Maradona37
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I can understand the confusion as when you're as old as Fati and I are 7 days feels as fast as 7 months.
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Maradona37
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That actually makes no sense, got words mixed up there - you get what I mean. Just proves my point further about losing the plot as you get older.
malvolio
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Loki
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During the press conferece against Getafe, a journalist gave Flick a candy to help with his coughing. Today, Flick gave him a candy back. A candy for a candy!
Messigician
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Who gives a fk
Horatio
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But the 3 matches are “across” 7 day period
Horatio
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nothing to do with intellect.
But I am a master at logic reasoning. Will solve any riddle you give me. Hence I spot shit ]={^ immediately.
Maradona37
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Sunday to Saturday is 6 days in actual time. But if you include Sunday as a day it's 7 days. The issue here is that Sunday is the first day in that we are existing on the Sunday, but the first full day of 24 hours doesn't lapse until the Monday.
But I agree it's awkward and I have thought about it myself. Mainly when I try to get the number of days calculated between two points on those websites that do that sort of thing.
Birdy
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It's two different meanings that can get conflated.
1) In the first meaning you count the games found within a certain period, and the 'in' used in the expression '3 games in 6 days' means 'within' or 'across' (as Horatio says) the indicated period.
Then, the period is defined by nominal days (established by name, like Sunday Monday, etc.), with the count starting with the fist full day, Sunday, where the first game is found. You have to take each day as a whole in this case, and that's why you indicate a 7-day period
2) On the contrary, the second meaning denotes timespan elapsed from a certain start-moment (the first kick-off) until another end-moment (last whistle of last game). Here it's the duration in between moments that is important, whether you count it in days or hours. Hence, the meaning of 'day' changes compared to the case above: the '1st day' is the 1st 24-hour span completed since the first kick-off, and it is not a nominal day, but an actual duration completed. That makes it a 6-day (and a bit) FROM beginning TO end.
PS: We could just stick to what really matters: the duration of rest/training in between games, which currently is more or less 72 hours between end of a game and the start of another
Maradona37
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Bear in mind too that - while playing later than the previous game seems like an advantage - it means less rest before the next game as well.
Maradona37
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Maradona37
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The big question is how many days will the psychological edge last? And is that calendar time or real time?
Birdy
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It will last until Madrid starts playing against Atleti. They will be 7 points behind for almost 24 hours.
Then if they lose they will still be 7 points behind, and if they draw they will be 6!
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