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Johnny Sexton has 13 wins & a draw in his last 14 starts for Ireland and the British & Irish Lions.
Every top test team has been beaten in the last 16 months by a team with Sexton at 10 including New Zealand twice.
World Player of the Year without a doubt.
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Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte this evening:
Tourists from the 🇬🇧United Kingdom and 🇸🇪Sweden are not welcome in the 🇳🇱Netherlands from June 15 but people from other EU/Schengen countries are.
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From which clubs did Liverpool sign the players who started last night?
AS Roma (🇮🇹)
Own youth
Schalke 04 (🇩🇪)
Southampton
Hull City
Sunderland
AS Monaco (🇫🇷)
Manchester City
Stoke City
Lille (🇫🇷)
Southampton
8 from clubs ranked outside the
@EuroClubIndex
top-50.
#LIVBAR
#lfc
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From which clubs did Liverpool sign the players who started the
#UCLFinal
?
AS Roma (🇮🇹)
Own youth
Schalke 04 (🇩🇪)
Southampton
Hull City
Sunderland
AS Monaco (🇫🇷)
Newcastle United
AS Roma (🇮🇹)
Hoffenheim (🇩🇪)
Southampton
7 from clubs ranked outside the
@EuroClubIndex
top-50
#LFC
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Would any country in the world - bar the US - present a list of the greatest athletes of all time and only list people from their own country?
I am guessing no.
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500 test wickets for
@StuartBroad8
.
7th player to reach this milestone
4th seam bowler to do so after Walsh, McGrath and teammate
@jimmy9
2nd youngest player to take 500
Broad is the slowest to do so, taking 263 innings. Muralitharan needed only 147
#ENGvWI
#ENGvsWI
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One final thing for today, alright two:
Liverpool have conceded just 10 shots in the Champions League, the fewest of all 32 participants.
30% of those shots conceded by Liverpool have been scored, the highest of all 32 participants.
#lfc
via
@Gracenotelive
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This deserves a bigger audience
Defender completes hat-trick, applauds himself & is sent off for leaving the field
Medi firar sitt hattrick med att gå upp på läktaren för att applådera sig själv. Glömde av sitt gula
#ettanfotboll
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So, for tomorrow's 🦁Lions scrum-half poll, should I include 🏴Tomos Williams or 🏴Ali Price as the fourth name?
☘️Murray, 🏴Youngs and 🏴Davies are in.
RT for 🏴Williams, 🏴Like for Price and I'll go with the consensus.
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The last week has been as bad a week I can remember for a British Lions tour since 2005.
That video
Attacks on officials (implicit and explicit)
Yesterday's 65 minute 1st half
The 'style' of play by the Lions
I love rugby but am having real trouble enjoying this
#LionsRugby
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Very important that everyone reads the attached when big news breaks.
#Utrecht
is the city I live in and I have no more idea what has happened than others living far away.
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I am finding it bizarre that this is the line on 🇬🇧Britain's
#Olympics
.
It is going to be 60+ medals for the 4th Olympics in a row. Had been done once (in 1908 when hosting) prior to 2012.
Britain have beaten the golds they will win 5 times ever (last 4 Olympics & 1908).
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Liverpool are the only team to have won more than a third of their away matches in the Champions League knockout phase (10 matches).
(Nicked from
@BassTunedToRed
but made historically complete).
#lfc
#ChampionsLeague
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Alexa, show me someone using data who doesn't understand data.
There are two Trent Alexander-Arnolds...
The one that plays for Liverpool and the one that doesn't play for England 😳
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Louis van Gaal has been at Man Utd for just under a year. He has spent €275 million, a sum that only 10 clubs in the world earn in 12 months
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🏉 - Win% v rest of Top-10 since RWC2019
7⃣3⃣% 🇫🇷France 16/22
6⃣8⃣% 🍀Ireland 15/22
6⃣0⃣% 🏴England 12/20
5⃣8⃣% 🇿🇦South Africa 7/12
5⃣8⃣% 🇳🇿New Zealand 11/19
4⃣0⃣% 🏴Scotland 8/20
3⃣9⃣% 🇦🇺Australia 9/23
2⃣6⃣% 🏴Wales 6/23
2⃣4⃣% 🇦🇷Argentina 4/17
0⃣0⃣% 🇯🇵Japan 0/6
#RugbyWorldCup
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European countries without a single starter in this week's European matches and which Nations League the national team plays in:
League B: Republic of Ireland
League C: Lithuania
League D: Andorra, Faroes, Gibraltar, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Moldova, San Marino
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Liverpool are the first team to win the
#ChampionsLeague
having lost 3 matches in the group phase.
