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  • StarinnaddickStarinnaddick
    Sir Stanley Matthews played his last League game aged 50. He was last selected fpr England aged 42.
  • bristoladdickbristoladdick
    Starinnaddick said:
    Southend have a 100% win record against Man Utd

    Mark Gower and Jamal Campbell-Ryce started for Southend, with Frank Moussa and Simon Francis on the bench :smile:
  • soapboxsamsoapboxsam
    Robert Earnshaw has scored hat tricks in the Premier, champ, League 1, 2 both domestic cups and for Wales.
  • StigStig
    Bolton are the only league side to have has a polka dot home kit.
  • stackitstevestackitsteve
    No fact was repeated until Addickted posted about Denmark at 6.09pm

    FACT.
  • AddicktedAddickted
    Addickted said:
    No fact was repeated until Addickted posted about Denmark at 6.09pm

    FACT.
    And at 6.43
  • 25May9825May98
    paulbaconsarnie said:
    50 years after successfully landing a probe on mars, we still don’t have the technology to understand the qualifying process for Euro 2020.
    I thought this was going down the path of the 'Nicky Bailey penalty.'
    My mistake. 
  • guinnessaddickguinnessaddick
    Darlington & Charlton are the only teams to have lost an FA Cup game and progressed to the next round.
  • happyvalleyhappyvalley
    AllHailTheHen said:
    Huddersfield's current unbeaten run of 372 games is a world record.
    I thought their run started when they beat us 7-6 at The Valley.
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  • ChizzChizz
    Charlton Athletic are undefeated in matches against international sides. 
  • guinnessaddickguinnessaddick
    Chizz said:
    Charlton Athletic are undefeated in matches against international sides. 
    France & China?
  • North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    Michael Owen never scored 20 league goals in a season.
  • RivieraRiviera
    Jermaine Defoe is still scoring goals, just now actually. 
  • RivieraRiviera
    Miroslav Klose scored 71 goals for Germany and none of them were further out than 12 yards from goal, ie penalties.
  • rikofoldrikofold
    edited April 2019
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  • North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    edited April 2019
    Just realised this was a duplicate!!
  • NapaAddickNapaAddick
    Gareth Bale is the only PL player to score a goal, have an assist, score an own-goal and get a yellow card in the same match.
  • smudge7946smudge7946
     Bedfont Town FC and Bedfont Sports FC in West London are the closest rivals in British football, there grounds being separated by a fence. 

    Incidently Bedfont hosts the closest neighbouring park runs in the world. (Bedfont Lakes and HMYOI Feltham.)
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  • North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    Alan Shearer has missed the highest number of penalties in the Premier League.
  • RivieraRiviera
    David de Gea has never saved a penalty for Man Utd.
  • NapaAddickNapaAddick
    Ryan Giggs has been substituted for more than any player in PL history.
  • McBobbinMcBobbin
    Riviera said:
    Miroslav Klose scored 71 goals for Germany and none of them were further out than 12 yards from goal, ie penalties.
    Pretty sure this was true of ruud van nistelrooy in the premiership... Until he played us of course
  • North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    It took Cristiano Ronaldo, the World's most famous number 7, over 400 matches to score in the 7th minute of a game.
  • seth plumseth plum
    The ball burst in the 1946 final involving Charlton, and it burst in a league match Charlton played a week later, and in the 1947 cup final too.
  • ross1ross1
    seth plum said:
    The ball burst in the 1946 final involving Charlton, and it burst in a league match Charlton played a week later, and in the 1947 cup final too.
    It was rumoured that Stuart Leary was playing in his cricket spikes instead of football boots  :)
  • stackitstevestackitsteve
    The Netherlands went 18 years (1996-2014 I think) always having a ‘van’ player in the team
  • AddicksAddictAddicksAddict
    edited April 2019
    CharltonPete said:
    Charlton reached the FA cup final in 1946 despite losing to Fulham in a 3rd round tie that season
    The only team ever to reach the final having lost along the way.
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