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Top ten FA Cup Final underdogs

1891: Blackburn Rovers

Result: Blackburn 3, Notts County 1

Rovers had lost 7-1 at home to Notts County in the league just one week before the final, albeit with a weakened team, yet they beat the same opponents after moving 3-0 ahead on the half hour.

1901: Tottenham Hotspur

Result: Tottenham 3, Sheffield United 1 (after 2-2 draw)

Tottenham were members of the Southern League yet, after trailing at half-time in the replay, they stormed back to defeat their top-division opponents.

1936: Sheffield United

Result: Arsenal 1, Sheffield United 0

Arsenal had won three successive league titles from 1933 to 1935 while Sheffield United were in the second tier but it was a surprisingly close game.

1949: Leicester City

Result: Wolverhampton Wanderers 3, Leicester 1

Leicester had only just escaped relegation from the second tier and they succumbed to one of the country’s strongest clubs. Sammy Smyth scored Wolves’ third goal after a 50-yard dribble that took him past three opponents.

1957: Aston Villa

Result: Aston Villa 2, Manchester United 1

United won the title by a mile that season but they could not secure the Double against their mid-table opponents, who benefited from an early injury to Ray Wood, the United goalkeeper, in the days before substitutes were allowed.   

1973: Sunderland

Result: Sunderland 1, Leeds United 0

Sunderland had failed by a distance to gain promotion to the top flight while Leeds had been one of Europe’s greatest teams for many years. But Ian Porterfield’s first half goal produced arguably the greatest FA Cup Final surprise.   

1976: Southampton

Result: Southampton 1, Manchester United 0

United just missed out on the title while Southampton pursued promotion to the top flight in vain. But Bobby Stokes scored the game’s only goal for Southampton eight minutes from time.

1982: Queens Park Rangers

Result: Tottenham Hotspur 1, Queens Park Rangers 0 (after 1-1 draw)

Tottenham finished fourth in the top division while QPR could not escape from the second tier, but the higher-ranked team prevailed only via a penalty by Glenn Hoddle in a replay.

1992: Sunderland

Result: Liverpool 2, Sunderland 0

Liverpool had begun their decline from perennial title challengers but they were still hot favourites against a team that finished eighteenth in the second tier. Sunderland were beaten by second-half goals from Michael Thomas and Ian Rush.

2004: Millwall

Result: Manchester United 3, Millwall 0

Dennis Wise’s team had finished tenth in the second tier and they were completely outclassed by a United side for whom Ruud van Nistelrooy scored twice.

BILL EDGAR

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question: Name the manager of a Premier League club in the season just finished who was once fined as a player for insulting a policeman at the end of a match.

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Who were the last team to reach a double-figure goal tally in Europe’s senior club competition?

Answer: Liverpool. They beat Oulu, of Finland, 10-1 at Anfield in the European Cup first round in 1980-81.

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia question

Question: Who were the last team to reach a double-figure goal tally in Europe’s senior club competition?

You'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out the answer.

Yesterday we asked: In 1953 which two clubs became the first to have faced each other one hundred times in the league?

Answer: Aston Villa and Sunderland.

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question: In 1953 which two clubs became the first to have faced each other one hundred times in the league?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Who are the only two players to appear in the Premier League this season who share the same first and second name?

Answer: Michael Johnson - the Derby County central defender and the Manchester City central midfield player.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question – Who are the only two players to appear in the Premier League this season who share the same first and second name?

Bill Edgar's Weekend in Numbers

1-100: Fulham’s odds for the drop when trailing 2-0 at half-time away to Manchester City a fortnight ago.

9: Years since a side last scored eight or more in the top flight — Newcastle United beating Sheffield Wednesday 8-0.

18-17: Liverpool’s league title lead over Manchester United, from 18-7 when Premier League began.

100: Fouls by John Carew, the Premier League’s most; Kevin Davies has been top for the past four years.

11: Premier League goals scored from the 80th minute onwards in yesterday’s ten matches.

Bill Edgar's fiendishly difficult Friday football quiz - with the answers

You know the score by now: Bill Edgar popped up on Friday to wreck your weekend by posing ten of the most difficult football questions known to man. Having let you stew for 48 hours he has very kindly popped back to put you out of your misery, so check out the answers - if you need to - which you will find at the bottom of this post.

Remember, also, Bill also teases you daily a trivia question; the answer to his Thursday poser can also be found at the very bottom of this post.

Question One: Lee Cook (Queens Park Rangers to Fulham) and Russell Anderson (Aberdeen to Sunderland) moved for a total of £3.5million in transfer fees last summer. How many combined Premier League appearances have the pair made for their new clubs this season?

(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3

Question Two: Which player supplied the final Premier League goal of last season but has not scored at all in the Premier League this season?

(A) Brynjar Gunnarsson
(B) Luke Moore
(C) Harry Kewell

Question Three: Which Spanish club have fielded players named Geovanni, Giovanni and Giovani dos Santos in the past ten years?

(A) Atletico Madrid
(B) Real Madrid
(C) Barcelona

Question Four: Which is the only country to have won all three main European club trophies in the same season?

(A) England
(B) Italy
(C) Spain

Question Five: How many clubs have spent time in the Premier League (ie in the top flight since 1992) and subsequently had at least one season outside the top two divisions?

(A) 7
(B) 10
(C) 13

Question Six: Five Premier League clubs recorded average attendances of more than 40,000 last season. How many have done so this season?

(A) 5
(B) 6
(C) 8

Question Seven: Which of the 16 countries at this summer’s European championship have beaten England twice at leading tournaments in the past ten years, each time doing so with a winning goal in the 89th minute or later?

