Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Every day in the run-up to Christmas, we'll have a new Premier League quiz for you, so keep coming back to flex your trivia muscles. Check out the latest one immediately below or scroll down for ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
[15] [16] The oldest scorer of a Premier League hat-trick is Teddy Sheringham with an age of 37 years and 146 days playing for Portsmouth against Bolton Wanderers on 26 August 2003. [13] The Dubious Goals Committee has sometimes decided after a match that players have not scored hat-tricks because one of the goals was incorrectly credited to them.
The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people. [9] The Premier League's production arm, Premier League Productions, is operated by IMG Productions and produces content for its international television partners. [194]
The FA Premier League was founded on 20 February 1992, following the decision of First Division (the top-tier league from 1888 until 1992) clubs to break away from the English Football League. As a result at the top is the single division of the Premier League (level 1, which is often referred to as the "top flight"), containing 20 clubs.
Sepp Blatter, when president of FIFA, football's world governing body, strongly opposed the "game 39" proposal. "Game 39" or the international round was a proposed extra round of matches in the Premier League to be played at neutral venues outside England.
Since the Premier League's formation at the start of the 1992–93 season, 13 players have accrued 500 or more appearances in the Premier League. The first player to reach the milestone was midfielder Gary Speed , in representation of Leeds United , Everton , Newcastle United and Bolton Wanderers ; his 500th match was Bolton's 4–0 win over ...
Leeds United, the last champions of English football before the creation of the Premier League, played in the first 12 seasons of the Premier League, peaking at third place in 2000, before being relegated in 2004 in the midst of a serious financial crisis which was the direct result of heavy spending on players in the previous few seasons and a ...