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Italys defeat of Nepal today in the cricket World Cup means they have now won more World Cup games in the last 20 years than the Italian football team.
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That pizza information is going to take some topping
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England play Scotland on Saturday t20 cricket in calcutta
England play Scotland on Saturday 6 nations rugby for calcutta Cup at Murrayfield. |
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 CrispAnother interesting fact there yhtl |
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Not one of the Italian cricket squad was born in Italy
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I am possibly missing something but wasnt it Italys first world cup cricket win and Italy won the world cup in 2006
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Well Italy certainly won the 2006 World Cup mr straw it’s just a stat read at on radio 5 sport tonight.
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My guess whilst there’s only one football world cups there’s all sorts of cricket world cups.
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One Day and T20 but its italys first finals , i must be missing something
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Just checked on one day World Cup and Italy have not took part in one as today was there first win in t 20 I have no idea what they were talking about unless they include qualifiers am I’m not that bothered to check that.
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Must have missed balotellis winner in 2014 too,
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Cricketers are well known for padding out their statistics
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Phil Parkinson is the first person to play on Friday the 13th in the FA Cup (February 1998 for Reading) and manage on Friday the 13th in the FA Cup (tonight for Wrexham)
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For a 105th consecutive game in all competitions, Chelsea have named a starting XI without a single player aged 30 or older; the second longest run by a Premier League team is 47 by Aston Villa between August 1997 and May 1998.
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Great stat jimnast. ,
Like they say ,you can make any stat to fit. But amazing info. |
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Chelsea have won all nine of their FA Cup ties against Hull City – a new record for the most ties played by a team against another with a 100% success rate in FA Cup history.
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Pedro Neto's hat-trick tonight was the first by a Chelsea player on a Friday since George Hilsdon scored three against Middlesbrough in January 1909,
and the first ever by a top-flight player in a match on Friday the 13th. Opta |
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I notice you leave out those cringey one word sentences Opta put on the end of their tweets. 'Freaky.' for that last one. Infuriating.
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Devante Cole is the only player to net multiple English Football League goals on Valentine's Day on Opta record (since 2004-05) whilst also having all the letters of 'love' in his name.
Opta Indeed. |
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Ange got sacked for 5 games without a win this season and replaced by Pereira who has gone 10 games without a win this season in the same Premier League.
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Matt Smith won an FA Cup Winners Medal with Arsenal and never played any minutes for the club
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Who would have thought when Sunderland beat Leeds in the 73 fa cup final it would been leeds last fa cup final.
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They never even turned up in 73,...
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Gillingham break a 50 year old record held by Sunderland
On the 2nd December 1893, Crewe Alexandra started on a run of 5 league matches that went 1-1, 1-6, 1-1, 1-6, 1-1. This was the first time in English league history that a team had 5 consecutive league matches where the scorelines alternated. Since then (and up until the end of the 2024/5 season), there have been another 121 instances of teams having a run of at least 5 matches with alternating scorelines. Six years after Crewe Alexandra’s effort, Liverpool bettered this with a run of 6 league matches (0-2, 1-2, 0-2, 1-2, 0-2, 1-2) with alternating scorelines. This record lasted for 77 years before Sunderland went 2 better. From the 27th November 1976, they alternated scorelines in 8 league matches 0-1, 0-2, 0-1, 0-2, 0-1, 0-2, 0-1, 0-2, as shown in the highlighted rows in the image below. Since then 3 different teams have got as far as 6 alternating matches (Blackburn in March 1986, Brentford in August 1999 and Bolton Wanderers in March 2023). Sunderland may have thought that they had this record sewn up for good, but Gillingham have had other ideas. Starting on the 8h April 2025, Gillingham started on a run of matches to finish last season and then continuing into the current season of 9 matches (1-1, 1-0, 1-1, 1-0, 1-1, 1-0, 1-1, 1-0, 1-1). This is now the longest run of league matches with alternating scorelines. Given the Sunderland record lasted 50 years, it may be some time before Gillingham lose this record! |
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http://www.thestatcat.co.uk/Season.aspx?SeasonID=98 27/11/76 to 15/1/77 inclusive.
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Outstanding statery
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Stats that are likely to engender ecstatic statisticians.
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How do you mean yhtl they didn’t turn up ?
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Leeds.. , didn't turn up for final in 73,didnt fancy it.
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my worst stat in history repeated endlessly at the time
best team in country = l,pool ones of best teams in l.pool history RUSH one of greatest goalscorer in history l,pool have never lost when RUSH has scored, so basically no team scored at least twice against GOAT team when rush has scored |
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Fear not 1tp
Ian Rush scored against Arsenal in the League Cup final, but Liverpool went on to lose the match 2–1. |
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there is a god
must have been a LG game |
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there is a god
must have been a LG game |
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the latest one I don't like BORO never dropped a point this season from a winning position
but if your pickey like me , you call been 2 all with cov,after 75 mins and TOMMY CONWAY with an open goal a yard out,but losing 2 v 4,a winning position |
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There are always stats to be contrived, but sometimes
they are interesting and or a bit rare. He's not scored in open play with his left foot in the last 15 minutes of the game since 1647...ferk off man. |
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Rush could’ve quite easily scored in a 3-2 win. It seems unlikely no team scored two past them when Rush scored.
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When Villa won the league in 1981 they only used 14 players and 7 of them played every game.
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exactly rush scoring in a 1 nil win is your minimum,if he scores in a 3,4 5 goal win you need at least 4 to win,that's why the stat was so stupid
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From AI
In their 1980/81 league-winning season, Aston Villa achieved incredible consistency by using only 14 players throughout the entire 42-match league campaign. Of that 14-man squad, seven players were ever-presents, starting all 42 games. The seven players who started every league game were: Jimmy Rimmer (Goalkeeper) Kenny Swain (Defender) Ken McNaught (Defender) Allan Evans (Defender) Des Bremner (Midfielder) Dennis Mortimer (Midfielder/Captain) Tony Morley (Winger) |
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Incidentally the first team line up for the European Cup Final the following season, was the preferred starting line up for the previous League winning season.
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