Out of every 100 games in Europe’s top five leagues, home teams won 46 with fans in the stands and 40 in empty stadiums. Away wins rose from 29 to 35. How much of home advantage is the crowd? Story on The Replay Lab website: replay-lab.ben-berlin2.workers.dev/stories/ghos...

When Covid emptied football stadiums, something odd happened to referees. For ten years away teams had got about 0.3 more yellow cards a game than home teams. With no fans, that gap vanished. Story on The Replay Lab website: replay-lab.ben-berlin2.workers.dev/stories/ghos...

New story on The Replay Lab: who hits the wall? Athens, 2004: Paula Radcliffe, the marathon world record holder, stopped at 36 km. Runners call it hitting the wall. We looked at 1.43 million finishers to see who hits it most. 🧵

18 yellow cards and one red: Argentina v Netherlands in 2022 set a World Cup record. Afterwards, Messi said the words a whole country copied. Our new story on The Replay Lab website explains why, using Bandura’s Bobo doll study:
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New story on The Replay Lab: why the world copied Messi’s angriest five seconds. Lusail, 9 December 2022. After Argentina beat the Netherlands on penalties, Messi turned from a TV reporter and said “¿Qué mirás, bobo?” What are you looking at, fool?