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ALVARO ROMEO Specialist subject: Barcelona 2008/09

1) Which player did Barcelona sign from Arsenal in the summer of 2008? Alex Hleb

2) Three members of the squad had also won the Premier League before this season: name two of them (or all three if you want to show off). Thierry Henry, Gerard Pique and Eidur Gudjohnsen

3) Barca lost the first league game of that season to a team that would eventually be relegated: which team? Numancia

4) Name three of the four goalscorers in Barca’s 6-2 hammering of Real Madrid in the Bernabeu (or all four if you want to show off). Thierry Henry (2), Leo Messi (2), Carles Puyol and Gerard Pique

5) Who played in central defence alongside Gerard Pique in the Champions League final? Yaya Toure

General knowledge

1) Who have been runners-up the most times in World Cups? Germany/West Germany (four times)

2) Who is currently on a longer run of consecutive league titles: Bayern or Juventus? Juventus (eight)

3) Who were the first team not called Real Madrid to win the European Cup? Benfica

4) Who are the current champions of Russia? Zenit St Petersburg

5) Which team sold Gianluigi Lentini to Milan in 1992, for a then world record fee of £13million? Torino

DUNCAN ALEXANDER Specialist subject: Premier League Golden Boot

1) Which player has shared the Premier League Golden Boot twice but never won it on his own? Michael Owen

2) Who is the only Golden Boot winner to score his goals for two different clubs in the same season? Teddy Sheringham (Nottingham Forest and Tottenham)

3) Who was the last player to win the Golden Boot in the same season as winning the Premier League? Robin van Persie – Manchester United, 2012/13

4) Four players have won the Premier League Golden Boot and the European Golden Shoe in the same season: name three of them (or all four if you want to show off). Kevin Phillips (1999/2000), Thierry Henry (2003/04 and 2004/05), Cristiano Ronaldo (2007/08) and Luis Suarez (2013/14).

5) Who is the only player to win the Premier League Golden Boot and also be top-scorer at a major international tournament in the same year? Alan Shearer (Euro 96)

General knowledge

1) Who finished bottom in the inaugural Premier League season? Nottingham Forest

2) Who has been runner-up most frequently in the Champions League/European Cup? Juventus

3) Who are the current champions of Belgium? Genk

4) Three men have won the World Cup as both a player and a head coach: name two of them. Mario Zagallo (1958 and 1962 as a player, 1970 as a coach), Franz Beckenbauer (1974 as a player, 1990 as a coach) and Didier Deschamps (1998 as a player, 2018 as a coach).

5) What do these players have in common: Luis Suarez (the Spanish one), Diego Maradona, Ronaldo (the Brazilian one), Luis Figo and Neymar They were all sold by Barcelona for a world record fee.

LYNSEY HOOPER Wolves  2018/19

1) Why would Wily Boly’s goal in the 1-1 draw against Manchester City not have counted in the 2019/20 season? The ball went in off his hand so VAR would have chalked it off

2) Who scored a 93rd minute winner in the 4-3 victory over Leicester in January? Diogo Jota

3) Seven Portuguese players made Premier League starts for Wolves this season: name five of them, or all seven if you want to show off. Ivan Cavaleiro, Ruben Neves, Helder Costa, Rui Patricio, Diogo Jota, Joao Moutinho and Ruben Vinagre

4) One player made a league appearance in both the 2018/19 season in the Premier League, and the 2013/14 season when Wolves were promoted from League One: which player? Matt Doherty

5) Wolves were denied a place in the FA Cup final after Troy Deeney scored a 94th minute penalty in the semi at Wembley: who fouled Deeney to concede that penalty? Leander Dendoncker

General knowledge

1) Three teams have played in just one Premier League season: name two of them. Blackpool, Barnsley, Swindon Town

2) What do Nottingham Forest and Porto have in common, in reference to the Champions League/European Cup? They’re the only teams to have only been in two finals, but won them both

3) Who has the most clean sheets in Premier League history? Petr Cech

4) Three players have been sent off for England at World Cups: name two of them. Ray Wilkins (1986), David Beckham (1998) and Wayne Rooney (2006)

5) Who said the following, about Sven Goran Eriksson: “We needed Churchill, but we got Iain Duncan Smith”? Gareth Southgate

