Plus: different coloured flags for assistant referees; three clubs up and straight back down; and Europe’s most successful Fair Players. Send your questions and answers to knowledge@theguardian.com or get in touch via Twitter @TheKnowledge_GUARE ARSENAL THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPEAN UNDERACHIEVEMENT?“With their defeat on away goals to Monaco, Arsenal have now exited the Champions League prematurely for, by my count, the 17th time in a row,” writes Albert in Vienna. “Surely this must be far and away the record for the greatest number of successive failures in the competition. But is it also the outright record in underachievement? Has any other club participated in the Champions League or European Cup more often in total without ever going on to win it? My first guess would be directed towards perennial champions from perhaps Greece, Belgium or the Czech Republic – if not Rangers.” Continue reading...
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