Here’s an interesting stat

That pizza information is going to take some topping

England play Scotland on Saturday t20 cricket in calcutta
England play Scotland on Saturday 6 nations rugby for calcutta Cup at Murrayfield.

Crisp

Another interesting fact there yhtl

Not one of the Italian cricket squad was born in Italy

I am possibly missing something but wasnt it Italys first world cup cricket win and Italy won the world cup in 2006

Well Italy certainly won the 2006 World Cup mr straw it’s just a stat read at on radio 5 sport tonight.

My guess whilst there’s only one football world cups there’s all sorts of cricket world cups.

One Day and T20 but its italys first finals , i must be missing something

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.

Must have missed balotellis winner in 2014 too,

Cricketers are well known for padding out their statistics

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)

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.

Opta

Great stat jimnast. ,

Like they say ,you can make any stat to fit.

But amazing info.

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.

Opta

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

I notice you leave out those cringey one word sentences Opta put on the end of their tweets. 'Freaky.' for that last one. Infuriating.

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.

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.

Matt Smith won an FA Cup Winners Medal with Arsenal and never played any minutes for the club

Who would have thought when Sunderland beat Leeds in the 73 fa cup final it would been leeds last fa cup final.

They never even turned up in 73,...

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!

http://www.thestatcat.co.uk/Season.aspx?SeasonID=98 27/11/76 to 15/1/77 inclusive.

Outstanding statery

Stats that are likely to engender ecstatic statisticians.

How do you mean yhtl they didn’t turn up ?

Leeds.. , didn't turn up for final in 73,didnt fancy it.

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

Fear not 1tp

Ian Rush scored against Arsenal in the League Cup final, but Liverpool went on to lose the match 2–1.

there is a god
must  have been a LG game

there is a god
must  have been a LG game

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

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.

Rush could’ve quite easily scored in a 3-2 win. It seems unlikely no team scored two past them when Rush scored.

When Villa won the league in 1981 they only used 14 players and 7 of them played every game.

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

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)

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.

the stat I did like was when young lads  at work were all over having a few quid on the losing at HT winning at FT bets at 28,SD/33,s blind every week, till I pointed out cant remember off top of my head but for 1st  11 yrs or something of EPL it had only happened 23 times,roughly twice a season , not all good advice is free

Nemenja Vidic is the only Premier League Winner with a surname made entirely of roman numerals

The next game after the league cup final that Liverpool lost , Liverpool lost 2-1 to Norwich and Ian Rush scored

Yhtl

I thought Leeds turned up if it wasn’t for Jim Montgomery the score would have been different.

Clydebank

Back in 1968 the number 12 only one substitute allowed and had to be a goalkeeper it was jimmy rimmer for united.

Football league substitutions according to AI

1965-66: One substitute permitted (only for injury).
1967-68: One substitute permitted (for any reason).
1987-88: Two substitutes permitted for any reason in league matches.
1994-95: Increased to three substitutes.

The honour of being the first substitute in top class football was accorded to Richard Gottinger, who came on for West Germany in their 3-0 victory over Saarland in Stuttgart on 11 October 1953. West Germany qualified for that World Cup and went on to win it – the first of their world titles – but those 37 minutes were to be Gottinger’s only involvement. He never played for his country again.

It was European cup rule’s Clydebank

I wasn't questioning you jimnast.  Just added the additional info for interest

I didn’t think you was Clydebank,good effort from jimmy rimmer 13 years apart.

I was at the game when the first golden goal settled a tournament didn’t like the rule thankfully it didn’t last long.

Who are Saarland ?

I believe Saarland is a part of Germany which used to compete as an independent country

Well I never knew that Clydebank thanks

There’s a team n Germanys group in this years World Cup I’ve never heard off and I think I’m pretty good at the geography of the world.

Geoff Hurst played County cricket for Essex, he only
made first team once, as a batsman he scored 0 runs
in 2 innings, only out once, and he took a catch.
4 years later he scored 3 goals in world Cup final at Wembley.
As England won World cup

In 1972 Viv Richards played football for Antigua in qualifiers
for 1974 World Cup, he was a striker. 7 years later he hit 3 sixes
in a knock of 138* in final at lord's as West Indies won World cup

Yeah great save from Montgomery but didn't have much else to do.

