The Copernican revolution was when European society accepted Nicolaus Copernicas’ wisdom that the Sun did not revolve around the Earth. The Kuperian revolution was when footballing society accepted Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski’s wisdom that transfer policy should not revolve around major tournaments. In their book Soccernomics, Kuper and Szymanski noted that “the worst time…
We love the Toolbox, and, as you may have noticed, we talk about it quite a lot. But, behind our product and its various virtues is a team of great people. We have an eclectic mix at Twenty3: from engineers to video animators, data scientists to account managers, plus many more. Everyone across the business…
There are plenty of big hitters at Euro 2020, but there also a few surprise packages. Here, we take a look at three.
It may be 12 months late, but Euro 2020 is now just around the corner. Having had an extra year to catch the eye combined with the fact managers are allowed to name even more players in their squads, there’s a glut of stars heading to the first ever European Championships to be played across…
The Twenty3 Toolbox was created for a variety of reasons. For those not familiar with our story, we started life as a fan-facing publisher called Football Whispers. Like many of those in the world of football media, we had access to raw data feeds and it was a bit of a palaver involving multiple people…
When Charles Darwin first wrote about evolution, he wrote about the beaks of finches. They had evolved to do different tasks to find food, some to root around finding insects and some to break open nuts. The ideas of evolution and natural adaptation were set in full motion, that different beings will adapt to new…
It is impossible to be an expert or an authority on every single football player in the world. It is difficult enough to keep abreast of the standout players across the big five European leagues. Yet whenever a transfer occurs, readers and viewers want to be educated on these players. It creates a demand. In…
804. That is the number of right-backs reportedly assessed by Manchester United before they signed Aaron Wan-Bissaka. The list, of course, would have been whittled down. A detailed analysis would’ve been undertaken on this smaller pool of players before more cuts were made. Eventually, United likely ended up with three or four players who they…
It may be hard to believe, but Jadon Sancho went four months without a Bundesliga goal to kick off his 2020/21 campaign. In fact, the England starlet managed just four assists over an 11-game period and the media started to imply his head had been turned following interest from Manchester United. Since the turn of…
Birth of the Toolbox We built the Content Toolbox with one clear vision in mind; to give people in sports media the power and tools to do their jobs quicker and better. We realised, through our prior experience as a football publisher, and our work with several media partners, that producing good content which, 1)…