The impact of Artifical Intelligence on football: will it ruin the sport?

AI and Big Data have taken over the footballing world, providing advanced technology for the industry as a whole.

Football is a multifaceted experience and everybody that watches the sport likes to predict what could be coming up next. Whether the topic of conversation is the possible result of an upcoming match or the forecast of a player’s performance, the footballing world will be debating over everything.

Beyond the sheer fun of doing so, the act of making a prediction has become a way of showcasing one’s ‘football knowledge’, but now, however, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are crashing the party.