Issam Al-SubhiIssam Al-Subhi
International FootballA 'Football'-Labelled Dossier With Not a Single Line of Football: The Two-Source Standard and the Right to Say 'Insufficient Data'On Tuesday evening I opened a dossier labelled "football". I expected a match...
International FootballWomen's World Cup 2027: England enter the play-offs as Wiegman drops Toone and KellyOn a temporary team sheet taped in the corridor of the King Power Stadium pre...
EsportsDoctrine – The Vampiric Support and the Coming Earthquake in Overwatch 2At the announcement panel at BlizzCon 2026, when Blizzard revealed the abilit...
Table TennisTable Tennis and the Empty Data Frame: An Analyst's Discipline Before a Null ReportThat night in Guangzhou, I opened an analysis file that landed in my inbox an...
TennisNingbo Open 2026: Quarter-finals, WTA Finals and the numbers that need another lookOn Friday evening, the media pavilion in Ningbo remained lit after the player...
EsportsHome Advantage in V-League: What the Numbers Say When the Stands Are Empty?When the opening whistle echoed at Thong Nhat Stadium on a sweltering Saturda...
Table TennisEngland Hopes Challenge U11: Prasanna Kumar Goes Unbeaten, Cindy Xiao Loses Exactly One MatchAt Draycott, across two days of the England Hopes Challenge, Cindy Xiao lost...
EsportsBLAST loses the entire top VRS bloc to PGL for 2027: what the evidence actually shows about the payment delaysA podcast recording. No scoreboard, no highlight reel, no clutch round worth...
International FootballAn Entertainment Item Labelled Football: Mis-Tagging and the Noise of the Transfer WindowA Stray Label on a Wet Morning at Trigoria That morning at Trigoria the grass...
International FootballYu Kobayashi Retires at 39: 144 J1 Goals and a Succession Problem That Isn't on the PitchOn September 23, Yu Kobayashi announced his retirement. That day he turned 39...
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football: When a Single Owner Is the Entire LeagueOn the B stand of Hang Day Stadium one April evening, I sat with seven old...
TennisAlberola Rojas Takes His First El Clasico: Rereading Barcelona's 13 Matches and Real Madrid's 19On 26 October, La Liga's round 10 opens with El Clasico between Barcelona and...
BasketballCooper Flagg: 48 Hours of Ambiguity and How the NBA Sells Injury as ProductAt 4:45 p.m. Dallas time, the Mavericks injury report moved by exactly one...
TennisThe Variable That Is Not in the Spreadsheet: US Open 2026 and the Limits of Serve DataIn September 2026, at Flushing Meadows, a men's final stretched to five sets...
VolleyballVietnam Women's Volleyball Exits Asiad 20 Quarterfinals: Reading the 0-3 Loss to China Through DataThe scoreline read 0-3. That was everything the news line about Vietnam's...
International FootballTaisei Marukawa: Two Steps Left in Naturalization and the Squad-Role Question for IndonesiaOn 7 October 2026, a special staffer at Indonesia's Ministry of Law and Human...
International FootballThe Transfer-News Machine: Forty-One Outlets, One Name, and a Deal Nobody ConfirmedWithin 24 hours of a transfer window, an unfamiliar foreign striker appeared ...
International FootballA Military Rank Inside the Scouting DatabaseIn the video-analysis room of a V.League club, I sat beside a 24-year-old dat...
Domestic Football0-3 and 1-2: Vietnam U20 Face Palestine in a Match with No Room for Error0-3 against North Korea, 1-2 against Iran. Two defeats, two different fates,...
ChessUzChess Cup: Jacobson's Short Game and an Unresolved Opening ContradictionWhen the game between Brandon Jacobson and Jakhongir Vakhidov at the UzChess...
