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2009-10 Premier League season by the numbers

Bill Edgar

6
Premier League teams who have been in the fourth tier during Sir Alex Ferguson's time at Manchester United. They are Bolton, Hull, Burnley, Fulham, Wigan, Wolves.

40
Percentage of Premier League clubs based in the North West in 2009-10 - eight out of 20.

4
A fourth successive title for Manchester United would be an English record.

380
Premier League games in a season - 138 of them (36 per cent) televised live.

552
Games in each of the Championship, League One and League Two.

Weekend in numbers: Cristiano Ronaldo's wallet v Roman Abramovich's

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550: Years Cristiano Ronaldo would need to play for Real Madrid at initial wage to acquire Roman Abramovich’s wealth

12: Barclays Premier League clubs who are between 750-1 and 7,500-1 with bookmakers to win the title next season

11: Players signed by Manchester City for at least £8 million in past 23 months — five of them before Arab owners arrived

19: Africans at Portsmouth since start of 2004-05 season — when Aaron Mokoena arrives from Blackburn

6ft 6in: Height of Matthew Booth, of South Africa, at least 5in taller than the other 21 players in Confederations Cup game v Iraq yesterday

England off to a record-breaking start

Bill Edgar

26: Years since England previously scored at least three goals in three successive away qualifying matches

3: Previous best sequence of wins for England at the start of a World Cup qualifying campaign

0: Goals conceded by Australia in six matches (four wins and two draws) that have secured their World Cup place

7: Consecutive World Cups to have been reached by South Korea after their qualification at the weekend

4: Successive 1-1 draws for Ireland, three of them in World Cup qualifiers

Foreign managers are serving Chelsea well

 

Bill Edgar

2: Previous yellow-shirted FA Cup Final winners since 1980 (Tottenham in 1982 replay; Liverpool in 2001).

4: Of the seven foreign FA Cup-winning managers, four have been at Chelsea: Gullit, Vialli, Mourinho and Hiddink

4: Matches in which Chelsea came from behind in FA Cup run (against Southend, Watford, Arsenal, Everton)

3: Chelsea revivals to win domestic cup final in five years — also League Cup v Liverpool (2005), v Arsenal (2007)

5: Successive seasons in which team who knocked Middlesbrough out of the FA Cup finished as runners-up

Bill Edgar's fiendish Friday quiz

Answers below

1. Which two Premier League clubs met five times in 12 weeks this season around the turn of the year?

A Hull City and Newcastle United
B Blackburn Rovers and Sunderland
C Wigan Athletic and Tottenham Hotspur

2. Six Premier League teams had something significant to play for on the last day of the season (to avoid relegation or to qualify for the Europa League). How many points did they win in total?

A 0
B 1
C 18

3. In which year was the 100th FA Cup final played?

A 1971
B 1976
C 1981

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question: Which team beat Sutton United 8-0 in the FA Cup fourth round in 1988-89 after the non-league club had eliminated top-flight Coventry City in the previous round?

Return tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday I asked you: Which was the only season in which the top flight had an odd number of clubs?

Answer: 1987-88. There were 21, as a halfway house in the change from 22 to 20 clubs. 

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia quiz

Question: Which was the only season in which the top flight had an odd number of clubs?

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Yesterday I asked you: Who scored a penalty on the last day of the 2006-07 Premier League season to relegate a team for whom he had played for the first half of that season?

Answer: David Unsworth. His penalty for Wigan earned them a 2-1 victory away to Sheffield United to relegate their opponents – otherwise Wigan would have gone down.

 

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question: Who scored a penalty on the last day of the 2006-07 Premier League season to relegate a team for whom he had played for the first half of that season?

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Yesterday I asked you: Aside from shoot-outs, which team have supplied the past three players to score a penalty in the FA Cup final?

Answer: Manchester United. Arnold Muhren in the 1983 replay against Brighton and Hove Albion, Eric Cantona in 1994 against Chelsea (he scored two penalties) and Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2004 against Millwall.

Heroes to zeros: Anderson and Evra are firing blanks

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38: Pep Guardiola would be the third-youngest coach to win European Cup; Sir Alex Ferguson became second-oldest last year at 66.

8: United trophies in two years if they win (two league titles, two European Cups, two Community Shields, one League Cup, one Club World Cup.

9: United’s goalless draws in all competitions this season; they have also won 14 games 1-0.

73: United games for Anderson, who has not scored for them; Patrice Evra has no goals in past 98 matches for the club.

2: Barcelona’s wins in past eight games in all competitions, compared with seven in eight for United.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question: Aside from shoot-outs, which team have supplied the past three players to score a penalty in the FA Cup final?

Return tomorrow for the answer.