New spin on scoring is simply a case of cause and effect

BACK before Gaelic football employed statisticians, we all used to say “whoever wins midfield will win the game”.
New spin on scoring is simply a case of cause and effect
Thu, 20 Jan, 2011 - 00:00
Paddy Heaney

It was one of those inviolable truths that anybody could mouth without fear of contradiction.

Nowadays, we know that once-common refrain is total nonsense.

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