XIs

Plus: Top-flight first XIs without internationals; Feyenoord: 10-goal record-breakers? and beers named after footballers

Are Dundee United the most efficient championship winners ever? | The Knowledge 2011

After England's dreary and defensively inept Euro 2000 campaign and the poor start to qualification for the 2002 World Cup, many football correspondents turned soothsayers and drew up possible England XIs for the next five years.

England's crocks could have helped the 'golden generation' to shine | Rob Bagchi 2011

However, there used to be a separate DJK football championship in the pre-war years, and also a separate national team which played a couple of matches against Dutch Catholic XIs.

The Knowledge | Which footballers have been mentioned in parliament? | John Ashdown 2011

FIRST XIs WITHOUT INTERNATIONALS "What is the last English top-flight club to put out a team without a single full international on the team or on the substitutes bench?" wonders Padraig McAuliffe.

Which club started the most managers on the road to football success? John Ashdown 2010

Francesco Sandaza of St Johnstone and Jamie Murphy of Motherwell were thought to be on his Rangers shopping list.6.29pm: Tonight's starting XIs in the Premier League might offer some tell-tale signs of late transfer moves.

Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened 2012

Both are examples of the new breed of batsmen-wicketkeepers, the trail blazed in unmatchable poise and elegance by Adam Gilchrist, who built on the foundations laid by Jeffrey Dujon and Alec Stewart with such brio to become the automatic pick for the overwhelming majority of pundits' rain-delay, all-time World XIs.

My glove affair with keepers of the lost stumpers' art 2011

However, there used to be a separate DJK football championship in the pre-war years, and also a separate national team which played a couple of matches against Dutch Catholic XIs.

The Knowledge | Which footballers have been mentioned in parliament? | John Ashdown 2011

Plus: Top-flight first XIs without internationals; Feyenoord: 10-goal record-breakers? and beers named after footballers.

Which club started the most managers on the road to football success? John Ashdown 2010

Although the number of women's XIs supported by Positive Initiative Trust around Harare is now well into double figures, it helps that female football is still comparatively rare in Zimbabwe.

Football changed my life: From 'death sentence' to forming my own team 2010

That early line-ups were so heavily populated by Scots they were known as "the team of the Macs" is, admittedly, not unusual among English clubs, but that interwar Liverpool teams often included as many South Africans as 21st-century England cricket XIs do certainly is.

Red Men: Liverpool Football Club, the Biography by John Williams 2010