Stat's It Archives

  • January 2012

  • 2.4 Children, the sitcom Nile Ranger watches to take his mind off football
  • Se7en Joey Barton's second favourite Morgan Freeman film after March of the Penguins
  • 0191 Dialling code Andy Carroll still wishes his home number began with
  • 404 Internet error code which frequently frustrates novice computer user Harry Redknapp

  • December 2011

  • 1 Percentage of Blackburn fans that plan to occupy Ewood Park in protest of selfish actions of 'the 99 per cent'
  • 8 Emotion Gary Neville feels when he sees a child wearing a Liverpool shirt
  • 11 Percentage of Joey Barton's tweets not written by interns of Halle & Ehiogu, a trendy music management company

  • September 2011

  • 49 Premier League players who are secretly hoping to see scrums introduced to football
  • 18 Height in inches a striker must rise to head to ball to achieve the status of "like a salmon"
  • 2-2 Lucas Radebe's favourite archbishop

  • June 2011

  • 40 Number of retweets Michael Owen expects "at the very least" for forthcoming beret gag about Patrice Evra
  • 100 Percentage effort expected by realist and maths fan David Moyes
  • 36 The average age of MLS footballers during the Vietnam War after most youngsters were snapped up for national service

  • April 2011

  • 69 The Summer in which Micky Adams brought his first real six string goal net for his garden
  • 181 Raul Moat's best 3 dart score according to Paul Gascoigne
  • 109 Times forgetful Steve Ogrizovic picked up the ball from a back pass in the 1992/93 season
  • 141 Length in characters of recent Tweet that Efan Ekoku felt could just not be cut down
  • 319 Times Neil Ruddock has used the phrase "it's political correctness gone mad" so far this year
  • 712 Number Gael Givet is generally thinking of when he invites dates to guess which number he's thinking of

  • March 2011

  • 1 The word Graeme Le Saux used instead of the word 'I', prompting suspicion in the Chelsea dressing room that he may be posh
  • 2,462,723 Number of Roy Wegerles it would take to reach the sun if placed head to toe
  • 5 Number of members in Steve Stone's favourite Jackson-centric band
  • 1 Millibands that John Terry can name (Former Chelsea kitman Clive Milliband)
  • 3, rule of Writing principle employed by Sir Alex Ferguson in his concise, aggressive and hilarious Christmas cards
  • 2 John Motson's preferred version of Match of the Day

  • February 2011

  • 12 Sheffield United supporters that regularly join in with an ambitious four verse anti-Sheffield Wednesday song to the tune of the Boomtown Rats' I Don't Like Mondays
  • 6 Nations. The only rugby tournament Nani is interested in watching
  • 60,000 Definitely West Ham's average attendance when they move to the Olympic Stadium
  • +44 The bit of a mobile phone number that Stewart Houston thinks is "befuddling"
  • 4th Official to be dropped from all matches due to Football League austerity measures
  • 6 Shinpads nervous Gareth Bale has taken to wearing after hearing horror stories from mentor Darren Anderton

  • January 2011

  • 25 factor of sun tan lotion Paul Scholes must apply when even thinking about the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
  • 3 Number of people confused Giggs thought it took to tango at 2009 Man U Xmas bash
  • 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Kevin Davies's favourite bit of the Thunderbirds title sequence

  • December 2010

  • 2 Members of the Spurs squad planning a secret trip to watch the re-united Cranberries’ comeback show
  • 36-28-36 Bank sort code that Mark Lawrenson finds amusingly saucy
  • 109 Percentage effort given by lazy Dimitar Berbatov

  • November 2010

  • 20,000 Leagues under the sea - radical FIFA contingency plan if global warming continues to accelerate
  • 27 People in UK that are still enjoying Football Focus
  • 18 Premier League managers expecting socks for Christmas (Roberto Mancini goes without and Alex McLeish is allergic to cotton)
  • 3 Number of chevrons that cautious driver Roy Hodgson likes to keep between his Ford Ka and the car in front
  • 15 Percentage of budget cuts for wing backs across all leagues in new coalition diktat
  • 4 Number of Xs Teddy Sheringham looks for when buying beer

