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- You can hire Barcelona’s Nou Camp stadium for £34,000.
- Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff and Ian Botham are the only English cricketers to have hit six sixes in a single Ashes Test.
- The newly installed retractable roof over Wimbledon’s Centre Court takes ten minutes to close.
- Half of all UK football fans have bought products promoted by David Beckham.
- England manager Fabio Capello has won nine league titles with four different clubs.
- Southampton’s Matt Le Tissier was the first midfielder to score 110 goals in the Premier League.
- Spurs manager ‘Arry Redknapp grew up as an Arsenal fan.
- Michael Owen scored four goals in four games for Man United in pre-season friendlies.
- Kevin Pietersen has scored 963 Test runs against Australia.
- Sir Alex Ferguson is the most decorated manager in England and Scotland with 31 major titles.
- Ferrari is the only team to have competed every year in the F1 World Championship since 1950.
- Nwankwo Kanu is the most-decorated African player of all time.
- Alastair Cook is the youngest English cricketer to reach 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 Test runs.
- The fastest F1 driver around the Top Ceortest track is Nigel Mansell, who completed his lap in 1 minute 44.6 seconds.
- Boxer Manny Pacquiao owns and has played for basketball team Pac Man Gensan in the Philippines.
- This season’s Champions League winners will pocket £6.3million in winnings.
- It costs £100,000 to replace the playing surface at Wembley.
- Tottenham were the first British team to win a European trophy, with the 1963 Uefa European Cup Winners’ Cup.
- Carl Froch started boxing when he was nine years old.
- Eight different players have scored for Everton in this season’s FA Cup - and none have scored more than one.
- A nine-dart finish has been televised only 16 times.
- Andrew Flintoff has picked up 15 injuries in the last ten years.
- Alan Shearer is still the Premier Leagues all-time top scorer with a total of 260 goals.
- Ricky Hatton’s career earnings so far top £40 miilion.
- Galatasaray are the only team to win the modern Uefa Cup undefeated
- The average age of F1 drivers is 24.4 years old.
- The Uefa Cup weighs 15kg.
- Wayne Rooney earns £90,000 a week.
- In the UK, a 147 maximum break in snooker has been televised 36 times.
- At the start of the season, Jenso Button was 100/1 to win the F1 title.
- Paul Scholes is the only England player to have been sent off at Wembley (against Sweden in 1990).
- Stephen Hendry has won more matches at the Sheffield Crucible than any other snooker player.
- The stadiums for the 2010 World Cup are going to cost South Africa more than £800million.
- Tiger Woods was out of action for 254 days before winning his comeback tournament by one stroke.
- BMW Sauber F1 driver Nick Heidfeld holds the record for the number of second-place finishes without a CP victory.
- Alan Shearer is the only player to have scored over 200 Premier League goals.
- Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe is the youngest current league manager at 31.
- To date, a total of 1,326 boxers have died in the ring.
- Sunderland goalkeeper Craig Gordon is Britains most expensive number one, with a £9million price tag around his neck.
- Celtic park is Scotlands biggest football stadium with a capacity of 60,506.
- Tottenham Hotspur formed in 1883, four years before North London rivals Arsenal.
- Televised Champions League games in the UK average nine million viewers per game.
- Formula One drivers typically work their way through 60-80 sets of brakes in a season.
- The Davis Cup is the heaviest trophy in sport, at 105kg.
- More than 5,000 Brazilian footballers play professionally outside their country.
- Shane Warne holds the record for the most test runs without ever reaching a century.
- South Africa has 51,944 registered football clubs more than any other country.
- Skiing is the fastest non-motorised sport in the world.
- Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho now earns £7million per year as boss of Inter Milan.
- The worlds largest indoor ski slope is in Dubai.
- Ricky Hatton earns up to £12,000 a time performing after-dinner speeches.
- The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air.
- England boss Fabio Capello rings his mother every day.
- The wembley arch can be seen from 28 miles away.
- Pro surfers will lose around 100 surfboards in their career.
- The world record for the number of headers in a minute is 341 set in 2007 by Gao Chong of China.
- Skiing is the faster non-motorised sport in the world.
- Tiger Woods is the only golfer to be defending champion in all four majors at the same time.
- The average distance covered by a Premier League midfielder during a match is 7.06 miles.