DO YOU KNOW WHO WAS THE ONLY GOALKEEPER TO WIN THE PFA YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR?

 

Mervyn Day at 19 years old in the 1974/1975 old English Division One season for West Ham United, became the only goalkeeper to have won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award. Day also became the youngest goalkeeper ever to appear in an English FA Cup Final, in West Ham victory over Fulham FC in the same season.

 

DID YOU KNOW WHEN THE 3 POINTS RULE WAS ADOPTED IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE?

The English FA adopted 3 points for a win rule in 1981 for the English League. FIFA meanwhile waited almost one and a half decades later before they saw the light at the USA 94 FIFA World Cup.