Russell Slade Suing Football Data Collection Businesses

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So are football clubs selling this information to Radar from those gadgets the players ware on their backs, similar to businesses selling your phone number to other businesses i suppose?

I'd guess this sort of thing will be the sticking point.

As someone else has mentioned, a lot of the data is already in the public domain; there's nothing to stop me paying to get in a ground and recording my own stats. Do these belong to the player? It will be hard to prove that they do, especially as a lot of them (successful passes, tackles, dribbles etc.) are opinion, not fact. The only real facts is the data collected electronically (and goals scored etc but that is manifestly in the public domain).