(A) Romania
(B) Sweden
(C) Portugal

Question Eight: Who are the only team to have won an FA Cup replay this season from the fourth round onwards?

(A) West Bromwich Albion
(B) Middlesbrough
(C) Liverpool

Question Nine: Rochdale, who have been ever-present members of the fourth tier since 1974, have qualified for the League Two play-offs. How many previous play-off campaigns have they fought in this division?

(A) 1
(B) 7
(C) 8

Question Ten: When Arsenal beat Manchester United on penalties after a 0-0 draw in the 2005 FA Cup Final, it was the first goalless draw in how many FA Cup Final matches, including replays?

(A) 30
(B) 60
(C) 90

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Fiendish Friday quiz, the answers:

Question One: (A) 1 Anderson came on as a 62nd-minute substitute against Wigan Athletic in August.

Question Two: (C) Harry Kewell scored Liverpool’s last-minute equaliser at home to Charlton Athletic from the penalty spot but has not added another goal in his ten league appearances this season.

Question Three: (C) Barcelona. Geovanni has played this season for Manchester City, who are also reported to be interested in signing Giovani dos Santos.

Question Four: (B) Italy. In 1989-90 AC Milan won the European Cup, Sampdoria the Cup Winners' Cup and Juventus the Uefa Cup.

Question Five: (B) 10. They are Barnsley, Bradford City, Leeds United, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Nottingham Forest, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town and Wimbledon (now Milton Keynes Dons). Leicester City will have joined this list in a year’s time.

Question Six: (C) 8. They are Manchester United, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Chelsea and Aston Villa

Question Seven: (A) Romania. They beat England 2-1 at the 1998 World Cup and 3-2 at the 2000 European championship.

Question Eight: (B) Middlesbrough. They beat Sheffield United in the fifth round.

Question Nine: (A) 1. They lost to Rushden & Diamonds in the semi-finals in 2002.

Question Ten: (C) 90. The previous goalless draw had been between Barnsley and West Bromwich Albion in 1912 (Barnsley won the replay 1-0). 

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On Thursday we asked you: Which club, then in the fourth tier, had to apply for re-election to the Football League (they were successful) just six years after playing in the top flight? 

Answer: Northampton Town, in 1971-72.

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question - Which club, then in the fourth tier, had to apply for re-election to the Football League (they were successful) just six years after playing in the top flight? 

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia question

Question – Barcelona have enjoyed the longest current unbroken stretch of participation in European football, which stands at 50 campaigns (the first two of which were the elongated Fairs Cup tournaments of 1955-58 and 1958-60). Which club has the second longest current unbroken stretch?   

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: What do the following years have in common in relation to English clubs in European competition: 1968, 1970, 1971, 1981, 1984?

Answer: They are the five years in which English clubs won two of the main trophies (ie, excluding the Super Cup). 1968: Manchester United (European Cup) and Leeds United (Fairs Cup). 1970: Manchester City (Cup Winners’ Cup) and Arsenal (Fairs Cup). 1971: Chelsea (Cup Winners’ Cup) and Leeds United (Fairs Cup). 1981: Liverpool (European Cup) and Ipswich Town (Uefa Cup). 1984: Liverpool (European Cup) and Tottenham Hotspur (Uefa Cup).

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question: What do the following years have in common in relation to English clubs in European competition: 1968, 1970, 1971, 1981, 1984?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked: Which player scored a winning goal in an FA Cup semi-final in the past 15 years but subsequently played in the United Counties League, five levels below the Football League, when still in his twenties?

Answer: Christopher Wreh. The Liberian striker scored the only goal in Arsenal’s semi-final win over Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1998. Having then played for various other clubs, he joined Buckingham Town in 2004.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question: Which player scored a winning goal in an FA Cup semi-final in the past 15 years but subsequently played in the United Counties League, five levels below the Football League, when still in his twenties?

Bill Edgar's fiendishly-difficult Friday quiz

Another ten of the toughest questions you'll find on football trivia. Scroll to the bottom to read the answers.

Question One: Of the 34 players who have appeared for Derby County in the Premier League this season, how many have also played for a Football League club this season?

(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 14

Question Two: Of the past 16 Champions League semi-final places (over the past four seasons), how many have been taken by English clubs, Barcelona or AC Milan?

(A) 10
(B) 12
(C) 14

Question Three: Cristiano Ronaldo has been fouled 79 times in the Premier League this season before this weekend. How many fouls has the Manchester United player committed himself?

(A) 10
(B) 30
(C) 50

Question Four: Which company was the first to have its name on the shirts of an English professional football team when it sponsored Liverpool in 1978-79?

(A) Hitachi
(B) Crown Paints
(C) Candy

Question Five: Which Manchester City player scored a goal and saved a penalty in a home match against Derby County in April 1991?

(A) David White
(B) Niall Quinn
(C) Colin Hendry

Question Six: Of which club was Brian Little manager when he signed, aptly enough, Bryan Small?

(A) Aston Villa
(B) Stoke City
(C) West Bromwich Albion

Question Seven: Which two Premier League clubs have had the fewest number of league games televised live this season, before this weekend?

(A) Wigan Athletic and Birmingham City
(B) Reading and Derby County
(C) Middlesbrough and Bolton Wanderers

Question Eight: Which league club are in a play-off place going into the last weekend of this season despite having won only three of their final 17 home league matches? 

(A) Bristol City
(B) Watford
(C) Stockport County

Question Nine: Manchester United have not lost a league match by more than one goal since the season before last, 76 games ago. Which team inflicted that defeat?

