@eighosensei @FansAgainstVAR_ Erm, no we’re not. Scott, Aluko, Carney et al are a breath of fresh air. VAR should be consigned to the bin, alongside Joey Barton’s views.
@jonpayates@KeirIrwinRogers My thinking on this has been influenced (rightly or wrongly) by: Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast & Slow’, my time at Save the Children UK (seeing up close the search for silver bullets divorced from the real world) and Dawn Plimmer/Toby Lowe/others’ work on outcomes and impact.
@jonpayates@KeirIrwinRogers The claim to objectivity is often itself the fundamental problem, and the lack of acknowledgment is what can cause damage. I have very rarely seen meaningful ownership of this and related issues (assumptions, identities, agendas) in the WWCs space.
@FansAgainstVAR_ Wear it as a badge of honour ✊
£1.67bn spent on transfers in the last 10 years and the only thing that gets them into the FA Cup final against a Championship team is a dodgy VAR decision? Of course they're against you!
@jonpayates@KeirIrwinRogers For me the question is less about youth work and more about why and how we believe we know what makes a difference, across the board. It is an approach which is perhaps rational, but not necessarily justified: why do we put faith in an approach with divorces academia and praxis?
@jonpayates@KeirIrwinRogers Without wishing to be (overly) facetious 😉 I am interested in if there is a what works for what works centres. This isn’t to deliberately sidestep the points made above, but rather to highlight that presumptions inherent in the so-called ‘evidence-based’ paradigm.
Embarrassing and cringeworthy to see Arteta’s comments on the decimation of the FA Cup, as if all of his players emerged from the stratosphere rather than through grassroots football. Amazing how the vision narrows…
@dominiccampbell I find the idea of AI contributing to human emancipation completely surreal; a bit like the notion of the FA acting in the long-term interests of football
@jonpayates@KeirIrwinRogers I've no objection whatsoever to developing a formal evidence base (or not) for these sorts of interventions, but it strikes me that we overlook the role of on the ground experience in drawing the same conclusions. Any youth professional worth their salt could have explained this.