The Knowledge
theguardian.com's crack team of sleuths answer your cunning/inane questions on the world of football
Which football squad has had most future Premier League managers?
Plus: who has taken part in the most shootouts; world, continental and Olympic champions and more
Who are football’s most expensive uncapped players?
Plus: one club represented by all four semi-finalists; more comebacks kings and queens; and on-field player arrests
Comeback kings and queens at major international football tournaments
Plus: teams wearing their away strip all the time; clubs dominating tournament squads; and did Stuart Pearce’s brother run the line in a Forest game?
What are the most boring (and exciting) goalless draws at the Euros?
Plus: long-shot winners of the Euros, double trouble in major tournaments and Chris Nicholl’s stunning feat
The most one-sided penalty shootouts at major football tournaments
Plus: goal-shy teams who topped their groups, yellow cards as tie-breakers and England v Aylesbury
Which tournament winners took the longest time to score their first goal?
Plus: second-tier stadiums in the Euros; the player who was even younger than Lamine Yamal; and top-scorers who didn’t make the finals
The curious case of the seven-match goals trend at Euro 2024
Plus: free-agents winning the Euros; capped parents and offspring; and England’s record of opening the scoring
Is Cristiano Ronaldo’s two-decade scoring feat for Portugal a record?
Plus: who has the most assists at the Euros; winning the FA Cup before the FA Youth Cup and more
A brief history of football’s most eye-opening penalty shootout comebacks
Plus: winning the FA Youth Cup and FA Cup in double-quick time, Jude Bellingham’s two-league feat, and more
Is Bayer Leverkusen’s 40-point increase between seasons a record?
Plus: very early promotions and relegations, and teams with multiple cups but no league titles in their trophy cabinets
Which football teams have won the most domestic cups in a row?
Plus: winning every domestic honour, the mother of all aggregate league drubbings and more
Has Xhaka set a record for a new signing by going 47 games unbeaten?
Plus: serial runners-up, long gaps between winning the same competition, terrible penalty shootouts and more
What is the largest aggregate football scoreline over two league matches?
Plus: the same losing teams in the playoffs in consecutive seasons and even bigger cumulative cup crowds
What is the biggest cumulative football attendance for a cup tie?
Plus: Championship stalwarts who never played in the top flight, top-scoring in the same division for longest streak and more
Can any footballer top Kingsley Coman’s run of consecutive league titles?
Plus: players injured warming up on touchline, points-per-game differentials of long-serving players and more
Premier League players representing countries with the lowest Fifa ranking
Plus: winning a title from way behind, even further-apart country clashes in the Euro and long-throw fatigue
From the top of the world to the bottom in consecutive football games
Plus: the most far-apart country clash in the Euros, an excruciating marriage proposal and more
Has a footballer ever made a marriage proposal during 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
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
Who was the first footballer booked for removing a shirt in celebration?
Plus: most goals conceded with a positive GD, more refuseniks and managerial replacements with the same initials
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