1.English referee Graham Poll announced his retirement from internationals after yellow-carding a player three times in a match . The ref, who had sent off players from both sides in a fiery match between Australia and Croatia, carded Josip Simunic twice but did not produce the mandatory red for a sending off, until after the final whistle when he yellow-carded Simunic for a third time and finally produce the overdue red.
2. The last time the Netherlands played an international match without a 'van' in their starting XI was against France during Euro 2000.
3.Though he died in 1978, Portugal Fernando Peyroteo was the best goal scorer during his time, and still has the best goal ratio, with his 1.77 game to goal ratio yet to be equalled. The former Sporting Lisbon goal machine, scored 4 or more goals in a game on more than 30 occasions, including an astonishing nine in one game.
4. From 2009 to 2014, an interval of five years, Stoke city Xherdan Shaqiri won 13 titles. With five of them coming from the time he spent with basel and the rest from Germany with Bayern munich.
5. Did you know, that the English Premier league is the world oldest league. No wonder it has the most views and fans.
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