Lies, damned lies and statistics (0)
- 10 Oct 08, 10:04 AM
Footballers are a funny lot. They walk the walk, talk the talk and generally ooze confidence, yet can instantly be reduced to quivering wrecks should they forget to touch the top of the tunnel on their way out or misplace their lucky undercrackers.
Fans are just as bad. If I find a penny on the street, it goes into my back pocket and stays there until my next trip to Loftus Road, where I am convinced it will be the difference between three points and none. If we lose, it is dismissed as a bad penny.
Of course it's all rubbish but then, according to a new book, so are the things we take for granted, like an in-form striker or your team being more likely to concede a goal just after you've scored one.
