World Cup 2018 clubs compared on 3 statistics associated with winning

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A 2012 study finds that 3 statistics are the attacking variables associated the most with winning.

Castellano, Casamichana and Carlos Lago showed that ball possession, the total number of shots, and the total number of shots on target were the most crucial attacking statistics associated with higher odds of winning.

So I scraped data from the match data website Flashscore.com, kept the data from the latest qualification rounds and produced a profile of all clubs for which data was available.

These are the football clubs that have been fined for underpaying employees

Birmingham City FC has been fined for breaking national minimum wage laws, newly released data reveals. The local club is part of a group of four that have been identified in the latest analysis by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

The three others are St Helens RFC, Stoke City FC and Yeovil Town FC.

But the local city club and St. Helens RFC are by far the biggest offenders, owing each to their minimum wage employees more than £5,500.

Read more here and see how clubs reacted.