Sadly we have learned that Adam (aged 38) lost his life in a tragic car accident.
Adam was an occasional poster on this site but a big contributor on Untold Arsenal.
A couple of months ago he Emailed me some articles that has been published by Untold ,asking if we would like to use them.I can think of no better tribute to him than letting you read one of these articles.
Here is what he said.It gives an of what a humble and gracious man Adam was.
“Hi, thanks for taking the time to view these. If any are to your sites taste then please use them or the information in them. It would be interesting for me to get the opinion of your regulars. Lost in Bureaucracy was my last piece and basically combines a lot of the other articles into one with the less information but highlights the transfer system for what it is, a complete bloody mess. When these were written they opened the eyes of many a reader, as to what goes on behind football, although I think your readers seem fully aware, they may be amused even educated, or I may learn something from them.”
Anyway,here is one of them.
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Scout7
Written by Adam Brogden
Scout 7 is a company founded in 2001, set to gather information on football players worldwide, with the sole purpose of becoming an online scouting network, following a player’s progress. This closed network allows its clients to monitor players and even helps identify transfer targets.
The company claims to have a vast array of clients from the Premiership to top tier clubs on the continent. Based in Birmingham, England this company works with Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham, Stoke, Aston Villa, West Ham, West Brom, Wigan, Bolton Wanderers, Everton, Southampton amongst many others.
Proscout7 has a core centre of data on 130,00 players across 130 countries, each player has their own record incorporating extensive information including key statistical analyses, contract expiry date, agent details, third party ownership on to information regarding the players history of injuries and ability to settle into a new environment.
The individual clubs can add to this information via their own scouting network adding the reports which can then be accessed by select employees of the club anywhere in the world. This is a monitoring system that will help clubs identify young talent before they become headline news and their value increases.
Also available on this system is video footage of the players and again a club can add to this player record via its own area of the data base. This also includes team sheets data and match data.
They also offer live feed footage of games being broadcast or filmed anywhere in the world all a client has to do is log in and watch. The company acquired ownership of Xeatre.tv in 2009 and offers this unique package which has raised the company above all other scouting networks or data gathering bodies involved in the football industry.
Dr David Hardman MBE, CEO of Birmingham Science Park said: “Scout7 has been based at the Science Park since 2005 and have expanded three times within the iBIC building. It has been highly rewarding to see the impressive growth of the company, with a formidable client list that includes UEFA Champion’s League winner Chelsea, FA Premier League trophy holder Manchester City, and 1. Bundesliga winner Borussia Dortmund.
Mark Ansell, Chairman of Scout7 and former chairman of Aston Villa said: “Over the past three years, Xeatre.tv has evolved into the preferred video-based scouting solution for elite professional football clubs. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, this strategic acquisition enables us to further develop a joint product offering to maintain our position as the leading supplier of scouting and recruitment intelligence to the professional football industry. We can now embark on a highly exciting new era of further growth and expansion.”
Lee Jamison, Founder and Managing Director of Scout7 said: “The extended range of data we can now provide our client base with, on demand, at the touch of a button, is exactly what is required by elite football clubs striving to find the cutting edge to enhance performance.
“In the 11 years we have served the football industry, we have seen significant changes in the way clubs structure their recruitment. Investment in online market intelligence is second nature. Today, over 2,500 professional football staff across the globe subscribe to Scout7 and Xeatre.tv products. This acquisition ensures that all subscriber content can be made available from one single source, covering video analysis, scouting reports, analytical research and general market intelligence.”
The company claims to have 90% of premiership clubs as its clients, so the question I cannot find the answer to is who the two clubs are that do not subscribe to this system?
I have found that Arsene Wenger has spoken at seminars held by the company along with prestigious names from other sports such as Billy Beane. Plus I believe this form of data collection seems to suit Arsene Wenger’s approach to football along with Billy Beane’s adopted approach to baseball.
Is Arsenal one of the two, and if they are it may go some way to answering why we miss out on some targets. But this is an assumption. All in all this seems to me like we have now truly entered the realm of computer football management. So when we claim that some people would like to buy and sell as easily as they do within these computer games, the truth it seems, isn’t far from it.
The company’s latest venture is the expansion into South American football, so it will be interesting to keep an eye on their progress in to this football minefield and the effects it may have on scouting networks and agencies already at work in this region.
Positively Arsenal 
Dortmund are damn good, almost as good as us. Respect.
