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  2. Royal Shrovetide Football - Wikipedia

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    Shrovetide ball goaled by H. Hind on Ash Wednesday 1887 that pre-dates the fire which destroyed the earliest written records of the sport. The Royal Shrovetide Football Match is a "medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, England. Shrovetide ball games have been played ...

  3. List of highest-scoring Premier League matches - Wikipedia

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    This game boasts the record of total number of goals scored in one half of Premier League football (nine), and by one team in one half of Premier League football (eight, by Tottenham). The highest scoring game is Portsmouth's 7–4 win against Reading at Fratton Park on 29 September 2007. [1]

  4. Grandstand (TV programme) - Wikipedia

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    Grandstand was the former flagship sports programme of the British Broadcasting Corporation which was broadcast on Saturday afternoons on BBC1 between 1958 and 2007, and from 1981 on Sunday afternoons as Sunday Grandstand on BBC2, although until 1998 the Sunday edition aired only during the summer. The last editions of Grandstand and Sunday ...

  5. List of footballers with the most goals in a single game

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    14. F. Malika-e-Noor scored 14 goals in a match of the women's Pakistani Cup on 17 September 2011. Archie Thompson. 2001. Australia 31–0 American Samoa. 13. M. Archie Thompson scored 13 goals in an international match on 11 April 2001, part of the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification in the OFC and became the new record holder on an ...

  6. List of world association football records - Wikipedia

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    It was a Division Three North Cup replay, after the first game ended 2–2 and as it would turn out, 203 more minutes could not yield a victor. Tied once more at 2–2 after 90 minutes, the game between Stockport and Doncaster then went into extra time, but 30 more minutes were insufficient, with the two teams unable to score in that time period.

  7. Sports Report - Wikipedia

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    Sports Report is one of the longest-running programmes on British radio, and is the world's longest-running sports radio programme. It started on 3 January 1948, and has always been broadcast from 17:00 on Saturday evenings during the football season, for most of its history featuring two readings of the classified football results, although the length of the programme has varied in more ...

  8. Gary Lineker - Wikipedia

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    80. (48) *Club domestic league appearances and goals. Gary Winston Lineker OBE ( / ˈlɪnəkər / LIN-ə-kər; born 30 November 1960) is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer. Lineker is the only player to have been the top goalscorer in England with three clubs: Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur.

  9. List of British football commentators - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of media commentators and writers in the United Kingdom on the sport of Association football. A number of football players have had a second career as writers or commentators. However, many commentators never played the game at a professional level such as Dale Rowlinson and Gaz Mallachan, yet they have gone on to become famous names associated with the game.