The Knowledge @TheKnowledge_GU
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Can any player top Kingsley Coman’s run of consecutive league titles? Plus: players getting injured warming up on touchline, points-per-game differentials of long-serving players and more. This week's column theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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Here is this week's column: Premier League players representing countries with the lowest Fifa ranking. Plus: winning a title from way behind, even further-apart clashes in the Euro and long-throw fatigue theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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Here's this week's column: the biggest gap in the rankings between consecutive international opponents. Plus: the most far-apart clash in the Euros, an excruciating marriage proposal and more. Thanks for all your answers and questions theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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This week's column is on footballers going down on one knee to propose at a match. Plus: managers taking charge of every club they played for and ‘winners’ after the 96th minute that turn out not to be winners theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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Up the brackets! Have teams with parentheses in their names ever met? Plus: missing automatic promotion with an average of more than two points per game; drawless away campaigns and more This week's column theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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Who was the first footballer booked for removing a shirt in celebration? Plus: the most goals conceded with a positive goal difference, more second-half refuseniks and managerial replacements with the same initials. This week's column theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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Have any footballers ever refused to come out for the second half? This week's column. Plus: gaps between teams who have not met, identical big scorelines in both legs and more theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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Thank you for all your answers and questions: here's this week's column. Which European Cup winners took the shortest time to be relegated? Plus: clubs who could team up and still go down, and title winners with the fewest goals in their league theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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This week's column: the highest-scoring full-backs in history. Plus: late-season identical records, players doing the 92, the highest shirt numbers in a cup final and more theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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This week's column: the uncapped wonders with multiple European Cup medals. Plus … players putting the extra ‘and’ into ‘club and country’, games with all-headed goals and more theguardian.com/football/2024/…
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@TheKnowledge_GU You may have missed Ray Stewart from your list of goal scoring full backs: that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/ray-st…
@TheKnowledge_GU In response to Crispin Leyser's question, the 17-18 La Liga ended with the bottom 2 teams on 22 and 20 points, 1 shy of the combined total of Leganes and Bilbao in 16th and 17th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%8…
@TheKnowledge_GU "We only know of one team that has played with two sweepers, and that was Steve Coppell’s Crystal Palace away at Nottingham Forest in 1990-91." This was the league game on 2.Feb.91 that #CPFC won 1:0 with a goal from one of the two sweepers Eric Young. Also Geoff Thomas.
@TheKnowledge_GU Cheers. In 1970-71, Arsenal beat Everton 4-0 with all goals being headers. This inspired some journo to write that with two Newtons in the side (Henry & Keith) that the Toffees should have been better able to deal with round objects falling from the sky! Classic! 😆
@TheKnowledge_GU You're missing the diacritics on Mérida and Gijón
@TheKnowledge_GU Carlos Alberto Parreira 🇧🇷 ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Asian Cup 1980 🇰🇼 and 1988 🇸🇦 Copa America 2004 🇧🇷 COSAFA Cup 2007 🇿🇦
@TheKnowledge_GU Re longest “sequence of points”: surely nothing can top this from the Finnish top flight in the first week of May 2015
@TheKnowledge_GU Fabian De Freitas for @WBA vs Crewe on 5th April 1999 in what is now the Championship. Thought it was an evening kick off and dozed off. Finally contacted at 14:40 but it was too late. Albion lost 1-5 at home. Not that he would have made any difference.
@TheKnowledge_GU which player has played for the most clubs in cities namechecked in Panic by the Smiths?
One for @TheKnowledge_GU Gael Clichy's goal for @ServetteFC on Saturday was directly influenced by pre-match intelligence from a fan about the opponent's keeper's poor positioning. Has there ever been a more influential pre-match intervention by a fan on a football match?
Before the derby, a fan sent a message to Gael Clichy via Instagram telling him that the FC Sion goalkeeper usually has bad positioning and he should try a shot from distance. Clichy said afterwards that the inspiration for the shot came from this fan... 👇
@TheKnowledge_GU I'd done some research on the best teams to have not played each other (using eloratings.net) about two years ago, I'll see what I can update since
@TheKnowledge_GU Thank you very much, even the prospect of conceding 5 in extra time makes me sweat.
@JackChesterman @TheKnowledge_GU We had this only last month. theguardian.com/football/2023/…
@TheKnowledge_GU Of course you've already covered it. Great work!
@TheKnowledge_GU @xAnder50nx How could I forget Mad Dog?!
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