Premier League ANALYST to university lecturer - Tom Corden #59

Tom Corden is currently a lecturer in performance analysis at the university of Worcester. Before that, he spent 7 years working as an analyst at Nottingham Forest FC.

What started as an internship with the youth teams ended up with several promotions to U18s analyst, head of academy analyst and eventually roles with the first team. Tom was involved in the promotion campaign to the Premier League and has worked under various managers during his time at the City Ground.

A very experienced analyst, now passing his expertise to the next generation of analysts. A great chat covering Tom's journey and some great bits of advice for those looking create a career for themselves within sports analysis.

0:00 - Introduction
1:51 - Tom joins, background and winning at Wembley
5:24 - Background in sports coaching
9:15 - Interning, being pro-active & unpaid work
21:19 - Progressing through roles Nottingham Forest
25:56 - The differences between academy and first team
28:48 - Doing a Masters whilst working full time
35:47 - Moving up to the first team
47:10 - Pre-season for an analyst
50:23 - Making the most of your software/data
53:51 - The coach analyst role
57:42 - Work/Life balance as an analyst
1:02:24 - Leaving the role of an analyst
1:06:23 - Teaching the next crop of analysts
1:12:14 - Networking, more advice
1:15:47 - Book recommendations, wrap up

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