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Torres most popular shirt

Liverpool - Liverpool striker Fernando Torres's surname was the most popular to feature on replica Premiership shirts printed worldwide last season.

It is the second successive season the Spaniard has been top, while Anfield team-mate Steven Gerrard was second in the top 10 list compiled by SportingiD.

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney moved up one place to third.

Figures are based on the number of official club shirts sold domestically and internationally.

Arsenal duo Cesc Fabregas and Andrey Arshavin were fourth and fifth, followed by Chelsea pair Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba.

Former Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo had been second in last season's list but unsurprisingly his name does not appear following his world record transfer to Real Madrid last year.

Top 10 names printed on shirts 2009/10 season:

1. Torres
2. Gerrard
3. Rooney
4. Fabregas
5. Arshavin
6. Lampard
7. Drogba
8. Owen
9. Carragher
10. Tevez

Top 10 names printed on shirts 2008/09 season:

1. Torres
2. Ronaldo
3. Gerrard
4. Rooney
5. Berbatov
6. Fabregas
7. Arshavin
8. Walcott
9. Nani
10. Lampard

Top 10 names printed on shirts 2007/08 season:

1. Ronaldo
2. Gerrard
3. Torres
4. Rooney
5. Fabregas
6. Tevez
7. Van Persie
8. Carragher
9. Adebayor
10. Nani 
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