Having discovered Project Red Card, I started thinking about who owns performance data from football matches? And how is it captured and processed, to come up with something useful? Fairly quickly I found myself plotting some maps using freely available data from StatsBomb — but how did I get there? — It’s funny where browsing can lead you. I was Googling Russell Slade, one of our old managers at Brighton and Hove Albion, and came across something he’s involved in called Project Red Card. This is an action group which argues that under UK and EU data protection laws, players’ performance…

Based on my experiences in last 12 months of finding the right agencies for clients, as well as work done for an online product business — I’ve broken these notes into two main sections, with some random notes at the end. These notes cover what I’ve seen in terms of project management as part of running my supplier selection process, as well as the consultancy work I’ve done in-house for clients.

I started exploring Matomo on 11th December 2020, and will continue to update these notes as I go. I’ve been looking at Matomo as an alternative to Google Analytics and Tag Manager, as well as an open source solution for harvesting cookie-free web stats. I am working on the basis…

Many years ago, I used to mow grass for East Sussex County Council (ESCC). Not on the council’s patch though. We used to mow the grass of Hastings Borough Council, ESCC having won that work through a bidding process. In around 2013, over 20 years later, my agency, Miggle, had…