Cloughie1975
John Robertson
Looking again,I think the 4977 figure must be fairly recent (considering the 1st Division wasI was recently looking at some all time tables - following on from @Quntib Hollox 's thread for Nerds.
I couldn't see when it was updated to, byt that had us at 4977.
reduced to less than 22 teams for 2 or 3 seasons in the late 80s/early 90s and the Premier
League has mainly had 20 teams).
We’ll certainly reach the 5000th league game landmark soon (most probably in this
calendar year).