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…
You may wonder, you may scratch your head in disbelief, you may shake it, rub your eyes, stop reading at this or the next possible point and stay away indignantly, you may declare it good or bad novel material or simply accept it and wait for the matter to take on substance, but it is…
Concept for the ultimate football betting book The entire betting market is to be explained using the specific example of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Ultimately, predictions are to be made within the framework that is mathematically possible. A basic approach will be explained with which all probabilities for all possible events can…
Part 1 Basic considerations Motivation for this book. To reveal methods that are profitable? The scientific exploration of football and, as a consequence, recognition for it is perhaps more appealing. The game with probabilities that no one can escape. All of life is like that, everyone is at the mercy of it. The quest for…
ForewordA few theses about footballThe Goals Part 1: The rules 1) The offside2) The penalty kick3) What is a penalty?4) Fair Play5) Free kicks6) The backpass rule7) Striker’s foul8) Goalkeeper protection9) The advantage rule10) Time Play11) The Three-Point Rule Part 2: Coverage 12) Preliminary considerations13) The Poll Results14) The true prophets15) Being smart is everything16)…
1) The game of footballa. Why do you play?b. Individual or team sportc. Exercise or mental sportd. Football is number 1, plain and simple.e. Football in the past – todayf. The role of the media, the Olympic idea?g. What makes a game exciting?i. As a performerii. As a spectatorh. What else makes it worth watching?i.…
Foreword A few theses about footballThe Goals Part 1: The rules 1) The offsideOffside is one of the central rules of football. Abolishing it is not really an option, as all the tactics that have been developed and perfected over a good century would have to be thrown overboard. So it can only be about…
1) The game of footballa. Why do people play?What drives people to play any game at all? The play instinct is quasi innate. At some point rules are added. Then comes the idea of comparing oneself in competition. Often one remains loyal to a sport as an active player. b. Individual or team sportTeam sports…
