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  1. Sunday 5th February 2012: Which five players have appeared for both Manchester United and Barcelona? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  2. Saturday 4th February 2012: Which two managers have lost all three major European club competition Finals they've participated in? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  3. Thursday 2nd February 2012: Which four Scottish players have won English Premier League medals? Friday 3rd February 2012: Which two players have scored over 100 Premier League goals without ever scoring a penalty? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  4. 4,850 page views would tend to disagree with you. Wednesday 1st February 2012: Who was the first player to score a hat-trick of penalties in an English Top Flight League match? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  5. Tuesday 31st January 2012: Who is the only player to be on the losing team in an FA Cup Final with three different teams? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  6. Monday 30th January 2012 Who is the only player to score hat-tricks in the Premier League, UEFA Champions League and FA Cup for the same club? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  7. Sunday 29th January 2012 How many Italian players have won English Premier League medals? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  8. Saturday 28th January 2012 Who is the only player to score goals in 10 consecutive full England internationals? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  9. Friday 27th January 2012 Which English player has scored the most Premier League goals without ever winning a full England cap? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  10. Thursday 26th January 2012 Which two players who have won the FIFA World Cup also managed Premier League clubs? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  11. Wednesday 25th January 2012 Which is the only club that won the English Top Flight League Championship after being in the bottom half of the table at Christmas? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  12. Tuesday 24th January 2012 Which six players have won both the English & Scottish Premier Leagues? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  13. Monday 23rd January 2012 Who is the all-time record goalscorer at an African Cup of Nations Finals tournament? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  14. Definite stamp, as you can clearly see. City can count themselves very fortunate that they didn't have two players sent-off yesterday. When the FA review the video evidence, both players may well receive suspensions, although that's of little comfort to Spurs. Oh well...
  15. If Spurs draw or lose to City, I'd like a draw in the Woolwich v United match. But if Spurs can manage to beat City, an Arsenal win would be best for us. And I can't believe I'd want Arsenal to win a match!
  16. James Lawton: Cry God for Harry, Spurs and a return of football values Tottenham, while not exactly paupers, have played their way into contention for the title If tribal instincts hadn't become so rampant, if undiluted hatred didn't so often appear to be the most persuasive currency in the national game, we might have something like consensus on this weekend of potentially significant Premier League action. It might be expressed in one simple exhortation, the one that goes: "Come on, Spurs." Manchester City supporters are of course granted exclusion from any such obligation. Understandably, they are proud of a team that in the shape of engaging and hugely talented figures like Sergio Aguero, David Silva and, when he joins us for a little while on Planet Earth, Mario Balotelli, have become progressively agreeable. However, Tottenham surely demand the affection, and yes, the support, of a wider audience because they so regularly produce beautiful football at considerably less than ruinous cost to the idea that the ability to make a team, to have it strong and creative at every point, is still within the scope of a football man as intuitive as their manager, Harry Redknapp. City, like Chelsea before them, paid their way with unprecedented resources into the elite which used to be a private club occupied by Manchester United and Arsenal, who provide the second phase of tomorrow's double-header in the knowledge that Arsène Wenger's problems have sharply eroded the old edge of their rivalry. Tottenham, while not exactly paupers, have played their way into contention for their first title since the one conjured from among the stars by such as Blanchflower and Mackay, White and Jones 51 years ago. If it happens, today's Spurs will not suffer too much in comparison with the team which won England's first European prize and played with a brilliant hauteur that persuaded the young Manchester United player John Giles that they had arrived from another civilisation. This week Redknapp has been banging on to an unusual degree about the nature of his club's return to prominence, how it has come not from the happenchance of a desert wind bearing undreamt riches but old fashioned nous in appreciating the true value of players. Yesterday he was again cranking up the pressure on himself as much as City by saying that players like Luka Modric, Rafael van der Vaart and Gareth Bale would be given their heads and their hearts. He said he hated the possibility of returning to London without "having a go". If Redknapp sounds like a man on the edge, it is because he is – and who can blame him after considering the stakes at the Etihad Stadium. City and Spurs have, after all, formed the habit of breaking each other in pivotal matches. Spurs did it to City the season before last and won themselves a brief but thrilling adventure in the Champions League. City returned the wound last season, though without quite the same impact in Europe. Tomorrow the City requirement is to slash through Tottenham belief as they did at White Lane a few months ago, soon after United had apparently exposed Redknapp's team as no more than occasionally frisky lightweights. That has been made to look bizarre by the force of the Spurs recovery. If