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SCORIGAMI: Tottenham Hotspur 10, Everton 4 is the first 10-4 game in Premier League history

Final · October 11, 1958

Premier League got a brand-new final score on October 11, 1958. Tottenham Hotspur beat Everton 10-4, and in every Premier League game since 1888, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 10-4 sits among nearby Premier League scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 8-4, Blackpool over Charlton Athletic on September 27, 1952, 6 years and 1 month earlier. This is Premier League's 1st new final score of the 1958 season, and the grid now holds 72.9 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 11-4 had still never happened and 10-5 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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