You have probably already guessed my question, but has anyone else ever scored in the same minute as their name?” wonders Peter Skilton. Readers of a certain age may recall Didier Six, the mercurial French winger who had a brief spell at Aston Villa in 1984-85. A number of you mentioned some or all of the following sixth-minute goals, which includes two in consecutive seasons against Bordeaux: Valenciennes 2-1 Nancy (agg: 2-3) Coupe de France quarter-final, 1975-76 Valenciennes 3-2 Bordeaux Ligue 1, 1976-77 VfB Stuttgart 5-1 Karlsruher Bundesliga, 1981-82 We’d imagine Alphonse Six, who won nine caps for Belgium and scored goals galore at club level before he died at 24 years old during the first world war, managed at least one in the sixth minute, but goal times for club football in the 1910s are not easy to come by.
Pete Tomlin also offers “Austrian striker Martin Six, who also scored a goal in the sixth minute of a match. He was playing for SV Allerheiligen against DSV Leoben in the Regional League Central on the 1 April 2011.” “Scottish lower league mainstay Armand Oné scored for Stranraer in the first minute of a League Two game against East Stirlingshire in 2010-11,” writes Richard Wilson, and yes we do believe it. Also, Marculino Ninte scored a 90th-minute goal for CD Mafra v SU 1° Dezembro in the third tier of Portuguese football on 5 October 2025.” We will leave the final, not entirely serious, word to Mark Johnson.
What is the longest home drought, in the league or in all competitions?” asks our own Niall McVeigh. Burnley beat Millwall in the FA Cup in January, but it’s 376 days since their last league win at Turf Moor, a 2-0 victory over Leeds on 18 October 2025. Still, could be worse … “In the NWSL, Sky Blue FC (now Gotham FC) went without a home win between 26 August 2017 and 8 September 2018, a stretch of 378 days,” writes Dave Mellinger.
Had they failed to win, the streak would have rolled on to the start of the next season in April 2019. Unfortunately for us stats nerds, they shocked the world and won that final match.” Reggiana made no such mistake in Serie A 30 years ago. But they did not win a single match at Stadio Giglio in 1996-97, not even in the cups.
Their winlessness lasted from 23 May 1996 to 30 August 1997 – a whopping 465 days. They may well have scored a century of goals by the end of October! Surely that cannot be bettered.
What is the earliest a team has hit a century of goals in a season?” asks Stephen James. Before we get to a pre-Christmas century from the distant past, we need a modern reference point. Last season, Vincent Kompany’s Bayern Munich reached 100 goals during a 5-1 win at Leipzig on 17 January.
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