Football is about organising around the ball. The main problem for the player and the team is that if the organisation is good, the opponent will do anything to destroy it. The other big problem is that because of poor technique or bad luck, the ball can bounce so badly that even good order breaks down.
Although order in football often does not line up, there is no other way to try to play better than your opponent. By passing, running and changing the position of the players, you have to get the ball to a place where the defenders can get past you with the ball.
The clever ones realise that speed would be a decisive advantage, even if speed highlights the inaccuracies caused by poor technique. In addition, fatigue is a big problem. There should be some sort of arrangement so that only when the situation is good does a player go full speed ahead. The change of pace must also be organised.
Chance is also a key factor. Not as important as skill but more important the more evenly matched the teams. Because of chance, those who are better organised can lose, even if they do better in the long run.
But chance and the variety of arrangements mean that football is one of the best subjects for discussion and observation there is: someone likes arranging and watching defenders, someone likes defensive lines, someone likes defensive midfielders, someone likes attacking midfielders, someone likes deflecting, someone likes passing, someone likes a team playing ball-less, someone likes running into spaces, ad infinitum.
But it's always about the reality of what has actually happened, and usually only one person, the speaker, has observed it. A fine individual subject, then - a perfect topic for one of the themes of this publication!