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Again, you read it here first!

It has happened again only about a month after my article about  Provisional Fifa Rankings   inspired the  likes of the Mirror  and ESPN  who also picked up the story of England's record drop.   Back then I had tweeted this days before the Mirror and ESPN articles on the same subject. @BBCSport @FIFAcom #WorldCup2014 Are England set for their lowest ranking since May 1996 (18 years!)? http://t.co/IRLO2MiPOc — david heaney (@davidheaney1978) July 3, 2014 And now Pinnacle Sports published a very similar article just a few days after my blog post on Poisson Predictions  where I calculated a 57% chance of win for Man Utd.  Their article can be found at  http://www.pinnaclesports.com/online-betting-articles/strategy/soccer/poisson.aspx .   The Poisson Distribution is not ground breaking news, Simeon Denis Poisson first described it back in 1837 and even then it was based on previous work by de Moivre in 1711.  I am also ...