From where now Man United?, to Ryan Giggs, to Brooklyn Beckham, to Souness thuggery, to an unsustainable Bundesliga. To an up and coming Arsenal with the anthem of all time. @codney67@ElliotR1971
Then I realised, and I met guys like @ttmygh epsilontheory.com/hollow-men-hol…
The "Finance" they teach you in Uni, as a CA, in the glorious traditional media, is the Blue Pill. It really is.
Luckily, via people like Grant and Ben, the red pill is freely available.
This article is as close to a one stop jumping off point as you'll get. @EtienneDuss
Jul 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In the early 90s, I lived in Italy, and had hustled a way into writing for papers and broadcasters. Independent BBC and Sky mainly.
@SerieA was the greatest league in the world. The University of Football. Everyone played there.
I got to see it! link.medium.com/CiDt82AFRrb
The first Napoli title with Diego, the farewell of Platini, Sacchi's Milan.
Iconic moments. Milestones in my life and career.
In those days, sports coverage was simple. La Gazzetta, radio and TV highlights.
Well, 30 years on, things are different.
Jul 17, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Traditional #golf fans look away now. Here is where the game goes from here IMHO. And it needs to, it's av age is 50+
The majors will remain the absolute centre of the game and carry it's 72 hole tradition. They will expand as events to include qualifying rounds. Positive!
The rest of the game I personally see is not around stroke play at all. 54 or 72. Its too long/slow before someone wins or loses.
People say that LIV has nothing of merit to play for. Agreed. But elite sportspeople are driven by direct winning and losing. Its a pride ego thing.
Jun 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
This hit my timeline again yesterday, for obvious reasons. I just loved catching up on #Glastonbury2022 and reflecting on the art and business of making music. To most of us, the first part is totally alien. Seeing McCartney create......
When they hired me at the SPL, I was told one of the main challenges in the in-tray was the Dundee stadium. They had been let into the spl on a promise to build the new one. A risk.
It was indeed a "challenge".
Who owned Dundee at this time?
A couple of brothers called Marr
Oct 20, 2021 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
What a wonderful discussion expertly teased out by Mr Gillis.
What we are seeing in global soccer now is nothing short of Grand Strategy.
Everyone should read 2 books to understand where we are:
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Silicon Valley has financed where we are today and what will happen tomorrow. The FAANG generation of unicorns makers.
It is their mindset that dominates all. Sandhill Road, Palo Alto, Menlo Park dictates business and culture.
They dominate "content" and distribution. Right?
Dec 21, 2020 • 8 tweets • 8 min read
@ttmygh@fleckcap@AitkenAdvisors I know Grant well by I'm a lay person in all this. Here is a thread on this episode. Not all complimentary. The episode itself chastised the sin of "overthinking it all" and that's spot on. All of us have uses gallons of ink and gigas of audio files in analysing since 2008. 1/n@ttmygh@fleckcap@AitkenAdvisors 2/n. The overthinking has ignored the famous Munger axiom " show me the incentives and I'll tell you...". What are those? Well every govt from China to GCC manipulates socioeconomic conditions to stave off the mob. Every country has an unwritten social contract to be honoured.
Dec 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
At the #spl I had the good fortune to frequent senior politicians. Took them to games. Dewar, Galbraith, Reid. 1998 started both the spl and holyrood. I remember those days. The theme was " the quality of msp is low. They are councillors. The talent is down in Westminster". 1/2
2/2. Donald said " give it time. Eventually the best will stay up here.". I never bought that. Not sure Donald did either. Reid certainly didn't as I remember. Well it's a generation later. It's clear there is no talent in holyrood. Mitigating is there is none in London either.
