How large is Yaya Toure's salary?

A lot has been made of Yaya Toure's alleged £200k a week contract at Manchester City. But how big is it really? It is more than 7 times the average salary of a Premier League footballer and around 400 times the salary of the average worker.

Germany's counter attacking approach wins the day

Unsurprisingly, the stats don't paint a different picture of England's humiliating 4-1 loss to Germany. But Germany's tactic of hitting on the counter does come through quite strongly - and supported by their display in the quarters against Argentina. Against England, the Germans gave up possession to the tune of 44.8% to England's 55.2%, which is quite considerable in the modern game. However, they took the honours in the territorial advantage at 52.6% to England's 47.4%. And the individual stats back Germany's stronger attacking performance with Ozil and Schweinsteiger way ahead of England's triumvirate of Gerrard, Barry and Lampard on key passes and forward half passes. It highlights that focussing on possession football only gets you so far: it's what you do with it that counts.