Bill Edgar's Friday football quiz

How well do you know your football? Find out by trying your hand at Bill Edgar's fiendish Friday quiz. You have suffered enough, scroll down the page for the answers.

Question One: For 22 consecutive seasons up to and including 2002-03, at least one of Liverpool and Manchester finished in the top two of the top flight. How many times did both finish in the top two in that period?

A) 1
B) 6
C) 11

Question Two: Which country holds the longest undefeated run against England at present in terms of games played?

A) Brazil
B) Sweden
C) Romania

Question Three: How many present Championship clubs have never played in the top flight?

A) 0
B) 2
C) 4

Question Four: How many England-based players collected European championship winners’ medals in 2004?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3

Question Five: How many players named David Jones have played league football since the Second World War?

A) 18
B) 13
C) 8

Question Six: How many former Premier League players have appeared for Leeds United in League One this season?

A) 2
B) 8
C) 14

Question Seven: Which two teams have scored seven goals in a Premier League match this season?

A) Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur
B) Portsmouth and Everton
C) Liverpool and Portsmouth

Question Eight: At which ground did Manchester United face St Etienne in the home leg of their Cup Winners’ Cup tie in October 1977?
A) Home Park, Plymouth,
B) Ashton Gate, Bristol City
C) Fratton Park, Portsmouth

Question Nine: Which three League Two clubs have managers whose names rhyme?

A) Darlington, Hereford United and Stockport County.
B) Brentford, Rotherham United and Wrexham.
C) Bury, Dagenham & Redbridge and Rochdale.

Question Ten: How many different clubs have won the Portuguese league during the past 60 years?

A) 3
B) 4
C) 5

Remember, from Monday to Thursday we also throw a less strenuous trivia teaser your way.

Yesterday we asked you - On September 10, 1982, two players in separate matches achieved a combined scoring feat that had not occurred in the league for 18 years. Seven weeks later, on October 29, the same thing happened. What was the feat?

Answer – Two players scored at least five goals in the English league on the same day. On September 10, Simon Garner scored five (in Blackburn Rovers 5, Derby County 1) and Tony Caldwell scored five (in Bolton Wanderers 8, Walsall 1). On October 29, Ian Rush scored five (in Liverpool 6, Luton Town 0) and Tony Woodcock scored five (in Aston Villa 2, Arsenal 6).

THE ANSWERS

Question One: (A) 1. In 1987-88, Liverpool were first and United second.

Question Two: (B) Sweden. They have not lost in 12 games against England (eight have been draws). Brazil and Romania are both unbeaten in seven matches against England.

Question Three: (C) 4. Plymouth Argyle, Hull City, Colchester United and Scunthorpe United.

Question Four: (B) 2. Stelios Giannakopoulos, of Bolton Wanderers, and Nikos Dabizas, of Leicester City.

Question Five: (A) 18. The most recent is the present Derby County midfield player.

Question Six: (C) 14. They are: Wayne Andrews, Jamie Clapham, Jonathon Douglas, Tore Andre Flo, Matt Heath, Paul Huntington, Darren Kenton, Neil Kilkenny, Radostin Kishishev, Eddie Lewis, Lubomir Michalik, David Prutton, Frazer Richardson and Alan Thompson.

Question Seven: (B) Portsmouth and Everton. Portsmouth beat Reading 7-4 at home; Everton beat Sunderland 7-1 at home.

Question Eight: (A) Home Park, Plymouth. Uefa ordered United to play the game at least 300 kilometres from Old Trafford as a punishment for crowd trouble involving their supporters at the first leg in France.

Question Nine: (C) Bury (Alan Knill), Dagenham & Redbridge (John Still) and Rochdale (Keith Hill).

Question Ten: (B) 4. Benfica, Porto, Sporting and Boavista.

Comments

[Bill Edgar]

Yes Jason, you are right, the answer is indeed three (Liverpool in 2001). I apologised on the comments section of that piece...

[Jason Merry]

On a previous Friday quiz (1st Feb 08 ?) you asked the following question :-

Question Ten: How many times has one club won the FA Cup and League Cup in
the same season?

(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4

You gave the answer as (A) 2, Arsenal and Chelsea. We believe the answer to be 3, with Liverpool being the other team in 2001 or 2002 season.

Any comments ?