The theme: To bring out what has never been said, what is unknown, unexplored about the game of football.The goals: To make football more exciting, more attractive, more equitable. To generate more enthusiasm among current fans, to attract neutral spectators who have so far not been fans, to increase the incentive for everyone to want…
Football is the world’s number one sport. This certainly has a few causes, but definitely also consequences. What these are in detail and why it is worthwhile to think about them should be briefly explained here as a basic preliminary consideration. Football owes its greatness to one, certainly decisive criterion: that it is so simple.…
Bullet point brief explanation of what this is all about. It is about: The application of existing rules Rethinking the interpretation of the rules Piecemeal improvements to the rules A psychological examination of refereeing decisions One of the basic statements made about football is that it would become more attractive if there were more goals.…
Brainstorming on the topic of football – my thoughts, my approaches Making football more attractiveKey statements:o too few goalso Evidence technique by examining tension and game development, diagrams on ito Statistics on goals. If you lead 1:0, you win 68% of the time!o On average, only one goal every 34 minutes; too long a waiting…
Variant 1 of the introduction: In the following, a few assertions are made about modern football. These assertions are likely to meet with considerable resistance, so the argumentation that follows will be particularly important and worthy of attention. Some of these assertions will be based on psychological considerations. Only when one is prepared to engage…
Rule change proposals 1) The penalty: no alternative?2) Time play: paradox3) In principle: penalty must be penalty4) Offside5) Three-point rule6) In possession only if you also play the ball7) A foul is a foul8) Handball is handball9) Generally behind: Unequal treatment of strikers and defenders10) Thinking per goal actions and per goals11) The penalty for…
What would have to change to stop just being annoyed when watching a football match? 1) The tiny rule changes : there is an alternative penalty to the penalty for minor offences inside the penalty area.2) Equal treatment of strikers and defenders.3) Offside is one of the over-critical decisions. Here we really should implement the…
I’ll confront the reader right away with the absolutely shocking realisation for the soon-to-be-named “summer fairy tale”: For me, the World Cup was not only weak but also boring. There were hardly any good games and also very little suspense, let alone any big “sensations”. It was very strange for me that Ghana’s success in…
A short private update: As in 1994 and 1998, I quickly took care of the offspring before this World Cup. This time even with my wife. On 28 May I had a whole set of twins. Because when asked: “Are they twins?” I used to answer: “Yes. —– By the sign of the zodiac.” And…
Privately, things had been moving again before this final round. Despite the numerous “on and offs” with Annette, Chiara’s mother, we had got together again for a while – a very nice time in the middle of ’97 – and “reaped” the “fruits” of this reconciliation on 30 January: she gave birth to another child…
