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

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.
Being a modeller is first of all about using your imagination, and then homing in on the problem.
The England midfielder Paul Gascoigne once said ‘I never predict anything and I never will.’