Sunday, March 19, 2023
Fathers and sons
Thursday, November 17, 2022
World Cup winners
Sunday, March 06, 2022
$$$
Friday, March 04, 2022
Winners
Only four players in history have won the World Cup, Champions League, Premier League and Club World Cup.
Gerrard Pique, Pedro, Thierry Henry, and N'golo Kante.
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Own goal hat-trick
New Zealand’s Meikayla Moore scored a perfect hat-trick of own goals in the first half against the U.S.
Right foot, header, left foot … then got subbed off at halftime.
Tuesday, February 01, 2022
Little and large
With the signing of Dan Burn, Newcastle now have the Premier League’s tallest outfield player in Burn (6ft 7) and its shortest outfield player in Ryan Fraser (5ft 4)
Sunday, December 26, 2021
Scorers
Man City's 6-3 win over Leicester saw eight different scorers; only Spurs 4-5 Arsenal in November 2004 has seen more different scorers in a single game (excluding own goals) in Premier League history
Friday, October 01, 2021
Scoring in another postcode
Xabi Alonso once shot from one postcode and scored in another.
He was playing for Liverpool at Luton in the FA Cup and scored from his own half … Luton’s ground has 2 postcodes, divided by the halfway line.
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Two games in one day
On November 11, 1987 Mark Hughes played two competitive matches in one day, first for Wales against Czechoslovakia in Prague in a Euro 1988 qualifier, and second, after being flown across the border into Germany, appearing as a substitute for Bayern in their second round cup replay over Borussia Mönchengladbach.
English manager
The first Englishman to manage at a World Cup final was not Alf Ramsey, but George Raynor, eight years earlier with Sweden.
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Spurs
Tottenham Hotspur have become the first team in world football to be top of the league and then be overtaken by the team at the bottom of the league within three games.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Man of the match
Most Man of the Match awards by league, since 2009/10:
Ligue 1 - Zlatan (42)
Serie A - Alejandro Gomez (38)
Bundesliga - Marco Reus (48)
Premier League - Eden Hazard (62)
La Liga - Lionel Messi (222)
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Torres
For 10 days in 2013, Fernando Torres was the holder of the World Cup, European Championships, Champions League and Europa League
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Rossi
Paolo Rossi is the only male player in history to have won the World Cup, WC Golden Ball, WC Golden Boot and Ballon d'Or in the same year.
Clean sheets
Gianluigi Buffon is the first goalkeeper to keep a Champions League clean sheet in four different decades (1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Gilmour
Billy Gilmour was man of the match in his Premier League, FA Cup & Champions League debut matches.
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Hair colour cancels match
A women's university football match in China had to be called off after players were told they were not allowed to have dyed hair, state media report.
The women's teams of Fuzhou and Jimei universities were due to meet for a college league game in the south-eastern Fujian province at the weekend.
Team members from both sides bought black hair dye to correct the problem.
But one Fuzhou player's hair was deemed "not black enough" and the side had to forfeit for having only six players.
Before the match, "multiple players… were rejected from the match for violating a rule which requires that all players do not dye or curl their hair", the national Global Times reports.
Thursday, September 03, 2020
Beckham
Friday, August 21, 2020
Heaviest trophy
At 33lbs, The UEFA Europa League Trophy is the heaviest of all UEFA silverware.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
1966 and all that
Friday, July 24, 2020
Swansea
Swansea City needed a five-goal swing to secure the final Championship play-off spot:
Nottingham Forest 1-4 Stoke
Reading 1-4 Swansea
Sunday, July 05, 2020
Man City
Man City are now closer to the bottom half of the table (22 pts) than they are to the top of the table (23 pts).
They’re second.
Saturday, July 04, 2020
30 years ago today
Thursday, March 26, 2020
The last league still standing
Monday, March 16, 2020
Red cards
Saturday, February 01, 2020
League leader
Liverpool end today 22 points clear of second place in the Premier League table ... the biggest lead any league-leader has ever had at the end of a day in English top-flight history.
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Premier League table of the decade
Man City - 812pts
Man United - 741pts
Chelsea - 734pts
Liverpool - 705pts
Arsenal - 700pts
Spurs - 699pts
Everton - 560pts
West Ham - 403pts
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
MLS expansion fees
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Boufal’s toe
Southampton midfielder Sofiane Boufal suffered a toe injury - running into a kitchen table.
Boufal is a doubt for Saturday's crucial home game with bottom club Watford.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Gibraltar’s leading goalscorer
Lee Casciaro is Gibraltar’s all-time leading goalscorer. He’s scored 3.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Deulofeu heat map
Gerald Deulofeu completed 13 out of 14 passes against Manchester City.
8 of those were from kick-offs after City goals
Sunday, August 25, 2019
VAR takeaway
VAR was introduced to Greece for the first time this weekend and the cameras caught them getting a takeaway delivered during one of the games.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Grealish consecutive losses
Mourinho
Jose Mourinho on who can win the Premiership : "Four teams. Man City, Tottenham, Liverpool and Man City's B team.”
Labels: Mourinho Premiership
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Peter Crouch retires
When asked “what would you be if you weren’t a footballer?” Crouch replied “a virgin.”
Thursday, June 20, 2019
VAR
Venezuela have conceded 5 goals so far at the Copa America. VAR ruled out all of them.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
2018/19 Premiership payments
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Happy Birthday George Best
Sunday, May 19, 2019
La Liga season stats
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Liverpool celebration cake
Monday, April 29, 2019
On this day 1996
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Champagne
The winners of this year’s FA Cup will not be awarded a case of champagne out of respect for players’ religious beliefs.
Monday, February 18, 2019
Goals against the top 6 Premiership teams
Aguero (52)
Vardy (33)
Van Persie (31)
Cristiano (28)
Kane (23)
Messi (22)
Messi has never played in the Premier League
Sunday, February 17, 2019
The Forbes top 5 highest-paid players per year in the world
Lionel Messi: £65m
Neymar: £56m
Cristiano Ronaldo: £47m
Gareth Bale: £21.7m
Aaron Ramsey: £20.8m
Wednesday, February 06, 2019
OTD 1988
Premiership average attendances this season
Man Utd
74,503
Arsenal
59,907
West Ham
57,398
Man City
54,113
Spurs
54,030
Liverpool
52,781
Newcastle
50,948
Chelsea
40,509
Saturday, February 02, 2019
Burnley fans welcome Crouch
Monday, January 28, 2019
Academy graduates
League goals scored by academy graduates this season:
Man Utd: 20
Arsenal: 3
Chelsea: 3
Liverpool: 1
Man City: 0
Monday, January 21, 2019
Milner red card
James Milner was sent off against Crystal Palace this weekend by Jon Moss, his former Primary school teacher and football coach.
