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“As I type, the full-time whistle has just blown at Villa Park where Liverpool have scored six goals, all by different players, which seems unusual to me. So, what is the most goals scored in a game by one side, all by different players?” wondered Andrew Hill the other week.

Most of you chose to ignore Andrew’s question and simply send in some interesting, different-goalscorer trivia. We did the same; we’re not judging anyone. We’ll get to those later but first let’s answer the actual question: the most goals scored by one side, all with different goalscorers.

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