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Although I have every confidence in the rationale behind Longsight's 1964 revelation about " the tendency for clubs to draw several matches after ending a long run without a draw " just in case this method fails me, I've been continuing my research which of course knows no bounds. Next up is this little nugget from the Aberdeen Evening Express of February 22nd, 1956 which reveals " the extraordinary way drawn matches cluster together on the [football pools] coupon ". Describing this phenomenon to be " almost as catching as the measles ", Paul Burden finds it curious " the way one drawn game seems to affect several others immediately below it ". This is top-notch research, and if Paul Burden is still alive 64 years later, he must be a very wealthy man. If he has passed away, presumably his family are enjoying the fruits of his ground-breaking research. I'm not sure how I've missed this, since I've always considered matches to b...