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Mythbusters - can data and intelligence drag Scottish football into a bright new era?

As the SFA and clubs embrace data, Fearghas Rae of Twenty First Group explains how sporting intelligence helped find Pocognoli, and how it is...
Mythbusters - can data and intelligence drag Scottish football into a bright new era?

There are some subjects that are certain to elicit groans from a section of the Scottish football public. A team’s xG, for one. Data analytics. Passing the ball out from the back. Terms that will have many channelling their inner Sean Dyche to dismiss such concepts as ‘utter woke nonsense’.

The notion then of sporting intelligence being used in Scottish football may strike some ears as oxymoronic, but in boardrooms and in positions of influence up and down the country, there are more and more converts to the theory that every tool available should be utilised to gain an edge in an ever-more challenging and competitive environment.

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It was published on September 8, 2026 and last updated on October 9, 2026. The time of the story is shown in your own time zone on the page.

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