Pinky promise. When England are done in this World Cup, I will not write of soccer for a good while — like when I did the thematic on Bitcoin and closed the book. Didn’t mention it for three years. Uninvestable. Sell. After my World Cup thematic one client asked me to look at Rugby, but that is truly off our “energy and energy-adjacent” pitch; for me the game is not succeeding. Cricket would interest me

We can safely say that while taking a look at the World Cup, and management, and assets (players), based on an original argument I made that “the best player wins the World Cup”, my side project got out of control and ended up in a full analysis of the history of soccer, the great players, the great managers, and everything in between. One player is faster than Mbappe this tournament. Do you know how much