Interesting facts about the English Premier League

Here is some interesting information about the English Premier League:

• The first goal in the history of the Premier League was scored by Brian Deane for Sheffield United.
  
• The first tournament of the premiership league was played on the fifteenth of August in the year 1992. On the first day of the league, nine matches were played.
  
• The first live premier match was played at the City Ground Stadium. The man who scored the only goal was Teddy Sheringham. He was the top scorer of the championship.
  
• Sheffield Wednesday’s officer was David Pleat in the 1995-1996 seasons.
  
• The manager who was brought to justice for taking bribe in the 1994-1995 season was George Graham.
  
• In the Season 1994-1995, Ruel Fox played for Newcastle United.
  
• Holsten was sponsored by Tottenham Hotspur during the season 1994-1995.
  
• Ryan Gigg’s father was a professional rugby player, he represented Wales.
  
• The team which finished bottom during the 1994-1995 premiership was Ipswich Town, which scored just thirty six goals in the forty two seasons.
  
• The Australian player who was famously known for his hairstyle as “as a pineapple on the head” was Jason Lee. He was made fun of at a show called “Fantasy Football” by the presenters. Jason even sought legit action for this, but lost.
  
• The club which skirted relegation during the seasons 1992-1993, was Oldham Athletic.
  
• Alan Sherer is the highest goal taker in the English Premier League.
  
• David James has played the highest number of matches in the English Premier League.
  
• Thirty eight games are played by all the teams during a full season of the English Premier League. With a total of twenty teams taking part.
  
• Before Barclay’s took over the sponsorship of the English Premier League, the league was sponsored by Carling.
  
• During the season 2005-2006, Cristiano Ronaldo scored his thousandth goal, for the team Manchester United.
  
• Chelsea was the giant who was established on the fourteenth of March, in the year 1905 at The Butcher’s Hook.
  
• Arsene Wenger, Sir, Alex Fergusson, Jose Morinho and Kenny Daglish are the managers of the English Premier League, who have contributed to the success of the league. Till date none of the English managers have won the League.
  
• The English Premier League was formed on the twentieth of February, in the year 1992, as the clubs who belonged to the Football League which was founded in the year 1888, decided to part ways.
  
• The English Premiership Championship cup was designed by the Royal Jewelers, of Asprey from London, which weighs about twenty five kilos, it is seventy six centimeters tall, it is forty three centimeters wide and is about twenty five in twenty five centimeters deep.
  
• These are some of the interesting facts about the English Premiership League. There are lots more on the list. If you want to know more facts and figures, then you can log in to then net, and you will get hoards of them.

How youth can help to develep a society, then country!!

How can the Filipino youth, once referred to as hope of the Fatherland, helped the country?

President Benigno Simeon Aquino III said there are “12 Little Things Our Youth Can Do To Help Our Country” for them to help the country move forward and in effecting positive change in his speech during the 147th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio at the La Consolacion College in Mendiola, Manila.

Here are the “12 Little Things” that President Aquino urged the youth to strive to do:

• Be on Time, Honor Your Commitments.
  
• Fall in Line, Respect Others.
  
• Sing our national anthem with pride.
  
• Study well. Give your best in everything you do.
  
• Do not cheat or steal. Report any crime or illegal act.
  
• Conserve water, plant a tree and dispose your garbage properly.
  
• Do not smoke, avoid drugs and stay away from vices.
  
• Buy Pinoy. Do not buy fake or smuggled goods.
  
• Save, invest and learn business early.
  
• During elections, vote for and support the best candidate.
  
• Respect our elders, practice mano po.
  
• Pray for our country and our people.

President Aquino also enjoined the youth not just to pray hard but to do their share in nation building and in being part of the positive change by being active participants in discourses.

“A lot more positive changes have been happening. Let us be part in bringing about such change,” the President said.*PIA

Similary, we can learn from these above points to develop and do something valuable in our society to develop from community level.