JP Quinn

Football analytics stuff. Mathematician.

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

It's been a while and I think there are still plenty of people out there looking to get started with coding, so here it is: Introduction to Football Analytics in R. I'm running it again, starting from Monday 15th of January.

More info here:

https://t.co/as64FVLQME

[Paul Grimshaw @PaulGrimshaw15]

Almost exactly 20 years ago Rupert Lowe was forced out of Southampton FC by fans utterly pissed off at his underachievements. Three years later his company that owned the club went into administration.

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

Perhaps this would be because US events are all over the news every single day, throughout the year, all over the world. So we already know.

And also because for all the damage Trump is doing, their record on human rights is still far better than Russia and Qatar.

[Othell Yarwyck @bigbrovar]

Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)

Just silence.

[Politics For You @PoliticoForYou]

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨

World Cup fever kicks off as America welcomes the world with a traditional display of their culture and traditions.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

This is the wildest World Cup story yet. If someone in Toronto sells a ticket above face value they get fined $25,000 yet the city of Toronto bought 3,500 World Cup tickets early and then sold them to taxpayers at a markup as a “revenue generation strategy.” What the hell man.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

So much about these visa admissions difficulties for the World Cup was foretold & obvious. It’s a story about US govt policy. But also a story of FIFA hubris, mainly Infantino, who dismissed entirely legitimate media reporting on the matter repeatedly. (This from August 2025)

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

So they're not completely immune to external pressure...

There needs to be a revolt after this disgrace of a World Cup.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

NEW:

After backlash from politicians, media and fans, FIFA u-turn on a u-turn:

Now FIFA say that fans can bring a water bottle to World Cup stadiums this summer – but the new rules do not yet apply to venues in Mexico.

https://t.co/X218px4riJ

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

@Le_Roke Went out conceding 2 goals and scoring 14! 😂

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

@chavozik4 Cool game!

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

Wonder what it could be... 🙄

[Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator]

Something has broken in people since the start of the pandemic...

Chart: WSJ

[Alfie | HITC Sevens @HITCSevens]

It's fitting that, out of everything, the one thing FIFA regrets at this World Cup is accidentally giving away 60 free tickets, which they've now cancelled and are demanding be paid for in full.

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

So when it's 35C in Miami or Mexico City, you won't be able to take drinks into the stadium. And how much will a bottle of water be do you suppose?

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Exclusive @TheAthleticFC

FIFA make last-gasp change to World Cup stadium rules: BANNING fans from bringing refillable plastic bottles, so fans must buy water in stadia

As of May, empty bottles permitted so fans could refill amid heat concerns. Not now

https://t.co/OuyjvgPoxN

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

I feel like they've got progressively worse since 2006 but that's probably more about my own excitement around the tournament and nostalgia rather than the actual quality/entertainment of the games.

[Ryan Dilks @RyanDilks1]

All the World Cups from this century ranked:

1) 2022
2) 2014
3) 2002
4) 2010
5) 2018
6) 2006

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

One guy in the whole world does less defensive work than Kylian Mbappe.

[Ted Knutson @mixedknuts]

We're going to find out if the world can bully one of the current best strikers into working harder off the ball. (Because EEVERYONE works harder than Kylian Mbappe.)

At this point I am dubious, but it is a VERY fun social football experiment.

[NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing @NoSaudiToon]

Must read report by Fair Square on the dirty deal between Saudi Aramco and FIFA which is literally putting the future of the planet in danger.

@NUFC Chairman Yasir al-Rumayyan is also a Chairman of the world's worst polluter.

https://t.co/7LEXk74yzi

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Mate, this is embarrassing.

You are literally not the shadow Home Secretary.

You’re not even an elected politician.

[The Final Word @Final_Word_Pod]

The classic T20 scenario where a wicketkeeper, wearing batting pads and batting gloves, plus a helmet, takes a diving catch parallel to the square leg umpire, who is next to TWO square leg fielders, both wearing whites, with floodlights on under midday blue skies.

AI sucks.

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

Amazes me that they always come up with a new law or implementation right before a major tournament. Potentially the right move but why not implement this a year or 2 ago and give players, coaches and referees a chance to adjust?

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

NEW: FIFA gets go ahead for crackdown on players wrestling at set-plays at World Cup - with England tactics singled out.

Now goals can be ruled out for fouls by attackers even before kick is taken. https://t.co/1TDBxKfcJF

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

@EwanMacKenna No one said those billionaires are 'OK', they're just maybe a little less bad than the actual regimes who are torturing and executing people who speak out against them - again, no 'western' regimes (as culpable as they may be in many things) have such a lack of human rights.

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

Fine to criticise Arsenal, and plenty of other dodgy owners with dodgy sponsors out there. But it's quite different to being directly owned *by the state*, which PSG are (as are Man City and Newcastle).

There are no Western nations which own major football clubs in this way.

[Ewan MacKenna @EwanMacKenna]

On this I've started to change over time. And this isn't a go. Just my perception. And Miguel could be totally right, so not some fight.

Arsenal are Walmart money, with an owner wealthy cause of White House connections and US imperialism and mass murder, with Rwandan cash and a shiny new Israel sponsor.

I think we inadvertently fall into western exceptionalism.

[JP Quinn @AttackingCB]

It's all a race to the bottom anyway.