1. The highest scoring soccer game was 149-0! This whitewash happened in 2002, but the truth is it was a form of protest after a 2-2 draw between rival teams Stade Olympique de L’emyrne, and AS Adema of Madagascar, which resulted in the referees awarding a penalty causing Stade Olympique de L’emyrne to lose the game and lose the title. So, as a form of protest for being robbed of the title because of a penalty, the players purposefully scored 149 goals into their own net at the next game as spectators stormed the ticket booths demanding refunds. Besides being very confused at first, the opposing team eventually stood around in good humor at the planned stunt.

2. Peter Odemwingie has won the Premier League Player of the Month award three times. That’s more than Ryan Giggs, Cesc Fabregas, Roy Keane, Robbie Fowler, David Ginola, Teddy Sheringham, Luis Suarez and Gianfranco Zola.

3. Think Sir Alex Ferguson managed Man United for a long time? Guy Roux was Auxerre boss for over forty years, in four different spells. Between 1964 and 2004, he spent 36 consecutive years as boss of the French club.

4. Frank Lampard has scored at least five goals in each of the last 17 Premier League seasons (verified by ESPN).

5. Ricky Lambert has scored 34 penalties for Southampton from 34 attempts. The great Matt Le Tissier famously scored 47 out of 48 for the Saints.

6. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, or Ronaldinho, is a renowned Brazilian football star who has twice won FIFA World Player of the Year. When he was 13, his team scored 23 goals against a local team in Brazil, with Ronaldinho netting all of the 23 goals.

7. In October of 1998, a bolt of lightning killed an entire 11-man soccer team somewhere in the province of Kasai, eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the opposing team was completely unharmed. This happened during a match between the villages of Bena Tshadi and nearby Basangana. The game was a draw at 1-1 when the lightning struck the visiting team and they all died, while the home team members only suffer mild injuries. Some people thought the team had been cursed and that was what caused the lightning to strike them.

8. Quite fittingly, Pelé is the youngest ever World Cup winner, picking up the gold in 1958 at just 17 years and 249 days.

Way up the other end of the scale is former Italian goalkeeper Dino Zoff, who in 1982 became the oldest player to lift the trophy at 40 years and 133 days.

9. Arsenal are the only team to have received a gold version of the Premier League trophy, when it was specially made to commemorate their 2004 ‘Invincibles’ season, instead of the silver trophy that every other title winning team have lifted.