The Bundesliga is back and while it may not be football as we knew it before the COVID-19 pandemic, last weekend’s action was – perhaps somewhat surprisingly when you consider the long, enforced break – played to a high standard and an impressive pace. Borussia Dortmund were at their scintillating best as they swept aside…
The COVID-19 pandemic may have put a temporary halt to football, but what it hasn’t stopped is Twenty3’s hunger to digest data. Many have used this downtime period as an opportunity to put together their ‘Team of the Year’ for the season so far, but we wanted to do something a little bit different. Let’s…
Chasing the prospect of veins of gold, the mid-nineteenth century saw some of the biggest voluntary migrations in the world’s history. Prospectors arrived from as far afield as Europe and China, making the fortunes and futures of cities like San Francisco and Melbourne, dreaming of finding that precious, precious metal. They travelled and they toiled.…
Google searches can be strangely nostalgic. A quick check online for how the world, at the start of February 2020, viewed Jose Mourinho vs Pep Guardiola (with Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City merely a sideshow) reveals that many thought their rivalry was past its best. If their respective teams couldn’t compete with each other, then…
The Vanarama National League is awash with owners, coaches and volunteers who go above and beyond the call of duty for their clubs, but there can be few men more dedicated than Dorking Wanderers supremo Marc White. Perhaps that should be no surprise – White is the founder, owner and manager of the National League…
After 42 games last season, Leeds United occupied second place in the Championship with a three-point buffer to third. They’d won eight of the previous eleven matches, righting the ship after a difficult period from late December to early February. They didn’t win any of the last four games of the season. They managed only…
It’ll remain a curse of Liverpool’s 2019/20 season that, not only has the lockdown for the coronavirus put their Premier League title victory on hold, but that their last match before the world stopped was elimination from the Champions League. It wasn’t just that the 3-2 extra-time home defeat to Atlético Madrid dumped them, the…
This is a piece I published back in October on LinkedIn and I’ve finally managed to convince our editor to feature this on the blog. So without further ado, let’s talk influencer marketing. Over the past three years at Twenty3, we’ve built our own sports influencer network that we use to drive website traffic, app…
Bath is one of Britain’s most picturesque locations, but it probably isn’t considered to be a hotbed of football by many people outside of the city walls. “When you talk to people around the world and you say you come from Bath, they’ll mention Roman baths, Georgian buildings, Jane Austen and Bath Rugby Club, and…
The Champions League is back – cue iconic pre-match anthem and inevitable goosebumps. Most of the Round of 16 ties are still alive and kicking, with Atalanta and Bayern Munich the only two teams who could be forgiven for thinking that their passage to the quarter-finals is a mere formality. While we’ve witnessed the odd…