Nicklas Bendtner has switched to number 52
38 comments August 12th, 2009
Technically, I’m on holiday, but I had to drop back in to report on this extraordinary news: Nicklas Bendtner has, without explanation, doubled his squad number from 26 to 52. Nick says:
“The new season’s almost here, and along with the rest of the players I’m really excited and believe it can be a really special one for everyone associated with the Club.” said Bendtner.Â
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Before it starts I wanted to change my squad number from 26 which I’ve obviously had for a number of seasons now. I chose to move to 52 because it’s a special number to me personally, and I hope that it brings me good luck for the new season.
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I appreciate that a good number of fans have bought their kits for 2009/10 already with names and numbers printed up so I’d like to personally cover the cost of replacing anyone’s shirt that has my previous number. It means a lot to see supporters wearing your name and number, and I want to ensure people aren’t inconvenienced by the change.”
I know a lot of you will be wondering why he made the change. Well, I believe it’s because 52 is an untouchable number, since it is never the sum of proper divisors of any number, and it is a noncototient since it is never the answer to the equation x – φ(x).
Simples. Till next time.
