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Leicester City Football Fluke, The Perfect Promposal, Why We Build Statues

How unlikely was Leicester City鈥檚 win in the English football Premier League. And, why is inviting disabled friends to the school prom trending online and why do we build statues?

At the beginning of the season of the English football Premier League, few people would have been brave enough to predict that Leicester City would finish top. But was it that surprising? Tim Harford speaks for More Or Less to Lord Finkelstein, a political journalist, who has been running his own statistical model to assess the teams in the Premier League, and to James Yorke from the football analytics website Stats Bomb.

Promposals (that is, a prom proposal) have been sweeping the internet recently. But there has been a mixed reaction to some of the videos that have gained the most attention in which students ask their disabled friends to the high school dance. A woman who shared her experiences of pre-marital sex in Pakistan talks about trending on Twitter after she claimed the country made her feel repressed when she later moved to Canada. Plus, an update on the young Afghani who became an internet sensation after he was photographed wearing a Lionel Messi football shirt made from a plastic bag.

For thousands of years and across almost every culture, mankind has erected statues. For some they pay homage to gods, for others they are attempts at immortalising man. Their toppling has become a symbol of regime change. For the Why Factor, Lucy Ash investigates this unique art form that has seemingly never gone out of vogue.

(Photo: Leicester City celebrate with the trophy after winning the Barclays Premier League. Credt: Action Images via Reuters)

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  • Thu 12 May 2016 08:06GMT
  • Thu 12 May 2016 23:06GMT
  • Fri 13 May 2016 01:06GMT

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