#LFC
#UCLFinal
#UCL
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Liverpool have won ONLY ONCE in their five AWAY matches this season against teams in the
#PremierLeague
's top half.
Sunday is the 6th, at 2nd placed Arsenal.
#ARSLIV
#LFC
#Arsenal
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Liverpool's 51 points after 19 matches is one of the five best English top flight records of all-time at this stage of the season.
All of the other four (Preston North End 1888/89, Tottenham Hotspur 1960/1961, Chelsea 2005/2006, Manchester City 2017/2018) won the league.
#LFC
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I have compiled a list of the top-100 films of the 21st century based on amalgamating 11 top-100 lists
The critic lists used to build this tend to not have enough comedy or horror & veer away from the mainstream
This is the top-30. I will tweet more on this in the coming weeks
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After 100 films in 2021, I kicked off 2022's movie viewing with
#1
INSIDE MAN (2006)
Clive Owen's bankrobber claims he has pulled off the perfect bank robbery in the opening scene but how has he done it?
Compelling and unusual heist film from Spike Lee.
(8/10)
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28 years ago today, 96 men, women and children went to a football match, never to return home.
#Hillsborough
#JFT96
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THE FULL ENGLISH makes a nice headline but has nothing to do with reality when it comes to players.
Nationalities of starters for the 4 European finalists this week - 18% English, 21 nations:
8🏴
5🇧🇷
5🇫🇷
4🇧🇪
3🇪🇸
2🇩🇰
2🇮🇹
2🇨🇭
1🇧🇦
1🇨🇲
1🇭🇷
1🇨🇿
1🇬🇦
1🇩🇪
1🇬🇷
1🇰🇪
1🇰🇷
1🇳🇱
1🏴
1🇸🇳
1🇺🇾
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🏉The "World Class" 33 as chosen by you.
Adding the back three to complete the July 2022 squad.
None of the back 3 from Jan 2020 have made it into this.
What do you think of the full squad?
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🏉 - Win% v rest of Top-10 since RWC2019
7⃣5⃣% 🇫🇷FRANCE 18/24
7⃣0⃣% ☘️Ireland 16/23
6⃣4⃣% 🇳🇿NEW ZEALAND 18/28
5⃣9⃣% 🏴ENGLAND 13/22⬆️
5⃣5⃣% 🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA 11/20⬇️
3⃣9⃣% 🇦🇺Australia 12/31
3⃣6⃣% 🏴SCOTLAND 8/22
2⃣8⃣% 🇦🇷ARGENTINA 7/25
2⃣8⃣% 🏴WALES 7/25
0⃣0⃣% 🇯🇵JAPAN 0/8
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England and Belgium have both scored 8 goals at this World Cup.
6 of England's 8 goals have come from set-pieces.
7 of Belgium's 8 goals have come from open play.
via
@GracenoteLive
#ENG
#BEL
#ENGBEL
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Who is Julian Nagelsmann, the coaching prodigy who is yet to turn 30 but has taken Hoffenheim to 4th place?
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#Athletics
experts - Pole Vault: Renaud Lavillenie (
#FRA
) a huge favourite for this. Holzdeppe not in the final.
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Lucas Hernandez goes second in the list of the world's most expensive defenders.
Some may have him going top but I think that would be due to changing exchange rates.
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In July 2003, 🇨🇭Roger Federer won Wimbledon, the first of his 20 Grand Slam titles.
In 74 men's singles Grand Slam tournaments from Wimbledon 2003 to 2022
#AustralianOpen
, 61 have been won by Federer, 🇪🇸Rafael Nadal & 🇷🇸Novak Djokovic.
