The Statty Geezer @StattyGeezerFC

@LostTransport @radders_02 @edzibit That's pretty amazing!

🚨 POINTLESS STAT OF THE DAY #128 PORTSMOUTH FC - THE ONLY CLUB WITH TWO 800+ LEGENDS! This is actually far from being pointless as yesterday we worked our way through the top 10 players for most appearances for a single club in English and Scottish football history. There was one name left in 10th place to reveal and a very special one to! ALAN KNIGHT And this one feels particularly poignant as Knight made 801 appearances for Portsmouth between 1978 and 2000. Enough to give Alan the record for the most appearances for a single club by a goalkeeper. Sadly, Alan Knight died in September 2026, aged 65, after being diagnosed with prostate cancer but his legacy goes well beyond the numbers. There is another rather extraordinary number hidden in the numbers. Knight wasn't just Portsmouth's second-highest appearance maker. He was the second Portsmouth player to pass 800 appearances. The first was Jimmy Dickinson, who made 828 appearances for Pompey. Jimmy Dickinson (828) and Alan Knight (801) means @pompey are the only club in England and Scotland to have had two players make 800+ appearances for the same club. Statty HQ believes nobody else has done it so our No.10 in the all-time list turns out to be a particularly special one. A record-breaking goalkeeper. A Portsmouth legend. And one half of a statistical oddity that no other club in England or Scotland can match. Alan Knight - 801 appearances for Portsmouth. A true legend. Use this information wisely. 🤓 @pompeyTrust @pompeyNewsNow

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@radders_02 @edzibit Amazing! We did find out today that Maurice Malpas made it a double +800 for Dundee United but it does mean Pompey seem to have this record to themselves in English Football. Needs to be a battle of Britain game I think!! 🤣

@PeterClewes2 I can see the challenges and it won't be a prefect science. May be just look at players for the last 30-40 years.

🚨 POINTLESS STAT OF THE DAY #124 England's biggest wins against a nation near the top of FIFA's International Rankings? 5–1 twice! 🇩🇪 Germany, 2001 🇭🇷 Croatia, 2009 Croatia were 9th at the time and are now currently 13th! Germany were 5th at the time. Can they increase this record tonight or could we see a remarkable 5-1 tie at the top?!! Second half to come....

@PeterClewes2 Can still classify weaker nations though irrespective of rankings. i.e. real minnows. You'd just need to agree them first.

@PeterClewes2 I think the way to do this is agree a basket of weaker footballing nations and then do a comparison of goals scored against those countries versus the rest for the 20/30 players. Keeps it simple and is doable!!

@PeterClewes2 It's definitely doable. The tricky bit is checking back to how the team were actually ranked at the time! Don't give up. Rome wasn't built in a day!! 🤣

Tough draws for SE Dons and Tadley Calleva in the next round of the FA Cup. thefa.com/news/2026/oct/…

The Statty Geezer @StattyGeezerFC

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🚨 POINTLESS STAT OF THE DAY #126 🏆 HOW FAR CAN A NINTH-TIER CLUB GO? Two ninth-tier clubs yesterday reached the FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Round for the first time in their histories. @sedonsfc SE Dons - Southern Counties East League Premier Division @TadleyCallevaFC Tadley

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@proj_foot 737. Can't forget his number! 🤣

🚨 POINTLESS STAT OF THE DAY #127 ⚽️ THE ULTIMATE ONE-CLUB APPEARANCE LIST Who has made the most appearances for a single club? We've looked at clubs from England & Scotland and ranked players by their official competitive first-team appearances for that club. LEGENDS! ⭐ = they played their entire senior career for that one club. 1️⃣ Ryan Giggs Manchester United 963 ⭐ 2️⃣ Dean Lewington MK Dons 917 3️⃣ John Trollope Swindon Town 889 ⭐ 4️⃣ David Narey Dundee United 872 ⭐ 5️⃣ Ian Callaghan Liverpool 857 6️⃣ @Steve6Perryman Tottenham Hotspur 854 7️⃣ Roy Sproson Port Vale 842 ⭐ 8️⃣ Jimmy Dickinson Portsmouth 828 ⭐ 9️⃣ Terry Paine Southampton 815 ⭐ 🔟 ❓ 801 We've deliberately left No.10 out. There are numerous reasons why the identity of No.10 makes this list particularly interesting. Can you work out who it is? And while you're at it who has made the most appearances for YOUR club? 👀 Use this information wisely. 🤓

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@Skyblue160587 @RobGurneyOnAir @Clarriebourton I think your old man's Mick Kearns is top having had a quick double check.

