"We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level."

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The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

— Daniel Finkelstein