Quiz answers

Answers to yesterday's Quiz on Football:

1. Which large town is home to Tranmere Rovers?
2. Which football club's supporters are known as the 'Toon Army'?
3. Which Scottish city do Hibernian play in?
4. Which Scottish football team rose from obscurity to the Premiership, played in the Scottish Cup Final and then disappeared in 2008
5. Apart from Leicester City this year, which is the only other 'smaller' club to win the Premiership?
6. Which is the only English club that plays in the Scottish Leagues?
7. How many years have Stoke City played in the Premiership?
8. When did Arsenal last win the Premiership?
9. Arsene Wenger is the longest serving Premiership manager. Who is next longest serving current manager?
10. Which team can claim the longest number of recent years in English football's top flight (Premiership and previously Division 1)

Answers

1. Birkenhead on the Wirral.
2. Newcastle United
3. Edinburgh
4. Gretna F C
5. Blackburn Rovers in 1994/5.
6. Berwick Rangers
7. They have now completed 8 seasons in the Premiership since being promoted in 2007/8.
8. They last won in 2003/4
9. Eddie Howe of Bournemouth, albeit only one season has been in the premiership. If 'all seasons in the Premiership' is taken into account, it's Mark Hughes of Stoke City.
10. Arsenal, ever-present since 1919 although Everton have played the most seasons in the top flight, with 113 season.

And our Afterthought question. It was Birmingham City who went through an entire Pope's reign without scoring and, as a result, were relegated from the 1st Division in 1979.

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