PAT NEVIN Celtic, 1966/67

1) Which club is missing from this list of Celtic’s opponents en route to winning the European Cup? FC Zurich, _______, FK Vojvodina, Dukla Prague, Inter Nantes

2) Who did Celtic beat in the Scottish Cup final? Aberdeen

3) Who scored 35 goals in all competitions, despite not playing a game after Boxing Day? Joe McBride

4) Celtic’s players were famously all born within ten miles of Celtic Park, but which player was the only one who played that season and appeared for a national team other than Scotland? Charlie Gallacher (who played for Ireland)

5) At which stadium did Celtic get the point that confirmed them as league champions? Ibrox

General knowledge

1) By which unusual method was the 1968 European Championships semi-final between Italy and Russia decided? Coin toss

2) How many points did Derby get in their historically bad 2007/08 season? 11

3) Who won the 1999 PFA Player of the Year award Manchester United’s treble-winning players having split the vote? David Ginola

4) Which two players jointly hold the record for most goals scored for the Scottish national team? Denis Law and Kenny Dalglish

5) Who said the following: “When the Italians tell me it’s pasta, I still check under the sauce to make sure.” Alex Ferguson

JAMES HORNCASTLE Inter 2009/10

1) What did Jose Mourinho do on the touchline during a game against Sampdoria to help earn himself a three-game touchline ban? He crossed his arms as if to indicate he was being handcuffed after two of his players were sent off.

2) Which team is missing from this list of teams Inter faced in the knockout rounds of the Champions League: Chelsea, ____, Barcelona, Bayern. CSKA Moscow

3) Which player did Inter loan to Manchester City in the January transfer window? Patrick Vieira

4) What did Massimo Moratti have in common with Michael van Praag, chairman of Ajax in the 1990s, after this season? They both followed in their father’s footsteps as presidents of clubs to win the Champions League/European Cup.

5) Who was the only Italian to appear in the Champions League final for Inter? Marco Materazzi (as a 92nd minute sub)

General knowledge

1) Who has made the most Premier League appearances, with 653? Gareth Barry

2) Who is currently the most expensive defender in the world? Harry Maguire

3) What do the following teams have in common: Reims, Valencia and Atletico Madrid? They’ve all been in more than one Champions League/European Cup final without ever winning it

4) Who were the last team to win the European Championships on home soil? France in 1984

5) Who is the next team in this sequence: Sevilla, Manchester United, Atletico Madrid and…? Chelsea – they’re the last four winners of the Europa League

TOM WILLIAMS Wales at Euro 2016

1) Which player is missing from this list of Welsh goalscorers at Euro 2016 (not including own-goals): Bale, Robson-Kanu, Ramsey, Vokes, Williams Neil Taylor

2) What did Chris Coleman say seconds before Chris Gunter crossed the ball for Sam Vokes to score against Belgium? “Don’t cross that fucking ball Christopher!”

3) Name the director who made the film ‘Don’t Take Me Home’ about Wales at the tournament. Jonny Owen

4) What was unusual about Hal Robson-Kanu’s status when he scored THAT goal against Belgium? He technically didn’t have a club side, his contract with Reading having expired the day before.

5) Aaron Ramsey was suspended from the semi-final against Portugal – which other player also missed that game because he was banned? Ben Davies

General knowledge

1) Alan Shearer has scored the most Premier League goals overall, but who has scored the most Premier League goals for a single club? Wayne Rooney

2) Who are the current champions of Portugal? Benfica

3) Real Madrid broke the world transfer record five times between 2000-2013: who’s missing from this list of the five players they signed: Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, _____, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale. Kaka

4) Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Stadio Nazionale in Rome, Wembley in London, Olympiastadion in Munich, Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, Stade de France in Paris: what do these World Cup final venues have in common? They were the venues when host countries won the World Cup

5) Three teams have won the European Cup/Champions League three times in a row (or more): name those teams. Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Ajax

RAFA HONIGSTEIN Bayern Munich, 2012/13

1) Who were the only team to beat Bayern in the Bundesliga in this season? Bayer Leverkusen

2) Bayern set the record for the most points gained in a Bundesliga season: whose record did they break? Borussia Dortmund (from 2011-12)

3) Which team is missing from this list of sides Bayern faced in the Champions League? Barcelona, Dortmund, Juventus, Arsenal, Valencia, BATE Borisov Lille

