Thread by @nonewthing

This thread, which anticipated Liverpool's decline in 2021, was mocked by 'data analysts' and chiefly by one Sam McGuire.

Exactly one year later, an invincible Liverpool were struggling.

If you want an understanding of the gap between true insight and buttoned-up expertise...

https://twitter.com/nonewthing/status/1458389210042339329

I'm not interested in proving anything to anyone but I created this account as a platform to educate the average Joe on Football Twitter—and that education includes the ability to distinguish between those who really have insight into the game and those who talk like they do.

CVs, experience, badges are not enough. Every single industry is populated by also-rans and average Joes doing their bit.

When Graham Potter was with a university side, he was already better than 95% of most managers in the game. Just like with footballers, base profiles are

important. True intelligence translates into football. The smartest man in the world, if he has a love for the game, would be already better than most even if he'd just started learning the game.

Profiles over performance. It's who you are over what you do.

Who you are will eventually influence what you do.

This is a truism in all of life.

It's the saying 'Form is temporary, class is permanent'.

It translates from sports to religion.

Most religions are about what you do, hence human suffering under the weight of those demands.

True religion must transform the nature of the individual before it asks for behavioural changes. You cannot ask Defoe to dribble like Neymar to meet a standard. Defoe must become Neymar to meet those demands.

And when Defoe becomes Neymar, the standard is automatically met.

I believe in objective truth and objective truth must cut across time and matter, across fields and disciplines.

It's hilarious how the entire world believe they must do something to meet a standard from God and obtain heaven.

Tip: to go to heaven, you must be from heaven.

As a little analogy, you don't get to go and live forever in a country if you are not already a citizen of that country.

Behaving like an American while you are from Japan does not get you into Japan.

It's about who you are over what you do.

That is the secret of religion.

Literature, love, the arts... All are the same.

In love, it is about who you are rather than what you do (your money, your privileges, your possessions). Who you are translates into what you do.

For instance, if you were truly an 'Alpha Male', it would reflect naturally in you.

Same goes with women. No posturing will get you the kind of lover you want if you naturally aren't what your lover wants.

A Disney Princess will have her Prince Charming, almost naturally.

In literature, an industry plant would never beat a true master of the craft at writing.

And this all explains why Arsenal want Kai Havertz and why all the top clubs want the same players.

No one cares about form, much. It's all about class. Get the right profile and the performances will follow.

Profiling over performance scouting works in all aspects of life.