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It's July so it's time for the new squad numbers blog

New squad numbers blog 2024-25

Euro 2024 is still in full swing – see here for that kit-tracker – but the beginning of July means the real start of the transfer action (beyond the fake PSR-friendlly merry-go-round). …

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Burnley become the first team since Charlton Athletic in the second game of 1998-99 to start a PL match with the players whose squad numbers are 1-11

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📋 Here is how the Clarets line-up this afternoon at Anfield, from 1⃣ to 1⃣1⃣ 👇 18-year old Owen Dodgson makes the bench for the first time for Sean Dyche's side, the youngster can operate at left-back and left-midfield 👊 #LIVBUR | #UTC | @SpreadexSport

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Journalism about the number 20 in 2020

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On this day in 2004, a Thierry Henry hat-trick against Liverpool helped to maintain Arsenal's unbeaten PL record. It was the first time these 11 players started a game together - the only other occasion would be the 38th league match against Leicester City

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Have they fucking forgotten that they tried to do this for Maradona? If that had been successful, Messi would not have got to wear 10 Special numbers should be legacies to live up to, not museum pieces

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Argentina plan to retire the number 10 after Lionel Messi retires 🤝 #BBCFootball

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The England Euro 2024 squad and the numbers they wore at club level in 2023-24

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In the 2001-02 Premier League season, the number 36 for both Fulham and Middlesbrough was named Mark Hudson. While the pair never played with or against each other, they did line out for Huddersfield Town a decade apart, both wearing number 4

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6 years

Happy @Solly_March Day, everyone!

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On this day in 1999, away to Coventry City, Manchester United started a Premier League game with these 11 players for the only time (original research by @oilysailor )

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4 years

From @Zonal_Marking ’s piece on number 11s

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How goos is Southampton's re-numbering for 2020-21? Well, on the left is how they started their final 2019-20 league game - not horrific, by modern standards. On the right is how that 11 will look for the new season

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3 years

Wales briefly had the players numbered 1-11 on the field at Euro 2016, but it was a fleeting and unique experience

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2 years

It gets earlier every year - Happy Solly March Day, everyone! To celebrate, quiz later today is about players who changed numbers at their existing club

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3 years

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the third former Arsenal player to wear number 25 for Barcelona, after Alex Song and Thomas Vermaelen. The number can be used by an outfielder in La Liga if a club has fewer than three senior goalkeepers

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Sixteen-year-old goalkeeper Jack Porter sets a new record for the highest number to appear in a competitive first-team game for Arsenal, beating that of Bukayo Saka, who wore 87 in 2018-19

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Rishi Sunak in Downing St is quite similar to Mario Götze at Borussia Dortmund 🟡⚫️ - Period at number 1️⃣1️⃣ - Time away due to bitter rivalry - Returns in number 1️⃣0️⃣

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3 years

Breakdown of goalkeeper shirt numbers at Euro 2020 - per rule, all countries have to give 1 to a keeper and the rest are split across seven numbers. Number 12 is out in front (17), with 23 second (11) - there is just one instance of the 'new' numbers (24, 25, 26) being used

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5 years

Aston Villa with what shall know be known as a tennis back three 🎾

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2 months

Kids these days, you have let them make their mistakes and eventually they'll see the light

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2 months

#️⃣1️⃣

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Today's date equates to the squad numbers worn by Juninho in his first three seasons at Middlesbrough - 25 in 1995-96, 10 in 1996-97, 23 when back on loan from from Atlético Madrid in 1999-2000. When he returned again in 2002, he reclaimed 10

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William Saliba's move to number 2 at Arsenal has been confirmed to coincide with his new contract. He wore 12 last season but was given 4 when he arrived in 2020 - he's the first Gunners player to be assigned two different single digits in the squad numbers era

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4 years

Both lose for horrific numbering

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4 years

Here’s one for ya.... who wins? The team I played WITH or AGAINST?

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Get well soon, Luke Shaw

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Your #ThreeLions to take on Serbia! 🙌

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Today is the 28th anniversary of the last time two Premier League clubs wore 1-11 against each other in a competitive game

Aston Villa and Leeds – the last 1-11 clash

We threw the question out there on Twitter earlier, and we will admit that we half-expected the replies that came: Unsurprisingly, a few of the responses surmised that it might have been the Manche…

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2 years

Arsenal appointed Mikel Arteta on this day three years ago. The extent of change in their squad is shown by the fact that Kieran Tierney is the only member of the 1-11 from back then still wearing the same number

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7 years

Quite a lot of reports saying that Coutinho will wear "Cruyff's iconic number 14" at Barcelona - Cruyff didn't wear 14 there, he wore 9

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5 years

@Haganator @steven5beattie I said guilty pleasure, not grounds for prosecution at the International War-Crimes Tribunal

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1 year

A reward for the new contract, perhaps?

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1 year

🚨 EXCL: Arsenal have reached agreement with William Saliba over new 4yr contract. 22yo had 12mnths on existing deal but fresh terms will tie him down until at least 2027, amid strong interest from PL + abroad. Now on to paperwork stage @TheAthleticFC #AFC

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Mykhailo Mudryk will wear 15 for Chelsea. Perhaps he will go on to become a Premier League legend, like two of his predecessors in the number.

