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TIL that in 2006, a British football fan placed a £200 bet that Liverpool player Xabi Alonso would have scored a goal from behind the halfway line of the pitch at some point during the season, after he saw it in a dream. Xabi Alonso did score from behind the halfway line and the man won £25,000

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