(A) Middlesbrough
(B) Blackburn Rovers
(C) Chelsea

Question Ten: Wrexham’s relegation from League Two leaves just two Welsh teams in the English league – Cardiff City and Swansea City. When were there last fewer than three Welsh teams in the English league.

(A) 1919-20
(B) 1949-50
(C) 1959-60

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Bill Edgar's weekend in numbers

1 Leicester relegated; West Ham only club never to have won title but also never outside top two tiers

1.76 Second-worst points per game of second-tier champions since 1888 (counting three points for a win)

0.3 Derby County’s points per game ratio - they will have the worst top-flight record since 1888

3 Arsenal defeats in their past 44 league matches, which includes games from last season

5 Changes of division in seven seasons by West Brom - three promotions, two relegations

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question: Chelsea and Liverpool have played in extra-time in a Champions League semi-final for two successive seasons. When was the previous time that a semi-final in Europe’s leading club competition went to extra-time?

Come back tomorrow for the answer and for Bill's infamous and fiendishly-difficult Friday quiz

Yesterday we asked you: Which two English league clubs met in five different competitions between October 1984 and September 1985?

Answer: Everton and Manchester United met in the league, FA Cup, League Cup, Charity Shield and Screensport Super Cup (a competition for the six clubs denied a place in Europe by the post-Heysel ban on English clubs).

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia question

Question: Which two English league clubs met in five different competitions between October 1984 and September 1985?

Come back tomorrow for the answer

Yesterday we asked you: Which league club were in the relegation zone in November but are in the play-off places with one game left, and which other club, in the same division, were in the play-off places in November but are now in danger of relegation?

Answer: Crystal Palace and Coventry City.

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question: – Which league club were in the relegation zone in November but are in the play-off places with one game left, and which other club, in the same division, were in the play-off places in November but are now in danger of relegation?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Which team were beaten to the Scottish league title on goal average when they would have triumphed had goal difference been used to split teams level on points, and then, 21 years later, lost the title on goal difference when they would have prevailed had goal average been the tie-breaker.

Answer: Heart of Midlothian. They were pipped to the title by Kilmarnock in 1965 and by Celtic in 1986.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question: Which team were beaten to the Scottish league title on goal average when they would have triumphed had goal difference been used to split teams level on points, and then, 21 years later, lost the title on goal difference when they would have prevailed had goal average been the tie-breaker.

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Bill Edgar's weekend in numbers

1 Occasions since 1965 that the top two in the top flight have finished level on points (in 1988-89)

9 Close Premier League games out of nine this weekend: five draws and four late winners

205 League Two away wins, only six fewer than home wins with one round of matches left

10 Portsmouth home league games with one or no goals this season — yet they beat Reading 7-4

4 Number of winning goals for Sunderland in stoppage time at home in the league this season

Bill Edgar's fiendishly difficult Friday football quiz

Ten of the toughest football questions known to man, set by the statistical genius that is Bill Edgar. It's Monday, and we are decent sorts here at Times Online, so, as promised, you will find the answers at the bottom of this post to any questions that had you guessing.

Question One: Between which years were teams finishing level on points in the Football League’s three divisions split (in the first instance) by goals scored rather than goal difference.

(A) 1992-1994
(B) 1992-1999
(C) 1992-2003

Question Two: John Arne Riise, of Liverpool, scored a stoppage-time own goal against Chelsea in last week’s Champions League semi-final, first leg, but which German player’s last-minute own goal proved decisive in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final?

(A) Klaus Augenthaler
(B) Jurgen Kohler
(C) Stefan Reuter

Question Three: Which player recorded a Premier League hat-trick in December but has not scored in his past 15 appearances for his club?

(A) Marcus Bent
(B) Mikael Forssell
(C) Dave Kitson

Question Four: Who are the only Premier League team not to have received a red card in the league this season?

(A) Bolton Wanderers
(B) Newcastle United
(C) Liverpool

Question Five: Lincoln City have failed to secure a place in the League Two play-offs. For how many years in succession until now had they appeared (unsuccessfully) in the end-of-season competition?

(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 6

Question Six: A pairing with which country in the 1964 European championship prompted Greece to pull out of the competition?

(A) Albania
(B) Turkey
(C) Cyprus

Question Seven: How many instances have there been of a player scoring four in a Premier League match this season?

(A) 0
(B) 1
(C) 2

Question Eight: How many times have two English league clubs finished dead level in their final table (same points  and same goal average up to and including 1975-76; or same points and same goals scored and conceded since then)?

(A) 2
(B) 6
(C) 26

Question Nine: Which of the following Premier League players has been on the winning side only twice in the past nine club matches in which he has scored this season?

(A) Benjani Mwaruwari 
(B) Roque Santa Cruz
(C) Dimitar Berbatov

Question Ten: Which of the following scorelines has not occurred in the Premier League this season or last season?

(A) 4-3
(B) 5-3
(C) 2-4

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ANSWERS

Question One: (B) 1992-1999.

Question Two: (A) Klaus Augenthaler, for Bayern Munich, away to Red Star Belgrade. His own goal gave Red Star a 2-2 draw after they had won 2-1 in Germany in the first leg.

Question Three: (A) Marcus Bent. He scored a hat-trick for Wigan Athletic against Blackburn Rovers.

Question Four: (A) Bolton Wanderers.

Question Five: (B) 5

Question Six: (A) Albania, because of the two countries’ political rivalry.

Question Seven: (C) 2. Frank Lampard for Chelsea at home to Derby County. Dimitar Berbatov for Tottenham Hotspur at home to Reading.