4) Eight members of the Bayern starting XI from the Champions League final have also played in a World Cup final: name the three that haven’t. David Alaba, Dante and Javi Martinez

5) Why did Dante and Luiz Gustavo miss the DFB-Pokal final? They were called up to a pre-Confederations Cup training camp by Brazil

General knowledge

1) From which team did Juventus buy Roberto Baggio to break the world transfer record in 1990? Fiorentina

2) What is the next name in this sequence: Davor Suker, Ronaldo, Miroslav Klose, Thomas Muller and…? James Rodriguez – World Cup Golden Shoe/Boot winners

3) Which country has had more Champions League/European Cup winners: England or Italy? England 13-12 Italy

4) Alfredo di Stefano played for three different countries: which three? Spain, Argentina and Colombia

5) Who are the bottom three in the Premier League as it stands? Bournemouth, Aston Villa and Norwich City

DANIEL STOREY Football club nicknames

1) Which current English club, other than Manchester United, go by the nickname ‘The Red Devils’? Crawley Town

2) Which team are the Shrimps, and who are the Shrimpers? Morecambe are the Shrimps, Southend United the Shrimpers

3) Why are Sheffield Wednesday known as the Owls? Hillsborough is in the Owlerton region of Sheffield

4) What were Sunderland known as before their official nickname became ‘the Black Cats’ in 1997? The Rokerites

5) Which Premier League club used to go by ‘The Glaziers’? Crystal Palace

General knowledge

1) Neymar and Kylian Mbappe are currently the two most expensive players in football history: who is the third? Joao Felix, who cost Atletico Madrid €126million

2) Which player is missing from this list of English goalscorers at the 2018 World Cup: Harry Kane, John Stones, Jesse Lingard, Harry Maguire and Kieran Trippier? Dele Alli

3) Complete this sequence: Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Liverpool… Tottenham Hotspur – the last five losing Champions League finalists

4) Which Spanish team, other than Barcelona, did Johan Cruyff play for? Levante

5) Who is top scorer in the Premier League as it stands? Jamie Vardy

NATALIE GEDRA Brazil at the 2002 World Cup

1) Which Brazil player was ruled out of the 2002 World Cup after injuring himself while playing in goal during training before the tournament? Emerson

2) Why was Turkey’s Hakan Unsal sent off during their game against Brazil in the group stages? He kicked the ball at Rivaldo, who then pretended it had hit him in the face

3) Three players in Brazil’s starting XI for the final played in the Premier League at some point in their careers: name those players. Roque Junior, Gilberto Silva and Kleberson

4) Only two players were in the Brazil squads at both the 1994 and 2002 World Cups: which two players? Cafu and Ronaldo

5) Which team is missing from this list of countries Brazil faced at the 2002 World Cup? Germany, England, Turkey, China, Belgium and… Costa Rica

General knowledge

1) Who holds the record for most England caps for an outfield player? Wayne Rooney

2) Complete the following sequence: Croatia, Turkey, Germany, Germany, Netherlands… Belgium – third placed teams  at the World Cup

3) Who said the following: ”You bought a Ferrari, but you drive it like a Fiat.” Zlatan Ibrahimovic, to Pep Guardiola

4) At which club did Michael Owen finish his career? Stoke City

5) Whose is this career path: Real Madrid, Juventus, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Atletico Madrid Alvaro Morata

JULIEN LAURENS France at the 1998 World Cup

1) What was notable about Laurent Blanc’s goal against Paraguay in the round of 16? It was the first ever World Cup golden goal

2) Which French player missed in the shoot-out as they beat Italy on penalties in the quarter-finals? Bixente Lizarazu

3) Which team is missing from this list of countries that France faced at the 1998 World Cup? Brazil, Denmark, Paraguay, Italy, Croatia, Saudi Arabia and…? South Africa

4) Only three of France’s starting XI from the final never played in England: which three players? Zinedine Zidane, Lilian Thuram and Bixente Lizarazu

5) Which Milan player was one of the six Aime Jacquet trimmed from his initial 28-man squad when picking his final 22? Ibrahim Ba

General knowledge

1) What do the following clubs have in common, in relation to the Champions League/European Cup; Feyenoord, Aston Villa, PSV and Red Star Belgrade They have all won the only final they have played in

