There's 23 people on the pitch at kick-off...

[Bearsdenloyal]

Great stat.

Had a quick look at our squad against PSV's as an example and Yilmaz has the same birthday as the PSV reserve goalie!

But that is squad vs squad not team vs team.

 

[Brant Hurley]

Birthday problem - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

For anyone who was like me and sure the OP was talking nonsense

Wouldn't have believed 50%, absent your Wiki link explanation.

 

[islalewis]

Much easier to write F off / what a load of shite, than do the maths, I suppose!

 

[RWB92]

Two QOTS players playing last have the same birthday

The last old firm we played both Bassey and the Carter-Vickers have the same birthday.

Productive morning in work

 

[Peter_OHanrahahanrahan]

I'm doubting that one!

It’s true. The number of possible arrangements of 52 cards (52 x 51 x 50 x….x 3 x 2 x 1) is so unimaginably huge that the chance of the same combination ever repeating before the end of the universe is essentially zero.

It would be the equivalent of winning the lottery trillions upon trillions of times over in consecutive weeks.

 

[Wang]

The key info:


With 23 individuals, there are (23 × 22) / 2 = 253 pairs to consider, much more than half the number of days in a year.

 

[Tailwind]

There's 23 people on the pitch at kick-off...

.... and the tims know the religious beliefs of every one

 

[Forfar_Bear]

Bet you’re popular at a party

I bet he's surrounded by birds with all his excellent facts

 

[Kraken]

I'm doubting that one!

Remarkably, there are more ways to shuffle a deck of 52 cards than there are atoms on earth. It’s insane.