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I think maybe you’ve cracked it. It’s like how professional snooker players will go for a pot but somehow take the shot so that if they miss then the ball goes safe rather than easy for the opponent. We’re now so good we’re factoring two outcomes into every kick: score if hit perfectly or make...

This feels like the right place to share this.

Yep. And you have to re-register to vote but might not find out until it’s too late

I think it's been discussed here before that there is no definition of "stonewall" that applies in the context that it's used in football yet it has become accepted and common. I heard before (don't know if it's true) that it was Alex Ferguson getting his words mixed up that started it - he'd...

I’ve got two - a few years ago I recruited a woman with the same name (first name and surname) as my daughter. Over the next few weeks we discovered her Dad’s name and my name are the same, he and I are about the same age (though she’s older than my daughter). Her birthday and my daughter’s...

There’s some stuff around the purging of electoral rolls that’s a worry for it being a fair election. In the last almost 50 years combined there have been fewer than 1500 cases of electoral fraud across the whole of the US yet Texas has just purged a million people from their electoral rolls to...

Is yours the largest collection of Brighton shirts? I'd imagine the club might not have examples of every shirt in the same way. Do you know what the oldest Brighton shirt is in existence too?

Loving reading all the things people get up to. I find it hard to stick to any one thing for long and get temporary obsessions, but the thing I’ve always done is writing. I’ve been paid for it but never done it for a living and love doing it so much that I’d see a lottery win as creating the...

Importantly, is it free-kick, freekick or free kick? I'm not sure we've standardised yet and it would be good to know what it is that's being blasted into the wall time and again.

Just an hour at the end of each training session would bring them to 1000 hours by 22, granted if they did nothing else they'd get to the 10,000. The 10,000 hours thing is a myth though, and it's more about the quality of the time and effort than it is about the time taken (though time is...

I think I agree. Let’s say footballers train 175 days a year allowing for match days, rest days, injury, off-season etc. if someone spends an hour every training day on free kick practice from, say, 16 years old then by the time they are 22 they’ve spent around 1000 hours practicing something...

Yep. The City one was Phil Foden scoring from the free kick he got for slipping and falling over last season.

They need to get the Wombles to donate some of the litter they collect as landfill

I think it's context, and in the context of the standardised education system it's a difference that's being described in cases of dyslexia and ADHD, not a difficulty. By way of personal example. my daughter has severe dyslexia and is super-smart. She can't extract meaning very well from...

My wife and her family all being Forest fans I’m not going to complain about the result. After the away game last season I thought for a while I’d be ostracised for good…at least after today everyone seems equally (un)happy

From previous threads I imagine this may be an unpopular opinion but I’ve got a soft spot for Anfield - probably my favourite away ground to visit now. I enjoy the walk in from the city, the murals, the atmosphere inside and outside the ground, and the fact it feels like it hasn’t been...

That’s great. I was told a few years ago that all ingredients for Harvey’s except finings came from a distance no further than a horse drawn cart could travel in a day, not just environmentally friendly but supporting local businesses too. Until recently it was only available in places within...

I got an email saying I'd have to collect mine in person as part of the random ID checking thing, but then my ticket has arrived through the post anyway. I can't work out if that's incredible efficiency, or the opposite?

Sometimes it's contextual - I can strongly recommend not to watch Tim Burton's Big Fish shortly after losing someone close to you.

One more. Not me and not the Albion but in the late 90s I was at a game at Newcastle when I was visiting a friend, and the tannoy announced after just 10 minutes or so that a bloke there needed to get to the hospital (only a few minutes from the stadium) because his wife had gone into labour...