Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and well-loved by this podcast, and for good reason because, as author Peter Loge says, it is “90 minutes of systems thinking in action”. Peter is a junctional thinker and a learned practitioner, fellow Arsenal fan, baller, associate professor, strategic consultant, and author of Soccer Thinking for Management in which he makes a number of insightful connections between the worlds’ best sport and creating and managing successful operations. He has spent a career building and running teams and organizations operating primarily at the intersection of politics, policy and communication, all which we will discuss on the show along with some predictions about the fate of The Arsenal in the recently started EPL season.