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

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 […]