Question Eight: (B) 6. 1907-08, top division: Blackburn and Woolwich Arsenal. 1952-53, division three north: Chesterfield and Tranmere Rovers. 1953-54, division three south: Bournemouth and Swindon Town. 1954-55, division three south: Brentford and Norwich City. 1956-57, top division: Birmingham City and Chelsea. 1959-60, third tier: Newport County and Port Vale.

Question Nine: (B) Roque Santa Cruz.

Question Ten: (A) 4-3. However, there has been a 3-4: West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur in March 2007.

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On Thursday we asked you: Manchester United’s meeting with Barcelona this week has provoked memories of the two 3-3 draws they played out in the 1998-99 season. United also recorded two 3-3 league draws during one season in the 1980s when those opponents went on to win the English league title. Who were their opponents?

Answer: Aston Villa, in 1980-81.

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question: Manchester United’s meeting with Barcelona this week has provoked memories of the two 3-3 draws they played out in the 1998-99 season. United also recorded two 3-3 league draws during one season in the 1980s when those opponents went on to win the English league title. Who were their opponents?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Which club won a domestic cup in the 1980s having played the lowest-ranked remaining team (at the time of those matches) in each of the four rounds before the final.

Answer: Norwich City, when they won the League Cup in 1985. After seeing off Preston North End (relegated from the third tier that season, but not the lowest-ranked team left) in the second round, they were given the ultimate easy path to the final. They faced the lowest-ranked of the other 31 teams in the third round (Aldershot, the only bottom-division team left), the lowest-ranked of the other 15 teams in the fourth round (Notts County, relegated from the second tier), the lowest ranked of the other seven teams in the quarter-finals (Grimsby Town, the only non-top-flight side left) and the lowest-ranked of the other three teams in the semi-finals (Ipswich Town). In the final they beat a Sunderland side (1-0, via an own goal, naturally) who were relegated that season having finished nine points below Norwich, who also went down.

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia question

Which club won a domestic cup in the 1980s having played the lowest-ranked remaining team (at the time of those matches) in each of the four rounds before the final.

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: When was the last time two league teams finished dead level in their final table?

Answer – 1959-60, third tier: Newport County and Port Vale both collected 46 points from 46 games, scored 80 goals and conceded 79, thus recording the same goal average, which, at the time, was the method of dividing teams who had finished level on points.

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question: When was the last time two league teams finished dead level in their final table?

Check back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Why did Brighton & Hove Albion play in four FA Cup qualifying rounds in the 1932-33 season despite being members of the Third Division South?

Answer: They forgot to apply for exemption from the early stages.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question - Why did Brighton & Hove Albion play in four FA Cup qualifying rounds in the 1932-33 season despite being members of the Third Division South?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Bill Edgar's Weekend in Numbers

11: Aston Villa are the third side since 1992 to score at least 11 goals in the space of two top-flight games

2: League Two sides to clinch promotion led by former Manchester United midfield colleagues

3: Equalisers by Carlos Tévez away for United from 87th minute onwards since February 2

67: Games to be played by Rangers this season — 68 if they reach the Uefa Cup final

6: Goals by Michael Owen in past six Newcastle United league games after four in previous 26

Pre-match Premier League stats

SATURDAY

ARSENAL v READING
Arsenal have drawn their past five home games in all competitions but have lost only one of their past 63 at home, dating back to their Highbury days.

BLACKBURN ROVERS v MANCHESTER UNITED
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in seven consecutive United appearances; he scored in six in a row in November-December and in five in succession in January.

FULHAM v LIVERPOOL
By the end of this month, Liverpool will have played Chelsea as many times (20) in the past four seasons as against Everton in the past ten.

MIDDLESBROUGH v BOLTON WANDERERS
Middlesbrough have let in 30 goals in 16 league games this term with Jonathan Woodgate (now of Tottenham) in the side but just 18 goals in 18 without him.

WEST HAM UNITED v DERBY COUNTY
Derby need five goals and four points from four games just to equal the top-flight’s worst goals and points-per-game hauls since league football began in 1888. 

WIGAN ATHLETIC v TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Darren Bent, Tottenham striker, cost £16.5million from Charlton Athletic – six league goals. Marcus Bent, Wigan striker, on loan from Charlton – seven league goals.

SUNDAY

ASTON VILLA v BIRMINGHAM CITY
Villa will record a higher league finishing position than Birmingham, their great rivals, for the 32nd time in 33 seasons.

MANCHESTER CITY v PORTSMOUTH
City have gained five points at home and 11 away in 2008 having picked up 29 at home and seven away previously this season.

NEWCASTLE UNITED v SUNDERLAND
Alan Smith has scored three goals in his past 109 appearances for Manchester United, Newcastle and England (he started 76 of them).

Bill Edgar's fiendishly-difficult Friday quiz, with the answers

Bill Edgar posed 10 of his typically testing football questions on Friday, hoping to give you something to think about over the weekend. If you missed our quiz, check out the questions below and at the very bottom you will find the answers to any that had you stumped.

Question One: Which top-flight team’s starting line-up for a match in 1984 featured Brooke, Cooke, Crook and Crooks?

A. Norwich City
B. Stoke City
C. Tottenham Hotspur

Question Two: How many European campaigns have Cardiff City taken part in?

A. 4
B. 9
C. 14

Question Three:How many times have Liverpool exceeded two goals in their past 32 meetings with Chelsea?

A. 0
B. 5
C. 10

Question Four: Which club were the visitors at two matches cut short by tragedy – the Bradford fire of 1985 and the death of Dave Longhurst, of York City, in 1990, which was the first fatality during an English league game for 63 years?

