After City's dramatic late win over Dagenham we browsed the world wide web for all the features you need to read on your Monday lunchbreak
We start with Andy Tillson's interview with the Express & Echo, the Development Coach believes City haven't given up on making a late push for a Play Off place.
Tillson said: "We are still playing for something - we will try to get to the play-offs until it's mathematically impossible. We need to go out there, impress our fans and get the points.
"We started so bright and competitive. We knew they would be (competitive), so we had to be as well and I thought we were good value for the win in the end.
"Dagenham did have their chances, plus possibly a penalty in the first half, but we always looked like we were in that frame of mind where we wouldn't give up."
Dagenham remain just a point above the relegation zone following the defeat and manager John Still was less than impressed at the manner in which his side conceded two goals in the final nine minutes.
He said: "I'm very disappointed because I thought we had done enough to win the game. When we went 1-0 up I think we were in charge.
"But then we were too lax. We gave away a free-kick we didn't have to because the ball was travelling away from goal and a stupid square pass in our third led to the goal. So that's very disappointing."
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Dagenham's official website gives their take on the 2-1 defeat
Just as it appeared that the Daggers were pulling themselves clear of the Npower League One relegation trap door they were plunged right back into the mire by another late goal at St. James' Park on Saturday writes Ricky Butler.
After working so hard to get their noses in front thanks to Romain Vincelot's 11th goal of the season fifteen minutes from time, John Still's side were caught out by late headers from Matt Taylor and substitute Richard Logan to leave Devon empty-handed once again.
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The Barking & Dagenham Post's match report focuses on the disappointment of Daggers' point-less away trip.
Points and not performances are what Dagenham & Redbridge need at this stage of the season.
For 76 minutes they looked good value for a much-needed away win, but after Romain Vincelot had broken the deadlock the visitors imploded.
A timely victory would have lifted John Still's side four points clear of the relegation zone, but they inexplicably threw away three points from a game they seemed to be controlling.
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Richard Logan enjoyed Saturday's late winner, especially given that it came against his friend (and Daggers captain) Mark Arber, so he was in a jovial mood when he spoke to the Express & Echo.
MATCH-WINNER Richard Logan says bearing the brunt of some pre-match banter made him determined to score against Dagenham & Redbridge on Saturday.
The Exeter City substitute found himself on the receiving end of a soaking before the game, when his former Peterborough United teammate and current Daggers captain Mark Arber squirted water in his face as the two sides emerged from the players' tunnel at St James's Park.
But it was Logan who had the last laugh as he came off the bench to score an 87th-minute winner, out-jumping Arber to head home at the far post and seal a 2-1 win for the hosts.
The striker revealed: "Before the game I was waiting for the teams to come out of the tunnel and he splashed water in my face.
"I don't think I deserved that, but that's what happens when you mess with me - I punished him in the end."
And finally our former performance analyst Dave Lee headed to New York last month and he's done a fantastic interview with the Wall Street Journal that you can read here
The team hired Lee last month as the first full-time performance analyst in Major League Soccer. Burning through terabytes of data and video every season, his job is to dissect every game and every opponent to provide as much analysis as possible. He's like an NFL coordinator with a touch of the baseball sabermetrician thrown in.
The biggest obstacle that Lee or any other soccer statistician faces is the fundamental challenge that the sport, by its nature, presents: How do you read a fluid game of ever-changing situations as a series of discrete, consistent occurrences?
Whereas plays in baseball all have distinct beginnings and endings in clearly defined sections of the diamond, a new string of soccer action can begin anywhere on the field. Twenty-two players are in constant motion. And from any given field position, a player might routinely roam in a 60-yard radius —far greater than even the most nimble shortstop.
"It's a long way until data alone can be as useful as it is in baseball," Lee said. "I don't think anyone's found a Holy Grail of football stats and I don't see one that exists."
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