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If your team scores first in a football match, how likely is it to win? And are maths and sportsmanship at odds on whether players should ever commit a professional foul? John Haigh shows us how to use probability to find the answers in this article aimed at general readers and older students, and explains the implications for the rules of the game.
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The epic Isner-Mahut match at Wimbledon in 2010, where the fifth set lasted for three days, may have sent shivers down the spine of Olympics schedulers. But how freakish an event was it, and what's the probability that a similar situation might arise in 2012? This article, aimed at older students and the general public, investigates.
