Ash Die Back and Fergie Time
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This is the first in the new series of the programme. Tim Harford has been busy felling some ash tree statistics. He asks whether the UK could lose 30% of our woodland trees and did the ash die back disease really kill 90% of ash trees in Denmark? Plus, there’s a well established idea that Manchester United get more added time than every other Premier League team. More or Less looks at the numbers behind this so called ‘Fergie Time’. Do Manchester United get more injury time than other top teams when they’re drawing or losing?
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading more or less from the BBC. |
| 0:02.6 | Here's Tim Halford. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello and welcome to a brand new series of more or less. |
| 0:08.6 | Your weekly dose of numbers in the news. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Tim Halford. |
| 0:11.9 | And if listening figures were votes, |
| 0:13.5 | we'd be police and crime commissioners by now. |
| 0:15.6 | This week, we'll be felling a few tree-based statistics |
| 0:21.9 | as we look at ash dieback. |
| 0:23.9 | We'll be revisiting Trumpson to check up on Dibble |
| 0:26.5 | and asking if Manchester United do get a little extra furgie time |
| 0:31.1 | at the end of matches compared to other teams. |
| 0:33.6 | You're sitting there going, OK? |
| 0:34.6 | He has a couple of subs, a couple of girls. |
| 0:35.8 | That's wasted time injury there, you know, three minutes maybe four. |
| 0:38.8 | You find yourself saying five. |
| 0:40.4 | So where the extra minute come from? |
| 0:42.6 | While we've been off air, a mass killer has been found stalking the land. |
| 0:46.9 | Calara ash dieback. |
| 0:48.9 | 20 years after the first confirmed case was recorded in Eastern Europe, |
| 0:53.0 | the disease has arrived in the British countryside. |
| 0:55.8 | It was found in woodlands in East Anglia last month, |
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