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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

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

Which Premier League manager has the highest low-possession record in a game?

Plus: teams on epic draw streaks, early season pitch invasions and long-throw world records

The Guardian - UK

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Which nationalities have featured in First Division but not Premier League?

Plus: consecutive 3-2 defeats, more capital underachievers and a post-Christmas slump for the ages

The Guardian - UK

Which international fixture would be worth the highest score in Scrabble?

Plus: managers sacked just before cup finals, and teams with goal differences higher than their league position

The Guardian - UK

Is there a more internationally capped surname in football than Jones?

Plus: cup-tied finalists that lose but win a medal, 66 goals in a week and the oldest team with a body part in their name

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

‘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

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

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

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

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

What is the longest sequential run of points in a football league table?

Plus: late Premier League sackings; which club has had the most England managers; and a Son Heung-min double

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What is the lowest football score that has never happened?

Plus: scorers of the perfect ‘German’ hat-trick, Champions League teams who have been relegated and much more

The Guardian - UK

Which is the biggest English football club without a train station nearby?

Plus: the most home games in one month, Imre Schlosser’s time facing Austria and the last season with the same managers

The Guardian - UK

Mind the gigantic gap: huge points differences between top and bottom

Plus: record runners-up streaks, more hot dates in club names and are pre-season friendlies really meaningless?

The Guardian - UK

Which football clubs have won the league title in their centenary year?

Plus: yo-yo clubs avoiding each other, statues of bookable offences and which match produced the most pundits?

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