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Thanks Fiction Factor for you help. You explained it well on the above thread.
I did not know the list of questions only displayed one months worth of questions. In the case of the football, that was just 18 questions, not even a full rack. It may be that I usually go in more popular sections that have hundreds of questions a month and the 1 month only rule has been in operation for years. But I have only just become aware of it.
Now that I am aware of it, it is not a problem.