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4 months

Tell me you look at things entirely through an English prism

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An absolute disgrace that somebody as good as N'Golo Kante is having to wear a substitute goalkeeper's shirt number

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Alessia Russo joins Arsenal 22 years and a day after another number 23 joined on a Bosman from a rival

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4 years

Dear EFL - promote Mansfield now

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4 years

Our first lineup of the 2020/21 @SkyBetLeagueTwo campaign has been confirmed! 🤩🙌 Frontman Danny Rose misses out with a tight hamstring. Watch live 👉

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1 year

Happy Liverpool's 1995-96 Striking Options Day to all who celebrate it

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6 years

Looks like the number gods punished Dzagoev for wearing 9 in midfield

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4 years

If you play numbers 47 and 50 in your starting lineup in the Premier League, you can't complain if you lose 5-2 at home

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7 years

A rare treat in modern football - two teams wearing 1-11. Wijnaldum wearing 5 means the Dutch numbering is unusual compared to their usual system

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3 years

Rest in peace, Alan McLoughlin

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2 years

Big fan of Wolves' cup number and name font as it references the angular wolf of the crest

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Steve Gerrard played right wing-back in his England debut - he wore 2, 4, 9, 10 and 11 as a starter for his country but never 8

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Steven Gerrard made his international debut 20 years ago today. He played 80 minutes for England against Ukraine at Wembley as England won 2-0. Robbie Fowler scored one of the goals but was replaced by Emile Heskey after 45 minutes. #LFChistory_net

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2 years

Date: March 15 Brighton & Hove Albion 1 Crystal Palace 0 Goalscorer: March (15)

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1 year

Another season of @SpartaRotterdam remaining faithful to 1-11. Hope remains for the world

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3 years

Eleven different players have worn 11 as a squad number for Arsenal since 1993 and seven of those moved either from or two a different number while with the club. Eddie McGoldrick was born in London but capped by Ireland and none of the other ten are English

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Of the 462 starting spots in Leeds United's 1991-92 title-winning campaign, these players in these numbers filled 409, though the 11 only played together five times. Eric Cantona started six games, wearing 2 (three times), 3 (once), 9 (once) and, most unusually, 14

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New post: Looking at how Roma unretired number 6 and what the future of the number 10 might be @ASRomaEN have a good approach. More should be like them

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Manchester United 1995-96 to 1996-97 - one of the great squad numbering tidy-up operations (others not included are Simon Davies 18-22, Ben Thornley 28-23 and John O'Kane 30-24)

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Unsurprisingly, Mateo Kovačić will wear number 8 for Manchester City after it was vacated by the departure of Ilkay Gündoğan

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3 years

New post: Portugal's numbering for Euro 84 was assigned by drawing lots, leaving them with numbers 3 and 4 up front and 9, 10 and 11 in defence

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3 years

A man who, from 1999-2001, had one of the most pleasing squad-number progressions has been tasked with making Barcelona great again

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7 months

Very good effort from Blackburn, nine of the 1-11 with 19 the highest and only 11 looking out of place

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2 years

We agree with this approach

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Alessandro Del Piero: "I never want them to retire the Juventus number 10 shirt so that the kids can always dream of wearing it one day." Good morning, Bianconeri! 👋😅

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Milan's 1995-96 Serie A-winners, the first year of squad numbers in Italy. No gaps in numbering were allowed, in contrast to the free-for-all of nowadays, but some senior players did opt for high digits

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1 year

Jeremy Doku will wear number 197 236 854 in honour of his mother, Susan

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1 year

Now confirmed by @sachatavolieri : Jeremy Doku has agreed to a five-year deal and personal terms with #ManCity , and has already spoken to Pep Guardiola. While West Ham are interested, Doku only wants to join @ManCity as an official offer is expected this week. 🔜🤝

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2 years

Gabriel Jesus will be the 13th player to have number 9 as a squad number for Arsenal since 1993

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2 years

RIP

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Ten becomes six for Everton In the summer of 2008, their number 6 became their number 10

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2 years

Anthony Gordon will wear 8 at Newcastle United - that shirt's previous occupant Jonjo Shelvey is the new number 6 at Nottingham Forest

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3 years

Tugay's three changes: During his eight-year stint at Blackburn @Rovers , the Turkish midfielder had four different squad numbers

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2 years

Half a nap for Harry at Sampdoria - number 40 is free but clearly he's not interested in such frivolity

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As noted by @motorwell8 , Willy Kambwala's debut for Manchester United alongside Jonny Evans at West Ham today means that they have a palindromic central defensive partnership

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3 years

The best thing about the successful repurposing of Joelinton as a #nufc midfielder is that it came in the season where he switched from number 9 to 7

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Me when Arsenal sign Declan Rice and he continues to wear number 41

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Before Thomas The Tank Engine arrived on the Island of Sodor and became a part of the North Western Railway, the number 1 had belonged to an old engine named Glynn - he was happy to give the new arrival his blessing 🫶🏻

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@arseblog A first-choice 11 that only played together twice!

