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Are you looking for a capital city here, a major city or a tiny little place loosely labelled a city where people are jammed packed in? :)

I think Paris may fit the bill - it's about one hundredth of the size of Scotland with half the population.
 
Because the rules of association football are so old all of the measurements used eg. distance of penalty spot to goal etc. are based on imperial measurements, apart from two which use the metric system - one is the circumferance of the ball, what is the other ?
ps. I mean measurements not weights.
 
colognehornet said:
Because the rules of association football are so old all of the measurements used eg. distance of penalty spot to goal etc. are based on imperial measurements, apart from two which use the metric system - one is the circumferance of the ball, what is the other ?
ps. I mean measurements not weights.
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If you read the laws of the game as issued by FIFA all measurements are given first in metric and then in imperial in brackets.
 
babyhornetdan said:
If you read the laws of the game as issued by FIFA all measurements are given first in metric and then in imperial in brackets.
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Er ... Dan, the imperial measurements came first and the metrical measurements are their equivalents. Take for example the goal dimensions 2.44 metres (8 feet) high and 7.32 metres long (24 feet) the rounded nature of the imperial measurements tells us that they came first. The measurement I am looking for has only ever been in metric.
 
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