Admittedly, the title doesn’t run off the tongue as smoothly as, ‘May the fourth be with you’, but we do have two consecutive instances of...
Dates
It’s Lorenzo Amoruso Day – well, one of them anyway, with Blackburn Rovers fans celebrating the feast on April 5. When the Italian centre-back joined...
We accept that it’s probably not the main topic of discussion in the wake of Arsenal’s win over Everton on Saturday evening, but the Gunners...
Today is February 12, or 12-2, and it represents a switch made by three Premier League players at their current clubs. While there is an...
While Steve Harper was at Newcastle United for the first season of squad numbers, 1993-94, after joining from Seaham Red Star, it wasn’t until 1994-95...
In an ideal world, Martin Braithwaite would presumably prefer if September 19 was used to celebrate his numerical moves at Barcelona. Having joined the club...
Normally, these date-related posts revolve around the squad numbers era, but instances of players moving from 4 to 6 are rare – David Unsworth at...
A bit like Martin Braithwaite, there are two acceptable dates where Kieran Richardson’s squad-number changes can be celebrated but this one – 10-3, or March...
Today, October 9, can of course be written 9-10 – traditionally, the numbers used by the strikers in a classic English 4-4-2. For Newcastle United,...
There have been six European Cup/Champions League finals where both teams have changed and half of those instances have occurred on this date, May 24....