Players who started more than one of these finals
A few players started for more than one finalist between 2011 and 2015. Spotting these overlaps from UEFA lineups gives you anchors for crossover and duel.
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Playing Footbillion on your phone without fumbling
Practical phone tips for Footbillion: the two-row header, the inline submit button, keyboard habits and getting a full match into a short break away from home.
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Using Footbillion to practise a second language
Switch the interface to a language you are learning. Football prompts become short, repeatable reading practice with vocabulary you already know.
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Spot the obvious answer first, then step past it
Before going deep, name the answer most fans would say first. A method for finding the obvious pick in seconds and moving to a valid, less obvious one.
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Premier League prompts for fans outside England
Champions within a span of seasons and London clubs in a set season: how fans abroad can prepare for Premier League prompts using the league's history pages.
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Preparing for a duel the night before
Duel boards come from the same 2011–2015 final XIs as crossover. A 20-minute prep using UEFA lineups and one crossover game, so you sit down ready.
Lire l’articleOrdering your candidate answers by likely depth
Once you have three or four candidates, which one goes first? Signals that suggest an answer sits deeper on the ladder, and how to order your attempts.
Lire l’articleReading a UEFA lineup page: starters, substitutes and the XI that counts
Crossover counts only the starting XI, not the bench. How to read UEFA's official lineup pages, separate starters from substitutes and check your own memory.
Lire l’articleReading date ranges and cutoffs in a prompt
'Before 2023', 'from 1998 to 2022', 'in 2023/24': dates set the edges of a prompt. How to read inclusive ranges, cutoffs and seasons without losing attempts.
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Reading the daily leaderboard honestly
What the leaderboard shows: ranked daily scores only, your highlighted row, bars scaled to the day's maximum, and ties ordered by who finished first.
Lire l’articleReading the reveal screen: tiers, bars and the locked answer
Circle, diamond, star and red card: what each reveal tier means, how practice answer bars are scaled, and why the daily shows only the answer you locked.
Lire l’articleRecalling a starting XI line by line
Go from goalkeeper to back line to midfield to attack, counting to eleven. A positional recall method for crossover, practised on a made-up team first.
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