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My look at Bayern Munich's 125 years of history in numbers: 🏆24 players to have won the World Cup. Which is the only club to have had more? 🤯A 16-1 victory ❌1993-94 was the last Bayern season without either Oliver Kahn or Thomas Muller www.nytimes.com/athletic/612...

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Bayern Munich and The Labour Party (UK) were both founded on this day in 1900. Number of times Bayern have won the European Cup/Champions League: Six Number of Labour Prime Ministers: Seven #OTD

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Thomas Müller has now played more games for Bayern Munich than Jamie Carragher played for Liverpool (738 v 737).

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From January 2027, The United States Senate will contain neither Mitch McConnell or John C. Stennis for the first time since November 1947.

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Champions League hat-tricks for Real Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo: 7 Karim Benzema: 4 Raúl: 1 Ronaldo: 1 Rodrygo: 1 Vinicius Junior: 1 Kylian Mbappé: 1 🆕

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Most Champions League hat-tricks by club: Real Madrid: 16 ⬆️ Barcelona: 15 Bayern Munich: 12 Liverpool: 7 Manchester City: 7 Manchester United: 7 Paris Saint-Germain: 7 #UCL

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Manchester United's record vs Tottenham: March 1996 to March 2012: Lost 3 of 39 games August 2023 to February 2025: Lost 4 of 5 games #TOTMUN

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22% of Tottenham's wins in the Premier League this season have been against Manchester United. #TOTMUN

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Games needed to beat Manchester United four times: Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham: 5 Arsène Wenger at Arsenal: 6 José Mourinho at Chelsea: 6 Pep Guardiola at Manchester City: 7 Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool: 14

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Seven of the nine players on Manchester United's bench today were born after the Glazers took control of the club. #MUFC

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28% of the penalties scored in the Premier League this season have been by Mohamed Salah and Justin Kluivert (13/47). For context, 27 players have taken a penalty in the competition in 2024-25.

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There have now been the same number of Premier League hat-tricks scored by Egyptians as there have been by Italians (five). #Marmoush

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Mohamed Salah is now past the halfway mark to Jimmy Greaves' all-time record for the most goals scored in the English top flight: Greaves: 357 Salah: 179

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#OTD in 1997 England lost a home World Cup qualifier for the first time — a 0-1 defeat by Italy. The match was Matt Le Tissier's eighth and final cap. The sides met twice more in 1997 — Croatia in 2018 is the only time since that England have played a team three times in a year.

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Current Premier League clubs that haven’t reached the fifth round of the FA Cup in any of the last five seasons: Arsenal Brentford #FACup

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Ipswich’s victory today means that all of the current 20 Premier League clubs have made the fifth round of the FA Cup since the iPhone was released.

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Cristiano Ronaldo scored more goals in the Champions League than his old club Manchester United did during his time at Real Madrid (this and much more is in the piece linked in the below post).

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Here are 40 of my own stats, facts and pieces of trivia about Cristiano Ronaldo for his 40th birthday: ⚽️ More goals than Henry, Del Piero & Rashford combined 🧮 Played in 32% of games in Portugal's history 🌕 One team-mate born before humans walked on the moon 👇 www.nytimes.com/athletic/604...

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Cristiano Ronaldo has played his final game in his 30s: Goals as a teenager: 23 Goals in his 20s: 440 Goals in his 30s: 460 Goals in his 40s: ?

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This is the first season since 2016-17 (Pep Guardiola's first campaign at the club) that Manchester City have conceded 4+ goals in two different Premier League games (also Tottenham at home in November).

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As it stands, Tottenham — who are in 14th position — have scored the second-highest number of goals in the Premier League this season.

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Most away wins at Old Trafford in the Premier League in the last six seasons: CRYSTAL PALACE: 4 Liverpool: 3 Brighton: 3 Arsenal: 2 Manchester City: 2 Tottenham: 2 Bournemouth: 2

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Teams to have lost more than four Premier League home games since Ruben Amorim's first league game at Old Trafford: Ipswich (six) Manchester United (five) Southampton (five) #MUFC

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Crystal Palace's record playing Manchester United at Old Trafford from 1922 to 2018: Three wins in 27 games. Crystal Palace's record playing Manchester United at Old Trafford from 2019 to 2025: Four wins in seven games.