Saarland was under French rule at the time, following ww2, so
were not included in West Germany, so had own team...

An unwanted record for Arsenal
This was the first time in Premier League history that a side starting the day bottom of the table avoided defeat to the side starting the day top despite trailing by two or more goals

Viv Richards now he could bat still the greatest batsman I’ve seen .

Absolutely Jim.






Mateusz Kochalski saved 7 big chances vs Newcastle, the most by any goalkeeper in a single #UCL match this season. And lost 6-1.

Jim Standen,West Ham keeper was a pro cricketer aswell.
Won the F.A Cup,Cup Wnrs Cup & also the County Champonship.

I think it was Somerset that had Richards, Botham and Joel Garner?  Botham visited my secondary school, not long after his Headingly heroics.  Only famous person other than Leon Brittan that ever did.  So for that I give him max credit!

Botham used to play in defence for Scunthorpe United too iirc.

Stuart Leary was an exceptional dual performer in the 50s and 60s - scored 182 goals for Charlton & QPR as a centre forward.

Also had a 20 year county cricket career at Kent, scoring over 16,000 runs and taking 146 wickets.

Tragically took his own life at the age of 55 in 1988, his body was found at the foot of Table Mountain , apparently having jumped out of a cable car

Here are a few uninteresting stats
In the 1986 World Cup final, Argentina V West Germany, won 3-2 by Argentina, the five goals were scored by players wearing off numbered shirts.
The last player to score in the 1982 World Cup, Alessandro Altobelli, scored when Italy won 3-1, was a substitute, came on, and was later substituted.
And in the next World Cup Altobelli was the first player to score - last to score in 1982, first to score in 1986.

The first player to get a red card in the World Cup was born on the same day as me (day, month, year).

ffs
* wearing off numbered shirts.
  wearing odd numbered shirts.

Arsenal have taken a league-high total of 117 minutes to restart games from corners in the Premier League this season; indeed, they also have the longest average delay of restart from corners (44 seconds).

Opta

Dwight McNeill has scored 21 top flight goals (for Everton & Burnley), all of which have been left-footed strikes.

4 of the 10 oldest players to play in a WC are from the UK.  Can you name them?

Peter Shilton (age 40) World Cup 1990
David James (age 39) World Cup 2010

As of Dec 2024, of the 16 teams that took part in the 1966 World, England had fewer survivors than any other country. There were 118 still alive from the 352 squad members, with France (11) and Mexico leading the way. West Germany, Portugal, USSR, Spain, Switzerland and Brazil all have nine.

correct on both counts kincsem

Pat Jennings (age 41) World Cup 1986

1 more to get

Jim Leighton (age 39) World Cup 1998
Ok, guilty of using the internet.

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the stat I did like was when young lads  at work were all over having a few quid on the losing at HT winning at FT bets at 28,SD/33,s blind every week, till I pointed out cant remember off top of my head but for 1st  11 yrs or something of EPL it had only happened 23 times,roughly twice a season LaughLaughLaugh, not all good advice is free Laugh

Are you sure that stat is correct 1tp ?  There are 380 games in an EPL season (462 games for the first 3 years) so only an average of two losing HT/winning FT games in a season sounds incredibly low.

For example - Last two Everton games - Beat Fulham 2-1 after losing 1-0 at HT, then lost to Bournemouth 2-1 after leading 1-0 at HT. 
A couple of weeks back Chelsea beat W Ham 3-2 after losing 2-0 at HT.

Lots of cracking stats I do like the altobelli one last in 82 first in 86


Arnold sidebottom played for United and Yorkshire

One of my old favourites which has gone now but still quite amazing bearing in mind there success in previous World Cups is that the 2002 World Cup final was the first time Brazil and west Germany/germany had ever met in the World Cup.

Regarding Clydebank's post about substitutes...
In England the first substitute used, I guess in 1967 ish, not googled, was Keith Peacock for Charlton...he went on to make the club's highest ever number of appearances, unless it's been beaten since
Dixie will know him well as he went on to manage the Gills in the 80s, plus Charlton and others
He is the father of Gavin Peacock, of Chelsea and Newcastle fame
Gavin went to my secondary school, about 10 years after me...OK, that's not an amazing stat...and now lives in Canada and is a lay preacher

Close Reg, August 65 was Keith's claim to fame. The Charlton goalie got injured early on and so Keith came on.

