Chapter 5 is about winning against the odds. Before the 2015–16 season bookmakers rated Leicester City at 5000–1 to win the Premier League; they won it with 81 points, confirmed on 2 May 2016 when Chelsea came back to draw with Tottenham. In the 1956 FA Cup final, Manchester City’s goalkeeper Bert Trautmann, a former German prisoner of war who had stayed in England, was knocked out in a collision with 15 minutes left, played on as City won 3–1, and learned from an X-ray three days later that his neck was broken. On 16 July 1950 Uruguay beat Brazil 2–1 in front of an official crowd of 173,850 at the Maracanã, a defeat known as the Maracanazo; afterwards Brazil dropped its white shirt, and a 1953 newspaper contest won by illustrator Aldyr Garcia Schlee gave the team its yellow one. At Euro 2004 Greece, at up to 150–1, beat hosts Portugal in the opening match and again in the final. You guess Leicester’s odds, compare the two shirts and vote on whether football is the most unpredictable sport.
25 Football Stories So Crazy They Sound Made Up is a set of true football stories in seven short chapters, each on its own page. Tap the right side of the screen for the next slide and the left side to go back, hold to pause, and use the button at the end of a chapter for the next one. Three parts are written live by AI and labelled: a read of your answers, the Dugout and a what-if scene. The AI is told not to invent facts and can still make mistakes; if it is busy, a hand-written text appears instead and says so.
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