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Hello and welcome to a very special bonus episode of the Game Football Podcast. I'm Tom

Clark and today I'm joined by former Kent Middlesex and England Cricketer Ed Smith.

Now as well as a long playing career in the game, Ed was also chief selector for England Cricket

between 2018 and 2021. But today, Ed joins us to talk about football and his new book Making

Decisions, Putting the Human Back in the Machine. Ed welcomed to the game podcast. Now the book is a

really fascinating read. I really, really enjoyed it. And it's really interesting to me,

you know, across the world, not just in sport. Data is becoming such a big part of our lives,

isn't it? I'm a digital journalist. I constantly told, Look at the data and I'm told,

I'm thinking, well, yeah, but no, this is actually a really interesting article. And so

that is the the genesis of the book isn't in a way. The kind of. If the data was better,

they'd capture how long you stayed. And of course they do now. Exile time. Absolutely. How long did

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