The other 13......
#AUSOpen
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🏉 - Win% v rest of Top-10 since RWC2019
7⃣6⃣% 🇫🇷France 19/25
7⃣1⃣% ☘️Ireland 17/24
6⃣2⃣% 🇳🇿New Zealand 18/29
5⃣7⃣% 🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA 12/21⬆️
5⃣4⃣% 🏴ENGLAND 13/24⬇️
3⃣9⃣% 🇦🇺AUSTRALIA 13/33⬆️
3⃣9⃣% 🏴Scotland 9/23⬇️
2⃣7⃣% 🇦🇷Argentina 7/26⬆️
2⃣7⃣% 🏴WALES 7/26⬇️
0⃣0⃣% 🇯🇵Japan 0/9
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Last night's 🏴England v 🇺🇸United States match at the women's World Cup had 1.97 million viewers (39.2% market share) IN THE NETHERLANDS.
This is a new record here for a women's football match not involving the
#oranjeleeuwinnen
.
#FIFAWWC
#ENGUSA
#ENG
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Crystal Palace have been the 10th best team in the Premier League since the first 7 matches
Palace should be 7th based on chances created/conceded
Palace had their biggest top flight win since 1972 yesterday
And yet their fans are still working out how they can go down
#CPFC
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The United Kingdom & Germany both failed (again) at Saturday's
#Eurovision
.
The German reaction: "For 2020, we need to think carefully about how we choose our song and artist"
The British reaction: "If we'd sent Gary Barlow or Elton John, we'd still have been last"
#UK
#GER
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Liverpool earned £251m of TV income from the Premier League and Champions League according to
@SwissRamble
's analysis, the most by any club ever.
The 2019 Deloitte Money list (based on 2017/2018) had only 14 clubs (incl.
#LFC
) on more revenue than this FROM ALL SOURCES.
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Using people's ignorance is how he scores of course.
LA is GUARANTEED to host 2024 or 2028 as only Paris & LA are bidding for 2024 & 2028
Working hard to get the Olympics for the United States (L.A.). Stay tuned!
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In a world of live news blogs & social media, it's important to be aware of this via
@a_picazo
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Top-8 most monthly listeners on Spotify -
#Eurovision2023
entrants
6.2 million 🇬🇧Mae Muller
5.2 million 🇮🇹Marco Mengoni
2.4 million 🇳🇴Alessandra
2.3 million 🇸🇪Loreen (not yet selected)
907,000 🇮🇱Noa Kirel
800,000 🇫🇮Käärijä
632,000 🇫🇷La Zarra
551,000 🇩🇪Lord of the Lost
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Lost amongst all the noise about Saturday's 🏴Wales v 🏴England match is this fact......
Wales did not kick the ball out of play intentionally in the entire match.
England had 5 lineouts, 4 followed penalties, the other one (the 2nd) followed a Josh Adams kick which bounced out
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Top-10 highest ranked countries on the
@Gracenotelive
World Football Ranking with a population of less than 10 million
9 🇩🇰Denmark
10 🇺🇾Uruguay
15 🇨🇭Switzerland
19 🇭🇷Croatia
26 🏴Wales
29 🇵🇾Paraguay
30 🇷🇸Serbia
38 🇦🇹Austria
40 🇳🇴Norway
44 🇫🇮Finland
#WCQ2022
#ForDanmark
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Getting crowds back into stadiums has already started.
Here is a socially distanced crowd in Denmark.
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Or 2 titles in 25 years before AW came and 3 in 21 after
Or 0 titles in 5 years before he came and 2 in 6 after
Stats eh?
Wenger talks about
@AFC
like they were a small club w/o success before he arrived. Won 2 league titles in 7 yrs before AW, 3 in 21 after.