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Where did Arsenal suddenly learn such deliciously dangerous crossing. Must be Ozil.
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A bit like the team ZP it is taking us a bit of time to get going
Great game so far – the Germans took a grip much to their credit – punished the error. Good steady response from us
Oh for a bleeding winger though
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On balance of play, perfectly correct to start Tomas. He’s unfazed and in the zone.
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JACKE BPY needs to do better and our guys need to learn to clear the ball in front of the goal. Don’t f••k with it there. And simple passes, forget Hollywood with these guys. This ain’t NORWITCH
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Yep, we is wingerless.
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Giroud doing the work of three strikers currently – everyone else doing fine – even the referee – let’s get the 2nd half going
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TOMAS so unlucky not to get that shot go in . Cleared off the line… So unlucky
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Nerves lead to awful decision-making in younger players, no matter how good, they become too expressive. But we settled and responded, that’s the most important.
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For fucks sake Schalke pull yourself together
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That was a beaut from Tomas, shaping away from the keeper with the outside of his left foot, man, could have described it in cricket terms, and Hummel clears a certain goal off the line. Good. That makes them nervous. Be careful Dorties, we ain’t finished.
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Dortmund probing, dangerously.
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Dortmund start the half on top. Arsenal defence rock solid. Arteta a little anonymous.
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Dortmund score on the counter after sustained Arsenal dominance
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Excellent game – two fine teams playing football
Bit unlucky for us – I expect a little balancing of the luck in Germany
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Well, that was kind of mesmerizing as a football spectacle. Two outstanding sides, evenly matched on the full evidence of play; I thought Arsenal slightly ahead in the second half, and caught on the counter; a minor defensive error ball watching and not noticing the free player, good cross to find him. Arsenal on the other hand had a goal cleared off the line in the first, and hit the post with the best move of the second half.
Not an occasion to be disappointed, except by the result. Aaron not quite hisself.
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Happy birthday Arsene, celebrated by an artful football fest. We didn’t win, but the game was a fine tribute on your birthday to your football.
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I thought the team looked a bit tired, not their normal nippy zippy selves. Reus, Bender and Lewandowski all excellent for Dortmund.
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Man that Sagna is good.
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Santi looked very much back to his best tonight – bit more snap in yen forward play when he came on
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We sorely missed a natural left wide player, although Gibbs did a job.
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Yes, Santi threatened to dominate.
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Oh well, night night Anicoll. I’m off to read my book about thinking fast and slow. Tomorrow is another day.
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I’d give Lewandowski about 5/10 ZP – I thought he looked right out of sorts
The Dortmund player who was the biggest pest tonight was right back Grosskreutz – who would have thought it ?
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An improving text I trust
Alex F. An Autobiography ?
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Perhaps you’re right. I hardly watch him, so I know little enough of his best. He seems a skillful, confident player. Reus is also noticeable, a sensible passer, and fast, and Bender looks a difficult prospect to get past easily.
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We’ll catch them in Dortmund. Hope Jackie is alright and Theo’s injury doesn’t keep him out longer.
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Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate, his ‘popular style’ study on perception and (ir)rational thought.
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Evidence that Alex Ferguson has no class is this comment from his autobiography:
“However, he believes that Wenger still thinks that no-one should be allowed to tackle his players.”
That is such a puerile thing to write…..
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im ill and i didnt go tonight. thats why we lost…
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I suppose it was fitting in a weird way for Dortmund to return the compliment. We travel well in Germany, so they better watch out.
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ian wright : i know people are gonna say first good team arsenal plays again and…failed to win
no ian ..not the people..its you saying it first and making sure people repeat/remember it …
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there is no point trying to rate their players too highly. the game plan was to contain them and stop them from counter attacks. we did well and were unlucky to conceed the first goal. their second goal came at a time we were having the upper hand and they got the counter they wanted.
our full backs were exposed because we have our two most creative players playing on the wing. hope to have walcott back for the return leg.
win some lose some.
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That was a heart breaker at home. We have the quality to beat these guys. That is for sure.
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I hear Alex is on the Nobel Literature
List in ’14 ZP
(Pulls an excruciatingly painful face)
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anicoll5 October 22, 2013 at 10:10 pm
hahaaha…thoroughly classless all them words on bechkam….but roy tonight kept the best for last ” fergie dont know the meaning of the word loyalty”….pure bitter gold
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SANTIAGO so unlucky with his shot off the bar. Otherwise everyone had a good game .hats off to OG. worked his ass off. Good game of football. We shall pay them back in germany
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Sir Alex Ferguson, Nobel Prize Winner for literature, that my friend reads like a dark and strange episode of the twilight zone, or perhaps the prisoner; nothing is real.
