well-mannered London ornament to…
