11. Gareth Bale Moves To Madrid
In the biggest transfer that football had ever seen, Tottenham's Gareth Bale moved to Real Madrid for a staggering £75 million, which prompted the brilliant website,
What Bale Earns, an interesting look into how many thousand cans of Tango the Welshman could buy with his wages. Arsenal also broke their transfer record, forking out over £40 million for German Mesut Ozil after missing out on Luis Suarez, and spending much of 2013 a-top the Premier League table, with Bale's fellow countryman Aaron Ramsey stunning pundits. Suarez has also been playing well, scoring 19 goals this season, and firing Liverpool into the top 4, as Manchester United struggle to find their feet under David Moyes. England qualified for the World Cup, and Jose Mourinho returned to Chelsea in the summer.
10. Game Of Thrones Takes The World By Storm
Another huge success of 2013 was Game of Thrones, which found hoards of new fans and became the most pirated show of the year along with Breaking Bad. Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner declared his affection for it, claiming he'd like to appear in it one day, and Coldplay's Will Champion made a short cameo as a drummer. Series 4 returns early in 2014.