Sports quiz of the week: perfect starts, cheating claims and England coaches

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Test your knowledge of the past seven days in football, tennis, rugby, cricket, boxing and more

1. 1.In football: Thomas Tuchel has agreed to take the England job. The German won the Champions League with Chelsea in 2021; who is the only other England manager to have won a European Cup?
2. 2.Jacob Fearnley is the British No 3 in men's tennis after a remarkable run of results took him to 98th in the world. Where was he ranked at the start of this season?
3. 3.What sporting event did Belgium's Mike De Decker unexpectedly win on Sunday?
4. 4.In rugby league, Wigan Warriors completed a historic quadruple after a pre-game team talk from which British sporting legend?
5. 5.What interrupted France manager Didier Deschamps' press conference earlier this week?
6. 6.Which famous NFL face said this? 'Your job isn’t to let me go over all the reasons that I did something ... I’ll get somebody else to ask these questions. I’m not kidding.'
7. 7.Cheating allegations have rocked the world of competitive conkers, after what item was found in a winner's pocket?
8. 8.Where in the world is this?
9. 9.Which of these weekend football fixtures features two teams with 100% league records?
10. 10.England crashed out of the Women's T20 World Cup in the group stage after losing to West Indies. When was the last time they failed to make the semi-finals?
11. 11.In women's rugby union, the three-tier WXV tournament reached its climax on Sunday. Which three teams won their divisions?
12. 12.Who said this? 'I think my target now is a Grand Slam. That will be the only thing that will shut people up at the end of the day.'
13. 13.In the NHL, Filip Gustavsson scored the Minnesota Wild's fourth goal in their 4-1 win over St Louis Blues. Why was this unusual?
14. 14.In boxing: a light-heavyweight bout in Riyadh between Ben Whittaker and Liam Cameron was declared a draw after both fighters did what?
15. 15.Finally, on this day in 2009, Jenson Button clinched his only Formula One world title. Which team was he driving for that season?

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