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Letter: Letters: Soccer coriolis

Published 11 April 1992

From SUSAN THORPE

Having observed many television instances of the Mexican wave at events
in Europe it appears, without exception, to follow an anticlockwise movement.
My question is, does it follow a clockwise movement in the southern hemisphere?

Susan Thorpe Great Missenden Buckinghamshire

Issue no. 1816 published 11 April 1992

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