AFTER ANY SPORTING CONTEST the fans, pundits and participants gather and ponder the FINE MARGINS. The photo finish, the referee’s mistake, the decisions, gambles and errors made on the field. Those fine margins are more than just talking points: they can make or break careers, catapult clubs to lasting success, and earn or cost many millions of pounds.
There are, of course, the close-run finishes. Few football fans will forget the way Manchester City won the all the way back in 2012. City had not won the title for 44
