Which football team holds the record for the most yellow cards in a Premier League match?

According to Guinness World Records, the football team that holds the record for the most yellow cards in a Premier League match is Tottenham Hotspur. On May 2, 2016, Spurs travelled to Stamford Bridge knowing that they needed to beat Chelsea, and win their two remaining matches of the season, against Southampton and Newcastle United, to have any chance of preventing Leicester City from becoming champions of England for the first time in their history.

Despite having failed to beat the Blues on any of their last 27 visits to Stamford Bridge, Spurs took a 2-0 lead, courtesy of goals from strikers Harry Kane, after 35 minutes, and Son Heung-min, on the stroke of half-time. However, in a feisty, ill-tempered first half, there was still time for referee Mark Clattenberg to book Danny Rose, after a melee on the touchline, and the Tottenham left-back joined teammates Kyle Walker and Jan Vertonghen as one of three Spurs’ players cautioned before the break.

Early in the second half, they were joined by midfielder Erik Lamela, who was booked for a late, two-footed tackle after 51 minutes. Seven minutes later, Gary Cahill pulled a goal back for Chelsea, which did little to improve the visitors’ demeanour. Christian Eriksen become the fifth Spurs’ player cautioned, for a bad foul after 70 minutes and, when substitute Eden Hazard curled in an equalising goal after 83 minutes, frustration boiled over. Eric Dier was lucky to avoid a straight red card for a dangerous tackle on Hazard, while Harry Kane, Mousa Dembélé – who later received a six-match suspension for an earlier eye-gouging incident, unseen by the referee – and Ryan Mason were all booked deep into injury time.

 

How many times did Sizing Europe run at the Cheltenham Festival?

The short answer is seven. Owned by the late Alan and Ann Potts, Sizing Europe made his Cheltenham Festival debut in 2008 when, following a comfortable 4-length win in the Greatwood Handicap Hurdle the previous November, he was sent off 2/1 favourite for the Champion Hurdle. However, the Pistolet Bleu gelding weakened quickly before the final flight and was virtually pulled up on the run-in, trailing in 101 lengths behind the winner, Katchit; he was later found to have strained the joint between his hind leg and spine, known as the sacroiliac joint.

In 2009, Sizing Europe was denied a chance of redemption by injury. By the time of his next Festival appearance, in 2010, he had made a successful transition to fences, winning his first four starts over the larger obstacles. Sent off 6/1 third favourite for the Arkle Challenge Trophy, the eight-year-old was going easily when left in the lead at the penultimate fence and was driven out to beat the closing Somersby by three-quarters of a length.

Four successive defeats followed but, back at the Cheltenham Festival, in 2011, Sizing Europe made no mistake in the Queen Mother Champion Chase. Although only fourth choice in the betting, at 10/1, in a field that included Master Minded and Big Zeb, he led over the final fence and stayed on strongly to win by 5 lengths. Sadly, that was to be his last victory at the Cheltenham Festival.

Sizing Europe was sent off odds-on, at 4/5, to defend his title in 2012, but was beaten 1¼ lengths by Finian’s Rainbow in a driving finish. In 2013, as an 11-year-old, he had no answer to Sprinter Sacre, who cantered clear to win by 19 lengths, and he was beaten again in the Queen Mother Champion Chase in 2014 and 2015.

Who holds the world record for the heaviest deadlift?

For readers unfamiliar with powerlifting exercises, a deadlift involves lifting a ‘dead’, or static, weight, typically a barbell, from the ground and elevating it to an upper-thigh, locked position by extending the hips and knees in unison.

According to Guinness World Records, the world record for the heaviest deadlift is held by now-retired Icelandic professional strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. On May 2, 2020, at Thor’s Power Gym in Kópavogur, Iceland, during a ‘Feats of Strength’ event sanctioned by World’s Ultimate Strongman and streamed live on cable sports channel ESPN, Björnsson deadlifted 501kg, or 1,104½lb. Standing 6’8¾” tall and weighing in at a massive 205kg, or 452lb, at the time, the former professional basketball player beat the previous record, 500kg, or 1,102lb, set by English former professional strongman Edward ‘Eddie’ Hall during the World Deadlift Championships in Leeds, England in July, 2016.

