Bill Edgar
@BillEdgarTimes
@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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How three-day week paved the way for football on Sundays
As clubs were unable to use floodlights for rearranged matches in 1974 they had to come up with an alternative
Tap for Bill Edgar's Deep Dive ⬇️
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League 2 this season:
Wrexham 5, Swindon 5 (Aug)
Grimsby 5, Notts Co 5 (Saturday)
Last time a division had two draws of 5-5 or higher in a season:
1932-33, 2nd tier (Grimsby 5, Preston 5; Grimsby 5, Charlton 5)
Game in Numbers:
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Grimsby Town F.C.
Roy Hodgson, who managed Crystal Palace in this FA Cup third round, was alive at the same time as the player who scored the first FA Cup goal in November 1871.
Game in Numbers:
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Darren Ferguson of @ThePosh the 1st manager with 4 spells of at least 1 year at same league club.
Game in Numbers:
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Adrian Durham
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How to remember what year it will be:
92 league clubs, 22 players start a match
92 x 22 = 2024
8 ex-winners will be at Euros next summer, teams will pick 11 players from squad of 23
8 x 11 x 23 = 2024
Game in Numbers:
thetimes.co.uk/article/a-seas…
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Most goals on Boxing Day:
Harry Johnson (Sheff Utd) 13
Harry Hampton (Aston Villa) 10
Harry Kane (Spurs) 10
Charlie Athersmith (Aston Villa) 9
@AlanShearer (Southampton, Blackburn, Newcastle) 9
Robbie Fowler (Liverpool, Leeds, Man City) 9
Xmas football fun:
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Doing some last-minute (or stoppage-time) Christmas shopping? A new football quiz book with more than a thousand questions …
amazon.co.uk/BresBet-Footba…
Jamie Carragher
Fantastic Bernie Slaven interview by @CharlesWalford for Times Sport ahead of Port Vale-Middlesbrough Carabao Cup quarter-final tonight:
thetimes.co.uk/article/fans-r…
Norwich-Ipswich and Sunderland-Newcastle soon to be reacquainted at last, but which pairs of rivals have been kept apart the longest? And in which seasons did clubs enjoy the greatest league superiority over their neighbours? All is revealed:
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⚽️ How Premier League teams are taking throw-ins to next level
In week three of The Trend, Hamzah Khalique-Loonat studies how one of the most under-appreciated set pieces can be utilised to bring gigantic gains
Click below to read ⬇️
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Can’t stop scoring: the three clubs writing new goal-run records
From record-breaking scoring runs to the fall and rise of Cheltenham Town, our resident statistician Bill Edgar picks out the trends from the weekend’s football results
⬇️Read below
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Who are the 14 pairs of players to have played together for 4 league clubs, including one set of twins?
How many have played for both Man Utd/Liverpool, and how many for both Man City/Everton (a huge difference)?
All the answers are here:
thetimes.co.uk/article/how-ge…
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Which pair of league clubs have shared the most players (123)?
Which 4 pairs of clubs have shared the fewest – 1 each (among clubs with 70+ league seasons):
Liverpool + ?
Arsenal + ?
Chelsea + ?
Chelsea + ?
It’s all in here:
thetimes.co.uk/article/how-ge…
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