How much do you know about the Premier League 2017-18 season? – quiz

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1. In which month did Crystal Palace score their first goal of the season?

   1. August

   2. September

   3. October

   4. November

2. Who were the only team to win the majority of their points away from home?

   1. Burnley

   2. Manchester City

   3. Tottenham Hotspur

   4. West Bromwich Albion

3. Which goalkeeper made one save in the league last season and 111 this season?

   1. Asmir Begovic

   2. Loris Karius

   3. Wayne Hennessey

   4. Willy Caballero

4. Tottenham finished the season as the highest placed team from London. Who was their manager when they last achieved that feat?

   1. Gerry Francis

   2. Martin Jol

   3. Juande Ramos

   4. Harry Redknapp

5. Nine clubs changed their managers during the season. Which of them brought in a permanent replacement with no previous experience of managing in England?

   1. Crystal Palace

   2. Leicester City

   3. Everton

   4. West Ham United

   5. West Bromwich Albion

   6. Swansea City

   7. Stoke City

   8. Watford

   9. Southampton

6. Who did José Mourinho proclaim “the manager of the season” in early April?

   1. Pep Guardiola

   2. Darren Moore

   3. Carlos Carvalhal

   4. Roy Hodgson

7. Which of these managers had a 0% win percentage this season?

   1. Alan Pardew

   2. Frank de Boer

   3. Craig Shakespeare

   4. Mauricio Pellegrino

   5. Tony Pulis

8. Which player scored against all of the top six clubs – Manchester City, United, Tottenham, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal?

   1. Riyad Mahrez

   2. Marko Arnautovic

   3. Glenn Murray

   4. Jamie Vardy

9. What do Jack Cork, Harry Maguire, Lewis Dunk, Mathias Jorgensen and Alfie Mawson have they common?

   1. Their only goals this season were own goals

   2. They made their international debuts this season and were relegated

   3. They were all sent off four times

   4. They are the only outfielders who played every minute of every game for their club

10. Who said this about the vacant managerial role at Everton: “It would have been a fabulous job, but it just didn’t feel right – it just never materialised as I thought it would”?

    1. Arsène Wenger

    2. Marco Silva

    3. Sean Dyche

    4. Sam Allardyce

11. Four managers took charge of West Brom this season. Which of them earned the most points?

    1. Tony Pulis (12 games in charge)

    2. Alan Pardew (18 games in charge)

    3. Gary Megson (2 games in charge)

    4. Darren Moore (6 games in charge)

12. What did Lewis Dunk do against Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and Swansea?

    1. He was sent off in the first half

    2. He scored an own goal

    3. He was booked for diving

    4. He conceded two penalties

13. Which team were not beaten on their own ground? (Spurs don’t count)

    1. Arsenal

    2. Manchester City

    3. Liverpool

    4. Manchester United

14. Who declared himself the “proudest man in Proudsville”?

    1. David Wagner

    2. Rafa Benítez

    3. Sean Dyche

    4. Marco Silva

15. Manchester City defeated every side they faced in the league this season. So did which other club?

    1. Liverpool

    2. Tottenham

    3. Manchester United

    4. Burnley

Solutions

1:C - Palace lost their first seven games without as much as scoring a single goal. And then, on 14 October, they beat reigning champions Chelsea. , 2:A - Burnley only won seven away points last season; this season they won seven away matches., 3:A - Last season he sat on the bench for Chelsea; this season he played every minute of every game for Bournemouth., 4:A - Spurs haven’t been the top side from London since 1994-95 season, when they finished seventh in the table (and above QPR, Wimbledon, Chelsea, Arsenal and West Ham)., 5:H - Javi Gracia had managed in Spain, Greece and Russia but not in England. , 6:C - “This guy is going to keep Swansea in the Premier League,” said Mourinho. “He is the manager of the season, because they were dead and he is going to save them. He changed the players.”, 7:B - Four games, four defeats, no goals. , 8:D - Vardy, the top scorer outside of the top six clubs with 20 goals, scored against them all., 9:D - Five goalkeepers also played every minute, 10:D - He took the job in the end, saying: "I’m delighted that I’ve come back in to a club of this magnitude, size and history.", 11:D - Moore won 50% of his games in charge; Pardew won 5% of his., 12:B - Dunk equalled Martin Skrtel’s record from 2013-14 for scoring four own goals in a season., 13:C - Their five away defeats – at The Etihad, Wembley, the Liberty, Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge – let them down., 14:C - Dyche had an eventful season. A pub in Burnley was renamed The Royal Dyche in his honour and, in less appetising news, he also had to deny that he eats worms, saying: “It was a bit of banter I used to have – you get a nice, big juicy worm hanging out of your mouth. It wobbles, wriggling around. Look as if you’re chewing it and then spit it out.”, 15:C - United, however, managed to lose against all three promoted teams.

Scores

1. 8 and above.

   Decent

2. 9 and above.

   A decent score. Enjoy the World Cup

3. 10 and above.

   A fine score. Enjoy the World Cup

4. 11 and above.

   Super. Enjoy the World Cup

5. 12 and above.

   Super. Enjoy the World Cup

6. 13 and above.

   Wonderful. Enjoy the World Cup

7. 14 and above.

   Wonderful. Enjoy the World Cup

8. 15 and above.

   Pep, is that you?

9. 1 and above.

   Oh dear

10. 2 and above.

    Oh dear

11. 3 and above.

    Oh dear

12. 4 and above.

    Oh dear

13. 5 and above.

    Not great

14. 6 and above.

    Not great

15. 0 and above.

    Frank de Boer, is that you?

16. 7 and above.

    Not great