A. Grimsby Town
B. Scunthorpe United
C. Lincoln City

Question Five:
The goal difference of which club this season is 148 worse than three seasons ago (before this weekend’s matches)?

A. Berwick Rangers
B. Gretna
C. Luton Town 

Question Six: East Stirling are at the foot of the Scottish third division going into this weekend’s matches. In which season did they last avoid ending bottom of the Scottish league?

A. 2001-02
B. 2002-03
C. 2003-04

Question Seven: How many Manchester United players were named in the PFA’s Premier League Team of the Year for 2006-07?

A. 2
B. 5
C. 8

Question Eight: How many times has the outright winner of the Football Writers’ Association’s Footballer of the Year award – which was first handed out in 1948 – come from outside the top flight?

A. 0
B. 2
C. 4

Question Nine: Who scored a penalty and own goal in each of two successive matches in 1980?

A. Kevin Bond
B. Chris Nicholl
C. John Wark

Question Ten: Which two teams finished top and bottom of the same Premier League table three times in seven seasons?

A. Manchester United and Nottingham Forest.
B. Manchester United and Crystal Palace
C. Manchester United and Sunderland

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question: Only once since 1920 has the team that finished bottom of the top division won their league match away to the eventual champions. Who were the teams involved in that game and when did it happen?

Check back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Which club’s fixture pile-up forced them into the following schedule for one fortnight in the early 1970s? Saturday: league match. Monday: FA Cup semi-final replay. Thursday: FA Cup semi-final second replay. Saturday: league. Monday: league. Wednesday: European Cup semi-final. Thursday: league. Saturday: league.

Answer: Leeds United

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia question

Question: Which club’s fixture pile-up forced them into the following schedule for one fortnight in the early 1970s? Saturday: league match. Monday: FA Cup semi-final replay. Thursday: FA Cup semi-final second replay. Saturday: league. Monday: league. Wednesday: European Cup semi-final. Thursday: league. Saturday: league.

Check back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Which Championship club conceded three or more goals in each of their first three league games this season but have not done so in any of their subsequent 40 league matches?

Answer: Sheffield Wednesday.

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question: Which Championship club conceded three or more goals in each of their first three league games this season but have not done so in any of their subsequent 40 league matches?

You'll have to wait until tomorrow for the answer.

In the meantime ...

Yesterday we asked you: The meetings of which two teams brought top-division scorelines of 5-5 and 8-2 on the same ground in the space of three seasons in the 1980s?

Answer: Southampton 5, Coventry City 5, May 1982; Southampton 8, Coventry City 2, April 1984.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question: The meetings of which two teams brought top-division scorelines of 5-5 and 8-2 on the same ground in the space of three seasons in the 1980s?

While you're pondering that, check out how you did in Friday's fiendish quiz by clicking here.

Weekend in Numbers

8: Instances of a team scoring six in the Premier League this season - only two cases last term

8: Arsenal’s points in their past eight matches, the same number as Fulham have earned

20: Percentage petrol price rise since Fulham previously won on road in league in September 2006

6: Portsmouth's home goalless draws in the league - twice the Premier League’s next highest

2: Goalkeepers named Walker on bench in Bolton v West Ham and awaiting season's first appearance

BILL EDGAR

Bill Edgar's fiendishly difficult Friday football quiz

So you've had all weekend to mull over Bill's baffling brain-benders. How did you do? The answers are at the bottom of the page.

Question One: Of the 14 highest scores achieved in this season’s Champions League proper (from the group stage onwards), how many have been recorded by English clubs?

(A) 4
(B) 6
(C) 8

Question Two: How many Liverpool outfield players started all their three matches in seven days against Arsenal in the same position?

(A) 0
(B) 1
(C) 2

Question Three: How many times has a league club been docked points for going into administration or breaching insolvency rules since the start of last season?

(A) 3
(B) 5
(C) 7

Question Four: Against which club did Alvin Martin score a hat-trick for West Ham United against three different players in 1986?

(A) Newcastle United
(B) Sunderland
(C) Middlesbrough

Question Five: In the 1984-85 season, which team ended Liverpool’s five-year unbeaten run in the League Cup and, later in the campaign, recorded their first away win against Liverpool for 73 years?

(A) Queens Park Rangers
(B) Tottenham Hotspur
(C) West Ham United

Question Six: In April 1976, which Ipswich Town player scored a goal on his league debut before he had kicked the ball?

(A) Keith Bertschin
(B) David Geddis
(C) Russell Osman

Question Seven: At which club did John Sillett succeed Colin Addison as manager both in 1974 and 1991.

(A) Scarborough
(B) Swansea City
(C) Hereford United

Question Eight: How many times have Arsenal failed to score in their 53 appearances at the Emirates Stadium in all competitions?

(A) 1
(B) 5
(C) 9

Question Nine: In which year was the last time the Premier League winners were determined on the final day of the season?

(A) 1999
(B) 2002
(C) 2003

Question Ten: Which team have been caught offside the most times this season in the Premier League ahead of this weekend’s round of matches?

(A) Tottenham Hotspur
(B) Chelsea
(C) Middlesbrough

Question One: C
8: Liverpool have managed the highest, with eight against Besiktas, followed by Arsenal’s seven against Slavia Prague. Of the next 12 highest scores (four goals in each case), six were by English teams.

Question Two: B
1. Martin Skrtel (Jamie Carragher played twice at right back and once in central defence).

Question Three: C
7. Leeds United and Rotherham United twice; Luton Town, Bournemouth and Boston United once. 

Question Four: A
Newcastle United. The goalkeepers were Martin Thomas, Chris Hedworth and Peter Beardsley.

