Football Fun Facts

[Holle]

As I posted in another thread I stumbled over the fact that Steven Gerrard scored the same amount of league goals as Laurent Blanc.

I thought maybe it would make a good idea for a thread. There's nothing like useless knowledge.

Does anybody else know a few?

 

[Holle]

Oh, and the only player to lose in 100 caps is Mario Frick of Liechtenstein!

 

[MomoWASright]

Motherwell have won the Copa del Rey.

 

[Holle]

Milan won the Scudetto in 1993/94 by scoring 36 goals in 34 matches.

 

[Hansern]

Hermann Hreidarsson is the only player to have been relegated with 5 different clubs in the Premier league.

 

[refugee]

Milan won the Scudetto in 1993/94 by scoring 36 goals in 34 matches.

Fucking hell

 

[Holle]

Giuseppe Bergomi played in 4 World Cup tournaments but not in a single qualifying match.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Sadio Mane has never lost at Anfield in the league for Liverpool 😀

 

[tombrown]

Facetious and Abstemious are the only two words I know with all the vowels in the right order

 

[Holle]

Facetious and Abstemious are the only two words I know with all the vowels in the right order

How tragedious.

 

[Modo]

Luis Suarez netted a hat-trick or more every 18 games, officially making him the most frequent hat-trick scorer in the English top-flight.

 

[the count]

Allisson has conceded five goals at Anfield whereas Adrian hasn't

 

[Holle]

Allisson has conceded five goals at Anfield whereas Adrian hasn't

Stop the Count!

 

[Modo]

Milan won the Scudetto in 1993/94 by scoring 36 goals in 34 matches.

0-0 being the result in 8 of their 12 draws helps. Boring old catenaccio days.

 

[Stevesquash]

Did you know you can get yellow carded for scoring too slowly?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/55214584

 

[MomoWASright]

Time wasting?

 

[darkstarexodus]

0-0 being the result in 8 of their 12 draws helps. Boring old catenaccio days.

That must have been grim to watch

 

[MomoWASright]

No wonder they were going round shivving each other. It’s better than watching the game.

 

[Holle]

Blackburn Rovers nearly signed Zinedane Zidane, but it didn't go through because they felt that Tim Sherwood was the better option. They then missed out on Robert Lewandowski because an ash cloud delayed his flight, and he signed for Dortmund instead.

 

[tombrown]

How tragedious.

Fuck - that's a real word, though, apparently, obsolete. OK I now have 3

 

[tombrown]

Ok - it appears there are a few more

A

• abstemious
• abstemiously
• abstenious
• abstentious
• acedious
• acerbitous
• acheilous
• acheirous
• adecticous
• aerious
• affectious
• affectiously
• anemious
• annelidous
• anteriour
• anteriourly
• arsenious
• avenious

C

• caesious

F

• facetious
• facetiously
• fracedinous

L

• larcenious

M

• materious

P

• placentious

T

• tragedious
• transtendinous
• travertinous

 

[Dreambeliever]

Fun Fact : Tom Brown sucks at fun facts.

 

[tombrown]

How very dare you

Anyway - break dancing has been approved as a sport for the 2024 Olympics

 

[Holle]

Ok, to get this back on track:

Former PSG and Spurs player David Ginola's name is actually an anagram for "Vagina Dildo".

 

[Fabio]

Time wasting?

Unsportsmanlike conduct was the reason apparently

 

[Athens]

Every time i hear or read the name Peter Beardsley, that photo of his tackle pops into my head.

 

[Holle]

The city where the 2022 World Cup Final is planned to take place, Lusail, has not actually been built yet.

 

[MomoWASright]

Unsportsmanlike conduct was the reason apparently

Madness. It’s like in the final minute a keeper just drops the ball at his feet and waits 10 seconds before clearing it.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Madness. It’s like in the final minute a keeper just drops the ball at his feet and waits 10 seconds before clearing it.

More like it’s insulting to the opposition. I’ve seen refs do it in a local game where a player rounded the keeper and on the line got down on his knees to head it in. Booked for taking the piss/unsporting behaviour.

 

[MomoWASright]

You don’t even get booked for actually insulting the opposition. So this is a bollocks booking.