Kyle Boas
@kyleboas.com
Founder of SyncdChat, football without spoilers. Author of @tacticsjournal.com, analyzing football tactics.
syncdchat.com tacticsjournal.com
syncdchat.com tacticsjournal.com
I wanted to catch you up on what I have been working on.
A live chat for football, a place you can build a community, and a social network to share your thoughts and work. All in one.
I was too excited not to share this.
A live chat for football, a place you can build a community, and a social network to share your thoughts and work. All in one.
I was too excited not to share this.
Three Things
I wanted to catch you up on what I have been working on.
syncd.chat
January 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I wanted to catch you up on what I have been working on.
A live chat for football, a place you can build a community, and a social network to share your thoughts and work. All in one.
I was too excited not to share this.
A live chat for football, a place you can build a community, and a social network to share your thoughts and work. All in one.
I was too excited not to share this.
Syncd instead of SyncdChat
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January 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Syncd instead of SyncdChat
Finding that the thing that makes or breaks a website is the animations. If the animations aren't there it doesn't feel premium.
December 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Finding that the thing that makes or breaks a website is the animations. If the animations aren't there it doesn't feel premium.
I have created a social media platform for football.
Two big features:
- Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal.
- Group Chats: Talk to other members between games.
You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here.
syncdchat.com
Two big features:
- Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal.
- Group Chats: Talk to other members between games.
You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here.
syncdchat.com
SyncdChat
Never let a text ruin a goal again.
syncdchat.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I have created a social media platform for football.
Two big features:
- Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal.
- Group Chats: Talk to other members between games.
You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here.
syncdchat.com
Two big features:
- Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal.
- Group Chats: Talk to other members between games.
You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here.
syncdchat.com
CHATGPTactics kyleboas.com/2025/11/02/c...
CHATGPTactics
Jamie Hamilton:
But the outrage masks complicity. ‘Tactical analysis’ has been on course for this moment for decades, maybe over a century. Ever since its formalisation, football thinkers have tri...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
CHATGPTactics kyleboas.com/2025/11/02/c...
I do not like the Dodgers but the Blue Jays had several opportunities to end the game.
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I do not like the Dodgers but the Blue Jays had several opportunities to end the game.
Ecological Football: not just to know more (knowledge about) but to know better (knowledge of) kyleboas.com/2025/11/01/e...
Ecological Football: not just to know more (knowledge about) but to know better (knowledge of)
Mark O’Sullivan:
Constraints were first categorised by Newell in 1986 (14) (see Figure 1) as:
Individual (e.g., height, speed, cognition, emotions and motivation,)
Task (e.g., specific...
kyleboas.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Ecological Football: not just to know more (knowledge about) but to know better (knowledge of) kyleboas.com/2025/11/01/e...
PewDiePie created an army of AI chatbots that colluded against him among other inspiring things kyleboas.com/2025/11/01/p...
PewDiePie created an army of AI chatbots that colluded against him among other inspiring things
This video makes me want to experiment with local open-source AI models and ditch the $19.99 subscription to ChatGPT.
The video is inspiring because I never knew any of that was possible right now on...
kyleboas.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
PewDiePie created an army of AI chatbots that colluded against him among other inspiring things kyleboas.com/2025/11/01/p...
The taker is the most important player in the set piece kyleboas.com/2025/10/31/t...
The taker is the most important player in the set piece
Ahmed Walid for The Athletic:
Speaking from his (and Odegaard’s) home country of Norway, Morten Gamst Pedersen says he rates Arsenal’s attacking set pieces as the best in the league, with their de...
kyleboas.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The taker is the most important player in the set piece kyleboas.com/2025/10/31/t...
Jamie Hamilton on embracing chaos kyleboas.com/2025/10/30/j...
Jamie Hamilton on embracing chaos
Jamie Hamilton on the Training Ground Guru Podcast discussing the differences in embracing chaos between positionism and relationism:
[…] Again, people might be familiar with Jonathan Wilson’s boo...
kyleboas.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Jamie Hamilton on embracing chaos kyleboas.com/2025/10/30/j...
Premier League set piece delays cause lowest ball-in play percentage on record kyleboas.com/2025/10/29/p...
Premier League set piece delays cause lowest ball-in play percentage on record
Opta Analyst:
The result, however, is less actual football than in any other season in recent memory. The ball has been in play for a lower percentage of overall match time (54.8%) than in any oth...
kyleboas.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Premier League set piece delays cause lowest ball-in play percentage on record kyleboas.com/2025/10/29/p...
Many Real Madrid players are frustrated with Xabi Alonso kyleboas.com/2025/10/29/m...
Many Real Madrid players are frustrated with Xabi Alonso
The Athletic:
Several such sources said players were upset to find they now had little freedom to express their qualities on the pitch, contrasting Alonso’s more demanding and rigid approach to th...
kyleboas.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Many Real Madrid players are frustrated with Xabi Alonso kyleboas.com/2025/10/29/m...
How to coach relations in football kyleboas.com/2025/10/28/h...