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The
#RWC2023
group phase overperformers
🇵🇹Portugal +52 (beat handicap in all 4 matches)
🇳🇿New Zealand +43
☘️Ireland +33.5 (beat handicap in all 4 matches)
🇫🇷France +30.5
🏴Wales +29
🇺🇾Uruguay +23.5
🏴England +18
🇯🇵Japan +15.5
🏴Scotland +15.5
🇼🇸Samoa +15
#RugbyWorldCup
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The Men's 1500m Olympic final per 100 metres
- In the 2nd 100m, Ingebrigtsen goes faster than anyone will until the final 300m
- From about halfway, the speed gradually begins to ratchet up again
- Cole Hocker is (joint) fastest from 500m out to the end
#Olympics
#Paris2024
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INCREDIBLE!
🇳🇱Netherlands tops the 🇪🇺European Union Olympic medal table for the first time ever.
1 🇳🇱Netherlands 10🥇 12🥈 14🥉 36 medals
2 🇫🇷France 10 - 12 - 11 - 33
3 🇩🇪Germany 10 - 11 - 16 - 37
4 🇮🇹Italy 10 - 10 - 20 - 40
5 🇭🇺Hungary 6 - 7 - 7 - 20
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#NED
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Official rankings going into the 2019
#RugbyWorldCup
:
1. Ireland
2. New Zealand
3. England
4. South Africa
5. Wales
6. Australia
7. Scotland
8. France
9. Fiji
10. Japan
The gap in rating points between teams ranked 1 and 5 is less than between 5 and 6 or 6 and 7.
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Winning in Paris AND London and still finishing 4th in the
#GuinnessSixNations
is classic 🏴Scotland.
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Liverpool in 2016/2017:
19 points dropped against teams who finished in the bottom half
28 points dropped against teams who finished outside the top-7
Liverpool in 2017/2018
4 points dropped against teams in the bottom half
8 points dropped against teams outside the top-7
#lfc
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Chelsea is the only EPL club situated in a parliamentary constituency held by the Conservatives:
http://t.co/t76JM01xPb
via
@philipjcowley
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BUNDESLIGA MATCHES BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Home wins down to 21% of matches (from 43%)
More free kicks and fouls given against home teams
Home teams score 29% fewer goals
Check out more of my analysis here:
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This is astonishing.
Labour won every segment of employment status except the retired which was a Con landslide.
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Being the only team to win at both Chelsea & Liverpool
Being the only team to lose at home against Burnley
That's Crystal Palace.
#cpfc
🔴🔵
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Scotland are the first northern hemisphere team to score eight tries in a match against Australia.
Only the
#allblacks
,
#springboks
and now
@Scotlandteam
have managed eight or more tries in a match against the
@qantaswallabies
.
#SCOvAUS
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Alan Pardew after Palace conceded twice from set-pieces: "2 set plays though, that's not us".
Goals conceded from set-pieces this season:
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I collected all of the
#RugbyWorldCup
match handicaps (based on each team having ~50% chance of winning with the handicap).
Results against the handicaps should be a measure of over- or underperformance at the World Cup.
Below are two tweets with the results.
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Oldham Athletic have knocked the following
#PremierLeague
clubs out of the
#FACup
this century:
2005 Manchester City
2008 Everton
2013 Liverpool
2019 Fulham
Is there another club from League One or League Two with a similar or better record?
#OAFC
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🏉 - Northern Hemisphere teams beating the All Blacks in New Zealand during the professional era:
2003 🏴England 15-13
2009 🇫🇷France 27-22
2017 🇬🇧British & Irish Lions 24-21
2022 🍀Ireland 23-12
2022 🍀Ireland 32-22
2 biggest wins by Ireland
Ireland only team to do this twice
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87% of available places in
#Eredivisie
stadiums are sold. Of leagues compared, only the Premier League & Bundesliga do better
via
@KNVB
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Transfer fees compared properly by
@bojochris
. Here are Arsenal's as a percentage of turnover:
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Unfortunately it is this sort of rubbish which fits Benjamin Disraeli's "lies, damned lies, and statistics" quote so well. Let's look at the truth:
Mohamed Salah has been on the end of the most big chances of any player, has scored the most and has the highest conversion rate.
Mohamed Salah: Has now missed 21 clear-cut goalscoring opportunities in the Premier League this season, more than any other player.
Imagine how many more goals he could have scored...
