Seydou Doumbia is the World's Best Striker (and other pointless statistics!)

Tuesday, 31 March 09, 12:42 PM · Comments(3)

I caught sight of this rather stupid statistical analysis of the world's best strikers whilst browsing around this morning. The article in the Telegraph highlighted the fact that this survey (carried out by some organisation entitled www.imscouting.com (so good a site they have an introduction from Pini Zahavi, dodgy agent) had found the best strikers int he world......

It seems that according to this study and in light of our current (interlull created) striker injury list this is the list to be perusing whilst thinking of new strikers for next season. It's bad enough that two Austrian strikers make the list but Scott Chipperfield of Basel!! He may well be a hero for the young Basel kids watching from the terraces at St Jakobs but he's 33 and I've seen him play a bit - he might, just might, get into a side like Coventry or Southampton (randomly chosen average to poor Championships sides) and not the list of top 10 strikers. Especially as he usually plays wide right midfield!

Do you think clubs or managers actually get taken in by these statistics? That's probably a rhetorical question as there are too many stupid chairmen/managers and fans who are quite willing to be gullible enough.

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