Facial Recognition

Facial Recognition: Football in the Age of Surveillance

The following has been edited and abbreviated for text. For more details and information, along with musical scoring and news clips, listen to the Football Today episode below. On January 12th, South Wales Police used facial recognition in the South Wales derby between Cardiff City and Swansea City. It was the second time police had…

Ciro Immobile

Ciro Immobile: Europe’s Most Underrated Striker?

Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe, Lewandowski. Each world class striker shares one thing in common in 2020. Each trail Lazio’s Ciro Immobile in race to win the European Golden Boot for Europe’s top scorer. In only 19 games, Immobile has notched 23 goals leading Lazio to a title push and 11 straight wins. He’s also on pace…

Monaco team

Can Monaco’s New Crop of Players Replicate Previous Success?

At the beginning of the last decade, AS Monaco found themselves dropping down into Ligue 2, a once great French club now beleaguered in the second division. By the end of the decade though, they had made their way back, winning the first division title and taking an exciting team packed with starlets to the…