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Monday 24 January
Alan, Liverpool: Alright Gaff can you name the 15 different nationalities to have scored in the Merseyside Derby?
The Gaffer says: I've got 15 if you count the UK as one (if not, there's 18). The others are Republic of Ireland, France, Spain, Australia, Portugal, Holland, Canada, Norway, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, Israel, Denmark and South Africa.
Rich, Basingstoke: Gaff, which season has had the most own goals and has there ever been a game where more than two players have scored own goals?
The Gaffer says: The most in a Premier League season is 43 in 2009-10. There have been two matches in England where three players have scored own goals for the same team. The first time it happened was on Boxing Day in 1952. Sheffield Wednesday's Vince Kenny, Norman Curtis and Eddie Gannon all netted at the wrong end in a 5-4 defeat to West Brom in Div 1. Two years later, Rochdale's George Underwood, Kenny Boyle and Danny Murphy all scored own goals in a 7-2 defeat at Carlisle in Div 3 North.
BlueSpire, Derby: Could you tell me the name of the non-league player who was in the running for goal of the year at the Baloon d'Or please?
The Gaffer says: It was Glentoran's Matty Burrows (Irish, not non-league). His jumping backheel volley against Portadown was shortlisted for the Fifa Puskas Award, which honours the player judged to have scored the "most beautiful" goal of the year. However, Burrows lost out to Bayern Munich and Turkey midfielder Hamit Altintop, for his volleyed goal in Turkey's Euro 2012 qualifying game against Kazakhstan. Linus Hallenius of Hammarby was runner-up and Holland's Giovanni van Bronckhorst took third place.
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