Did you know?
■ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, played in goal for Portsmouth AFC, which eventually became the current day Portsmouth FC.
■ The five coloured Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania and every national flag in the world includes one of these five colours which are linked together in this order blue, yellow, black, green and red.
■ Just 13 paying spectators were present at the Stockport CountyLeicester Football League game at Old Trafford in May 1921 – the lowestever crowd at a senior football match. Only 29 paid to see the Scottish League Cuptie between Clydebank and East Stirling at Cappielow Park, Greenock in July 1999 and a mere 30 fans were present at the EdinburghBrechin City Scottish League ‘C’ game in December 1948. The number of club officials who were present at these three games were not included in the stated attendance figure.
■ If swimmer Michael Phelps were a country, he’d rank No. 35 on the alltime Olympic gold medal list, ahead of 97 nations.
■ The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
■ Derby County won only one of their 38 Premiership games in season 200708 a competition record. Their points tally was just 11 out of a possible 114.
■ The youngest player ever to appear in a senior football match in the UK is Jordan Allan who was just 14 years and 189 days old when he made his debut for Airdrie against Livingstone in the Scottish League on 26 April 2014... 24 hours after sitting at his school desk doing maths!
■ Matt Briggs was aged 16 years and 65 days when he made his Premiership debut for Fulham against Middlesbrough in May 2007 and Andy Awford of Worcester City was aged 55 years and 88 days when he played in an FA Cuptie against Boreham Wood in October 1987.
■ There are just 18 minutes of total action in a US baseball game.