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If Cristiano Ronaldo wins the World Cup, he’ll automatically leapfrog Lionel Messi, who’s at the bottom of the list. A former Tottenham Hotspur captain is second on the list. What is this list?
We'll reveal the answer this time next week in the next edition of The Pre-Match Poser – stay tuned for that – but for now, here's the answer to last week's conundrum…
Q. Benfica, Flamengo, Brighton & Hove Albion, Tottenham Hotspur, Walsall. Why do Fenerbahce follow next in this sequence?
A. We’re talking birds. This sequence organises football clubs based on the average wingspan of their avian mascots, arranged in descending order. It starts with the expansive reach of Benfica's eagle, moving down to the soaring Flamengo vulture and the Brighton & Hove Albion seagull. The measurements continue to shrink through the flight-limited Tottenham Hotspur cockerel and the compact, aerodynamic Walsall swift. Fenerbahce appears next in the sequence because their mascot, the canary, has the next smallest wingspan in this list.
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We’re beginning with an exhaustive audit of the dynasties that defined the modern era and the teams that broke the status quo. We want you to trace the shifting power of the last thirty years by naming every club to have won one of Europe's top five leagues since 1992, before narrowing your focus to the golden decade of the millennium: can you name the clubs and players who won trophies in the 2000s?
Next, let's honour the ultimate guardians of the net by naming every winner of the Premier League Golden Glove, and dive into the heat of Spain's grandest spectacle to name every scorer in El Clasico since 2000. From the shot-stoppers who turned their boxes into fortresses to the icons who silenced the Bernabeu and the Camp Nou, let's see if your scouting network is firing on all cylinders when the spotlight is at its brightest.
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