Besides of complexities concerning to football championships, it is identified some regularities in them. These regularities refer to goal distributions by goal-players and by games. In particular, the goal distribution by goal-players it well adjusted by the Zipf-Mandelbrot law, suggesting a conection with an anomalous decay.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0002100,
title = {Regularities in football goal distributions},
author = {L. C. Malacarne and R. S. Mendes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0002100},
year = {2009}
}