Soccer has always been a numbers game: 1–1, 4–4–2, the big number 9, the sacred number 10. That will not change and we don’t ever want it to. But there is a “counters-reformation” gathering pace that may make another set of figures seem just as important: 2.66, 50/50, 53.4, <58<73<79, and 0 > 1 will all prove to be essential for the future of soccer.
