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Sciency sporting excuses – the winner

28 July 2010

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Sciency sporting excuses – the winner

LAST month, as the world was in a fever of anticipation over the football World Cup, Feedback had a vision of what was about to come to pass. Soon, we foresaw, all but a few teams would be roundly humiliated and sent home – and so it turned out. But what, we wondered, would they say to disappointed fans who had stumped up a fortune to watch them, only to be met with frustration and humiliation? Any excuse, we felt, would have to be absolutely first-class.…

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