Are Man Utd a one-man team?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
More or Less creates the Alternative Premier League, with lead scorer goals chalked off to work out whether it’s true that Van Persie’s really single-handedly won Manchester United’s the League? And would Tottenham be challenging for a Champions League spot without Gareth Bale’s goals? And how much bite has Luis Suarez’s contribution given Liverpool’s season? There are surprises, and one player really stands out as player of the season. Can you guess who it is? And, as an Italian Court overturns the acquittal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, accused of killing student Meredith Kercher, mathematician and author of Math on Trial, Coralie Colmez, argues that one judge in the case failed to understand some of the probabilities attached to the forensic evidence – and, in doing so, has missed an opportunity to get to the truth of the matter.
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| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Ruth Alexander and here's... |
| 0:18.0 | Ben Carter. |
| 0:19.0 | Football fans are often accusing rival sides of being one-man teams. |
| 0:24.0 | The implication being that the club spent vast sums of money on one star player |
| 0:29.0 | who drives the team up the table. |
| 0:31.0 | But is there really anything in this? |
| 0:33.0 | Ben, you're a Manchester United fan. |
| 0:35.0 | Your side were a one-man team this season, weren't they? |
| 0:38.0 | No. |
| 0:39.0 | But that's not what the manager of your big rivals Manchester City reckons. |
| 0:42.0 | True. At the beginning of the season, Roberto Mancini said, |
| 0:45.0 | we would win the title back because we'd signed Striker Robin Van Persi from Arsenal. |
| 0:50.0 | And you have, indeed, just won the league. |
| 0:52.0 | Yes, Van Persi scored 24 goals and all, |
| 0:55.0 | and it was his hat trick that clinched the title. |
| 0:58.0 | But you know, United would still be top of the table, |
| 1:01.0 | even if Van Persi hadn't scored any goals. |
| 1:04.0 | But I think a man United fan would say that, wouldn't you? |
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