  • October 2010

  • 6 Number of goalkeepers used in Sam Allardyce’s innovative new formation
  • 17 Percentage of Stoke fans that are bored of Rory Delap's long throws
  • 1 Song that Michael Carrick feels is the highpoint of Achtung Baby
  • 3310 The model of Nokia phone that Carlton Palmer refuses to upgrade from
  • 1 Times Asamoah Gyan has gone for a night out in Sunderland. The Ghana striker has "no plans" to return
  • 42 Number of world class players that can exist at any one time

  • September 2010

  • 1984 The book Jermain Defoe thinks "says it all" about speed cameras
  • 360 The number of degrees an owl can swivel its head. A fact that Wayne Rooney still believes to be “baffling”
  • 1001011110101010110010010100 The score of the 2096 Intergalactic Cup Final. In binary (actual score 1001011110101010110010010100 after extra time)

  • August 2010

  • 24 Gary Megson's favourite US TV drama
  • 43b Pork (Hong Kong style), Clive Allen's favourite dish at his local Chinese 'The Piping Hot Wok'
  • 26.42 Highest bid in pounds for dinner with Neil Shipperly at a recent Southampton Primary School fundraiser

  • June 2010

  • 2 The word with which Neil Ardley begins most of his correspondence, (feeling ‘dear’ is a bit fruity)
  • 24 Squad number Glenn Hoddle offered Paul Gascoigne for the 1998 World Cup as a consolation
  • 1 The only Beatles album Colin Calderwood owns, despite telling friends they’re his favourite band
  • 8 Times injured Owen Hargreaves watches the same two episodes of Friends on E4 each day
  • 9 What Tony Cascarino actually asked for the first time he ordered an egg in France
  • 12:51 Jon Stead's second favourite track off Room on Fire
  • 50 Number of first dates in the DVD Warren Barton mistakenly received from Lovefilm after ordering 51st State
  • 4 Times Paul Gascgoine pinches himself per week in hope that he will wake to find the last 18 years has all been a terrible dream

  • May 2010

  • 20 Dutch team Steve McLaren managed
  • 2 Dimensions Gordon Banks sees in since losing his right eye
  • 3 Phone company that Lars Bohenan claims "are excellent on text bundles, but fuck you on calls back to Oslo"
  • 107 Ade Akinbiyi's "definite" favourite number
  • HS2 The answer to Britain's rail mess, according to Julian Joachim
  • 6 Number of Stereophonics albums in Wayne Rooney's top five albums
  • 3 Fingers of 90s KitKat it took to build rudimentary goalposts on a dinner table (Using the silver foil for the ball)
  • 2nd What Mark Lawrenson will do to any motion calling for better coffee in MOTD meetings
  • 5 Traditional number of players in a five-a-side football team (regional variants can apply)

  • April 2010

  • 4 Goalkeeping tops Motown fan Boaz Myhill insists are in the changing room for each match
  • 33.8 percentage increase in razor glide Thierry Henry attributes to Gillette Fusion Power razor
  • 712 Number Gael Givet is generally thinking of when he invites dates to guess which number he's thinking of
  • 4 How Steve Staunton voted on the Lisbon Treaty
  • 11 Age of consent for wingers in the Netherlands
  • 5318008 The only thing Mark Stein remembers about maths lessons
  • 5 The band Kevin Keegan likes to listen to while holding a Newcastle shirt and pretending it is still 1996
  • 365 number of degrees in a circle, insists confused Giggs
  • IV point at which disenchanted horror fan Amdy Faye gave up on the Saw franchise
  • 666 The number of the devil, or three Gary Pallisters
  • 3 average number of sides in an Arsenal passing move