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16/08/10 - 22/08/10: Consecutive hat-tricks; most own goals; games abandoned mid-match due to bad weather. Trivia answers
09/08/10 - 15/08/10: Most consecutive Community Shield wins; longest hat-trick drought; last team to score 10. Trivia answers
02/08/10 - 08/08/10: Was Solskjaer really a super sub; London derby hat-tricks; Birmingham's Pope urban myth. Trivia answers
26/07/10 - 01/08/10: Most expensive XI ever; Scottish stalwarts in the EPL; Albert Stubbins' claim to fame. Trivia answers
19/07/10 - 25/07/10: One-club men; Liverpool's No 10s; first club to have an all-seater stadium in the UK. Trivia answers
12/07/10 - 18/07/10: UWC and World Cup doubles; why Holland wear orange; more medals for Liverpool than games? Trivia answers
05/07/10 - 11/07/10: Players to play for different countries, and what exactly does Oliver Bierhoff do? Trivia answers
28/06/10 - 04/07/10: Sergio Aguero's nickname; record penalty saves at the World Cup; England players in Germany. Trivia answers
21/06/10 - 27/06/10: England's record in different colours; English players at three World Cups; Kim Jung-Woo's salute. Trivia answers
14/06/10 - 20/06/10: Biggest World Cup qualifying win; last England player to play his football in Scotland. Trivia answers
07/06/10 - 13/06/10: World Cup and Champions Lge winners; only person to play World Cup football and cricket. Trivia answers
31/05/10 - 06/06/10: England wearing yellow; first World Cup penalty shootout; Foxes at the World Cup. Trivia answers
24/05/10 - 30/05/10: Best England goals/game ratio; three goalkeepers in one World Cup and, erm, the Eurovision song contest. Trivia answers
17/05/10 - 23/05/10: Lowest World Cup attendance; the feats of Dixie Dean; FA Cup-winning players and managers. Trivia answers
10/05/10 - 16/05/10: Brothers for different nations; English managers in the Champions League; play-off hat-tricks. Trivia answers
03/05/10 - 09/05/10: London XI to give Scotland a game; boring play-offs; lowest player wages. Trivia answers
26/04/10 - 02/05/10: England players with an 'x' in their name; goalscoring defenders; Fifa's worst team. Trivia answers
19/04/10 - 25/04/10: Outfield players in goal; progression of the world transfer record; most capped England keepers. Trivia answers
12/04/10 - 18/04/10: Most Premier League headed goals; black England players; record play-off failures. Trivia answers
05/04/10 - 11/04/10: Premier League club transfer records; most cards in a season; four-decade players. Trivia answers
29/03/10 - 04/04/10: Joe Cole's record as a sub, hat-tricks of penalties and the 2000th World Cup goal. Trivia answers
22/03/10 - 28/03/10: Man Utd's World Cup winners; triple hat-trick heroes; most managers sacked in Premier League season. Trivia answers
15/03/10 - 21/03/10: Gazza's first international goal; players to wear Liverpool's No7; last hat-trick against England. Trivia answers
08/03/10 - 14/03/10: The first £1,000-a-week player; most headed goals in Premier Lge season; double cup winners. Trivia answers
01/03/10 - 07/03/10: Premier Lge's best goalscoring duos; England's top shots in Europe; highest paid players. Trivia answers
22/02/10 - 28/02/10: Team with the longest name, Argentina's World Cup squad numbers and Brazilians in the Prem. Trivia answers
15/02/10 - 21/02/10: Ex-Man Utd youths in the Prem, Ricardo Fuller's earring and highest shirt numbers. Trivia answers
08/02/10 - 14/02/10: Most games without a penalty; most own goals in a season and goalscoring twins. Trivia answers
01/02/10 - 07/02/10: Players to score in three decades; highest goalkeeper's number and how do Italy pick captains? Trivia answers
25/01/10 - 31/01/10: Shearer and Lineker playing together, most capped French players, Johan Cruyff's two stripes. Trivia answers
18/01/10 - 24/01/10: Most successful English club, Premier League's longest ever beard, record headed goals. Trivia answers
11/01/10 - 17/01/10: James Milner's managerial curse; great goalscoring keepers; when there were no reds in the top four. Trivia answers
04/01/10 - 10/01/10: Pele playing in England, names linked to intelligence, quickest to 50 Premier League goals. Trivia answers
28/12/09 - 03/01/10: Harry Redknapp's record against Man Utd, longest time between a player's England caps, most unused sub. Trivia answers
21/12/09 - 27/12/09: First foreigners in the Premier League; award-winning keepers; the club that's had most managers. Trivia answers
14/12/09 - 20/12/09: Norwegian hat-trick heroes; Allens' hall of fame; best goal-to-minute ratio; Mancini's likely targets. Trivia answers
07/12/09 - 13/12/09: Long-rangers, Brits down under and players outside the Prem who've won the Champions League. Trivia answers
30/11/09 - 06/12/09: Lowest-ranked World Cup winners, first team to use nets and a ground near a dormant volcano. Trivia answers
23/11/09 - 29/11/09: First Football League substitute, quickest ever goal, landmark Premier League goalscorers. Trivia answers
16/11/09 - 22/11/09: Oldest Premier League goalscorers, longest suspensions, English players in America. Trivia answers
