Once we also account for
differences in a raft of other factors — parenting behavior, maternal education, race, and maternal age — the gap shrinks further to around a 4.5 percentile difference.
They also rewrote a
raft of other single - season top - flight records, among them the longest winning sequence
in a season (14), the best start (eight wins), the most away wins (14 by early May), the longest spell without conceding a goal at the start of a season (495 minutes) and the biggest goal -
difference (+76, with three games to go), not to mention the most points and the most wins.
As well as
differences in the basic periods which apply such as, for example, one year
in Spain and 10 years
in France, there are a
raft of different rules governing questions such as what starts and stops the clock for limitation purposes as well as whether courts have discretion to extend those periods.