Tottenham's high street had burned, so too had the illusions of the football club – but only briefly. Now, with just one League defeat since then – and that a dire piece of larceny at Stoke – it is hard to dispute Redknapp's claim that his team represent a force for good. Apart from putting up the value of their playing staff by upwards of £50m, with Bale on the shopping lists of Real Madrid and Barcelona, coming from under the shadow of Chelsea's assumption that next to City they have the price of anything that moves in English football and retaining the services of one of the game's most creative players in the £16m Modric, Spurs are challenging for the title with a squad that cost only slightly more than half of City's outlay – £153m to £294m. While City have been stymied by the Uefa financial regulations which will acquire teeth in just two years' time, Spurs operate within comfortable margins. It is a stunning story in that it represents what has always been the best hope that English football might one day be rescued from a financial death march for all but such recipients of random wealth as Chelsea and City. Spurs have not enjoyed such sudden largesse. Instead they have shaped their own future, with their own wits and their own financial management. Meanwhile United, defying the downturn of their ability to buy the most expensive players, remain favourites to hold off the might of City. This is mostly a tribute to the extraordinary resilience of Sir Alex Ferguson, whose relatively recent generosity towards the achievements of Wenger is surely evidence that he believes at least one old dispute is consigned to history. Spurs, though, are a separate story. It is one that tomorrow, surely, will commend itself to almost the entire football nation. Big Spenders: Cost of tomorrow's teams Manchester City: Hart £600,000 Richards Youth Savic £6m Lescott £22m Clichy £7m De Jong £18m Barry £12m Milner £24m Silva £24m Nasri £25m Aguero £38m Total cost: £176.6m Tottenham Hotspur: Friedel Free Walker £4.5m Dawson £4m King Youth Assou-Ekotto £3.5m Lennon £1m Parker £5.5m Modric £16.5m Bale £7m Van der Vaart £8m Defoe £16m Total cost: £66m http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/james-lawton-cry-god-for-harry-spurs-and-a-return-of-football-values-6292518.html
  17. Sunday 22nd January 2012 Who is the only Scottish footballer to have scored two Premier League hat-tricks in England? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  18. Saturday 21st January 2012 Which club has played in the Top Flight of English football the most seasons without ever winning the Championship? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  19. Friday 20th January 2012 Which six players won Championship medals in both the old First Division and the Premier League? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  20. Well you can only beat the teams you're up against and the fact remains that City, who are currently top of the Premier League, have lost four matches out of their last nine played to supposedly inferior opposition.
  21. I think the pressure is starting to get to Mancini. City's last nine competitive games have produced 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats, while their next opponents, Tottenham Hotspur, come into the game on a nine match unbeaten run (6 wins, 3 draws). While it would be foolish to say that the wheels have come off City, there are certainly signs that a few of the nuts are loose and they are showing definite signs of a wobble.
  22. Thursday 19th January 2012 Which English club has the most players at the 2012 African Cup of Nations Finals? You can find the answer here... Football Trivia Question of the Day Good luck!
  23. Tottenham Hotspur's top earners are on something like £65,000 a week. By contrast, Queens Park Rangers are paying Joey Barton £80,000 a week. Spurs' annual wage bill (£65 million) is just under the Premier League average, while Chelsea's is almost three times that of Spurs.... Premier League Finances
  24. He's been out injured for a while but he's now getting some game time under his belt, like yesterday's run-out against Celtic. He played the last 8 minutes in Tottenham's 3-0 FA Cup win against Cheltenham earlier this month, which was the first time he played competitive football for Spurs first team this season.
  25. John Bostock scored twice as our Spurs XI team toppled Celtic 4-1 in a training ground friendly on Tuesday. All the goals were scored in an action-packed first half at Spurs Lodge and included two penalties as an experienced Spurs team overcame a young Celtic side. Danny Rose, Seb Bassong, Vedran Corluka, Niko Kranjcar, Giovani dos Santos, Steven Pienaar and Tom Carroll were all in our starting line-up. Cameron Lancaster opened the scoring from the penalty spot after being brought down himself in the box in the 18th minute. That was swiftly followed by the second from Giovani six minutes later, he tapped in from close range after a great run and cross from Pienaar down the left. Bostock came on for injured Lancaster in the 25th minute and was soon in the thick of the action. Corluka, who played the first half on his return, floated in a cross from the right and substitute Bostock converted just six minutes after coming on. Celtic pulled a goal back on the half-hour but it was soon 4-1 as Rose latched onto his own clearance from a corner and raced the length of the pitch, only to be upended in the area. Bostock stepped up this time and made no mistake. Giovani and Corluka were replaced by Alex Pritchard and Lee Angol at half-time, and Angol could have added his name to the scoresheet midway through a largely uneventful second half, only for his shot to fly just past the post after a neat ball in from the left from Rose. The visiting team had a number of chances to close the deficit in the second half, but Alnwick made a string of fine saves, including a crucial double block on the edge on the box to keep the Celtic forwards at bay. Celtic: Thomson Toshney, Blackman, Fraser, Irvine F Twardzik, McGregor, McGeouch, Keatings Atajic and George Subs: Feely, Chalmers, Watt, Jones, Herron and Kidd.
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