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Now we will hear all his ex.players come out to rip into him. David, jap, Roy to name a few. No where to hide now 3 F’S.
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Good game tonight, I’m only disappointed with the result because it was hard to lose at the moment when we had the upper hand. But these things happen and it was good to hear people singing and chanting on the way home despite the outcome. Perhaps the home crowd are finally starting to mature!
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P.S. OG was my MoTM, not for his goal so much as his willingness to try to take the initiative in the first half when we were struggling to get a foothold. The goal was his due reward. I think we missed young Feo, but I’m confidant for round two as we were not outplayed and got stronger as the game wore on, we just ran out of time at the end. Was there even any extra time played? It didn’t feel like it in the stadium.
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Yes . Two minutes at the end of the second half. None at the end of the first half.
They really didn’t create much more than those two goals. Two chances, two goals. And the first chance they created was a bit AARONS doing. He decided to run the ball out instead of putting his boot through it just to get it safely away. AW said we got punished for naivet. We won’t be come the return leg..
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Passenal Knows.
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What, exactly was wrong with our second goal?
A very fussy ref, I didn’t like him all through the game.
Two very good teams, each had periods of domination.
Dortmund’s second goal could be seen coming for about 60 seconds beforehand.
Way too much space left behind.
Christ, we badly missed Theo. We needed pace to break them down.
Plus Points: Santi looked far sharper than last week, TR7 has the engine of a 20 year old, Arteta got to grips with his role in the second half.
Media are gushing over the Chavs on 6 points after 3 games, in a much more favorable group.
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Aaron was a bit unlucky to get punished so severely for that mistake. But, you can’t go trying to dribble out of your own box. Not against a side that had been disrupting his rhythm all evening. Although, I will say kicking it out would have been difficult as he was swarmed. Never fear, though, no one can beat him up over it more than he will himself. He will take that lesson on board, just like he does everything else. It’ll do him good in the end…there’s a very fine line between confidence and recklessness, and he will always be walking it.
Aaron and Mesut both seemed a little tired this evening. But the idea that players were “poor”, as I have seen a few say? There were no poor players on that pitch. That’s just silly. We’ll bounce back. I’d hate to be Palace on Saturday…
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Such a frustrating game! First half Dortmund had more of the play, but you could sense how shaky they were at the back with the constant mistakes being committed and when we finally capitalised, we definitely had them rattled. Second half it was all us but we were rather unlucky than wasteful. I wouldn’t say forcing a clearance off the line and hitting the crossbar is being wasteful. But they had nothing apart from that once chance and unfortunately Lewandowski is too good a player to not take it. As for if he should’ve still been on the pitch, I think what he did looked intentional to me and did warrant a red card, but I can understand a referee having doubts in such a situation. What does leave a bitter taste in my mouth is that in such situations often the difference between a red and a yellow card is the amount of playacting employed. Surely if Koscielny had done a Drogba or a Busquets, Lewandowski would’ve had to walk….
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Yah exactly. What the hell was wrong with our second goal?? The pub was so noisy I didn’t hear what the tv announcers said afterwards. But I sure as heck didn’t see SACKER foul anyone and the goal scorer wasn’t in offside position when he got the ball.
Must have been a bloody foul away from the fr•••Ing ball.
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‘Aaron was a bit unlucky to get punished so severely for that mistake’. true, but he did act naively…i also hold scezhney a bit responsible…it wasnt point blank to come out like that..plus i feel th ekeeper in these situations has both feet working on the toes waits to see the shot and then goes to the right corner…the way schezney had positioned his body/feet he could not save anything unless coming straight at him.
no red card….clutching at straws i think from sportscaster…
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Yah. No red card my ass. That was an intentionally thrown elbow straight at KOSHERS face. Robert should thank that referee for being lenient and not sent him off. He missed a couple of other calls as well. A hand ball and a foul on TOMAS I think where he let the pass go through him as a dummy then turned to chase it and was decked by the defender. The latter was surly a yellow card offence. We didn’t get the calls, they did.
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And the foul on OG was right on the penalty box line if not inside. I got to look at it again.
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