The 200,000th game in English league football will take place today. I LOVE facts like that. So here are some related ones:
The first 396 matches were played without nets.
Just over 7650 of the 200,000 were played in Wales.
Just over half have been home wins, with slightly more draws than away wins (50,000 to 48,000)
Peter Shilton is the only player to play in over 1000 league matches in England. So he's been in 0.5% of all the matches played! (It was closer to 0.75% when he retired in 1997)
Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd are the only teams to win more than 2,000 league matches.
But Wolves' next win will be their 2000th.
Preston are the only team to play over 5,000 league matches. Their 5000th was 3 months ago, and was the first game in League history to be played in July.
111,634 league matches were before substitutes were used.
120,783 were with 2 points for a win.
143,119 were before Sky invented football in 1992.
The 100,000th match was in 1971.
The most frequent scoreline is 1-1, in 11.6% of matches.
And finally (probably), the two biggest crowds in league history were for Man Utd v Arsenal and Spurs v Arsenal, but not at Old Trafford or WHL. They took place at Maine Road in 1948 and Wembley in 2018.
🎼"You've only come to see the Arsenal"
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