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Football: Best not in the top-100? Stat's a joke.(Sport)

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From: The Mirror (London, England)
Date: 20071113
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Byline: DARREN FULLERTON

ACCORDING to the old adage, statisticians are people who work with numbers, but don't have the personality to be accountants.

Andrew Lang once noted that people "use statistics as a ...

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