Question Five: B
Tottenham Hotspur. Both games finished 1-0.

Question Six: A
Keith Bertschin. His first touch as a substitute against Arsenal was a headed goal.

Question Seven: C

Hereford

United.

Question Eight: A
1. When they lost 1-0 to West Ham United in the league last April.

Question Nine: A
1999. Manchester United won the title by a point ahead of Arsenal. United came from behind to win 2-1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur while Arsenal beat Aston Villa 1-0 at home.

Question Ten: B
Chelsea, 119 times.

Reading

have been caught offside the fewest times – 55.

On Thursday we asked you: What double FA Cup distinction is held by Mick Mahon?

Answer: He was a member of different teams who caused two of the biggest surprises in the tournament’s history. He played for Colchester United in their 3-2 win over Leeds United in 1971, and he scored the only goal in Wimbledon’s 1-0 win away to Burnley in 1975, the first time in half a century that a non-league club had won away to a top-flight team.

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question - What double FA Cup distinction is held by Mick Mahon?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Which player appeared in a league title-winning campaign for Liverpool and Everton in the 1980s?

Answer – Kevin Sheedy. He made two substitute appearances in the league for Liverpool when they won the title in 1981-82 and was a regular for Everton when they were champions in 1984-85 and 1986-87.

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia question

Question – Which player appeared in a league title-winning campaign for Liverpool and Everton in the 1980s?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: What links Portsmouth’s path to this season’s FA Cup Final to the routes taken by Aston Villa, Arsenal and Manchester United to the Finals of 2000, 1998 and 1990 respectively?

Answer: They are the only four teams since 1977 to reach a Final with five one-goal wins.

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question: What links Portsmouth’s path to this season’s FA Cup Final to the routes taken by Aston Villa, Arsenal and Manchester United to the Finals of 2000, 1998 and 1990 respectively?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: What was remarkable about Chris Balderstone’s appearance for Doncaster Rovers at home to Brentford in September 1975?

Answer: It came halfway through his century for Leicestershire against Derbyshire at Chesterfield. Having finished the day at 51 not out, he travelled to Doncaster to play for Rovers in the evening, and the next day returned to take his score to 116.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question: What was remarkable about Chris Balderstone’s appearance for Doncaster Rovers at home to Brentford in September 1975?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Bill Edgar's Weekend in Numbers

1.5: Tottenham Hotspur’s points per game under Juande Ramos, worse than Martin Jol (1.51)

18: Number of years since a final involving clubs who had never met before in the FA Cup

6: Number of times in past 11 Manchester United away games that Rooney and Ronaldo both scored

3: Number of 1-1 draws there have been between Arsenal and Liverpool this season

0: Goal difference of Bristol City, the leaders of the Coca-Cola Championship

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.

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question - 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?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you - In the late 1980s and early 1990s, one club recorded top-flight finishing positions of third, fourth and fifth yet had a combined goal difference in those seasons of a mere plus one. Name the club.

Answer – Norwich City: fifth in 1987 (plus 2 goal difference); fourth in 1989 (plus 3); third in 1993 (minus 4).

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia question

Question: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, one club recorded top-flight finishing positions of third, fourth and fifth yet had a combined goal difference in those seasons of a mere plus one. Name the club.

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Name the four clubs who have won successive English league titles on two or more separate occasions.

Answer: Liverpool, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday (including when known as The Wednesday).

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question – Name the four clubs who have won successive English league titles on two or more separate occasions.

Come back tomorow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Nottingham Forest were the last team to win the English league title in the first season after gaining promotion to the top flight (they were champions in 1978). Who were the last team to finish in the top three the season after promotion?

Answer: Also Nottingham Forest, who finished third in 1994-95.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question – Nottingham Forest were the last team to win the English league title in the first season after gaining promotion to the top flight (they were champions in 1978). Who were the last team to finish in the top three the season after promotion?

Premier League pre-match stats

Bill Edgar's fiendish Friday quiz - with the answers

Think you're smart? Try Bill Edgar's brain-mangling Friday quiz questions. Answers are at the bottom of this post.

Question One: Which former Premier League player had his country’s record caps total equalled and his record goals tally beaten in the same match on Wednesday

A Viorel Moldovan
B Shaun Bartlett
C Eyal Berkovic

Question Two: Everton’s back four against West Ham United last weekend were Phil Neville, Phil Jagielka, Joleon Lescott and Leighton Baines. Phil Neville has played for Manchester United and England alongside his brother, Gary. Which of the other three does not have a brother who has played English league football?

A Phil Jagielka
B Joleon Lescott
C Leighton Baines

Question Three: Which of the following pairs of clubs each recorded a 5-4 home league win over the other in the same calendar year in the 1990s?

A Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest
B Newcastle United and Leicester City
C Derby County and Chelsea

Question Four: For Brad Friedel, the Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper, what is notable about the match between Blackburn and Birmingham City at Ewood Park on May 15, 2004?

A He played outfield for the last 15 minutes.
B The last league game he missed.
C He scored at both ends, the only time a goalkeeper has done so in league history.

Question Five: How many Scottish members of Nottingham Forest’s league title-winning squad of 1977-78 had also won the league with Derby County six years earlier?

A 1
B 3
C 5

Question Six: What was unusual about the kick up field by Nick Culkin, the Manchester United goalkeeper, in the 2-1 win away to Arsenal in August 1999?

A It hit the Arsenal crossbar.
B It struck a bird in the air.
C It was the only kick of his United career.

Question Seven: Which of the following links Robbie Fowler, the former Liverpool striker, with Jason Roberts, the Blackburn Rovers forward?

