Anyone who tells you football is a simple game are lying through their teeth. It's a complex universe of interconnected patterns, shapes, equations, wage structures and playing styles. Only mathematics can really unlock the beauty of the beautiful game.

Text and art by Tim Bradford

The Dual Billionaire Theory - March 07
The Stauntonian Theory of Possibilities - February 07
Watford's Warchest Millions - January 07
The Curbishley Trajectory/Two Manager Equation - December 06
Leeds United and the Microscopic Approval Rating - November 06
West Ham and Mirror Universe Theory - October 06
David Beckham and Exponential Decay - September 06
Random Chaos at Middlesborough - August 06
The Uncertainty Principle - July 06
Caution and the Sideways Ball Function - May 06
The O'Leary Fluctuation - April 06
The O'Leary Fluctutaion - April 06
The O'Leary Fluctuation - April 06
Wrong Division - March 06
Charting the Football Pie - February 06
Urban Regeneration - January 06
World Cup Random Ball-Picking Generator - December 05
Fergusonian Mechanics - November 05
Random Form - October 05
The Wengerian Triangle - September 05
Fergie's Last Theorem - August 05
The Maths of Rumours - July 05
One is Greater Than Three - June 05
The Golden Merseybeat Percentage - May 05

Contact

This feature appears monthly in the football magazine When Saturday Comes.