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Bill Edgar

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@BillEdgarTimes Football writer for @TheTimes, focusing on stats. Books: Bill Edgar's Quirky Football Quiz Book; Back of the Net – 100 Golden Goals.

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Arthur Rowley scored 54 more English league goals than anyone else yet was arguably not even the most notable goalscorer in his own family. Piece on the 600,000 league goals: thetimes.com/sport/football…

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Fulham’s Leno/Everton’s Pickford set to meet tomorrow with both on runs of 100+ PL starts, the first such PL meeting of keepers since 2012 – that was Liverpool’s Reina v which other Everton keeper? Quiz time: thetimes.com/sport/football… Times Sport Christopher Beesley Gavin Buckland

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Which clubs have played at Wembley the most and least? Who are the 14 of the current 92 league clubs who did not play at the old ground, and the 4 yet to appear at the new one – and the one club that has not played at either? thetimes.com/sport/football… Times Sport

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English clubs have scored 196 goals in European competition this season, the most ever by one nation over a single campaign

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Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall has started 10 away games since joining Chelsea – in 8 countries: England 3 games Switzerland 1 Greece 1 Germany 1 Kazakhstan 1 Denmark 1 Poland 1 Sweden 1

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Southampton: 2025: final visitors to Goodison Park to play Everton 2003: final visitors to which other PL ground (they won 1-0)? West Ham’s Frank McAvennie recorded what top-flight first against Forest in May 1992? FA Cup final/Prem quiz: thetimes.com/sport/football… Times Sport

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Still no top-flight wins for a manager named Simon – Southampton interim manager Simon Rusk (0 wins in 7) is the only top-flight Simon since 1888.

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Crystal Palace are the 1st team since the league’s formation in 1888 to have won the FA Cup by leading from half-time until the final whistle in every match they played in the competition. Numbers column in The Times in print. Times Sport Bruce Millington David Byers

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Jamie Vardy’s 35 top-flight starts this season is the most by a player ending the campaign age 38+ since Tom Finney for Preston in 1959-60.

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Man Utd-Spurs in Europa League final this week. Here are 10 classic all-English ties in Europe, eg: Forest-Liverpool, European Cup Spurs-Wolves, Uefa Cup Southampton-Newcastle, Fairs Cup And the 1st one: Man Utd-Spurs, Cup Winners’ Cup, 1963 thetimes.com/sport/football… Times Sport

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Lowest combined domestic league finishing positions of Euro final opponents: 2025 Europa League 33 (Man Utd 16 Spurs 17 – could improve at best to 14 and 15) 1961 Fairs Cup 24 (Roma 5 Birmingham 19) 1988 Uefa Cup 23 (Leverkusen 8 Espanyol 15) Darren Fletcher

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Tottenham's Ange Postecoglou can tonight become the first manager without a 0-0 draw in his first 100 games of a spell at a league club in all competitions since Bradford City’s Bob Brocklebank from 1961 to 1963.

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Who won 1997 title with Man Utd and was in Villa’s 1981 title-winning squad (but did not play)? Who scored for a record 8 top-flight clubs? Who scored a league hat-trick and FA Cup final winner in same month, both for Arsenal v Southampton? thetimes.com/sport/football… Times Sport

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From “singing winger” Colin Grainger to the much-travelled Steve Bruce – the men who have represented today’s red-and-white-striped Championship play-off finalists Sheff Utd and Sunderland: efl.com/news/2025/may/… EFL

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Everything you need to know on the history of penalty shoot-outs in England. Chelsea have contested the most ... could be another tonight in the Conference League final. Which club has won 11 and lost only 3? Which has won 2 and lost 10? thetimes.com/sport/football… Times Sport

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Lowest-ranked team (116th) to have beaten England? Hat-trick v Luxembourg – but goalless in his other 13 apps? English non-league player who faced England? England v minnows quiz: thetimes.com/sport/football… Times Sport

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England’s first loss to opponents from: Europe: Mar 7, 1874 v Scotland Nth/Cent America: June 29, 1950 v USA South America: May 31, 1953 v Uruguay Oceania: Feb 12, 2003 v Australia Africa: Tonight v Senegal