Saturday, February 11, 2012

Harmony in numbers

When people in football rave about symmetry, it is usually the fleet footwork of the players they are commending.  At this moment in the fixture season though, Newcastle United have a strange alignment of numbers.  They have 42 points so far, unremarkable in itself.  Yet 42 points is the equivalent of 14 wins and there are 14 games left in the season, so Newcastle have accrued exactly the same points remaining in the season.  To do so, they have won 50% of the games, with 25% handed out to draw and thus the remaining 25% to defeats.  Such round numbers at this stage of the fixture list is bizarre; however, whatever result is achieved today, they will fall out of sync from that moment on.

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