Nobody knows anything

Football is chaos. Data means we know more than we have ever known before, yet still the deepest mysteries of the game remain too complex for comprehension.

There are times in football when it feels as though nobody knows anything. And to an extent, of course, this is true. They don’t. We don’t. Football is one of those spheres in which everybody seems to have a view, whether they watch five minutes or 500 matches every season, something that becomes painfully apparent every time England play in a major tou…