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Keegan scored twice in the 1974 FA Cup final. Who scored Liverpool's other goal?
A. Steve Heighway2 min
Which pair scored Everton's goals in the 1984 FA Cup final?
D. Graeme Sharp and Andy Gray2 min
Who scored the only goal in Tottenham's 1982 FA Cup final replay?
A. Glenn Hoddle2 min
Which United winger began a run of 207 consecutive league appearances in 1977?
B. Steve Coppell2 min
Who lifted the FA Cup as Liverpool's captain in 1974?
C. Emlyn Hughes2 min
Who became QPR's first substitute, against Millwall in 1965?
B. Frank Sibley2 min
How many league goals did champions Everton score in 1984-85?
B. 882 min
Which club beat Southampton after extra time in the 1984 FA Cup semi-final?
C. Everton2 min
Which club did Terry Venables leave QPR to manage in 1984?
A. Barcelona2 min
Who was Arsenal's goalkeeper in the 1971 FA Cup final?
B. Bob Wilson2 min
Who took Liverpool's winning penalty in the 1984 European Cup final?
A. Alan Kennedy2 min
Who managed QPR when they finished league runners-up in 1975-76?
D. Dave Sexton2 min
From which club did Everton sign 1966 FA Cup hero Mike Trebilcock?
D. Plymouth Argyle2 min
Who captained Arsenal to the League and FA Cup double in 1971?
A. Frank McLintock2 min
Who managed Tottenham when they won the UEFA Cup in 1984?
A. Keith Burkinshaw2 min
What was the penalty shootout score when Liverpool beat Roma in the 1984 final?
D. 4-22 min
Which club finished above runners-up Southampton in the 1983-84 league table?
A. Liverpool2 min
Who was Everton's goalkeeper in the 1966 FA Cup final?
C. Gordon West2 min
Which substitute scored Arsenal's equaliser in the 1971 FA Cup final?
D. Eddie Kelly2 min
Who scored a hat-trick for Tottenham against Arsenal in August 1961?
D. Terry Dyson2 min
Who scored Liverpool's penalty in the 1977 European Cup final?
C. Phil Neal2 min
Bunny Bell scored nine goals in one game on Boxing Day 1935 as which club beat Oldham 13-4?
C. Tranmere Rovers2 min
England beat world champions Italy at Highbury in 1934. How many Arsenal players were in England's team?
C. 72 min
Who kept a clean sheet in goal for Southampton in the 1976 FA Cup final?
D. Ian Turner2 min
Which club won the first post-war league title in 1946-47?
B. Liverpool2 min
Who captained Everton to victory in the 1966 FA Cup final?
B. Brian Labone2 min
England's first ever World Cup match was in Rio in 1950. Which country did they beat 2-0?
D. Chile2 min
Who headed Liverpool's second goal in the 1977 European Cup final?
B. Tommy Smith2 min
Which Lancashire club won the 1959-60 league title, only going top after their final game?
A. Burnley2 min
Who captained Southampton when they won the FA Cup in 1976?
C. Peter Rodrigues2 min
Which 1966 World Cup winner managed the Republic of Ireland at the 1990 World Cup?
C. Jack Charlton2 min
How many goals did Ian Rush score in all competitions in Liverpool's 1983-84 treble season?
C. 472 min
Which club were relegated from the First Division in 1983 but still reached that year's FA Cup final?
B. Brighton and Hove Albion2 min
Non-league Sutton United knocked which top-flight side out of the FA Cup third round in January 1989?
C. Coventry City2 min
Who was the first winner of the PFA Players' Player of the Year award, in 1974?
B. Norman Hunter2 min
Chelsea won a European tie 21-0 on aggregate in 1971, including a 13-0 home win. Who were the opponents?
A. Jeunesse Hautcharage2 min
Arsenal clinched the 1970-71 title at White Hart Lane. Who headed their late winner?
D. Ray Kennedy2 min
Liverpool's record win was 11-0 in the 1974 Cup Winners' Cup. Who were the opponents?
C. Stromsgodset2 min
Don Revie's Leeds famously toyed with which side during a 7-0 win in March 1972, stringing together dozens of passes?
B. Southampton2 min
Who managed Swansea City's rise from the Fourth Division to the First between 1978 and 1981?
B. John Toshack2 min
Which Derby County forward scored 28 goals in just 23 England games between 1895 and 1907?
D. Steve Bloomer2 min
Which club won the first ever Second Division title in 1892-93, but were denied promotion after losing a test match?
C. Small Heath2 min
Who is recognised as the world's first black professional footballer, a goalkeeper for Preston and Rotherham?
A. Arthur Wharton2 min
England's record win came in Belfast in 1882. What was the score against Ireland?
B. 13-02 min
Who became the first England player ever sent off, against Yugoslavia at the 1968 European Championship?
D. Alan Mullery2 min
Who was the first player to score against England at the 1966 World Cup?
B. Eusebio2 min
Which PFA chairman led the 1961 campaign that abolished footballers' maximum wage?
D. Jimmy Hill2 min
Which Northern Ireland midfielder became the youngest player ever to appear at a World Cup finals, aged just 17, at the 1982 tournament in Spain?
A. Norman Whiteside2 min
Which club, nicknamed the Team of All the Talents, won three league championships in the 1890s under manager Tom Watson?
B. Sunderland2 min
Marco van Basten scored one of football's greatest ever goals, a stunning volley from a tight angle, as the Netherlands won the 1988 European Championship final against which opponent?
D. Soviet Union2 min
England goalkeeper Gordon Banks produced what is often called football's greatest ever save, tipping over a close-range header during a 1970 World Cup group game against which side?
B. Brazil2 min
England were eliminated from the 1962 World Cup in Chile by the eventual champions, beaten 3-1 in the quarter-final by a Brazil side inspired by which dazzling winger?
D. Garrincha2 min
Eusebio scored four goals as Portugal came from 3-0 down to win an extraordinary 1966 World Cup quarter-final 5-3. Which underdog side had raced into that shock early lead?
B. North Korea2 min
In which year did the Football Association officially legalise professionalism in English football?
C. 18852 min
Michel Platini set a European Championship record that still stands today, scoring how many goals in just five games as France won Euro 1984 on home soil?
B. 92 min
The Netherlands scored inside the first minute of the 1974 World Cup final from a penalty won without a single German touching the ball, but still lost 2-1 to which host nation?
D. West Germany2 min
Ajax won three consecutive European Cups between 1971 and 1973, playing a revolutionary style built around which Dutch playmaker, later a Barcelona star?
A. Johan Cruyff2 min
In the deciding match of the 1950 World Cup, hosts Brazil lost 2-1 in a shock result remembered as the Maracanazo. Which nation beat them in front of a world record crowd at the Maracana?
B. Uruguay2 min
George Best inspired a stunning 5-1 win away in Lisbon during the 1965-66 European Cup, earning the nickname El Beatle from the Portuguese press. Which club were thrashed that night?
D. Benfica2 min