Barnsley Tyke quakes


In the 2019-20 football season DentonSeismo in collaboration with Sky Bet installed seismic monitoring stations at a number of championship football stadiums in order to monitor the crowd response to home goals.    Whose goal will get the greatest response

Barnsley F.C.






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