Afterwards, Hall contested the world record on the grounds that Björnsson completed his lift in his home gym, rather than in a competitive environment. Björnsson, who had no previous boxing experience, responded by challenging Hall to a boxing match. The contest, billed as ‘The Heaviest Boxing Match in History’, did not come to fruition until March 19, 2022 but, when it did, the Icelander won the six-round exhibition match at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium by unanimous points decision.

His powerlifting exploits aside, Björnsson is perhaps best known to a wider audience for his portrayal of Gregor ‘The Mountain’ Clegane in the popular Home Box Office (HBO) series ‘Games of Thrones’, in which he appeared in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth seasons, from April, 2016 onwards

Who was the first player to reach 10,000 runs in Test cricket?

The first player to reach 10,000 runs in Test cricket was former Indian cricketer Sunil ‘Sunny’ Gavaskar, who is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time. Gavaskar reached the milestone of 10,000 runs in what turned out to be the penultimate Test match of his career, the fourth Test of the Pakistan tour of India, in Ahmedabad, in March, 1987.

In the first innings, having made 57, he needed just one more run to make history and did so, playing a delicate late-cut off Pakistani off-spinner Ijaz Faqih down towards third man for two. Gavaskar raised his bat in celebration as was mobbed by jubilant spectators, who invaded the pitch to congratulate him on his record-breaking achievement. When player resumed, rather anticlimactically, Gavaskar was dismissed for 63 and the match ended in a draw.

A right-handed batsman, standing just 5’5″ tall – hence his other nickname, ‘Little Master’ –Gavaskar played a total of 125 Test matches for India, including 47 as captain. He made his debut in the second Test of the India tour of West Indies, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in March, 1971 and completed his swansong in the fifth Test of the Pakistan tour of India, in Bengaluru, in March, 1987. He played 214 innings and scored 10,122 runs, including 34 centuries – thereby setting a world record that stood for 19 years – at an average of 51.1.

Several years before reaching 10,000 runs, Gavaskar had enjoyed another red-letter day during the sixth Test of the West Indies tour of India, in Chennai, in December, 1983. In the first innings, Indian opener Anshuman Gaekwad and number three Dilip Vengsarkar were both dismissed without scoring, leaving the home side 0-2 at one stage. However, batting at number four, Gavaskar scored 236 not out – which was, at the time, an Indian Test record – and, moreover, took his number of career Test centuries to 30, one more than the previous record set by Donald Bradman.

Which is the most dangerous sport, in terms of fatalities?

According to Bandolier, an independent healthcare journal, the most dangerous sport, in terms of fatalities, is BASE jumping, in which the risk of death is 1 in 2,317 jumps. BASE is, of course, an acronym that stands for Buildings, Antennae, Spans and Earth, which are the types of fixed objects from which participants may leap before parachuting to the ground.

In many jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, there is no specific legislation prohibiting BASE jumping, but the sport is still subject to common laws, such as trespass and public endangerment. However, BASE jumping ‘is not considered part of sport parachuting’ by British Skydiving, formerly the British Parachute Association and, as such, is completely unregulated.

Furthermore, while skydivers jump from a minimum altitude of at least 3,000 feet, and often higher, and are equipped with both a main parachute and a reserve parachute, BASE jumpers typically jump from altitudes between 150 and 500 feet and are equipped with just a single parachute. Consequently, BASE jumpers have just a few seconds to orient their bodies before deploying their parachute, which makes the sport an altogether riskier proposition than skydiving. Approximately 38% of BASE jumping fatalities occur without a parachute being deployed at all, for whatever reason.

By comparison, Bandolier quotes figures between 1 in 101,083 and 1 in 125,189 jumps for the risk of death involved in skydiving, which are in the same ball park as the 1 in 116,000 quote for hang gliding. Indeed, the risk of dying associated with swimming, cycling or running is higher than that associated with skydiving or hang gliding, but BASE jumpers are approximately 24 times more likely to suffer a fatality than participants in any other sport.