The success of football teams wearing red shirts – including Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest – is no coincidence according to academics.
Their findings suggest that simply wearing a red shirt has given football teams an advantage, thanks to our deep-rooted biological response to the colour.
The research, by the University of Plymouth and Durham University, has been published in the J
ournal of Sports Sciences.
Madams mistakeA "provocatively dressed'' brothel madam was delighted when she answered the door to a posse of burly men, a court has heard.
But seconds after inviting them into her thriving bordello with a "Come in darlings'', Edilmar Butler realised her mistake... they were all policemen. The 39-year-old, of Denmark Close, Luton, pleaded guilty at London's Southwark Crown Court to one count of managing a brothel and was given a nine-month suspended prison sentence, 250 hours' unpaid community work and a £873 fine.
Fat chanceA 47-stone Mexican who arranged to go out on his first date in years, to celebrate his success in shedding 31st on a diet, was foiled when his transport broke down. Manuel Uribe had been carried from his home on a forklift and put on a flatbed truck big enough to haul him and his bed to a picnic with his girlfriend.
But when the awning protecting him from the sun snapped, he became worried and his blood pressure dropped so much doctors advised him not to go on.
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