Yes appaently Watford have done the highest number of nutmegs in the prem Watford: Total nutmegs – 36 Miles ahead of second-placed Wolves (24). Emmanuel Dennis has more or the same number of nutmegs as eight teams do as a whole.
‘Panna’ is the preferred term by kids these days. Is that ‘cream’ in Italian? Or is it Sranan Tongo (from Suriname) meaning ‘little gate’ (although apparently not in any dictionary of that language)? Or there’s ‘forehead’ in Swedish, as in perhaps? I don’t know the etymology, in short!
When I was coaching juniors, panna and nutmeg were really two different things. The former was a 1v1 practise game played in a confined area, used mainly to increase the ability of players to shield the ball from opponents as well as put into practice ball control learned during Coerver drills. The games were quick - first to score won and stayed on against the next opponent. A nutmeg was simply one strategy used to get past the opponent and score. Like you though, I've no idea where the names came from...
Which machine - a world first - was put together using copper pipes and a second hand tube in the 1970s?
Refusing to believe that Boris Johnson arrived as a result of any sort of love-making, I’m guessing it is some type of artificial inseminator. But then the date’s wrong. Dang.
That's the one - the world's first full body MRI scanner. Built by researchers from Aberdeen University and first used at Aberdeen RI in 1980 on a patient with terminal cancer, it's now on display at Aberdeen RI. Over to you.
