An important part of the scientific process is not only documenting your successes but also documenting your failures. This is an exercise in the latter. Hypothesis: There is no such thing as a good ...

Spain’s run of 136 competitive games with more possession than their rival — going back 16 years to the 2008 European Championship final — has finally come to an end. Croatia had 53 per cent of the ...

As Spain were eliminated from the World Cup we had to endure a raft of obituaries proclaiming the end of an era and the death of ‘tiki taka’. While the former may be true, the latter certainly isn’t, ...