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World Service,02 Oct 2015,9 mins

Football’s Red Card Cliché

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Managers and pundits often say “it’s harder to play against 10 men”, but is there any truth in it? 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. (Photo: A hand holding a red card. Credit: Shutterstock)

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