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  • I'm talking about it too much but it fascinates me too much

    Games can only be held on Saturday 29th February once every 28-years
    I think I heard this is either our 3rd or we have had 3 previously 
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    I'm talking about it too much but it fascinates me too much

    Games can only be held on Saturday 29th February once every 28-years
    I think I heard this is either our 3rd or we have had 3 previously 
    I put this on the Huddersfield game thread earlier

    More info on FA mentioning 29 Feb games

    https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5e59148515477/leap-day-addicks-charltons-record-on-february-29th
  • edited February 2020
    First time we've played on 29 Feb in my Charlton supporting 25/26 years.

    Can't make this one, but will aim to make the next.
  • edited February 2020
    Next one will be watching players who haven't even been born yet.
  • Millwall beat Charlton in March 1933 but then didn’t beat them for another 35 years.
  • WLWLL

    Charlton have the same form as Liverpool.
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    When new champions are crowned at the end of the season it’ll be the first time in premier league history that Alex Ferguson was won less titles than all other managers together. He‘s been retired 7 years. 13 of the currently 26 premier league years belong to him.

    Hasn’t there been 27 premier league seasons already though? 

    19/20 is the 28th?

    Maths not my strong point, so could be wrong.
    First one was 92/93 so this is the 27th.
    If 92/93 was the first, this is the 28th.
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    When new champions are crowned at the end of the season it’ll be the first time in premier league history that Alex Ferguson was won less titles than all other managers together. He‘s been retired 7 years. 13 of the currently 26 premier league years belong to him.

    Hasn’t there been 27 premier league seasons already though? 

    19/20 is the 28th?

    Maths not my strong point, so could be wrong.
    First one was 92/93 so this is the 27th.
    If 92/93 was the first, this is the 28th.
    Yes, I was wrong, I counted 93 as year zero! 
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  • Norman Whiteside was only 34 when Man United won the treble....... 
  • edited March 2020
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  • I didn't quite believe myself, that's why I deleted the post.
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Norman Whiteside was only 34 when Man United won the treble....... 
    Great fact!  Younger than Peter Schmeichel!
  • September 1st 2001 was the date that car registrations changed, instead of the first letter representing a year it became a 2 digit number, 51 was the first. Also on that day, England played a world cup qualifier in Germany, the score 5-1 
  • I'm talking about it too much but it fascinates me too much

    Games can only be held on Saturday 29th February once every 28-years
    Not quite true.  Because 1900 wasn't a leap year, there would have been a gap longer than 28 years before the days of the week and dates matched up again.  I haven't looked up what the effect was, but it would have meant either less or more than 28 years between such Saturdays.  The same will happen with 2100, 2200 and 2300 not being leap years but we won't be around.  Indeed, the way things are going, the human race may not be around.
  • I'm talking about it too much but it fascinates me too much

    Games can only be held on Saturday 29th February once every 28-years
    Not quite true.  Because 1900 wasn't a leap year, there would have been a gap longer than 28 years before the days of the week and dates matched up again.  I haven't looked up what the effect was, but it would have meant either less or more than 28 years between such Saturdays.  The same will happen with 2100, 2200 and 2300 not being leap years but we won't be around.  Indeed, the way things are going, the human race may not be around.
    And with that I just learnt the 100 year not a leap year/400 years is a leap year thing.
  • cafc375 said:
    September 1st 2001 was the date that car registrations changed, instead of the first letter representing a year it became a 2 digit number, 51 was the first. Also on that day, England played a world cup qualifier in Germany, the score 5-1 
    I hate to be pedantic, but the score was 1-5, not 5-1.
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  • I'm talking about it too much but it fascinates me too much

