Preview of the 5th Bundesliga matchday of the 2009/2010 season from the point of view of the betting market (TV programme, newspaper column) The 4th matchday is over today, Monday 31-08-09. The match pairings for the following match day are of course fixed. This matchday lends itself particularly well to the presentation of the basic…
Becoming a football commentator is really the easiest and at the same time the most beautiful job in the world. You have to fulfil a few important criteria, and then you’re ready to go. I’ll list them briefly here, not without expecting vehement objections and vetoes. 1) No idea about football Seems to me to…
The dismissal of Markus Babbel The fears that one had to have after yesterday’s cup defeat of VfB Stuttgart at SpVgg. Greuther Fürth were confirmed today, 28 October 2009: Markus Babbel has been dismissed as coach. Nowadays, such sad news is commonplace and in no way surprising. I express my regret neither as a fan…
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…
