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Has a team won the Champions League without beating any league champions?

Plus: top scorers for two clubs in one season; gaps between first goals and season openers and old under-21 players

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Players from one nation winning the men’s ‘big five’ leagues in a season

Plus: late-career goalscoring centurions, huge gaps between league title wins and trees on pitches

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Second best: which manager has most titles a step down from top flight?

Plus: league-leading teams taking a nosedive, more statistically average seasons and final-day survival turnarounds

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Which football managers have followed legends with instant success?

Plus: footballers who put parenting first, title playoffs in Italy, and relegated Golden Boot winners

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It’s all kicking off! Footballers shown yellow and red cards before games

Plus: more tables as works of art, record numbers of away wins in league matches and 1-11 shirt numbers

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Which football teams have gone longest without conceding a goal in the league?

Plus: short men’s players scoring headers; Young Boys v Old Boys; and failing to go up with great goal differences

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Charlton v China: when football club sides and national teams collide

Plus: more beautiful league tables and the three players you can find in the artwork of Oasis’ debut album

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Georgi Kinkladze at Boca? European stars who played in South America

Plus: lethal shots on target in high-scoring games, no goals of the month, a Botafogo correction and more

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Which football teams have won the league without a shirt sponsor?

Plus: non-football athletes wearing football crests on their kit; and teams who were sponsored by news organisations

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Which football teams have won tournaments they did not qualify for?

Plus: teams who are hard to beat (and lose) to; more losers on open-top bus tours, and the kings of consecutive 0-0 draws

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What are the most lopsided derby scorelines in a football season?

Plus: early-season repeats of major finals, more unlikely objects lobbed on the pitch and the first club website

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Is Bayer Leverkusen’s 40-point increase between seasons a record?

Plus: very early promotions and relegations, and teams with multiple cups but no league titles in their trophy cabinets

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Which football teams have won the most domestic cups in a row?

Plus: winning every domestic honour, the mother of all aggregate league drubbings and more

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Has Xhaka set a record for a new signing by going 47 games unbeaten?

Plus: serial runners-up, long gaps between winning the same competition, terrible penalty shootouts and more

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Has a footballer ever made a marriage proposal during a match?

Plus: managers taking charge of every club they played for and ‘winners’ after the 96th minute that turn out not to be winners

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Football’s biggest points gaps between one position and the next

Plus: muted international goal celebrations, more short multi-divisional stadium-hopping and Greece taking an 1896 beating

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Who are the highest-scoring non-top-scorers in a football season?

Plus: Champions League semi-finalists from cities with the same letter; another great escape and keepers converted

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Places of worship: which football grounds are closest to churches?

Plus: scoring four or more and not being on the winning side (2); and champions who were relegated

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Uncapped footballers who were prolific in the nations that snubbed them

Plus: weird timings when abandoned matches resume and the full-back who played under 22 Atlético managers

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Which football manager has the worst winning record in European finals?

Plus: the oldest debutants for their boyhood clubs and players who have won only continental silverware

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