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- The Hot Hand Had a Bug
For thirty years the science said streaks were an illusion. Then someone found the error in the counting.
- The Same Way, Every Time
England lost the way England always loses. The real puzzle isn't why they choke — it's why knowing they choke doesn't stop it.
- The Team That Never Let You Breathe
When two evenly matched sides meet and one dominates completely, individual talent isn't the variable. So where does the surplus come from — and does it transfer to anything outside a football pitch?
- The Game That Outvoted the United Nations
Football has 211 national members to the UN's 193. How a Victorian schoolboy game became the closest thing humans have to a shared language — and what that says about us.
