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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This is the most own-goal-filled season in top-flight history.
Sheff Utd more goals in own net in past 17 PL games than Norwich scored at right end in their last 17 of 2019-20 season
Klopp echoes Shankly
Rodri run goes on
Game in Numbers:
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Almost every conceivable fact and figure on the North London derby:
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Arsenal lead Spurs by 20 wins on head-to-head – yet Spurs were still leading in 1980s
The derby with no half-time break
The Spurs player in 1964 derby who'd left Arsenal the day before
Almost every conceivable fact and figure on the NL derby:
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The PL team who have gone 57 games without a red card.
The English town that produced Poland and Albania international players.
Man City’s dribbling wizard.
Quiz ahead of the Premier League weekend:
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Sheff Utd will have the worst defensive home record (goals per game) by any team over a top-flight season since 1892 even if they keep clean sheets in their last 2 home matches.
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51 players have played in English league title-winning campaigns at 2 clubs (at least 1app)
Only one of those players was ever-present for both clubs
Full list (and a bonus: the 14 players to have won major trophies at 3 English league clubs):
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Clubs who have been champions of every league tier
Arsenal’s FA Cup final-winning scorer who won League Cup with Wolves
The only team yet to have faced a PL pen this season
Quiz ahead of the weekend’s FA Cup/PL matches:
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The figures behind Man City’s absurdly one-sided game v Luton
Liverpool’s home-loss domino effect
Historic Arsenal-Liverpool-Rangers triple defeat
Game in Numbers:
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The last scorer of 20 league goals in a season for each of the 92 league clubs?
The only club with 4 such scorers in one season?
The two players who did it with 3 clubs over 3 years?
Starring roles for David Hirst, Glenn Murray, Jamie Cureton:
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Whose last Liverpool appearance was the 9-0 win over Crystal Palace (their opponents this weekend)?
Which Brentford defender has committed only 3 fouls in his past 38 PL games?
Quiz ahead of the Premier League weekend:
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The quartet to have finished in the top eight of the English top-flight table with 5 different clubs (including Stan Collymore), and the one of those who finished in the top seven each time (Milner can join him this season). Game in Numbers:
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League Two:
Scored most goals: Notts County 83, Stockport 82
Conceded most goals: Notts County 79, Salford 78
Last to do both in a full season: Luton, 2nd tier, 1937-38 (F89, A86)
Game in Numbers
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Man Utd:
Last team to stop Liverpool winning (drew yesterday)
Last team to beat Liverpool (last month)
Last team to stop Liverpool scoring (December)
Game in Numbers
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Most left-footed penalties scored in a PL season:
This season (already): 35
2006-07: 24
The Haaland/Salah/Saka/Havertz/Odegaard/Vieira/Palmer/Madueke/Mbeumo/Sarabia/Paqueta/ Olise/McAtee effect
Game in Numbers
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If the remaining 67 games of the Premier League season all end 0-0, this campaign would still finish with more goals per game than every season from 2000-01 to 2008-09.
Game in Numbers:
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With Man City, Liverpool and Arsenal battling it out, here are the greatest post-war title races featuring at least three teams:
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Most PL goals conceded in opening 4mins at home since May 2022:
Liverpool 7 (only lost 1 of those 7 games)
Arsenal, Brighton, C Palace, Man Utd 3
Game in Numbers
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Man City no 0-0s in 89 games, Arsenal none in 65, then:
Man City 0, Arsenal 0. The 1st 0-0 between top-flight teams each without a goalless draw in previous 65+ games (all comps) since …
Nov 5th 1932: Leicester v Sheff Wed
Game in Numbers
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The unlucky surname for own goals
Longest run of shots without scoring
Man Utd’s lucky charm v Brentford
Quiz ahead of the Premier League’s return
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