2) Complete the following sequence: Arsenal, Arsenal, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea… Manchester City – the last six FA Cup winners

3) Which Spanish club take their nickname from a Beatles song? Villarreal – the Yellow Submarine

4) Which European team plays at Vodafone Park? Besiktas

5) What do these players have in common: Bernd Schuster, Albert Celades, Luis Enrique, Samuel Eto’o, Ronaldo, Javier Saviola They’ve all played for Barcelona and Real Madrid

JACK LANG Brazil at the 2014 World Cup

1) Which team is missing from this list of opponents for Brazil at the tournament: Germany, Croatia, Netherlands, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia? Mexico

2) Which Colombia defender kneed Neymar in the back, fracturing a vertebra and putting him out of the semi-final? Juan Zuniga

3) Who scored Brazil’s first goal of the tournament, and who scored their last? Neymar and Oscar

4) Neymar and Thiago Silva were absent from the semi-final against Germany: which two players replaced them? Dante and Bernard

5) Four of the starting XI from the 7-1 defeat against Germany never played for Brazil again after this World Cup: which four? Fred, Dante, Julio Cesar and Bernard

General knowledge

1) Bayern Munich play in the Allianz, Germany, but who plays in the Allianz, France? Nice

2) What have these players got in common: Andrea Pirlo, Ronaldo, Hernan Crespo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Roberto Baggio and Mario Balotelli? They’ve all both played for Milan and Inter

3) Who is currently the youngest ever player to make a Premier League appearance? Harvey Elliott, for Fulham

4) What is the next team in this sequence: Swansea, Manchester City, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Manchester City, Manchester City and… Manchester City – the last eight League Cup winners

5) Which three players were joint Premier League top-scorers in 2018/19? Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, Sadio Mane and Mo Salah

EMMA SAUNDERS Watford in the 2014/15 season

1) Watford famously had four managers in that season: cane you name them in chronological order? Beppe Sannino, Oscar Garcia, Billy McKinlay and Slavisa Jokanovic

2) Which of those four managed the fewest games? Oscar Garcia – just one, although he was officially manager for four

3) Watford beat two teams 5-0 and 7-2 in consecutive weeks at Vicarage Road that season: which two teams? Charlton and Blackpool

4) Where were the Watford players when they discovered they had won promotion, after Middlesbrough were beaten 4-3 by Fulham? On the team bus, returning from Brighton

5) Which three players who made league appearance for Watford that season are still at the club? Heurelho Gomes, Troy Deeney and Craig Cathcart

General knowledge

1) By how many points are Liverpool currently leading the Premier League? 25

2) Who is the next team in this sequence: QPR, Norwich, Hull, Huddersfield, Fulham and… Aston Villa: the last six Championship playoff final winners

3) What have these players got in common: Emmanuel Adebayor, Sol Campbell, William Gallas, David Bentley and Pat Jennings They have all played for both Arsenal and Tottenham

4) Four stadia in Britain have hosted the Champions League/European Cup final: which four? Wembley, Hampden Park, the Millennium Stadium and Old Trafford

5) The 2026 World Cup is scheduled to be hosted across three countries: which three countries? USA, Mexico and Canada

CARL ANKA Southampton 2018/19

1) Danny Ings has 15 Premier League goals, but who is Southampton’s next highest league goalscorer? James Ward-Prowse, with four

2) Southampton were knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Manchester City and the FA Cup by Tottenham, but which three teams did they beat in those competitions? Huddersfield in the FA Cup, and Fulham and Portsmouth in the Carabao.

3) Who did Jose Mourinho call “an idiot” after Southampton beat Tottenham 1-0 on New Year’s Day? Goalkeeping coach Andrew Sparkes

4) Who was the first team Southampton beat after the 9-0 defeat to Leicester? Watford – 2-1 in the Premier League in November

5) Two of Southampton’s squad this season have Champions League winners’ medals: which two? Ryan Bertrand and Oriol Romeu

General knowledge

1) How many consecutive league titles have Celtic won in this current run? Eight

2) What do these teams have in common: Borussia Monchengladbach, Club Brugge, Real Madrid, Roma, Milan and Tottenham? They’re the teams Liverpool have beaten in European Cup/Champions League finals

