The Set-Piece Era: What Football’s Dead-Ball Boom Says About the Modern Game

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In a game increasingly shaped by data, control and stoppages, the dead ball has become the perfect symbol of modern football. There was a time when set pieces felt like football’s afterthoughts. Useful, yes. Necessary, at times. But still secondary to the real business of the game: the passing moves, the dribbles, the little flashes of invention that made football feel alive. A corner was…

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The Seven Myths of Working With Data Teams

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Ah, the database team—a cryptic force in every IT department, perpetually seen as the bunch of geeks tucked away in some back corner. The server room hums, the monitors glow, and everyone assumes we’re just there to watch indexes like some spreadsheet-loving Gandalf. If you’re picturing us as a crowd of bespectacled nerds, nose-deep in rows and columns, then congratulations! You’ve bought into one of…

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Why the Don made me Blog Again!

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So, here we are. I’m back to blogging, after mulling it over with the weight of a proverbial pint glass in hand, wondering if the world really needs yet another blog. Think about it: social media is a maze, talk radio is a constant scream-fest, and podcasts? Well, there are more of them than people who actually listen. But blogging… blogging’s a personal kind of…

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