He was well liked at Gills when he managed them, known for his sheepskin coat He was in charge for the Gills/Everton FA Cup trilogy in 1984 which had it ended differently would most likely have meant the glory years for the toffees of the mid 80s would not have happened.

Gavin was on the local BBC news last year - he had just come over from Canada for a one year stint as Pastor of Bethersden Baptist church (near Ashford), not sure if the year is up yet. Had a good career and seemed very content with life, good on him.

Sam Bartram made the most appearances for Charlton , Keith Peacock is the highest number for an outfield player

Mr Strawman, thanks for that correction,  as I said I hadn't googled, just something I remembered, or so I thought, from my youth
Dixie, I knew both Keith and Gavin a little bit, a great family

Also, to do with Charlton, I believe the Valley had the biggest single terrace capacity in the UK, if not Europe...the side opposite the Main stand, was huge, all terraced, no seats, must have held about 40k at a guess

After the Gills, Keith moved along the Medway Valley to manage Maidstone during their somewhat brief stay in the football league.
Nearly got them promoted but they lost in the play off semi final v Cambridge when they were in front late on before a certain Dion Dublin got two late goals for Cambridge.

The next season they were going well before hitting a poor run and KP was sacked, much to the annoyance of many fans. He was replaced by Alan Carr's dad who got sacked himself less than a year later as the club spiralled in to obscurity as a result of financial mismanagement and they eventually went in to liquidation at the start of the next season .

Yes Dixie, I knew Graham Carr when he was manager at Weymouth and Nuneaton
He also played for Dartford as a real tough defender...you wouldn't think his son was Alan Carr...!!!

Did Chris Balderstone play for Carlisle United in Division 1 (top league) in 1974 and play Cricket for Leicestershire?

Its hard to imagine Carlisle in the Premier league today.

analyst

not only were they in the top division they were top for a few weeks.

oldham were actually in the premier league ,fa cup semi finals and a league cup final

Dixie it was a stat probably from 15+ yrs ago around the time everyone was doing a 6 team acca with EPL top 4 + celtic,rangers  and was highlighted in racing post as to what bad value 28,s to 33,s was for that bet at that particular time ,obviously the more competitive the LG the more chance of it happening

analyst - i have good reason to remember Carlisle in the top flight that season as Everton somehow managed to lose home and away against them. Had the toffees won those games they would have been champions Carlisle eventually finished bottom of the table.

Chris Balderstone joined Doncaster the next season and created a bit of history, he was in the middle of a Championship game for Leicestershire v Derbyshire and was not out at close of play on day 2, dashed off to play for rovers against Brentford, then back for Day 3 of the cricket where he then completed his century ! He then took 3 wickets and Leicester won the game and with it the county championship. An excellent all round sportsman, he became an umpire after his playing days were over. Sadly died at the age of just 59.

1tp - i don't doubt that the bet is bad value overall, but cannot believe such a low number of games panned out that way. As an Everton fan i can remember two games i was at in 1994 and 1995 where we were losing HT and won FT - the famous Wimbledon game on the last day of the season, 2-1 down at HT, won 3-2 and March 95, away at QPR, 1-0 down at HT, again won 3-2. And that's just my club, there must be many more examples.

Would be interested how often the supposed big teams are losing at half time and win at full time. The likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid,Celtic, Rangers and united when fergie was manager. If you backed them blindly would only need them to do it twice a season to eek out a small profit.

Years ago thought about doing it with Rangers and Celtic every week in a small double 25-1 and 25-1 equals a 675-1 double, would be like buying a lottery ticket I know but a fun bet with potential decent pick up. With them normally kicking off at different times could play them on the exchange potentially getting a slightly bigger price.

Denis and Leslie Compton are the only players to have won the First Division and the County Championship , they won the County Championship in 1947 and followed up with the First Divison for 1947-48 Season

i went to watch liverpool play carlisle at carlisle. it was early in the season and we drew with them 1-1.

it was carnage after the match

This hasn't happened yet but if West Ham v Bournemouth is a draw
tomorrow that will be 6 draws on the spin in the League between us.

The shortest Premier League career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_UTT3w9JXM&t=1448s