Whitey Grandad

LOL I think she lives down Portsea way, at least my grandma told me to watch out for her.

Yeah, and I bet you like skydiving and eating raw blowfish too.

Might be for the best.

Was that before last Saturday?

So where do the visiting team play?

That's exactly his responsibility.

Oh, I don't know. I always find you get more sense that way.

Yes, I've just read it too. Extremely disturbing but I suspect that you would struggle to find anybody outside football who cares about it.

What on earth does that previous post have to do with the latter?

Proves nothing. But it does increase your chances of progressing.

That's like saying that Weather Change lies behind changes in the weather.

The same time as McDonalds.

Not exactly, and you know it. Being league champions was more important than winning the cup.

They're at home.

Hmm, you're easily pleased.

Oh good, someone else to blame.

What did you have to mention that? My therapist will have another twenty years work now

Good point.

Now look: The Butterfly Effect is a very limited theory that had no place in FA Cup draws. When Lorenz developed it in connection with his efforts at weather prediction it was an interesting intellectual exercise to try to explain the sensitivity of his model to small changes in its initial parameters instead of trying to find out why his model was so touchy in the first place. It, and Chaos Theory, have their place in certain fields but balls in a bag is not one of them. I am certainly not dismissing the theory nor the views of any other poster.

Mail, innit.

Interestingly (yes, really) you can influence the choice of ball by something such as temperature or surface finish. A warmer ball is more likely to be chosen than a cold one, say.

I'm not saying they were predetermined, just that the outcome of the match and the outcome of the draw are two totally unconnected events. The outcome of the draw (sequence of balls) was just as likely no matter who won or drew.

Badly worded.

The lottery balls are selected by machine, there is only a very slight human input which could equally be performed by machine.

I was using 'significant' in the statistical sense, that is whether the spread of results shows a bias to any particular number or set of numbers.