This book is supposed to be about football. Well, there certainly doesn’t seem to be anything new under the sun about the game of football, of all things. How could it be possible that the sport that makes the biggest waves worldwide, that is played by so many children before they can even pronounce the…
Reflections on the book project about football and betting Ever since man has known – which supposedly distinguishes him from the animals – that there is a future, he has been preoccupied, sometimes more and sometimes less, with the thought of whether one can foresee things that will happen in that future. Now there are…
Dirk Paulsen, born in Berlin in 1959, showed a special talent for numbers from his earliest childhood, which was almost simultaneously paired with his pronounced passion for football. The inclination to play(s) that dominates his life makes him combine these two characteristics in the ever-expanding search for the “perfect” game. On the one hand, this…
The formulated goals include the statement that there is a difference between the current situation and the desired one. In essence, these are a few expressed concerns about football and its supremacy among sports. In principle, the goals of making it more exciting, more attractive and fairer are of course honourable and undoubted. But they…
It’s about football. But there is a slightly different way of looking at football. A view that is unusual at first glance, one that will probably cause an outcry from every expert. There are things about football, as you can see here, that have not been said before. The circuit that is taken here –…
1) The Sky Conferencea. Not switching at exciting momentsb. Do not show unimportant goalsc. Switch to the exciting plays and scoresd. Draw the spectator into the actione. After a goal and switching to the match: please urgently show the replay in original speed, not the slow-motion immediately 2) General about the reportersa. Do not permanently…
FIFA, as well as every spectator and fan, is always interested in increasing the attractiveness of football. However, according to popular opinion, a) everything has already been said about the implementation of effective measures and b) there should be no upheavals in a business that is booming worldwide. Today I would like to convince the…
As soon as you have finished thinking about such a sentence, formulating it and, maddeningly, putting it down on (virtual) paper, the following thoughts flash through your mind: I know what the reader who has strayed here will do now: He doesn’t even have to laugh, the request is so ridiculous. He takes the piece…
Modern football in the light of the 2010 World Cup If you want to talk about football, you always encounter the problem that everyone already knows everything about it, so it is not considered necessary to read a text about it, to listen to the person you are talking to. You can’t expect any increase…
The means to achieve the goals Since the subject of football is unproductive and already exhaustively dealt with, the goals are banal and clumsy, the hurdles gigantic, the demands absurd and the argumentation mostly intuitive, absolutely convincing, logical, comprehensible and valid proof techniques must be produced in order to achieve audibility for what is being…