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Yesterday was the 600th game that Manuel Neuer and Thomas Müller have played on the same team in (504 for Bayern Munich and 96 for Germany).

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The four goals: Shane Long: 7.69 secs for Southampton: DREW 1-1 v Watford in 2019 Philip Billing: 9.11s for Bournemouth: LOST 2-3 v Arsenal in 2023 Ledley King: 9.82s for Spurs: DREW 3-3 v Bradford in 2000 Abdoulaye Doucoure: 10.18s for Everton: WON 4-0 v Leicester in 2025

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Abdoulaye Doucoure's goal for Everton today, after 10.18 seconds, is the fastest in Premier League history for a team that went on to win the match. The three faster goals were all scored by teams who failed to win.

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Mohamed Salah has now scored more Premier League goals for Liverpool than Thierry Henry scored for Arsenal (176 v 175).

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Chris Wood has now scored the same number of Premier League hat-tricks as Cristiano Ronaldo (three).

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Ruud van Nistelrooy (56), Kylian Mbappé (51), Zlatan Ibrahimović (48), Antoine Griezmann (42) and Sergio Agüero (41) are now the only players to have scored more goals in the European Cup/Champions League than Harry Kane (35) without winning the competition.

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21 of the 36 teams in this season’s Champions League league phase got more points in eight games than Derby County did in 38 games in the 2007-08 Premier League season. #UCL

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Harry Kane has now scored more goals in the European Cup/Champions League than Gerd Müller (35 v 34). #UCL

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Most goals scored in the history of the European Cup/Champions League: Cristiano Ronaldo: 140 Lionel Messi: 129 Robert Lewandowski: 103 Karim Benzema: 90 Raúl: 71 Thomas Müller: 56 🆕 Ruud van Nistelrooy: 56 Kylian Mbappé: 51 Thierry Henry: 50 Alfredo Di Stéfano: 49 #UCL

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Clubs to have received the most Premier League red cards since Mikel Arteta became Arsenal manager: Arsenal: 19 Wolves: 14 Everton: 13 Chelsea: 12 Brighton: 12 West Ham: 12

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James Milner’s absence from Brighton’s squad today means he can no longer equal Gareth Barry’s Premier League appearance record this season.

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If Rocky Flintoff plays Test cricket for England before 11 August 2026 he will break Rehan Ahmed’s record as the youngest player in the country’s history.

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Robert Lewandowski has now scored 101 goals in the Champions League — becoming just the third player to reach a century in the competition: ⚡ Got to 100 in 12 fewer games than Ronaldo 😦 One goal with his back 🧤 An assist from Neuer My breakdown is here: www.nytimes.com/athletic/590...

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This week’s matches will be the first European Cup/Champions League games in January since 1968 (Eintracht Braunschweig 3-2 Juventus on the 31st). There have been just nine games in January in the competition's history right now — it will be 27 by the end of Wednesday.

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With more than half the season played, 15% of the penalties scored in the Premier League in 2024-25 have been by Justin Kluivert.

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Bruno Fernandes has now scored more goals for Manchester United than David Beckham (86 v 85). #MUFC

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Sean Dyche’s replacement will be Everton’s ninth permanent manager since April 2016. Liverpool have had nine different permanent managers since June 1985.

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Mohamed Salah's 18 league goals in 2024-25 would already have made him Liverpool's top scorer in 19 of their 32 previous Premier League seasons. Liverpool still have half the campaign left to play. #LIVMUN

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Mohamed Salah has now scored the same number of Premier League goals as Thierry Henry (175). #LIVMUN

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#OTD 25 years ago the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship began in Brazil. It was the first Club World Cup and eight teams competed. Manchester United withdrew from the FA Cup to play in it and faced Ange Postecoglou's South Melbourne at the Maracanã in the groups. Brazilian side Corinthians won.

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Chelsea have now scored more Premier League goals this season than they did in the whole of the 2022-23 campaign (39 v 38). They still have almost half the season left to play. #CRYCHE

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