MalcolmW

Both finalists were born in Canada but now live elsewhere, both have fathers from a different country and both have a touch of the East on their maternal side (LF has a Filipino grandparent). Fernandez, in the last 4 rounds, has beaten Osaka, Kerber, Svitolina and Sabalenka. Raducanu has come through 3 rounds of qualifying plus 6 rounds in the tournament proper with dropping a set, or even being taken to a tiebreak as she has broken every opponent in every set. Raducanu started at her secondary school just as Dina Asher-Smith had left it.

Of course. (Romanian father, Chinese mother, born in Canada, but resident here from pre-school days)

His watch is set 12 mins ahead to compensate fr his chronic timekeeping. Allegedly.

1923.

Fair to say Lancs had the better of it (and the bowlers didn't put a foot wrong).

Askham Grange garden centre and coffee shop.

but he was only fifth in the GB Olympic Marathon selection trial in 1948.

He started in this country as a bus driver in Rochdale but then saved up and bought a corner shop in Bristol.

Ours are always home when Wigan are away and vice versa.

I don't know if Gonzo has asked his usual question about who our fixtures are paired with as I have been busy moving house (now 5 miles from St Georges Park), but the answer, unsurprisingly, is Wigan.

Later marriage. Donna went off with a Corrie actor and then became a body builder.

I don't know if it has been mentioned, but Tom Hartley is the son of 1970s 400m hurdler (and Commonwealth relay silver medallist) Bill Hartley.

The first second tier derby match was between Burton Swifts and Burton Wanderers - one week before the first Manc derby.

London's highest placed team in 1935-36.

No. Bentaleb started and Winks came on as a sub.

He was an unused sub in the cup replay Spurs v Bolton in 2010. When he went out on loan to Leyton Orient his first goal was at Rochdale on the day Sir Nat died.

There is an eleven hour piece on the BBC iPlayer/website running until the match called "The FA Cup Channel".

The 1873 FA Cup Final was an 11a.m. kick-off.

3/1 for promotion, third favourites behind Wednesday and Rotherham. Allegedly.

You may be thinking of 1908-09 when Liverpool escaped relegation on the final day of the season by winning away at champions Newcastle United. This lifted Liverpool from 19th (of 20) to 16th and relegated Manchester City, who had not been in a relegation spot until then. Manchester United had won the Fa Cup on the last Saturday of the season (24th April) at which point they were 8th in the league. They then lost the rearranged fixture from that date at home to Arsenal on the 27th and lost the rearranged match from cup semi-final day at Bradford City on the 29th, which lifted BC from 19th to 17th. The last day in which are clubs played was Saturday 17th, as the Cup Final was on the 24th.

Roy Greaves.

It really isn't complicated. Blair's lot brought it in to prevent any overall majority (that went well!). There are 69 first-past-the-post constituency seats. Then each of the 8 regions have 7 regional seats. This is the tricky bit. Each seat in the regional voting goes to the party list which most closely moves the region towards proportional representation.* If there were an massive number of regional seats this would eventually give proportional seats overall. [If you don't understand this point stop reading now. (Traf stopped several sentences ago, and he {probably} does understand.)] * This is achieved for the each seat by dividing the regional vote for a by the number of seats won in that region + 1. For the second seat the allocation of the first regional seats is also taken into account, and so on.

More like 6 hours a day, 6 days a week, with a match on the other day, for 10 years.

Top team in NI between the wars and last won Irish League title in 1947-48. Withdrew from the league in 1949 (players having been attacked by Linfield fans on the pitch in their Boxing Day encounter). Went on a 10 game tour of North America in spring 1949, then sold all the players and wound up the club.

I saw it on BBC.