Sports quiz of the week: England v Netherlands, Gareth Bale and meat

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Sports quiz of the week: England v Netherlands, Gareth Bale and meat

Who hit the heights in London? Who scored at Wembley? And who collapsed?

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Ronald Koeman begins his tenure as the Netherlands manager against England at Wembley this weekend. In which year did Koeman score the winning goal in a European Cup final at Wembley?

1988

1990

1992

1994

What was the score the last time England played the Netherlands in a competitive fixture?

England 0-1 Netherlands

England 4-1 Netherlands

England 2-3 Netherlands

England 1-3 Netherlands

What happened for only the third time in rugby union history?

England lost a three games in a row

Ireland won a grand slam

Romania qualified for a Rugby World Cup

Italy beat Scotland

Which team finished second in the Six Nations?

England

France

Ireland

Italy

Scotland

Wales

Which player scored the most points in the tournament?

Jacob Stockdale

Maxime Machenaud

Owen Farrell

Johnny Sexton

Gareth Bale scored his 27th, 28th and 29th goals for Wales against China this week to become his country’s all-time leading goalscorer. Whose record did he break?

Ryan Giggs

John Charles

Mark Hughes

Ian Rush

Complete this sequence: 6, 6, 16, 18, 18, 18, 23, 23, 27 …

29

58

74

99

Who wants his opponent to take a lie detector test to prove he is telling the truth about Mexican meat?

Gennady Golovkin

Lewis Hamilton

Conor McGregor

Anthony Joshua

Southampton have only won the FA Cup once, in 1976. Which of this season’s semi-finalists did they overcome in the final?

Chelsea

Manchester United

Tottenham Hotspur

The F1 season begins this weekend. Which race is returning to the calendar for the first time in a decade?

French Grand Prix

Hungarian Grand Prix

Spanish Grand Prix

Russian Grand Prix

1 and above.

A disastrous score

2 and above.

An embarrassing score

3 and above.

A dire score

4 and above.

Sorry but it's not a great score

6 and above.

Decent. That's not a great score but it's acceptable

5 and above.

Meh. Must try harder

7 and above.

That's pretty good. You deserve to have a happy weekend

8 and above.

You have excelled. Well done

9 and above.

A wonderful score. Well done

0 and above.

A total and absolute failure

10 and above.

Perfection. You are incredible

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Guardiola's Man City rivals stunning €400M Real Madrid plans for Neymar

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Guardiola's Man City rivals stunning €400M Real Madrid plans for Neymar

Pep Guardiola's Manchester City are ready to challenge Real Madrid in a world record battle to land PSG star Neymar.

It's been reported in Madrid that Real officials met with Neymar's father earlier this month, where it was relayed they were willing to bid 400m this summer to bring the Brazil captain back to Spain.

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Jaap Stam: Reading sack manager with club 20th in Championship

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Jaap Stam: Reading sack manager with club 20th in Championship

Championship club Reading sack manager Jaap Stam following a run of just one win in 19 league games.

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Dino Maamria: Stevenage appoint Nuneaton Town boss as manager

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Dino Maamria: Stevenage appoint Nuneaton Town boss as manager

Former Stevenage player and assistant boss Dino Maamria is appointed as the new manager of the League Two club.

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Spirited Spal frustrate Juventus and shake up the bottom – and top – of Serie A | Paolo Bandini

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Spirited Spal frustrate Juventus and shake up the bottom – and top – of Serie A | Paolo Bandini

Leonardo Semplici’s minnows have a fighting chance of survival after halting the champions’ charge with a battling display that also boosted Napoli’s title hopes

Leonardo Semplici could have encouraged his players not to worry before their game against Juventus. Nobody expected Spal to get a result against opponents 15 places and 50 points ahead of them. As such, the manager might have told them to stay loose, to enjoy themselves, to go out and take a swing knowing that they had nothing to lose.

Instead he told them the truth. “We have lots to lose,” said Semplici on the eve of Saturday’s game. “We’re running out of games and we need to try to pick up points. We are facing the best team in Italy, and one of the strongest in Europe, but we still need to try to take a positive result.”

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Wigan Athletic v Southampton: FA Cup quarter-final – live!

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Wigan Athletic v Southampton: FA Cup quarter-final – live!

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Football is a simple game and football is a beautiful game – sentiments that announced themselves with clarion call when Wigan met Manchester City in the last round of this competition. City, the best side in the country, wove lovely patterns in dominating the ball and dictating the play, but Wigan, the 46th best side in the country, defended aggressively, attacked bravely, and took their chance brilliantly. Add to that a late tackle, exhibition rag-losing, unbridled ecstasy, silliness, schadenfreude and general chaos, and you have a decent answer to the question: “why are you so pitifully obsessed with something so painfully ridiculous?”

And Wigan will fancy themselves this afternoon, for Southampton are a mess. It’s possible that, after being mercilessly plundered, they’ve finally run out of players, except looking down their squad, they still have plenty of them. They might be struggling for a scorer, but they’ve no business being where they are on as bad a run as they are, so it’s far more likely that they simply compounded the error of sacking Claude Puel with the mistake of appointing Mauricio Pellegrino.

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Son replaces Kane up front for Spurs

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Son replaces Kane up front for Spurs

Son Heung-Min is preferred to former Swansea striker Fernando Llorente. The South Korea international moves into attack in place of the injured Harry Kane as Tottenham make the trip to Wales in the FA Cup. GameCast LIVE

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