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“Has there ever been a longer acrostic spelled out in a table than the oft-recurring ‘Table’ from the Premier League this season, or ‘Lawns’ from League Two?” asks Marco Jackson.

“After skimming through all 33,000 end-of-day league tables in the history of English league football and cross-referencing them against the 123,000 most common English words, by my reckoning there have been somewhere in the region of 450 five-letter words, 38 six-letter words and one seven-letter word hidden in league tables across all divisions since 1888,” writes uber-statto James Clarke.

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