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@GracenoteData
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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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Liverpool this season:
4 points FEWER than last season against Big-6 opposition.
TEN points MORE against teams outside the Big-6 compared to same fixtures last season.
UP 6 points in all equivalent fixtures.
#lfc
#SCoRe
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
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.
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
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.
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).
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
Daniel Sturridge (2012, 2019) joins Jimmy Rimmer (1968, 1982) as the only English players to win the Champions Cup/Champions League with two different English clubs.
Between them they played 9 minutes of those finals.
#UCLFinal
#LFC
Georginio Wijnaldum scored in the 54th and 56th minutes this evening.
Guess when two of Liverpool's goals were scored in the comeback from 3-0 down against AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League final?
#LIVBAR
#LFC
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
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
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
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
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)
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🇺🇾
🏉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?
Liverpool matches seem to almost always deliver entertainment-wise. I don't support them but they are the only club outside my own which I'll regularly make time for. I am rarely disappointed.
#LFC
#LIVROM
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
So
#LFC
have earned an incredible £251m TV income from the Premier League & Europe – the first time a club has received more than a quarter of a billion pounds from this revenue stream.
In fact, 4 English clubs are above £200m, including
#THFC
£235m,
#MCFC
£233m &
#MUFC
£225m.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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:
6⃣ - Wins against 🇳🇿New Zealand by both Tadhg Furlong and Jonny Sexton.
This is the MOST by any northern hemisphere player and DOUBLE the number of pro-era wins against the All Blacks by any NH players who don't play for 🍀Ireland.
#NZLvsIRE
#NZLvIRE
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
🏉 - 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
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...
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.
1/
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
ANALYSIS: Liverpool have taken EXACTLY the same number of points against their 19 opponents so far as they did in 2016/2017. See how your team is doing in comparison to last season on
#SCoRe
and compared to this stage
#lfc
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.
🧵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
1/
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
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.
1/
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
Premier League clubs have converted 42.5% of their big chances this season.
Brighton have managed to put away 73% of their big chances though while Huddersfield are down at 15% (Brighton's rivals Crystal Palace are on 19%).
#bhafc
#cpfc
#htafc
🏴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
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
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)