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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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