Those beyond a certain again will remember Spot The Ball, the competition on the sports pages back in the 80s/90s.   It was an action photo from a football match with the ball missing – you had to mark the picture with an X where you thought the ball was and send it in with your entry fee. If the middle of your X aligned with the middle of the ball, you won the prize.     Except, it wasn’t quite like that. What actually happened was that judges also guessed where th