    Games can only be held on Saturday 29th February once every 28-years
    Not quite true.  Because 1900 wasn't a leap year, there would have been a gap longer than 28 years before the days of the week and dates matched up again.  I haven't looked up what the effect was, but it would have meant either less or more than 28 years between such Saturdays.  The same will happen with 2100, 2200 and 2300 not being leap years but we won't be around.  Indeed, the way things are going, the human race may not be around.
    And with that I just learnt the 100 year not a leap year/400 years is a leap year thing.
    But isn't every 2000 years a "super leap year" with 30 days in Feb? 
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  • edited March 2020
    Cafc43v3r said:
    I'm talking about it too much but it fascinates me too much

    Games can only be held on Saturday 29th February once every 28-years
    Not quite true.  Because 1900 wasn't a leap year, there would have been a gap longer than 28 years before the days of the week and dates matched up again.  I haven't looked up what the effect was, but it would have meant either less or more than 28 years between such Saturdays.  The same will happen with 2100, 2200 and 2300 not being leap years but we won't be around.  Indeed, the way things are going, the human race may not be around.
    And with that I just learnt the 100 year not a leap year/400 years is a leap year thing.
    But isn't every 2000 years a "super leap year" with 30 days in Feb? 
    No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1) Where did you get that idea?

    2) You did live through 2000 so surely you'd have noticed 30 days in Feb, no?

    However, 30th Feb has existed:
    https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html
  • edited March 2020
    Cafc43v3r said:
    I'm talking about it too much but it fascinates me too much

    Games can only be held on Saturday 29th February once every 28-years
    Not quite true.  Because 1900 wasn't a leap year, there would have been a gap longer than 28 years before the days of the week and dates matched up again.  I haven't looked up what the effect was, but it would have meant either less or more than 28 years between such Saturdays.  The same will happen with 2100, 2200 and 2300 not being leap years but we won't be around.  Indeed, the way things are going, the human race may not be around.
    And with that I just learnt the 100 year not a leap year/400 years is a leap year thing.
    But isn't every 2000 years a "super leap year" with 30 days in Feb? 
    No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1) Where did you get that idea?

    2) You did live through 2000 so surely you'd have noticed 30 days in Feb, no?

    However, 30th Feb has existed:
    https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html
    I didn't say which 2000 years did I :wink:

    The year 2000 was only 2000 after a totally arbatory point in time.

    I am sure I have read somewhere that a year is 365 and a quarter days, plus a tiny little bit more.  So about every 2000 years you would have to have an extra day. 
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    I'm talking about it too much but it fascinates me too much

    Games can only be held on Saturday 29th February once every 28-years
    Not quite true.  Because 1900 wasn't a leap year, there would have been a gap longer than 28 years before the days of the week and dates matched up again.  I haven't looked up what the effect was, but it would have meant either less or more than 28 years between such Saturdays.  The same will happen with 2100, 2200 and 2300 not being leap years but we won't be around.  Indeed, the way things are going, the human race may not be around.
    And with that I just learnt the 100 year not a leap year/400 years is a leap year thing.
    But isn't every 2000 years a "super leap year" with 30 days in Feb? 
    No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1) Where did you get that idea?

    2) You did live through 2000 so surely you'd have noticed 30 days in Feb, no?

    However, 30th Feb has existed:
    https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html
    I didn't say which 2000 years did I :wink:

    The year 2000 was only 2000 after a totally arbatory point in time.

    I am sure I have read somewhere that a year is 365 and a quarter days, plus a tiny little bit more.  So about every 2000 years you would have to have an extra day. 
    Actually, it’s 365 and a quarter days but a tiny little bit LESS which is why 3 out of 4 “100 years” don’t have a leap year as mentioned above.
  • In 2002 a match ended 149-0.  Every goal was an own goal.  AS Adama beat Stade Olympique de L'Emyrne in Madagascar.  In protest at some poor decisions from the ref, every time SOE kicked off they kicked the ball into their own net.
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    that was deleted without explanation,outrageous!!!
  • Poor Bert.  What was the survey about?
  • Poor Bert.  What was the survey about?
    Moderation and totalitarianism - A 21st Century phenomenon 
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