Which footballers have scored in the same minute as their surname? | The Knowledge

“Justin Seven-Seven came on in the 75th minute and then scored in the 77th minute for West Brom Under-21s against Sutton United in the National League Cup. 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 Lens 2-0 Bordeaux Ligue 1, 1977-78 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. “At the time of writing, son Ryan – at Sheffield United – hasn’t managed the feat, but he has plenty of time.”This isn’t just an English-language question, as Filippo Varanini points out. “Some Italian football nerd (not me, unfortunately) dug up a Serie C game from 1998, when Raffaele Quaranta (whose surname means 40) scored for Casarano in the 40th minute.” Pete checks back in to mention that “Swiss midfielder Claude Sixt does not strictly have the same name as the number, but he did score a 60th-minute goal in the Swiss League for Sion v Urania Genève on 28 May 1966. 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. “On 2 August 2003, in a match between Banik Ostrava against Slovan Liberec, Marek Heinz (57 varieties) scored in the 57th minute.”Clarets and blues“Burnley have gone a calendar year without a home league win. 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 …Lesley Ugochukwu celebrates scoring in Burnley’s October 2025 win at home against Leeds. Photograph: Craig Brough/Action Images/Reuters“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. “The victory came over Orlando Pride in their last game of the 2018 season and was their only win, home or away. 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. “Apologies for going all Football Italia on you again,” writes Daz Pearce, labouring under the misapprehension that stimulating the Proustian rush of Football Italia is an act worthy of apology, “but I was quite amused by Reggiana’s magnificent winless home at run in 1996-97, especially as they managed to nick two victories on the road.” Reggiana won their last home game of 1995-96 and the first of 1997-98, both in Serie B. 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.Pre-Christmas goal centuries“By my reckoning, Ross County have already scored 81 goals this season: 38 in 10 league games (including beating poor Queen of the South 8-0 and 7-1), 30 in six Challenge Cup group games, 13 in six League Cup games. 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. This was the breakdown: Bundesliga 71 goals in 18 games Champions League 18 goals in 6 games DFB-Pokal 10 goals in 3 games Franz Beckenbauer Supercup 2 goals in 1 game Harry Kane celebrates after scoring for Bayern Munich against Hoffenheim early in the 2025-26 Bundesliga season. Photograph: Heiko Becker/ReutersBut the Turnbull Tornadoes – as the Hibernian side of the early-1970s, managed by Eddie Turnbull, were known – can beat that by a month. “In 1972-73, Hibernian reached their century of goals on 16 December after beating Ayr United 8-1,” notes Mark Shipway. “They had 41 league goals by then, in 14 games, and had also scored 12 in the Drybrough Cup (three games), 32 in the League Cup (12 games) and 15 in the European Cup Winners Cup (four games).”Hibs played more games than Bayern, 33 to 28, but that wasn’t the question so pipe down. Their answer to Harry Kane, Michael Olise and Luis Díaz was Alan Gordon, Jimmy O’Rourke and Arthur Duncan, who scored 98 goals between them across the whole season.That included six of the goals in a legendary 7-0 win at Hearts on 1 January. Weirdly, Hibs’ season ended in a binary fug. In the last eight games, starting with a Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-final defeat to Hajduk Split, the team scored only twice.Knowledge archive“Who were the first football club to have an official website?” wondered Chris White in 2016. “And how about an unofficial website? I noticed that TWTD, Ipswich Town’s unofficial fan site, has been going since 1995, so surely must be one of the first. Also, who were the first clubs to start using social media platforms?”“I can help,” yelled Martyn Amos, thrusting his arm in the air. “Ipswich Town were, indeed, the first club to have a website (unofficial or otherwise). In fact, I used to help maintain it. It was set up in 1990 by Phil Clarke, who worked at BT in Martlesham (near Ipswich) when the web was still very much experimental. He then passed it on (1993-1995) to Paul Felton, who was a student at UEA in Norwich (boo, hiss).“After Paul graduated, he passed it on to me as I was, at the time, a PhD student at Warwick (1995-96). Paul then took it back in 1996 and ran it until 2001, when the club finally woke up to the potential of the web, and got a local company called AWS to run it … There used to be some discussion with Sheffield United fans about our claim to primacy, but I believe that it was decided in our favour.”As for unofficial websites … “Very likely to be Reading’s Hob Nob Anyone which has been knocking around since November 1994,” reckons Peter Sorrill. “Although the distinction between official and unofficial was moot in the early 90s as most clubs weren’t that tech savvy. Here’s the Evening Post’s report on its 20th anniversary from 2014.” In it, the founder Graham Loader explains that “I did computing and then I found out about the internet and realised you could do email and all that stuff. I didn’t think it would get big but it got quite big quite quickly. People would contact me and say how exciting it was that they could read about Reading in places like Canada and Australia.”But Alex Lopez-Ortiz thought he could go earlier. “The ‘What’s New, September 1993’ NCSA webpage lists: ‘Information on the Sheffield Wednesday Football Club at Nottingham University [website] is online.’ This is very early in the life of the web. NCSA mosaic, which was what popularised the web, was introduced in January of that year.”Knowledge archiveCan you help?“In their 3-0 win over Milan, Bournemouth scored two penalties in the first half taken by different players against two different goalkeepers. Has this ever happened before? And, excluding shootouts, what is the record for the number of penalties scored by one team in a game by different players?” wonders Matthew Wilkie.“What is the soonest a manager has been sacked after signing a contract extension?” asks Dave Smythe.“Who was the first manager to wear a tracksuit while watching his team play?” muses Gordon Smith. “I remember that Sir Alf Ramsey used to wear one for England games so did he wear a tracksuit when he managed Ipswich?”“Newcastle played Hull at 3pm on Saturday 19 September and will play Fulham at 3pm on 7 November at 3pm. All the previous fixtures haven’t been the traditional time,” begins Mark Reilly. “None of our planned fixtures to 7 January against Manchester United are Saturday 3pm kick-offs. What is the fewest number of Saturday 3pm kick-offs in a Premier League season by a club?” Mail us with all of your questions and answers