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Everyone remembers the bit in Pulp Fiction, where dapper hitmen Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega emerge completely unscathed after being ambushed by a young gunman who had been hiding in the bathroom of an apartment they’re visiting to retrieve that briefcase. Sprayed from close range with a hail of bullets from a “hand cannon”, our intrepid but somehow unharmed duo are left staring in disbelief at both themselves and each other, before turning their own shooters on their hapless would-be killer and blowing him to kingdom come. “We should be [effin] dead, man,” muses Jules, turning to survey the bullet holes in the wall behind him. “I know, we was lucky,” concurs Vincent, prompting a philosophical debate between the colleagues over whether or not “what happened here” was luck or fate.
I’m not an expert in probability theory but I believe it was the great Émile Borel who popularised the theorem which states that ‘if you gave an infinite number of Havertzs, an infinite number of balls and sufficient time then eventually one of them would stop taking too many touches and shoot before giving all the opposition defenders time to get back to cover’. This is not that time, however” – Noble Francis.
If Ben Brereton Díaz knew all about Sheffield United before his transfer as their manager Chris Wilder claimed (Friday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition), why on earth did he move there from Villarreal?” – Mick Beeby.
Friday’s Football Daily quotes Sean Dyche, describing the VAR decision to show Dominic Calvert-Lewin a red card for a studs to shin contact on Nathaniel Clyne, saying ‘If you slow down everything, you’re going to find what you are looking for’. If only someone had suggested that to Bono in 1986” – Ed Taylor.
Continue reading…Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Everyone remembers the bit in Pulp Fiction, where dapper hitmen Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega emerge completely unscathed after being ambushed by a young gunman who had been hiding in the bathroom of an apartment they’re visiting to retrieve that briefcase. Sprayed from close range with a hail of bullets from a “hand cannon”, our intrepid but somehow unharmed duo are left staring in disbelief at both themselves and each other, before turning their own shooters on their hapless would-be killer and blowing him to kingdom come. “We should be [effin] dead, man,” muses Jules, turning to survey the bullet holes in the wall behind him. “I know, we was lucky,” concurs Vincent, prompting a philosophical debate between the colleagues over whether or not “what happened here” was luck or fate.I’m not an expert in probability theory but I believe it was the great Émile Borel who popularised the theorem which states that ‘if you gave an infinite number of Havertzs, an infinite number of balls and sufficient time then eventually one of them would stop taking too many touches and shoot before giving all the opposition defenders time to get back to cover’. This is not that time, however” – Noble Francis.If Ben Brereton Díaz knew all about Sheffield United before his transfer as their manager Chris Wilder claimed (Friday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition), why on earth did he move there from Villarreal?” – Mick Beeby.Friday’s Football Daily quotes Sean Dyche, describing the VAR decision to show Dominic Calvert-Lewin a red card for a studs to shin contact on Nathaniel Clyne, saying ‘If you slow down everything, you’re going to find what you are looking for’. If only someone had suggested that to Bono in 1986” – Ed Taylor. Continue reading…
