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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 1d

Yep - amazing! Wrote about it in this:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/489... From 6-6 to 10-4: The nine results to happen only once in English top-flight football

From 6-6 to 10-4: The nine results to happen only once in English top-flight football

After Newcastle recorded just the second 8-0 away win in England's elite division, we explore the scorelines it has only seen once

www.nytimes.com

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 1d

Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 1958, Tottenham beat Everton 10-4 in the First Division.

The 14 goals scored is the joint most in an English top-flight match — along with Aston Villa 12-2 Accrington in March 1892.

The picture is of Everton's Jimmy Harris, who scored a hat-trick in defeat.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 9d

On this day in 2015, Sergio Agüero scored five goals for Manchester City in a Premier League game vs Newcastle United... before being substituted in the 66th minute by Manuel Pellegrini.

It remains the last time a player scored five goals in an English top-flight match.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 9d

There are more players at German clubs in the England squad than there are players at Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea combined.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 10d

With Crystal Palace on the cusp of their longest unbeaten run ever, I've dived into history and explored other English clubs' record streaks without defeat.

Whose is the longest? And shortest? Which team's was set in the 19th century?

My piece here:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

Crystal Palace are on the cusp of their longest-ever unbeaten run. What is your club’s?

Palace last lost a match on April 16 — 5-0 away at Newcastle United — and since then have gone unbeaten to move level with the 1969 team

www.nytimes.com

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 11d

Harry Kane has now scored more goals for Bayern Munich than Cristiano Ronaldo scored for Juventus (102 v 101).

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 12d

Are the feats of past footballing greats at risk of being forgotten due to the game's expanding schedule?

My column on what there now being no players from the European Cup era of the European Cup/Champions League in the tournament's top 10 scorers means:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

As Erling Haaland joins the European Cup’s top 10 scorers, are yesterday’s heroes being forgotten?

There are no more pre-1992 players in the European Cup/Champions League's list of top 10 scorers. Does it matter?

www.nytimes.com

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 13d

Real Madrid play Kairat in the Champions League tomorrow in arguably the biggest mismatch in the competition's history.

It's the 15-time champions of Europe against the one-time European Railways Cup winners.

I've compared the two teams:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

Kairat-Real Madrid: The numbers behind the biggest mismatch in Champions League history

Fifteen continental titles, hundreds of millions of fans, billions of dollars and 4,000 miles separate the sides who will meet on Tuesday

www.nytimes.com

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 13d

Since the competition started, Donald Trump is the only U.S. president never to have been in office for an American Ryder Cup win.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 13d

Aston Villa just doubled their number of Premier League goals scored this season in three minutes.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 14d

A third of the goals scored in the Premier League so far today have come in second-half added time (7 out of 21).

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 14d

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 14d

On this day in 1953, Alfredo Di Stéfano made his debut for Real Madrid after a contentious transfer tug of war with Barcelona.

He won the European Cup/Champions League five times with Madrid and scored in all five finals — nobody else has scored in more than three EC/CL finals.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 17d

Manchester City's victory tonight means that Pep Guardiola's 1,000th game as a manager will be against Liverpool on November 9.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 18d

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 18d

On this day in 1892, Derby's Steve Bloomer scored the first of his 314 goals in the English top flight. Only Jimmy Greaves (357) has more.

Bloomer is one of four players to score five goals in a game for England, and the last to do so outside England: v Wales in Cardiff in 1896.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 19d

Here is the age of every Ballon d'Or winner through time:

#BallonDor

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 19d

Every winner of the Ballon d’Or from 2013 onwards has been aged 28 or older.

#BallonDor

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 19d

French players have now won the Ballon d'Or the joint-highest number of times:

Most wins by country:

France: 8 🆕
Argentina: 8
Germany: 7
Netherlands: 7
Portugal: 7
Italy: 5
Brazil: 5
England: 5

(German winners includes those from West Germany).

#BallonDor

Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 19d

Ousmane Dembélé is the first player to win the Ballon d'Or while representing a club from his own country at the time of the ceremony since Englishman Michael Owen in 2001 (Liverpool).

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 20d

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 20d

On this day in 1929, Sándor Kocsis was born. He scored 75 goals in 68 games for Hungary — the best goals-per-game average of men with 50+ international goals since WW2.

He scored a hat-trick in consecutive matches at the 1954 World Cup; only Gerd Müller in 1970 has matched this.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 23d

In terms of overall games played (excluding qualifying):

European Cup era: 2,135

Champions League era: 3,859

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 23d

18 September 2007: Ruud van Nistelrooy breaks Raúl's record to become the player to score 50 goals in the European Cup/Champions League in the fewest number of games (62).

18 September 2025: Exactly 18 years later, Erling Haaland breaks Van Nistelrooy's record (49 games).

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