@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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Brighton are the 1st English top-flight team to play 5 consecutive away games where all are at least 250 miles from home:
Oct 22: Jablonec (a)
Oct 25: Liverpool (a)
Oct 28: Man City (a)
Oct 31: Man City (a)
Nov 5: Getafe (a)
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The AI takeover continues…
Saturday was the 1st day in top-flight history with two AI-initial scorers:
Alexander Isak (for Liverpool v Brentford)
Alex Iwobi (for Fulham v Hull)
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There have been 3 Premier League cases this season of a team winning by 4 or more goals to 0:
BRIGHTON 5 Crystal Palace 0
Coventry 0 BRIGHTON 5
BRIGHTON 4 Aston Villa 0
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Current league leaders:
Prem: Man CITY
Champ: Swansea CITY
Lge 1: Bradford CITY
Lge 2: Salford CITY
There has never been a season where 4 teams with the same suffix finished top of their divisions.
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Tottenham league position in top flight since 1964:
Days top of table: 161
Days bottom of table: 194
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English players with most goals across big-five leagues, Champions League and England team since 2014-15:
Harry Kane 460
Jamie Vardy 161
Raheem Sterling 159
Numbers column:
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9 goals but no Champions League points for Italian clubs this week:
INTER 3 Bruges 4
ROMA 3 Real Madrid 4
Feyenoord 3 COMO 2
Villarreal 3 NAPOLI 1
Proportion of fans who've never seen club win title (assumes fans follow from age 5; and fans mirror age spread of pop.)
Villa 61% (last won 1981)
Spurs 87% (1961)
S'land 99.84% (1936)
Newcastle 99.998% (1927)
(All in top 10 for ave. league place finish)
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Ipswich (beat Fulham 2-1 at the weekend):
Manager: O’Neil
Scorers: O’Shea, Ouattara
This was the 1st case of 2 players with an O surname scoring for an O manager in a match in any division since the league’s formation in 1888.
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From the start of Man City’s offending period till the verdict was finally announced:
City played 1 in 6 of all games in their history.
Recorded 1 in 4 of all their wins.
Registered 1 in 3 of all their wins by 4+ goals.
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Coventry v Newcastle:
Who scored nine goals in his first five games for Newcastle in 1989 and ten in his first six appearances for Coventry in 1992?
A Darren Jackson
B Billy Rafferty
C Darren Huckerby
D Micky Quinn
Liverpool v Man City:
When Liverpool won at home to City in April 1977 – in a season when these teams finished first and second in the table respectively – the two players wearing No7 shared a surname. What was it?
A Case
B Keegan
C Heighway
D Toshack
Hull v Everton:
Which Hull-born Everton player helped England beat Germany at Euro 2000 and later made 197 appearances for his home-town club?
A David Unsworth
B Phil Jagielka
C Nick Barmby
D Andy Hinchcliffe
Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest:
Which team conceded four goals in defeat to Nottingham Forest in the 1989 Full Members’ Cup final at Wembley and also let in four goals when losing to Palace in the 1991 final at the same venue?
A Luton
B Everton
C Southampton
D Chelsea