Analysis of a reporter’s commentary With regard to football, I have already told you a few things that strike me about the commentaries. The reporting is generally negative. The reasons for this: 1) Football is such a gigantic sport that in principle you can’t break it. It will continue to live, even if people talk…
I have been a successful professional player for 19 years and earn my money by betting on football matches. This means that over this time I have watched an average of about two live football matches a day on TV. My football knowledge, which I have acquired over the past thirty years (I am now…
Match on the evening of 14 August 2009 Since this is a kind of “experience report” – moreover, one recorded directly after the experience –, one’s own perspective seems quite justifiable, so perhaps here and there this view will come to the fore? On the Friday evening of 14 August 2009, as usual on such…
1) Preliminary skirmish Naturally, I watched and followed the eagerly awaited clash between Werder Bremen and Hamburger SV, the UEFA Cup semi-final first leg of the 2008/2009 season, on television last night. The “special eyes” with which I, as a professional player, always have to look at it, I can put it this way in…
1) Introduction Since I claimed at the outset that I wanted to (and could) improve football simply by applying the existing rules, I must of course now justify that I nevertheless have a suggestion here and there for a rule change that could make just as great a contribution. The basic idea of increasing the…
Although in my estimation it would be sufficient to apply the existing rules, I nevertheless have a few suggestions to make here and there. Some of them call for the implementation of the existing rule. But feel free to have a look: 1) Ratio of punishment to offence In principle, I would like to start…
Dialogue between two football fans The other day I had the opportunity to listen in on a conversation between two real football fans. Since I was bored myself and just wanted to enjoy my beer at the end of the day, I had the fun of listening to the conversation. And not only that, I…
If you want to tell something about football and also have the pleasure of someone listening to you, then you are faced with a not so easy task. Unless your name is Franz Beckenbauer. The reason for the disproportion: especially when it comes to football, everyone who might be interested in what you have to…
In the course of my long career as a professional gambler, specialising in football betting, I have watched a lot of football matches and, of course, also experienced a lot of preliminary reports or post-match analyses, summaries. This is not limited to German television. I have also watched and listened to English programmes permanently via…
At least I had the brief opportunity to draw public attention to the luck of the Germans during this European Championship. I was invited by WDR to take part in the programme “Dellings Woche”. The presenter was Gerd Delling, as you might expect. His programme was not a sports programme, so I could also feel…
