Sports quiz of the week: 30 WhatsApp groups, 4,000 shirts and 98,000 calories

Who coaches 13-year-olds? Who did nothing? And who texts a lot?

Clapton CFC, a non-league club based in London who have not yet played a competitive match, have sold more that 4,000 replica shirts in a week. Why are so many Spaniards buying their away shirt?

Fernando Hierro signed as their player-manager this week

Their kit was designed by Paco Rabanne

It commemorates 80 years since the end of the Spanish Civil War

Rafa Nadal was spotted wearing it at the US Open

Who began his coaching career at Real Madrid this week – by taking over the Under-13 team?

Jonathan Woodgate

Xabi Alonso

Roberto Carlos

Steve McManaman

Lewis Pugh achieved something historic this week. It took him 49 days, it burned 98,000 calories and did it over 330 miles. What did he do?

He walked from Hampden to Wembley

He swam the length of the English Channel, from Land’s End to Dover

He did keepie-uppies from the Camp Nou to the Bernabéu

He rowed from Belfast to New York

Saido Berahino scored for Stoke against Huddersfield in the League Cup this week. The last time he scored a goal for any club…

Gordon Brown was Prime Minister

Spain were the reigning European champions

George Bush was US President

Manchester United were Premier League champions

Clint Dempsey has retired from football aged 35. Which of these statements about Dempsey is true?

He is the only American with a Premier League hat-trick

He played in the Tottenham team that won the club’s last trophy

He won the Europa League while at Fulham

He has 200 caps for USA

What was unusual about the heavyweight fight between Curtis Harper and Efe Ajagba last weekend?

Neither boxer threw a punch

Harper weighed in at twice Ajagba’s weight

Both corners threw in the towel at the same time

The referee was knocked out by a stray punch

Catalans Dragons became the first rugby league club from outside England to win the Challenge Cup when they beat Warrington Wolves at Wembley on Saturday. In which city are they based?

Pamplona

Palma

Perpignan

Paris

The Premiership rugby season returns on Friday night with a West Country derby between Bath and ...

Bristol Bears

Bristol Battlers

Bristol Bulls

Bristol Busters

Juninho Bacuna made his Huddersfield debut this week against Stoke in the League Cup. Which of these statements does not does not describe what happened in the game?

Bacuna scored an own goal in the 97th minute

His own goal was from 40 yards out

After scoring in his own net, he went off injured

After Bacuna left the field, Huddersfield scored a late winner

Which football manager offered this opinion about communicating with his players: "I text them individually and we have 30 WhatsApp groups, one for every player. It’s the only way we can be in constant contact. It means that every single minute of the day I know what players are doing. I know every part of their lives. I know about their animals. My players love their dogs. I know about their partners. I know if they go to the cinema. It’s the detail you need to be successful. If they have an ice cream, I know about it"?

José Mourinho

Jürgen Klopp

Phil Neville

1 and above.

Ah well. Better luck next week

2 and above.

It's not the greatest score but it's something to build on

3 and above.

It's not the greatest score but it's something to build on

4 and above.

It's not the greatest score but it's something to build on

5 and above.

You're halfway to the top. Better luck next week

6 and above.

A very solid score. That's you set up for the weekend

7 and above.

You are a champion

8 and above.

You are a champion

9 and above.

You hero

0 and above.

Ah well. Better luck next week

10 and above.

Perfection. You hero

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/31/sports-quiz-week-whatsap-shirts-calories-football-boxing-rugby