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Football’s Red Card Cliché

More Or Less asks if the football cliché is true: “it’s harder to play against 10 men”, ѿý Trending finds medical malpractice in France and the Why Factor is all about graffiti.

Football managers and pundits often say “it’s harder to play against 10 men”, but is there any truth in this cliché? More Or Less investigates. Also, Tim Harford speaks to the author Siobhan Roberts about Professor John Conway, who has been described as a genius and one of the world’s most charismatic mathematicians.

ѿý Trending reports on medical malpractice in France, revealed after a French woman became concerned about the way her routine gynaecology examination was carried out and her husband asked a simple question about standard procedures on Twitter. The tweet triggered a slew of accusations about malpractice.
We also hear from Emily Bingham, whose Facebook plea for people to stop asking ‘when will you have a baby?’ struck a chord online.

And in the Why Factor, Mike Williams asks why humans have had the urge to leave their mark from Stone Age caves to the walls of our modern cities. He joins the artists at a Graffiti competition held in London and has a go himself with the spray paint.

(Photo: A hand holding a red card. Credit: Shutterstock)

50 minutes

Last on

Fri 9 Oct 2015 01:06GMT

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  • Thu 8 Oct 2015 08:06GMT
  • Fri 9 Oct 2015 01:06GMT

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