About me

My name is Stephen Bartley.

I became interested in football tactics and analysis when the covid lockdown stopped football. What started as something to fill the time until football returned became a bit of an obsession.

It led to helping out my local Step 4 non-league team Whitstable Town with opposition reports. A short while later I moved up a level to Margate FC to do the same.

Four years later, I’ve been lucky enough to work for a League 2 club writing match reports. And am now the video analyst for Tonbridge Angels in the National League South.

This blog is a bit about that, as well as how I go about learning how to scout (I am by no means an expert). But also about anything else that comes up.

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And if you want to get in touch, you can reach me at…

sjbartley@
gmail.com

Cheers,

Stephen
September 2024