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This is the compelling true story of a football performance analyst, Neil Lanham, and his unprecedented success in the English football leagues. Winning with the Invisible Laws of Chance reveals Neil’s innovative methods of analysing football, the details of which have been closely guarded and hitherto unpublished. This book is an essential guide for anyone wanting an insight into match-winning football.
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About the Author
Neil Lanham was born in 1938 and has lived all his life in Suffolk.
After the death of his father at 5 years old, he went into a shell but became extremely observant of the things around him. Following a car accident, he was told that he should not play football again and realised that there was much happening that went unobserved on the football field, so he learned a method of taking every possession down in shorthand and eventually put over 4,000 games onto a computer.
From this, Neil recorded that there are laws of chance that apply equally to all teams at every level however they play. They are the same today and this was used to help obtain back-to-back promotions by Wimbledon, Cambridge United, Sheffield United and success at other football clubs.
Neil has read academic papers on the fit of chance in football at Eindhoven and Lisbon and on the oral tradition in Song and Story at Cardiff, Swansea, Aberdeen and Newcastle Universities as well as writing books on his life as an auctioneer.
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