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25 years ago today, I went to the opening match of Euro 96 between England & Switzerland at Wembley.
I had tickets for every match at Wembley at that tournament, bought 18 months to two years earlier for £250 for all six games.
This thread is about what I remember.
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Liverpool after 20 matches in 2017/18: 46 goals scored
Liverpool after 20 matches in 2018/19: 48 goals scored
Liverpool after 20 matches in 2017/18: 23 goals conceded
Liverpool after 20 matches in 2018/19: EIGHT goals conceded
65% goals fewer conceded = 16 points more
#LFC
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I will be announcing this season's Premier League prediction competition shortly. Could you react to this tweet if you are interested please
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Worth remembering that the Dutch were being battered by Spain before this.
This goal came in the 44th minute and transformed the whole game (and World Cup destiny for Oranje).
I have watched football for 50 years. One of the greatest goals I have ever seen as-it-happened.
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🧵We should be telling more and better stories about how and why sports results happen.
This is my attempt to tell the story of last night's World Championship 🎯Darts final using data I collected live.
A THREAD
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There have been 28 🏴English
#PremierLeague
seasons.
Only 11 men from 7 countries 🏴🇫🇷🇵🇹🇮🇹🇨🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪 have managed a team to win the league title in those 28 seasons.
None of those title winning managers have been English.
#LFC
#Liverpool
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Way too much superiority on here from people labelling Leave voters as ignorant. Might be better to actually examine their reasons.
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I hope you have enjoyed my tweets during
#Tokyo2020
.
I couldn't do most of the stuff I do without the fantastic colleagues I have at
@GracenoteGold
.
This was the 11th
#Olympics
I have worked on and I enjoyed myself as much as ever despite the hard work and little sleep.
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ANALYSIS: Results against the Big-6 this season:
88 fixtures
65 wins for Big-6 (74%)
7 defeats for Big-6 (8%)
No non Big-6 club has won more than once against Big-6 opposition
#Burnleyfc
&
#Watfordfc
the only clubs to get something out of half of their Big-6 fixtures
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Really great work by
@sportingintel
. The €1 billion euros spent by Premier League clubs this summer:
http://t.co/oR71ESymWa
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The other thing with Dirk Kuyt is that he is NEVER injured. Since his career began in 1998, he has missed 42 league matches IN TOTAL.
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British & Irish Lions starting XV for the 1st Test (pro era)
No Scot since 2001
Murray 1st non-Welsh scrum half since 1997
#LionsNZ2017
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Only one Premier League team has made it to Christmas this season WITHOUT conceding the opening goal in a home match.
#lfc
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England were regarded as the only genuine challengers to Brazil at the 1970 World Cup. Here is how they prepared:
http://t.co/aXlqK2zCSv
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Rafael van de Vaart has now said on TV that he remembers Dele Alli in Tottenham's youth team. You can just say any old crap on telly.
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🏴ENGLAND BEFORE GARETH SOUTHGATE
- Did not win a knockout match at the previous 5 tournaments (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016)
- Failed to beat Iceland, Slovakia, Russia, Costa Rica, USA, Algeria, Sweden (2x), Nigeria, Switzerland and Romania (2x) at 10 major tournaments 96-16
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Liverpool now have 8 points more than they did from the exact same fixtures last season.
#lfc
SCoRe
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Inspiring stuff for budding analysts from
@Sam_Jackson94
.Worth a read and paying attention to what he did:
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This is more informative on data analysis in football clubs than usual because it includes actual examples:
http://t.co/g86ijNosV2
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The only team to enter the
#AllBlacks
22 on at least 10 separate occasions in a match this year is Scotland yesterday.
New Zealand went into Scotland's 22 just 6 times. This year, only
@lionsofficial
have kept the All Blacks below 8 entries into the 22 in a match.
#SCOvNZL
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251 films watched in 2021 (100) and 2022 (151). 2023's movie viewing began with:
#1
GLASS ONION (2022)📺
A billionaire invites his 'closest circle' to his private island to witness his murder.
Fine 'whodunnit' but not as good as the first 'Knives Out' mystery.
(8/10)
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