09/11/09 - 15/11/09: Earliest completed Prem hat-trick, most players from one club in England XI, England bogey teams. Trivia answers
02/11/09 - 08/11/09: Bosses who signed players three times, Anelka's 14 managers, Dutch East Indies' claim to fame. Trivia answers
26/10/09 - 01/11/09: Most years between titles, most caps without a goal, most consecutive games. Trivia answers
19/10/09 - 25/10/09: Fastest ever Champions League goal, most capped Premier League player, AC Milan's losing record. Trivia answers
12/10/09 - 18/10/09: Long-distance headers, biggest spending Prem clubs and did Maradona play for Spurs? Trivia answers
05/10/09 - 11/10/09: The lowest-ranked team to have beaten England and short-term club owners. Trivia answers
28/09/09 - 04/10/09: World Cup winners to play in an Old Firm derby, Champions League winners from unique countries. Trivia answers
21/09/09 - 27/09/09: England's one-cap goalscorers, Serie A appearance records and three successive hat-tricks. Trivia answers
14/09/09 - 20/09/09: Highest penalty scorers in the Premier League and 25 players who appeared for Sheff Utd and Wednesday. Trivia answers
07/09/09 - 13/09/09: Hat-tricks by England midfielders and when the Rest of the World came to Wembley. Trivia answers
31/08/09 - 06/09/09: Smallest player ever, Cole's row with Sheringham and most successful colours. Trivia answers
24/08/09 - 30/08/09: Footballing politicians; youngest captain to win Champions League; most Premier League appearances. Trivia answers
17/08/09 - 23/08/09: Smallest country to provide a Premier League player; most hat-tricks for one club; most relegated player. Trivia answers
10/08/09 - 16/08/09: Club with the worst League Cup record; highest priced uncapped Englishman; Roy Keane conundrum. Trivia answers
03/08/09 - 09/08/09: Played for Man Utd and Barcelona; most headed goals in the Premier League; FA Cup leading goalscorer. Trivia answers
27/07/09 - 02/08/09: European teams to win the treble or quadruple; Frenchmen to play for Newcastle. Trivia answers
20/07/09 - 26/07/09: Most-capped Premier League manager; Europe's record goalscorers; the Brylcream Boy revealed. Trivia answers
13/07/09 - 19/07/09: Brothers in the Prem; most saves in a shootout; Fifa and European player award winners. Trivia answers
06/07/09 - 12/07/09: Longest penalty shootouts; first substitute and perfect Premier League hat-tricks. Trivia answers
29/06/09 - 05/07/09: Managers who've won top flight with different clubs; retired shirts and Diana Ross. Trivia answers
22/06/09 - 28/06/09: First £100k British transfer; most common Premier League surname; international twins. Trivia answers
15/06/09 - 21/06/09: The leakiest Premier League keeper; the longest Celtic and Rangers have gone without tropies. Trivia answers
08/06/09 - 14/06/09: World Cup clean-sheet records; most capped players; England's highest scoring partnerships. Trivia answers
01/06/09 - 07/06/09: England players to be sent off; Rangers players with the letter 'u' in their first and last names. Trivia answers
25/05/09 - 31/05/09: First player to be sent off in Champions League final; most penalties awarded in a game. Trivia answers
18/05/09 - 24/05/09: Premier League ever-presents; foreign managers in the SPL; World Cup wonders. Trivia answers
11/05/09 - 17/05/09: Foreign Premier League managers; Fewest defeats for a runner-up; Premier League own goals. Trivia answers
04/05/09 - 10/05/09: Premier League player-managers; Highest Uefa Cup scorers; Champions League debut hat-tricks. Trivia answers
27/04/09 - 03/05/09: One-club wonders; Premier League's most booked players; most international caps: Trivia answers
20/04/09 - 26/04/09: Scorer of most England hat-tricks; Cruyff's special deal; Ruud's record goal run: Trivia answers
13/04/09 - 19/04/09: Brothers to play for different countries; England internationals born abroad. Trivia answers
06/04/09 - 12/04/09: Youngest ever league scorer; players with capital city surnames and matches won by coin toss. Trivia answers
30/03/09 - 05/04/09: International goal droughts; Italians in the Prem; non-indigenous title winners. Trivia answers
23/03-09 - 29/03/09: Oldest England debutant; the football Lord; England players with an 'x'; Charity Shield poser. Trivia answers
16/03/09 - 22/03/09: British players to score in two European Cup finals; highest scoring keeper; most teams in a city. Trivia answers
09/03/09 - 15/03/09: Brothers to play in the Premier League; first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final at Wembley. Trivia answers
02/03/09 - 08/03/09: Last three English managers to win the FA Cup; non-English Premier League high scorers. Trivia answers
23/02/09 - 01/03/09: Smallest ever crowd; Laurie Cunningham's strange fact; Kanu's great record, quickest goal. Trivia answers
16/02/09 - 22/02/09: 13 Prem winners from one country; unofficial world champions; fathers and sons in same XI. Trivia answers
09/02/09 - 15/02/09: Rio Ferdinand's stint in goal; which footballer links England, Scotland, Wales and Jamaica? Trivia answers
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