“It is one of the curious anomalies of our game that when we close our eyes and think of a football we tend to think of a specific type of football and, moreover, that the type of football that we are likely to think of is a specific type of ball which hasn’t been widely used in major tournaments for over thirty years. To geometrists, it would be known as spherical polyhedron, but we would be more likely to know it as a 32-panel football, a Buckminster ball or a ‘bucky ball’, it made its international debut at the 1970 World Cup finals in Mexico, and it is a perfect example of the application of science to commercial design.” (twohundredpercent)