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We've created a quiz, similar to a large tic tac toe, that will test only the most knowledgeable Premier League fans - read below to see the rules. This quiz works best on desktop - we would recommend giving yourself 15-20 minutes, your progress will save if you refresh your browser. How it works Fill in each square in the grid with a player who played for both clubs For example, for the Arsenal v AVL square, enter any player who has played for both Arsenal and Aston Villa An

You wouldn’t have thought that a man who only played 101 minutes in a Premier League season could be a vital cog in a team’s title triumph - but that was the case with Arsenal midfielder Christian Norgaard in the last campaign, according to his team-mates. The Dane moved across London last summer from Brentford, where he was captain and had been a mainstay of the side for six years, making almost 200 appearances across all competitions. Even though he had recently signed a ne

Peripheral have researched every current and former EFL player at the FIFA 2026 World Cup, finding that: 141 of the 1,248 World Cup players have made an EFL appearance (11.3%) Between them they've racked up 11,306 EFL appearances Of these, 127 have played in the Championship, 42 in League One and 20 in League Two 3 in 4 World Cup nations have at least one current or former EFL player (36/48) England (20, 77%) and Scotland (15, 58%) have the most of any nation 11 nations have

Try our quiz and see if you can name any player going to the 2026 FIFA World Cup who has ever made a league appearance for your Premier League club. Note: The quiz only counts players who have made a senior league appearance for your Premier League club, although the appearance doesn't necessarily have to have been in the Premier League. SPOILERS BELOW: How many World Cup players have ever played for a Premier League team? There are 293 players at the World Cup who have ever

Is there a better alternative to a regular World Cup Sweepstake? We think so... With less than two weeks till the World Cup, offices up and down the UK are scrambling to organise World Cup Sweepstakes. Emails are being fired out, and messages are being hastily shared on Slack channels. But we at Peripheral are tired of the same old sweepstake format. With 48 nations at the 2026 tournament, and more disparity that ever between the teams the lack of parity of the 48 nations

Within all of the potential European permutations towards the end of the season, Peripheral has worked out one scenario where purposely losing a game could bring the Bees millions of pounds. TLDR: The Premier League has been awarded one of the Champions League's European Performance Spots (EPS), giving it 5 Champions League places for next season If Aston Villa win the Europa League and finish 5th, they will get the EL winning UCL spot and the 5th placed EPS UCL Qualification

During previous international football tournaments, Senegalese fans have become known for wearing vibrant outfits and dancing during games. But at the 2026 World Cup in North America, viral scenes like these could be more rare. At the 2022 World Cup, a Moroccan fan joining in with the Senegalese celebrations There have already been suggestions that because of US President Donald Trump's travel ban, fans from certain countries may be barred from entering America for the tourn

A study by Peripheral has found another blind spot in Google’s AI Overviews, that they fail to correctly spell words backwards. In more than half of cases, the overviews gave an incorrect answer when asked how to reverse the spelling of a word. In the study, we analysed 500 of the most common English terms, […]

After the loss of manager Thomas Frank to Tottenham, and strong rumours linking talisman Bryan Mbeumo to Manchester United, Brentford are experiencing a turbulent summer. But is there another Bees player who hasn’t received the transfer interest that their performances may have warranted? Although Mbeumo dominated the headlines throughout the season, strike partner Yoane Wissa […]

One of the most talked about Premier League stories this season was the poor performance of Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur. Finishing 15th and 17th respectively, the two clubs fell short of anywhere near the standards that fans would expect. Part of the reason has been the increasing strength of the ‘middle of the road’ […]

Sundar Pichai told us to make this site… Well, not really. But in a recent interview, he told Nilay Patel of The Verge that web publishing is thriving and that in five years time, publishers will still be getting a lot of traffic. Peripheral has been set up to tell stories. We use data to […]