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Quirky facts about football

Did you know that Manchester United were first called Newton Heath L & YR beginning life in 1878 when a group of workers from the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways formed a football team. Find our more quirky facts from the world of football..

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  • Over 70m people around the world watch the Barclays Premier League on TV every week
     
  • England's top flight can be seen in over half a billion homes around the world
     
  • The average attendance for each Barclays Premier League match last season was 35,663 - two-thirds higher than in the Premier League's inaugural season in 1992/93
     
  • Ryan Giggs is the only player to have played in all 20 Premier League seasons and is the only player to have scored during each concluded campaign. He also holds the record number of Premier League Champions medals with a total of 12. 
     
  • 92% of all seats are occupied across the entire Premier League season - Europe's highest occupancy rate
     
  • AC Milan was founded by Englishman Alfred Edwards in 1899. They still keep the English version of the name Milan rather than the Italian 'Milano'. 
     
  • The Oldest Football League Club is Notts County, who were formed in 1862. 
     
  • Juventus adopted their famous black and white stripes in 1903 after one of their committee members visited England saw Notts County turn out in those colours. 
     
  • The referee's whistle, the Acme Thunderer, invented by Birmingham toolmaker Joseph Hudson in 1884, is still used to this day. 
     
  • Alan Shearer is the Barclays Premier Leagues record goal scorer with a massive 260 goals.

     

 


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