A Birthday
B Nickname
C Their height 

Question Eight: Who scored a league goal against Arsenal in successive days for the same club in 1986?

A Malcolm Allen
B Paul Goddard
C Wayne Clark

Question Nine: How many times have Rangers and Celtic met in Scottish Cup or Scottish League Cup matches since the Second World War?

A 34
B 54
C 74

Question Ten: Last season the Professional Footballers’ Association named Cristiano Ronaldo as their player of the year and also their young player of the year. On how many other occasions has the same player won both awards since they were introduced in 1974?

A 0
B 1
C 3

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Question One: (A) Shaun Bartlett. Benni McCarthy, of Blackburn Rovers, moved ahead of Bartlett’s South Africa scoring record in the 3-0 win over Paraguay (McCarthy has 30 to Bartlett’s 29); and Aaron Mokoena, also of Blackburn, equalled Bartlett’s mark of 74 appearances.

Question Two: (C) Leighton Baines. Stephen Jagielka played for Shrewsbury Town; Aaron Lescott plays for Bristol Rovers.

Question Three: (B) Newcastle United and Leicester City. Newcastle won in January 1990 and Leicester gained revenge 11 months later. Both were second-tier fixtures.

Question Four: (B) The last league game he missed. He had played 145 consecutive league games for the club before this weekend.

Question Five: (B) 3: Archie Gemmill, John McGovern and John O’Hare.

Question Six: (C) It was the only kick of his United career. He was a late substitute for the injured Raimond Van der Gouw.

Question Seven: (B) Nickname. Fowler and some Liverpool team-mates were dubbed the Spice Boys in the 1990s. Roberts plays international football for Grenada, who are known as the Spice Boyz.

Question Eight: (A) Malcolm Allen. He scored in Watford’s 2-0 victory at Highbury on Easter Monday, and again in a 3-0 win at Vicarage Road the following day.

Question Nine: (C) 74.

Question Ten: (B) 1. Andy Gray, of Aston Villa, in 1977.

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On Thursday we asked you: Which two clubs presently in the Premier League or Championship have only ever played league football in the top two tiers but have never been league champions?

Answer: West Ham United and Leicester City.

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question: Which two clubs presently in the Premier League or Championship have only ever played league football in the top two tiers but have never been league champions?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: In their league campaign of 2002-03, this team lost at home by 5-2, 6-2, 7-2 and 7-4 as well as losing 6-5 away from home. Name the club.

Answer: Burnley 2, Reading 5; Burnley 2, Rotherham United 6; Burnley 2, Sheffield Wednesday 7; Burnley 4, Watford 7; Grimsby Town 6, Burnley 5.

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia question

Question: In their league campaign of 2002-03, this team lost at home by 5-2, 6-2, 7-2 and 7-4 as well as losing 6-5 away from home. Name the club.

Come back tomorrow for the answer

Yesterday we asked you: Frank Lampard, of Chelsea, has followed his father, Frank Lampard Snr, by playing for England, but which other 21st century Chelsea player has played in the same international match as his father?

Answer: Eidur Gudjohnsen. He came on as a substitute for Arnor, his father, in Iceland’s match against Estonia in 1996.

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question: Frank Lampard, of Chelsea, has followed his father, Frank Lampard Snr, by playing for England, but which other 21st century Chelsea player has played in the same international match as his father?

Come back tomorrow for the answer

Yesterday we asked you: Which Premier League player has 40 on the front of his shirt as well as the back?

Answer: Freddie Sears, of West Ham United. He has “40” on his back and “XL” on the front, the name of the club’s shirt sponsors but also 40 in roman numerals.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question – Which Premier League player has 40 on the front of his shirt as well as the back?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Pre-match Premier League stats

SATURDAY

ASTON VILLA v SUNDERLAND

These clubs won a combined 11 league titles before the First World War but have added only two since then (one each).

BLACKBURN ROVERS v WIGAN ATHLETIC

Each team has a player with the name of a significant Spanish city. Blackburn have (Roque) Santa Cruz, capital of Tenerife; Wigan have (Luis Antonio) Valencia.

BOLTON v MANCHESTER CITY

Gary Megson, the Manchester-born Bolton manager, twice finished fifth when playing for Manchester City in 1991 and 1992.

EVERTON v WEST HAM UNITED

Freddie Sears, 18, has scored as many goals (1) in his 15 minutes in a West Ham shirt as Carlton Cole, his fellow striker, has managed in his past 17 and a half hours.   

MIDDLESBROUGH v DERBY COUNTY

Derby are on course for the top flight’s worst goals-per-game record since league football began in 1888. Seven from the last eight will equal Sunderland’s 2003 low. 

NEWCASTLE UNITED v FULHAM

Kevin Keegan has no wins in nine at Newcastle but it is far from the worst North East managerial start this decade. Mick McCarthy lost his first ten at Sunderland in 2003.

READING v BIRMINGHAM CITY

For the third successive season, Kevin Doyle, the Reading striker, has scored more goals away than at home in all competitions.

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR v PORTSMOUTH

The three 4-4 draws in the Premier League this season have come in a triangle: Tottenham v Chelsea; Tottenham v Aston Villa; Chelsea v Aston Villa.

SUNDAY

MANCHESTER UNITED v LIVERPOOL

Only six top-flight games have been staged previously on Easter Sunday. United have never played on this day; Liverpool have won away to Tottenham and Blackburn.

CHELSEA v ARSENAL

This weekend: Chelsea host Arsenal, the last side to beat them away in the league 78 games ago; Fulham visit Newcastle, site of their last away league win 32 games ago.

