Rowan Hooper

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1,494 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4d ago

Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The World, the Universe and Us · The Science of Football: Inside the 2026 World Cup · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

Ian, so you pioneered the use of data in the Premier League. voice-verified

What about, we'll get on to that in a bit more perhaps, but are there any teams in the World Cup that you've seen or that you know of are making particularly clever use of data? voice-verified

Or are they all doing it now? voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

Well, sometimes you see the goalies with, they look at their water bottles, don't they? voice-verified

So they can make a really split-second decision, probably subconsciously as to what the goalie's doing, and then they decide where they put it. voice-verified

Wow. voice-verified

I thought I'd ask each of you to give an example from your work individually that is something that's made a difference perhaps over the course of your career. voice-verified

Something that's really changed from basically when we were kids watching football back in the day. voice-verified

I wonder what the pundits make of it, because they came through at a time where you'd go out drinking and smoking, or maybe before a match in some cases, and now they're seeing something completely different. voice-verified

It must fry their minds in some ways. voice-verified

Yeah, Holly, what about from your background point of view? voice-verified

But so when... voice-verified

when people talk of, oh, he's got a good footballing brain, is that what they mean? voice-verified

Like someone like Alonso at Liverpool or say who, you know, you can see what's happening in the match and pick people out and sort of, is that what they mean? voice-verified

Like all these different senses are, voice-verified

and inputs are being integrated very rapidly and from a high level? voice-verified

So when you have all these massive amounts of data now... voice-verified

Is it a human going through it and saying, it looks like you shouldn't have done this part? voice-verified

Or can you get an AI to do this for you? voice-verified

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