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  • L Lost User

    football? which sort? - association football - Rugby Football - Rugby League Football - Rugby Sevens Football - Touch Rugby Football - American Football? ... This is one reason why some programs don't work the way you expect. 1 inch =/= 1cm, oops, space ship crashed again...

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    There is only one sort - the rest have to have other words to qualify the bastardized version being played.

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    • L Lost User

      football? which sort? - association football - Rugby Football - Rugby League Football - Rugby Sevens Football - Touch Rugby Football - American Football? ... This is one reason why some programs don't work the way you expect. 1 inch =/= 1cm, oops, space ship crashed again...

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      You missed out Boring football. :laugh:

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        1. Too many. 2) Approximately 0.0689 Nautical Miles.

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        What conversion did you use? Google gave me: 0.06754641639540194531 Which is nearly 3 meters off!

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          Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

          1. What is the maximum number of football boots allowed on the playing surface (pitch) at the moment of kick-off?

          46

          Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

          1. For a "standard" pitch (105 by 68 metres) what is the longest possible legal pass?

          125m

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          1/2

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          • M musefan

            What conversion did you use? Google gave me: 0.06754641639540194531 Which is nearly 3 meters off!

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            Hence the "approximately" - you forgot to allow for the ballistic curve distance.

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              1/2

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              Go on... The only reason I answered is because I was expecting something to be "non-obvious" and I was interested in knowing what it was. I certainly wouldn't count the additional officials as being "on the pitch", so surely it's only 22 players and 1 referee? And not sure how the pass distance can be wrong, surely that is just corner to corner?

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                Hence the "approximately" - you forgot to allow for the ballistic curve distance.

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                Interesting about the curve... though a pass would surely be the distance from point A to point B, rather than the distance travelled?

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                • D Duncan Edwards Jones
                  1. What is the maximum number of football boots allowed on the playing surface (pitch) at the moment of kick-off? 2) For a "standard" pitch (105 by 68 metres) what is the longest possible legal pass?
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                  Too easy, the answer is obviously 42

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                    Go on... The only reason I answered is because I was expecting something to be "non-obvious" and I was interested in knowing what it was. I certainly wouldn't count the additional officials as being "on the pitch", so surely it's only 22 players and 1 referee? And not sure how the pass distance can be wrong, surely that is just corner to corner?

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                    Corner to corner yes - not a straight line though :-) (This question was from a real pub quiz and very nearly caused a fight)

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                      Corner to corner yes - not a straight line though :-) (This question was from a real pub quiz and very nearly caused a fight)

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                      I did consider that, but how would it be possible to know? Depends how high you can kick the ball... or is there technically a maximum "legal height" for a ball? Though that would be pretty difficult to enforce. Hence you can only really give a point-to-point answer. I guess you could kick it to one corner and then a strong gust of wind could send it right back to the original corner doubling the length... but then maybe the wind suddenly changes direction and sends it back yet again.

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                        Too easy, the answer is obviously 42

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                        I think you are getting confused with the maximum number of pairs of lucky pants a single player is allowed to wear.

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                          Interesting about the curve... though a pass would surely be the distance from point A to point B, rather than the distance travelled?

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                            Why do people always try to sneak up behind me with their torpedoes...

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                              Why do people always try to sneak up behind me with their torpedoes...

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                              Full stop. Z minus 10,000m - stand by photon torpedoes!

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                              • L Lost User

                                You missed out Boring football. :laugh:

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                                  1. What is the maximum number of football boots allowed on the playing surface (pitch) at the moment of kick-off? 2) For a "standard" pitch (105 by 68 metres) what is the longest possible legal pass?
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                                  1. Football isn't played with boots, but with shoes, right? so 0 I reckon. 2) Is that with an African swallow or a European swallow?

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                                    There is only one sort - the rest have to have other words to qualify the bastardized version being played.

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                                    R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:

                                    There is only one sort - the rest have to have other words to qualify the bastardized version being played.

                                    Not quite there's 3 forms of popular footy: League, Union and AFL. Rumours are there is some soccer too (aka/proper name association football), not than anyone notices; for sure it's not ever called football/footy here unless preceded with the word "pooftah." (summary: hard to watch any game where the style and cleanliness of clothing and avoidance of sweat seems far more important than the comp.)

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                                    • L Lost User

                                      You missed out Boring football. :laugh:

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                                      Richard MacCutchan wrote:

                                      You missed out Boring football. :laugh:

                                      no I did include soccer, it's real name is "association football " (so apt: a boring sounding name for a truly boring game.)

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                                        1. What is the maximum number of football boots allowed on the playing surface (pitch) at the moment of kick-off? 2) For a "standard" pitch (105 by 68 metres) what is the longest possible legal pass?
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                                        1. There are 22 players and 3 referees, so max 50 football shoes. 2. Pythagor tells me 125.096m, even if such a pass is very probably not legal because the player getting it has a high change to be offside.

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                                        • L Lost User

                                          Richard MacCutchan wrote:

                                          You missed out Boring football. :laugh:

                                          no I did include soccer, it's real name is "association football " (so apt: a boring sounding name for a truly boring game.)

                                          This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!

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                                          Lopatir wrote:

                                          a truly boring game

                                          So sad, time was when it was actually fun to watch; even for rugby fan like me.

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