In the past six seasons, these teams have finished as the top two in the league (Arsenal 1st, Chelsea 2nd in 2004; Chelsea 1st, Arsenal 2nd in 2005 ), in the FA Cup (Arsenal 2, Chelsea 0 in 2002 final) and in the League Cup (Chelsea 2, Arsenal 1 in 2007 final).

Chelsea have won only two of their past 24 league games against Arsenal.

From August 2004 to January 2006, Chelsea averaged 2.6 points per league game (a rate of 99 points per season). Since then they have averaged 2.1 per league game (81 points per season).

Chelsea are unbeaten in 97 home domestic games (excluding a loss in a penalty shoot-out).

Of the 330 Arsenal starting berths in their 30 Premier League matches this season, only seven have been filled by an Englishman – six by Theo Walcott and one by Justin Hoyte.

John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba have appeared in the same Chelsea starting line-up in only five league games this season.

Six of William Gallas’s past ten goals for Arsenal and Chelsea have been scored against another big-four side, including the only goal when Arsenal beat Chelsea in December.

Frank Lampard has missed ten league matches this season for Chelsea, twice as many as in the past six seasons combined.

Arsenal lead Chelsea by two points having trailed them by 15, 24 and 12 points over the past three full seasons.

Arsenal have drawn four successive league games for the first time since 1998.

Weekend in numbers

2: Chelsea goals in 12 minutes after fans sang, “You don’t know what you’re doing” for substitutions

5: Arsenal league games without a victory, the club’s joint-worst run during the reign of Arsène Wenger

98: Chelsea unbeaten home domestic games: Middlesbrough and Wigan Athletic are up next

7: Successive league games in which Liverpool have not scored against Manchester United

3: White-shirted teams at present in the Premier League’s relegation zone: Derby, Fulham, Bolton

Bill Edgar's fiendish Friday quiz

So how did you do with this week's fiendish football quiz. Scroll down to the botttom if you need to check the answers.

Question One: How many times have Leicester changed their permanent manager since Chelsea last lost at home in the league?

(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 5

Question Two: Arsenal and Liverpool will meet three times in seven days earlier next month. How times did they play each other in the 20 days between April 12 and May 1, 1980?

(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 6

Question Three: How many teams suffered three successive relegations within the English league in the 1980s?

(A) 0
(B) 1
(C) 2

Question Four: Kevin Keegan succeeded Sam Allardyce as Newcastle United manager this season. Who did Keegan follow when he took the job first time around in 1992?

(A) Ossie Ardiles
(B) Jim Smith
(C) Willie McFaul

Question Five: Who scored Derby County’s first away league goal this season in their ninth away match?

(A) Matt Oakley
(B) Kenny Miller
(C) Steve Howard

Question Six: How many different teams won the Latvian league title between 1991 and 2004?

(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 14

Question Seven: Chelsea drew 4-4 with Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday. When did Chelsea win a Wembley final 5-4?

(A) 1965
(B) 1975
(C) 1985

Question Eight: In which year did an Eastern European club last win a major European club trophy?

(A) 1991
(B) 1998
(C) 2005

Question Nine: Ahead of this weekend’s games, which is the only team not to have conceded a penalty yet this season in the Premier League?

(A) Everton
(B) Liverpool
(C) Manchester United

Question Ten: Which Premier League match this season contained both the earliest card and the latest goal (ie the greatest amount of time into stoppage time)?

(A) Chelsea v Aston Villa
(B) Birmingham City v Arsenal.
(C) Newcastle United v Blackburn Rovers

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See below for the answers.

Bill Edgar's Thursday trivia question

Question - Which former England international is more than two and a half seasons into his spell at a Premier League club but has yet to make a single league appearance?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: Which post-war English champions followed their title-winning campaign by failing to win an away league game in the next season?

Answer – Leeds United. They won the title in 1992 but came only seventeenth the next season, when their 12 league wins all came at home.

Bill Edgar's Wednesday trivia question

Question: Which post-war English champions followed their title-winning campaign by failing to win an away league game in the next season?

Please come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: How many times has a team won the English league title on goal difference?

The answer is: Never. The title was decided four times on goal average before this method was replaced by goal difference for the 1976-77 season. Since then, the top two teams have finished level on points only once, when Arsenal and Liverpool gained 76 points in 1988-89, but their goal difference was the same, so the title winners were determined by goals scored – and Arsenal were champions.

Bill Edgar's Tuesday trivia question

Question: How many times has a team won the English league title on goal difference?

Please come back tomorrow for the answer.

Yesterday we asked you: What do the following former Liverpool players have in common: Ray Kennedy, Tommy Smith, Ian Callaghan, Phil Boersma and Colin Irwin?

The answer is: They all played for Swansea City under the management of John Toshack, another former Liverpool player.

Bill Edgar's Monday trivia question

Question - What do the following former Liverpool players have in common: Ray Kennedy, Tommy Smith, Ian Callaghan, Phil Boersma and Colin Irwin?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

Weekend in numbers

3: Points from first to third in top flight; 20-point gap at this stage in each of past two years

107: Domestic trophies won by Rangers after yesterday’s triumph in the CIS Insurance Cup

0: Top-flight seasons played by Hull City and Plymouth Argyle (in Championship play-offs places)

3: Premier League teams who won 2-1 at home after trailing: Manchester City, Liverpool, West Ham

5: Number of draws at the Emirates Stadium for Arsenal in 2008 in all competitions

Bill Edgar's fiendish Friday quiz

It's what the weekend was invented for - trying to come up with the answers to Bill Edgar's fiendish Friday quiz. Sorry if you have been stumped on Saturday and Sunday, but wait no longer, here are the questions a