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Great video. As you said towards the start - luck, chance, and fine margins are rarely addressed or contemplated when it comes to sport discussion. But these factors are enormously significant. You mentioned the best team not always winning competition/cup football, I would argue it can be the same with league football over 38 games. Many fans struggle with this idea, they think whoever has the most points over 38 games means they were consistently the best (often true) and therefore how could another team be better? That can be a comforting idea, but it is false. I often think about the butterfly effect in sport and how differently teams/eras would be viewed if miniscule details went the other way. I think of all the tiny details and circumstances that had to happen for Man United to win their treble and how close they were to winning nothing. I understand why people don't dwell on it, but the impact of luck should not be discarded.
Thanks for the comment, mate. Yes, I completely agree. Perhaps I didn’t articulate myself well enough in the video. Luck is certainly a factor in league football as well; it’s often massively overlooked when one team finishes marginally ahead of another. It’s not a sexy topic and we want to believe that decisions “even themselves out” over the course of the season, but that’s never the case.