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He was R10 when he wore this 😜

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Reply with your favourite shirt that R9 wore during his career. 🇧🇷

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Three members of the Arsenal squad have worn number 4 for the club and three have worn number 35 for the club - one man is in both groups

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Chris Wood will wear number 20 for #nufc - the club website says it was the first number the New Zealand striker wore for his country

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4 years

What an incredibly shit idea

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André Villas-Boas on Diego Maradona: "I would like FIFA to retire the #10 shirt in all competitions, for all teams. It would be the best homage we could do for him. He is an incredible loss for the world of football."

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New post: Today's date represents the shirt numbers of Arsenal's goalkeepers in 2001-02 - the first time that three keepers played enough games in the same season to earn league-winning medals

13-1-24 – Arsenal’s history-making goalkeepers

Of Arsenal’s three Premier League wins under Arsène Wenger, the 2001-02 one isn’t forgotten per se, but it perhaps doesn’t receive the same acclaim as the others. In 1997-98, book…

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*Turns off notifications*

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Hard to believe it's ten years. RIP, Gary

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A very short video to show how the numbering for a traditional British 4-4-2 came to be

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Which 1-11 number in a ‘wrong’ position is your guilty pleasure? We must admit to a fondness for a hard bastard wearing 2 at center-back with 4 playing right-back

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I've kept my counsel on Gary Lineker until now as I didn't want to jump to conclusions. What he did was unusual but that didn't make it wrong. Some are aghast but they have to understand - it's okay for a centre-forward not to want to wear number 9

Career in Numbers – Gary Lineker

With a club career record of 281 goals in 567 games and 48 strikes in 80 England caps, Gary Lineker was a pure number 9. Except he wasn’t – he didn’t wear that shirt much and not …

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RIP Ray Kennedy - he wore 5 on the left wing for Liverpool but somehow it didn’t look wrong

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Me sitting down to watch Austria v North Macedonia: “Well, at least Ezgjan Alioski won’t have a number as stupid as 10 at left-back 😃”

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France's Euro 2020 squad

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Arsenal have eight of the 1-11 numbers in their starting lineup tonight - the other three players have all worn the missing numbers on international duty

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4 years

Lunchtime bump for today's article on Southampton's eight squad-number changes for 2020-21 - all of them the good kind

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Everybody seems to be afraid to talk about the real reason for #mufc 's decline, so we're just going to say it: Three members of the squad - Valencia, Shaw and Rojo - have moved from single digits to higher numbers. Clear sign of a lack of a winning mentality.

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New post: The @premierleague should give Southampton a ten-point bonus in recognition of how well they've re-numbered their squad for the new season

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So it turns out those rumours about Raheem Sterling wearing 10 for Arsenal were just that...

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Mesut Özil will wear 67 for Fenerbahçe as a reference to the postcode of Zonguldak, from where his grandparents hailed. Ergün Penbe, part of the Galatasaray team that beat Arsenal in the Uefa Cup final in 2000, is from Zonguldak and also wore 67

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The first European final where players’ names appeared on the back of their shirts, the 1995 European Cup Winners’ Cup decider, was also the last competitive match where Arsenal lined out 1-11

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On the off-chance you missed it, a bump for the long piece on Paul Madeley's career wearing all ten outfield numbers for #lufc

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Aaron Wan-Bissaka joins West Ham United

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No Star Wars round here

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Ajax's reserve team, who compete in the Dutch second tier, play in 1-11 and use the club's classic numbering system

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Memo to other Italian clubs - you can achieve like Juventus if you refrain from allowing players have stupid numbers

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When Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang makes his Chelsea debut, he will be wearing his fourth different squad number in the space of ten months

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Can't help but feel that something's awry...

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Declan Rice will wear number 41 for Arsenal

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Ronaldo's first goal for Brazil came in his first senior start, against Iceland in 1994 - unusually, he was wearing the number 7 shirt with Viola wearing 9

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Is that a map of ancient Rome in the numbers on the back of the new adidas Roma shirt?

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*Big* clean-up operation from Chelsea (thanks to everyone who tagged us) New 1-11 numbers: 2⃣ Axel Disasi (new signing) 3⃣ Marc Cucurella (was 32) 5⃣ Benoît Badiashile (4) 7⃣ Raheem Sterling (17) 8⃣ Enzo Fernández (5) 1⃣0⃣ Mykhailo Mudryk (15) 1⃣1⃣ Noni Madueke (31)

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Fact of the day: In 2001-02, there were two Premier League players named Mark Hudson, one with Fulham and one with Middlesbrough. Both wore the squad number 36.

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Today's date, 23-3-23, is the same as Luke Shaw's numerical progression at Southampton and Manchester United over the past decade. To 'celebrate', here's a bump for our 2018 article looking at players who switched to higher numbers

Happy Luke Shaw Day – a look at players who moved higher

This article was originally published in 2018, but we’ve re-upped it today as 23-3-23 illustrates his journey even better It’s somewhat fitting that, given he has been in the news lately, tod…

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