What if: pub football was “Optamised” to the level of Premiership Football? With data analytics ready for post-football pub review? What if a 5-a-side field had 6 cameras linked to your Smartphone for inclusive speculation: heat maps, stats, footage? This idea was borne in a pub, The Eleanor in East London, in a chat with Stuart Norfolk: for transparency. That’s important. (Stuart: this blog doesn’t aspire to collect Followers: it is simply my archival, digital sketchbook space. To propel innovation, relevance, rigour and fun – my four research goals with any project. Anything we discussed belongs to our conversation and can be taken down, or out, if necessary:) This kernal of an idea is to be developed but could include the following values:

• ANTHROPOLOGICAL: Desmond Morris’s The Soccer Tribe: https://greisonanatomy.com/2014/06/14/morris/
• TECHNOLOGICAL: data driven social dynamics: https://www.blablablarchitecture.com/2014/03/179prs_architect-as-player/
• TECHNICAL: Football arbitration: a bridge to VAR?
• MEDICAL: better physical performance
• SOCIAL: fun is Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens
• MUSICAL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLcEQnQFD0k
• CRITICAL: team up with our Community Of Practice: https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/search
• USEFUL: be a better person: Kinder!

TBC>>>

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