Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game (Bloomsbury Sigma)

substance.

incentives.

The England midfielder Paul Gascoigne once said ‘I never predict anything and I never will.’

the first thing football scouts look for in youngsters is ‘intelligence’, the ability to see quickly what is going on around them and to plan for all eventualities – something we academics might call spatial reasoning. Nor are footballers lazy.

Soccermatics.

dribble

Subbuteo

locusts,

prodigies,