Liverpool fans may expect the club to have highly-intelligent people working behind the scenes at the club - but that might not extend to a scientist with a PhD in physics from Harvard.
William Spearman, who joined the Reds in March 2018, has taken an unusual route into football.
Now working as Liverpool ’s lead data scientist, he first started looking into sports analytics shortly after working on the project to discover the Higgs boson particle at CERN.
