The goals

The goals are formulated quite quickly, ambitious, high but also debatable whether a) necessary and b) realisable: Football should be maintained in its size, its top position among sports should be expanded. To this end, it should be made more exciting, more attractive and fairer, with the two being directly related. Very simple statements, which…

Foreword

As easy as it seems to be to say anything at all about the world’s biggest sport, football – after all, everyone can contribute something – it seems impossible to say something new, to find out something interesting that no one has come up with yet, to find something original that fascinates and captivates the…

Foreword

This book is about football. Football is the world’s biggest sport. This alone makes it difficult to understand why there should be thoughts about it that have not yet been thought, written down, spoken, discussed and — again — discarded. The book is divided into four major sections, all of which are intended to point…

Foreword

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

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…

About the author

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…

Some theses about football today

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…

The topic

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 –…

Key points for Sky: Ideas for improvement

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…

Increasing the attractiveness of football

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…