@charliehendo_ Dean is really two clubs but I understand why people say one. Either way what commitment!

@chefsevenn Wembley Market for me. Right outside the stadium. But I made up for it as scoffed a lot of fast food why I worked! 🤣

@LanaganNeil has just flagged a hidden gem which Statty HQ hadn't picked up. Maurice Malpas played 830 games exclusively for @dundeeunitedfc. He joins his club mate David Narey in the 800 club! This actually puts both Dundee United (champions of Scotland) and Portsmouth (champions of England) as having two players each with 800+ appearances for a single club. Have we missed anyone else??????? 👀

The Statty Geezer @StattyGeezerFC

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🚨 POINTLESS STAT OF THE DAY #127 ⚽️ THE ULTIMATE ONE-CLUB APPEARANCE LIST Who has made the most appearances for a single club? We've looked at clubs from England & Scotland and ranked players by their official competitive first-team appearances for that club. LEGENDS! ⭐ =

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@Skyblue160587 @RobGurneyOnAir @Clarriebourton Oggy Oggy Oggy! I think it's probably Mick Coop at 492. Mick Kearms is definitely behind him.

🚨 POINTLESS STAT OF THE DAY #129 EASIEST CLUBS TO FIND IN OTHERS! Yesterday we discovered that Wolverhampton Wanderers contains more other current English & Scottish league club names than any other club. So today, let's turn the question around. Which football club is easiest to find hiding inside another club's name? Well, there isn't one answer. There are THREE in FIVE other clubs. 🟠BARNET 🟢 CELTIC 🔵DUNDEE Here's the full list of all 24 current clubs that contain at least one other current Premier League, EFL or SPFL club name...... Wolverhampton Wanderers → Arsenal, Everton, Port Vale, Montrose, Peterhead, Stranraer 6 Inverness Caledonian Thistle → Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Rochdale 5 Cambridge United → Reading, Barnet, Dundee 3 Tottenham Hotspur → Portsmouth, Southampton, Montrose 3 Accrington Stanley → Arsenal, Celtic 2 Brighton & Hove Albion → Barnet, Hibernian 2 Queens Park Rangers → Rangers, Queen's Park 2 Sheffield United → Leeds United, Dundee 2 West Bromwich Albion → Barnet, Montrose 2 AFC Bournemouth → Barnet 1 Bolton Wanderers → Barnet 1 Charlton Athletic → Celtic 1 Colchester United → Celtic 1 Cove Rangers → Rangers 1 Doncaster Rovers → Everton 1 Dundee United → Dundee 1 Dunfermline Athletic → Fulham 1 Hamilton Academical → Celtic 1 Huddersfield Town → Dundee 1 Leeds United → Dundee 1 Leicester City → Celtic 1 Nottingham Forest → Montrose 1 Tranmere Rovers → Everton 1 Wycombe Wanderers → Aberdeen 1 For this exercise, we used the current 2026/27 Premier League, EFL and SPFL clubs and required the complete playing name of one club to be contained within the letters of another. Use this information wisely. 🤓

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@edzibit If that's true then this story just got so much better. What I haven't worked out yet is whether Pompey fans actually knew this is likely to be a record across England and Scotland that no other club can currently match?

@RealMattLucas GM! I’m getting a sense of de ja vu here. 😜

@JRMtheJambo Thanks for spotting that one. No gold star for him!

@wolfinbristol 🤣

🚨 POINTLESS STAT OF THE DAY #121🚨 🤯 FOOTBALL CLUBS HIDING INSIDE OTHER FOOTBALL CLUBS 🤯 Statty HQ has been down another completely unnecessary rabbit hole and hope you all have some fun with this one. We took all 134 clubs currently in the English & Scottish professional leagues - 20 Premier League, 72 EFL and 42 SPFL clubs. Then we compared their names letter by letter. The rule: 👉 One club must contain every letter, in the required quantity, of the full name of another current English or Scottish league club. Spaces, punctuation and accents ignored. And we believe we’ve found 24 clubs that contain at least one other club’s complete name within their own. But one club absolutely blows the others away… 🏆 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS It contains the complete names of SIX other clubs: 🔴 ARSENAL 🔵 EVERTON 🟡 PORT VALE 🔴 MONTROSE 🔵 PETERHEAD 🟢 STRANRAER Yes… WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS contains SIX other football clubs. This is not pointless and very much Statty's favourite stat of all time.🤯 But what about the other 23 clubs? We're not telling you. Can you find one and name the team(s) in them? 👀 Use this information wisely. 🤓

@Tommy_Oldham1 Are you not feeling very Athletic today?