3) Megan Rapinoe was first and Alex Morgan was third, but who was second in last year’s Women’s Ballon d’Or? Lucy Bronze

4) Before Harry Kane, who was the last Englishman to finish top scorer of the Premier League? Kevin Phillips, in 2000

5) Which of Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s nine clubs has be made the most appearances for? PSG

SASCHA GURYUNOV USSR at Euro 88

1) Which former winners of the European Championships did the USSR knock out in qualifying? France

2) Which player in the USSR’s squad was nicknamed ‘The Iron Curtain’? Rinat Dasayev

3) Who was the only player to score more than one goal at the tournament for the USSR? Oleg Protasov

4) Two of the USSR squad played in England at some point in their career: which two? Sergei Baltacha (Ipswich) and Sergei Gotsmaov (Brighton and Southampton)

5) Which name is missing from the list of scorers for the USSR at the competition: Rats, Protasov, Aleinikov, Pasulko, Lytovchenko Alexei Mikhailichenko,

General knowledge

1) Who contested the first Champions League/European Cup final between two teams from the same country? Real Madrid and Valencia in 2000

2) What is the next stadium in this sequence: Wembley in London, De Kuip in Rotterdam, Estadio da Luz in Portugal, Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, the Olympic Stadium in Kiev and… Stade de France in Paris – venues for the last six European Championships finals

3) Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and which other player finished joint top-scorers at the Women’s World Cup last year? Ellen White

4) Alan Shearer finished Premier League top scorer in 1996 and 1997, and Robin van Persie was top-scorer in 2012 and 2013: what do they have in common? They were top scorer in consecutive years but for different clubs

5) Who are the current holders of the Copa Libertadores? Flamengo

MICHAEL COX 2010 World Cup

1) Which team beat Italy in the group stage to send the holders out? Slovakia

2) What unusual reason did Diego Maradona give for selecting defender Ariel Garcé in the Argentina squad? He said he had a dream that Argentina won the tournament, and Garce’s was the only face he could remember

3) Whose effort on goal did Luis Suarez punch off the line in the Uruguay v Ghana quarter-final? Dominic Adiyiah

4) Which three players appeared in both the Champions League final and the World Cup final in 2010? Wesley Sneijder, Arjen Robben and Mark van Bommel

5) Four players were joint top-scorers in the competition: which four? Diego Forlan, Wesley Sneijder, David Villa and Thomas Muller

General knowledge

1) What do the following teams have in common: Benfica, Ajax, Steaua Bucharest, Benfica again, Barcelona, Juventus and Liverpool? They’re the teams Milan beat to win the European Cup/Champions League

2) Who scored the Czech Republic’s goal in the 1996 European Championship final? Patrick Berger

3) PSG have won seven of the last eight Ligue 1 titles: who was the manager in the season when they didn’t win it? Unai Emery

4) What do the following players have in common: Peter Beardsley, Andrei Kanchelskis, Andy Cole, Owen Hargreaves They’ve all played for both Manchester United and Manchester City

5) What is the next club in this sequence: Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester United and…

Liverpool – they’re the last six Premier League runners up

MATT DAVIES-ADAMS Premier League squad numbers

1) David Beckham had four Premier League squad numbers for Manchester United: which four? 28, 24, 10 and 7

2) From Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ squad numbers, if you add Robert Pires to Lauren, then minus Martin Keown, who do you get? Thierry Henry (7+12-5 = 14)

3) Who was Liverpool’s No.8 before Steven Gerrard? Emile Heskey

4) Who is the next player in this sequence: Gianluca Vialli, Chris Sutton, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Mateja Kezman and… Hernan Crespo

5) To which Premier League great does this sequence of squad numbers belong: 24, 22, 18, 22? Paul Scholes

General knowledge

1) Name the only player to score an own-goal a World Cup final. Mario Mandzukic in 2018

2) At which club was Jose Mourinho’s first managerial job? Benfica

3) English teams won the European Cup in seven out of eight years between 1977 and 1984: which team won the other one? Hamburg – beating Juventus in 1983

4) Which of the following venues DID NOT host a game at Euro 96: Hillsborough, Goodison Park, St James’s Park, Villa Park, Elland Road. Goodison Park

5) Who was Milan manager the last time they won Serie A? Max Allegri