Index

Table of contents with brief description InitiationMotivational text Part I: the rules Basic claims What is a penalty? Penalty Offside The Advantage Rule The three-point rule Time game Evidence Technique Wrong decisions The referee’s fear of the goal action Fair play Rule violations Throw-in – where? The Back Pass Rule Goalkeeper Protection Practical examplesa. Alpay…

Table of contents with brief description

Table of contents with brief description InitiationFootball is so gigantic. What could be wrong with that? What could be said that hasn’t already been said? A whole lot…Motivational textIn addition to the introduction, it can help to overcome a few initial difficulties that are to be expected, especially when it comes to the topic of…

Ideas and Structure

What will this book discuss? There are three major themes, which are of course closely linked. This is explained in more detail below. The three complexes themselves are initially as follows: The football rules Reporting The betting market To 1.: The goal is clearly to achieve an improvement. There are two basic claims about the…

Expose

“soccer”. What a big word that you hardly dare to put into your mouth. What associations does it trigger? You could ask yourself it spontaneously or you could start to ponder. One could also dare to look in the mirror at the exact moment when the word is spoken. Or try to put it in…

Expose

This book is about football. On the one hand, it seems gigantic, the word and the thing, so it could be easy to get something like that out there? On the other hand, every potential reader would already know everything, have their own firm opinion about it, and would rather be asked to speak than…

An utopia of modern football

A utopia of modern football Even Emperor Franz said, “Let’s lose football as it is.” How right is he!? Well, the call sign would stand for confirmation. Exclamation of enthusiasm and approval: “And how right he is about that!” The question mark would stand for certain doubts. Does the statement imply a ban on thinking…

The Sky Annual General Meeting

The Sky Annual General Meeting And it happened… that Dirk Paulsen, as he puts it, to provide the only really appropriate, but by no means recognized as such, job title “professional gambler”, privately received an invitation to the annual general meeting of Sky Germany. Now he is not only this “professional gambler” specializing in “soccer…

The media preset

…means: “The only thing that counts is victory, nothing but success.” The author questions this requirement. There is a very good possibility to reconsider and change this specification. It is by no means the truth that this requirement was initially dictated to the media by the fans and that the latter could not help but…

The hurdles

If you devote yourself to a topic as big as football, mentally first, then put it down on paper — whereby further development can take place even in this process, so it could be “after” or “in parallel” — then this has a number of highly gratifying side effects. The size means that a gigantic…