Bill Edgar's fiendishly difficult Friday football quiz

It's time to find out how you did in Bill Edgar's now-infamous Friday football quiz. Score one point for a correct answer and consider yourself bordering on football genius if you got eight or more.

The answers are down at the bottom of the page, where, coincidentally, you will also find the solution to Thursday's trivia question.

Question One: Arsenal’s match against Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday was the 25th game between English teams in European competition. How many goals per game have they produced? 

(A) 1.52
(B) 2.02
(C) 2.52

Question Two: What was unusual about the meeting between Stoke City and York City in November 1998?

(A) The managers were brothers
(B) A player was sent off for two fouls on his brother 
(C) The captains were brothers

Question Three: In the 11 Uefa Cup finals from 1978 to 1988, none of the 22 finalists were Italian. But in the next 11 Uefa Cup finals from 1989 to 1999, how many of the 22 finalists were Italian?

(A) 2
(B) 10
(C) 14

Question Four: When West Ham United “won the World Cup” in 1966 for England – whose team in the final featured Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst, the Upton Park trio – what top-flight position had the club achieved in the season just finished?

(A) 3rd
(B) 6th
(C) 12th

Question Five: Which Premier League team has scored six and seven in different matches in all competitions this season but never four or five?

(A) Everton
(B) Tottenham Hotspur
(C) Portsmouth

Question Six: Which team have recorded the most goalless draws in the Premier League this season before this weekend?

(A) Chelsea
(B) Portsmouth
(C) Bolton Wanderers

Question Seven: Last week Austria lost 4-3 to Holland in Vienna. Which country did Austria beat 4-3 in Vienna on June 13, 1979?

(A) West Germany
(B) Italy
(C) England

Question Eight: Lyons are on course for their seventh successive French league title. Prior to their run, in which year was the title last won by the reigning champions?

(A) 1988
(B) 1992
(C) 1996

Question Nine: How many Englishmen have played for Real Madrid in the final of the European Cup or Champions League?

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

Question Ten: Which team among the Premier League’s big four (Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal) have the worst goal difference over the last ten minutes of league games this season?

(A) Chelsea
(B) Liverpool
(C) Arsenal

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ANSWERS

Question One: (A) 1.52. Only once has a team exceeded two goals – Manchester United, in a 4-1 win at home to Tottenham Hotspur in the Cup Winners’ Cup of 1963-64.

Question Two: (A) The managers were brothers. Brian Little, of Stoke; Alan Little, of York.

Question Three: (C) 14. Four of the finals had two Italian teams.

Question Four (C) 12th.

Question Five: (A) Everton. 7-1 at home to Sunderland in the league; 6-1 at home to Brann in the Uefa Cup.

Question Six (B) Portsmouth. All five at home: against Arsenal, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City and West Ham United.

Question Seven (C) England.

Question Eight: (B) 1992. Marseilles won in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992 (they were stripped of the 1993 title because of match-fixing).

Question Nine: (A) 2. Lawrie Cunningham in the 1-0 defeat by Liverpool in 1981; Steve McManaman in the 3-0 win over Valencia in 2000 and also in the 2-1 victory against Bayer Leverkusen in 2002.

Question Ten: (A) Chelsea. Manchester United’s goal difference in that period of the game is plus 14, Arsenal’s is plus 10, Liverpool’s plus nine and Chelsea’s minus one.

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And on Thursday we asked you - Which two managers faced each other in an FA Cup Final in the 1970s having also been on opposite sides as players in an FA Cup Final in the 1950s?

Answer – Bob Stokoe and Don Revie. Stokoe’s Newcastle United beat Manchester City in 1955; Stokoe’s Sunderland beat Revie’s Leeds United in 1973.