Comolli: Data is the new gamechanger

The one thing I’ve found is that the top, top coaches — the world-class coaches — their intuition is so good, that they’re matching what the data says.

For a man who’s served two clubs rich in tradition — Liverpool and Spurs — Damien Comolli is no prisoner of the past. The burgeoning world of data and analytics isn’t just familiar to Comolli: he’s passionate about it.

“It’s got to a point where I’m frustrated by what I can’t measure, or get people to measure for me. I’m not a geek at all, I’m bad with numbers, but I do understand how to use numbers in football.