Saturday, 19 May 2007

Football Club Allegiance (using science)

Which football club will Charlie support? The scientific way to test this is to use Google maps to check the distance to see which ground is closest to his place of birth. See the results below.

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If you look closely, the distance to Anfield and Goodison is the same number of miles, although Anfield must be marginally closer as it takes one minute fewer to reach by road. Therefore he is proven to be a Liverpool fan. What a relief!

(Alex, note that I will not be measuring times from Tulsa at any point for your benefit.)
[EDIT - See comment]

1 comment:

  1. I've done the calculation for you:

    http://tinyurl.com/ywot66

    I'm not sure if step 29 is beyond him, or if he's still got the innate ability he'd need to undertake it.

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