apply. And that's why the average spectator doesn't understand the game. I have no problem with you not being interested in geometry and watching the game. That's fine. I am not saying that pythagoras is interesting. It's not. But for those who want to understand the details and patterns of the game, I hope you can appreciate my article and have taken something away that they didn't know before. For those 0.01% who are not as thick as two short planks, they are the ones who are the successful ones in football (as coaches). Towser -- 99.9% of football fans are not thick as you describe but it would probably be correct to say that out of that total 90% have no coaching qualifications so have no real interest in picking out patterns, they are in fact "ball watchers".There is nothing derogatory in that description,after all the ball is where most of the action is but if you just refer to our great victory the other night in Korea,we won, but the Koreans were still far ahead of us in first touch control & movement off the ball.Personally I don't expect the normal fan to notice that, for just as a huge crowd roars every time their team wins a corner stats tell us only about 7% of goals come from corner kicks.Let us not lower the fan's excitement by lecturing them on tactics.OK. Cheere jb This is straight out of the Fos book of mantras: You need multiple masters