Town to blame for the long bawl?

[Dazzza]

This is a bit of a new one on me but there's a nice little article mentioning Charles Reep, a Royal Air Force wing commander who watched Town during WW2 and is considered football's first stato.  

Any relation Reg?

Charles Reep, a Royal Air Force wing commander during World War 2, influenced English soccer after he began compiling statistics while watching Swindon Town in the 1950s.

He found that goals were more likely after three or fewer consecutive passes. It influenced the style of Wolves coach Stan Cullis, who led the team to three league titles and two FA Cups from 1954 to 1960

Also mentioned that Man City have hired SIX analysts to look at player stats, which seems ridiculous and is a bit of a sad reminder about the gulf in money in the Premier league.

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=565&fArticleId=4402639

[flammableBen]

Stats are ace. I wonder if you collected enough of them you could come up with some mad football equations and create a manager AI.

Sort of what Football Manager games do, but backwards.

[RobertT]

Stats are ace. I wonder if you collected enough of them you could come up with some mad football equations and create a manager AI.

Sort of what Football Manager games do, but backwards.

Howard Wilkinson and Sam Allardyce have already been created.

[leefer]

Well wing commander Reep didnt do much flying then,i thaught the County Ground was a prisoner of war camp during WW2!!....although i think a few matches were played,REG SMEATON will probably know.

[flammableBen]

I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war. Pretty sure it wasn't a POW camp!

[pauld]

I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war.

We stored the Second World War here? Which bit? The Battle of the Bulge, Siege of Stalingrad? "El Alamein? Oooh, shove Iwo Jima over a bit and stick it behind the goal"

[flammableBen]

yeah, only bits of them though. The rest of the stuff was put on the moon during Queen Victoria's reign.

[neville w]

I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war.

We stored the Second World War here? Which bit? The Battle of the Bulge, Siege of Stalingrad? "El Alamein? Oooh, shove Iwo Jima over a bit and stick it behind the goal"

Well, they'd filled  Anfield with the Spion Kop from South Africa(I think) and they'd already  got a whole bloody battle into Chelsea

[pauld]

I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war.

We stored the Second World War here? Which bit? The Battle of the Bulge, Siege of Stalingrad? "El Alamein? Oooh, shove Iwo Jima over a bit and stick it behind the goal"

Well, they'd filled  Anfield with the Spion Kop from South Africa(I think)

It was indeed, from the Boer War, one of the most tedious conflicts in history, fought against outsized pigs

[Don Rogers Shop]

I think it was a Pow camp Ben

[janaage]

It was a POW camp, Italians were held at the CG "during the war" in an Uncle Albert style.

[flammableBen]

Madness I didn't know that. I want some historical documentation based evidence.

[jayohaitchenn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindon_Town_F.C.

There's a little about it in the heading under Stadium.

[flammableBen]

Ace. Dick Mattick didn't mention that in his ace book. He's rubbish.

[neville w]

I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war.

We stored the Second World War here? Which bit? The Battle of the Bulge, Siege of Stalingrad? "El Alamein? Oooh, shove Iwo Jima over a bit and stick it behind the goal"

Well, they'd filled  Anfield with the Spion Kop from South Africa(I think)

It was indeed, from the Boer War, one of the most tedious conflicts in history, fought against outsized pigs

He's pinching your line janaage !