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Which football club has had the fewest sponsor logos on their shirt?

Plus: biggest points deficit before a shock, worst-performing managers that helped win a title and keepers on corners

The Guardian - UK · May 27

Which football match holds the record for the most red cards?

Plus: privately-educated players, surviving despite away-day woes; and the trophy-less 1909 Scottish Cup

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11

Has a footballer ever been sent off but still named player of the match?

Plus: high-scoring symmetrical scorelines, Scottish two-club title winners and an almost-one-club manager

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18

What is the heaviest defeat to end a long unbeaten run in football?

Plus: title winners with multiple clubs, a very southern English top flight, more palindromes and mascots on shirts

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2024

Which footballers have won most under-age caps and switched allegiances?

Plus: winless quintets this far into an English top-flight season, more unlikely tattoos and first-half shellackings

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024

‘It’s not about where you were conceived’: how a giant Chiko Roll reignited a feud among Australian towns

Wagga Wagga, Bendigo and Bathurst all lay claim to the humble savoury snack. A 2m-tall tribute is at the centre of a new battle over its legacy

The Guardian - AU · Apr 24, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2024

Football’s biggest points gaps between one position and the next

Plus: muted international goal celebrations, more short multi-divisional stadium-hopping and Greece taking an 1896 beating

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2024

Which football manager has the worst win percentage in any tenure?

Plus: players taking the most successful penalties, big gaps from top halves to bottom, and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink

The Guardian - UK · Jan 3, 2024