How to coach relations in football
I’m convinced that relational principles will shape the future of coaching in football and we’ll need more guides like this.
kyleboas.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
How to coach relations in football kyleboas.com/2025/10/28/h...
Long-throw trend prompts Ifab to consider time limit for taking throw-ins kyleboas.com/2025/10/28/l...
Long-throw trend prompts Ifab to consider time limit for taking throw-ins
Paul MacInnes for The Guardian:
The International Football Association Board (Ifab) has discussed the possibility of limiting how long a player can spend on a throw-in, in a bid to increase the am...
kyleboas.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Long-throw trend prompts Ifab to consider time limit for taking throw-ins kyleboas.com/2025/10/28/l...
Liverpool are losing second balls kyleboas.com/2025/10/28/l...
Liverpool are losing second balls
David Segar for Opta Analyst:
Virgil van Dijk has won at least seven more aerial duels than any other player in the Premier League this season (46 of 59 – 78%), while his centre-back partner Ibrah...
kyleboas.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Liverpool are losing second balls kyleboas.com/2025/10/28/l...
Three rule changes the Premier League should consider to nerf corners and throw-ins kyleboas.com/2025/10/25/t...
Three rule changes the Premier League should consider to nerf corners and throw-ins
I don’t want to watch teams play to win corners and throw-ins and then take their sweet old time taking said corners and throw-ins. I want the ball in play. I don’t want to see players descend into th...
kyleboas.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Three rule changes the Premier League should consider to nerf corners and throw-ins kyleboas.com/2025/10/25/t...
Pau Cubarsi on what makes learning in La Masia so special kyleboas.com/2025/10/25/p...
Pau Cubarsi on what makes learning in La Masia so special
Pau Cubarsí on what makes learning in La Masia so special:
All the coaches focus a lot on teaching the small details, showing you the big difference they make in our game. For me, hiding my passes...
kyleboas.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Pau Cubarsi on what makes learning in La Masia so special kyleboas.com/2025/10/25/p...
It's amazing how much better your team is when you trade Garnacho and Hojlund for Sesko, Mbeumo, and Cunha.
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's amazing how much better your team is when you trade Garnacho and Hojlund for Sesko, Mbeumo, and Cunha.
Free water kyleboas.com/2025/10/24/f...
Free water
Water should be free and this is an incredible concept for a real problem.
This company, FreeWater, packages water in a carton and sells it free to the consumer. Each carton of water is paid for by a...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Free water kyleboas.com/2025/10/24/f...
Manchester United complain to Premier League over number of midweek fixtures kyleboas.com/2025/10/24/m...
Manchester United complain to Premier League over number of midweek fixtures
The Athletic:
In the 12 weeks between October 5 and December 25, United will play only one home match on a weekend — against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday.
During that period, United have ...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Manchester United complain to Premier League over number of midweek fixtures kyleboas.com/2025/10/24/m...
Arteta: I envisioned set-piece goals 10 years ago kyleboas.com/2025/10/24/a...
Arteta: I envisioned set-piece goals '10 years ago'
James Olley for ESPN:
Asked when he realised set-pieces would be such a pivotal part of his approach, Arteta said: “Ten years ago. I wasn’t here but 10 years ago, I said ‘it is a massive thing to ...
kyleboas.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Arteta: I envisioned set-piece goals 10 years ago kyleboas.com/2025/10/24/a...
Amazon offers a more advanced NFL broadcast kyleboas.com/2025/10/21/a...
Amazon offers a more advanced NFL broadcast
This is the future of sports, not just the NFL. With artificial intelligence we should be able to get live action analysis to tell us what is happening, even before it happens. It should be something ...
kyleboas.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Amazon offers a more advanced NFL broadcast kyleboas.com/2025/10/21/a...
The Premier League is stale kyleboas.com/2025/10/21/t...
The Premier League is stale
Jamie Hamilton:
Maybe the stakes are just too high for anything interesting to happen. The potential losses are simply too catastrophic. Football, like film, has become an industry allergic to ris...
kyleboas.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The Premier League is stale kyleboas.com/2025/10/21/t...
This wasn't written about West Ham but it could be.
We put too much emphasis on the manager’s role in the game. Sometimes the players are the problem, and sometimes they are the solution, but they are first. They are the reason the play happened, not everything is by design. tacticsjournal.com/2025/10/20/p...
Putting makeup on a pig
We put too much emphasis on the manager’s role in the game. Sometimes the players are the problem, and sometimes they are the solution, but they are first. They are the reason the play happened, not e...
tacticsjournal.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This wasn't written about West Ham but it could be.
Jamie Carragher thinks Salah should not start every match kyleboas.com/2025/10/19/j...
Jamie Carragher thinks Salah should not start every match
Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports after Liverpool’s 1-2 loss to Manchester United:
I do think watching Mo Salah this season, and I absolutely love him. There’s a tactical setup with Mo Salah in that h...
kyleboas.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Jamie Carragher thinks Salah should not start every match kyleboas.com/2025/10/19/j...