Q: What at half-time in a football match enters the field of
play and does not leave until the match is finished? If the
game is played on a Saturday it leaves directly afterwards, but
if the game is played midweek it does not leave until the
following day. This only happens in the Premiership and not
in Scotland or the Nationwide league.
A: Two possible answers at the moment: (a) The referee; (b)
Players' urine samples.
(a) I know that this answer is incredibly irritating. It hinges on the supposed fact that for midweek games, Premiership referees get put up in a hotel after the game, whilst Nationwide and Scottish referees just go home. I have no idea whether this is true or not.
(b) Mark Hay pointed out this possible answer. The important part this time is the point at which urine samples leave the ground for analysis, this being after the game on a Saturday but the following day for a midweek match. The urine sample obviously enters the field of play at half-time and leaves at the end of the game in the body of the player (although this assumes that he's not involved in a second-half substitution, I guess). It only applies to the Premiership because only the Premiership takes urine samples at games. I shall have to check up on some of this, but it sounds like a better answer than the one in (a).
This question did get a little distorted in the telling, and because of that people came to the conclusion that the whole thing was a hoax, and that there really was no answer at all. In fact, a story went round that it was devised by someone on holiday in Ibiza who wanted to see how far it would travel. Now that story is obviously a hoax because no-one on holiday in Ibiza would be spending their time on that sort of pursuit, or would be in any fit state to remember it once they returned home.
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