Football facts that don't sound true (but are)
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Yeovil beat Brentford in a play off final a decade ago.0
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Brentford are going to do the double over city.0
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Harry Kane becomes the first player to score 30+ goals in two different 38-game Premier League seasons... and he failed to win the Golden Boot in both.5
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40% of Liverpool's Premier league goals this season were scored in just 5 games.0
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Over three playoff games, Sheff Wed led for a total of 5 seconds and got promoted.15
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Tom Huddlestone is a Manchester United player.
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Increasingly popular idea. Another reason why we should play our "senior pros" more often in the u21s.North Lower Neil said:Tom Huddlestone is a Manchester United player.
Had no idea.1 -
Following the retirements of Zlatan and Joaquin, there are only three active players remaining who played in the 2002 World Cup:
- Gianluigi Buffon
- Roque Santa Cruz
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Indeed, I think Huddlestone took over from Paul McShane. Spearing at Liverpool and I think a few others have followed suit. I actually thought we were going to do it with Jason Pearce last season.Cafc43v3r said:
Increasingly popular idea. Another reason why we should play our "senior pros" more often in the u21s.North Lower Neil said:Tom Huddlestone is a Manchester United player.
Had no idea.Under new management, we simply have to utilise our u21/u23 games better.0 - Sponsored links:
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I think Brighton were the first to specifically do it on England. Crofts did it for them but I don't think he was the first one they had either.cafcfan1990 said:
Indeed, I think Huddlestone took over from Paul McShane. Spearing at Liverpool and I think a few others have followed suit. I actually thought we were going to do it with Jason Pearce last season.Cafc43v3r said:
Increasingly popular idea. Another reason why we should play our "senior pros" more often in the u21s.North Lower Neil said:Tom Huddlestone is a Manchester United player.
Had no idea.Under new management, we simply have to utilise our u21/u23 games better.0 -
This is the first time since 1978 where there are currently no Maldini's @ AC Milan, what with Paolo having left his role.
Daniel Maldini (His Son) will be back there in the Summer, but he's currently on loan @ Spezia1 -
Ah yes I remember Crofts being the first, I do think he was the original and then Dicker replaced him. I believe it’s an idea unsurprisingly founded in the bundesligaCafc43v3r said:
I think Brighton were the first to specifically do it on England. Crofts did it for them but I don't think he was the first one they had either.cafcfan1990 said:
Indeed, I think Huddlestone took over from Paul McShane. Spearing at Liverpool and I think a few others have followed suit. I actually thought we were going to do it with Jason Pearce last season.Cafc43v3r said:
Increasingly popular idea. Another reason why we should play our "senior pros" more often in the u21s.North Lower Neil said:Tom Huddlestone is a Manchester United player.
Had no idea.Under new management, we simply have to utilise our u21/u23 games better.0 -
12 league 1 teams had a higher average away attendance than any team in France last season.3
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Facts about Scottish football
Since the first ever Scottish top flight in 1890 until this season in 2023…
46 teams have played in the top flight
🏆 Dumbarton and Rangers shared the first title despite the Dunbartonshire side scoring more goals and having a better goal-difference
😮 Motherwell are the only non-Spanish team to win the Copa Del Rey
💰 Falkirk once broke the world transfer record after their fans ran a crowd funder to sign England international Syd Proudfoot after he scored a hat-trick against them in a friendly (its the only time the world’s most expensive player played in Scotland)
⚽️ Arbroath hold the world record for biggest winning score in a major tournament with a 36-0 win over Bon Accord in the Scottish Cup
🤔 Amazingly Dundee Harp recorded a 35-0 win in the same competition on the exact same day against Aberdeen Rovers
🍀 Celtic are the only team to play in every season since the top flight started - and have won the most points and scored the most goals
🏆 Rangers have won the most league titles with 55 (which is also a top flight record for any of Europe’s top 50 leagues)
🏟️ Both Dundee and Dundee United have played in a European Cup semi final - and they are the two geographically closest stadiums to have reached that stage in the tournament’s history
✅ Two of Scotland’s three European Cup winning managers (who are both in the top 10 most successful managers in football history) started their managerial careers in the bottom tier with teams sitting dead last - Jock Stein with Albion Rovers and Alex Ferguson with East Stirlingshire in the fourth tier of Scottish football
🤯 Aberdeen have played in front of more fans in a single game than Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan or Manchester United ever have - (the 1937 Scottish Cup final against Celtic in front of 147,500)
👀 Dundee United were the last Scottish club to reach the last 4 of the European Cup/Champions League in 1984 when they lost 3-2 on aggregate to Roma
⚽️ Jimmy McGrory’s 8 goals against Dunfermline is a world record for a single top flight game
🦶 European football’s first Asian and first non-European player played for Celtic and once played a game wearing bandages on his feet rather than boots (and was named man of the match despite suffering a long term injury that more or less ended his career in Europe)
🇺🇸 The USA reached the semi final of the World Cup with 7 Scottish players and a Scottish manager
😅 Dundee United” is a widely used offensive term in Nigeria meaning “idiot” or “shambles”
🏆 Kilmarnock have won the top flight more recently than Hearts and Hibernian
🇬🇧 Rangers are the only team in the world to have won every available domestic honour (including lower leagues and challenge cup) and a major European trophy
🙀 Celtic once had to play two league games in one day after a fixture pile-up (and won both)!
🇦🇷 A man from the Gorbals in Glasgow brought football to Argentina and the first Argentinian champions were a team of Scotsmen
🫣 Queen’s Park are the joint fifth most successful team in Scotland by major trophy wins - despite not winning a major title in over 100 years (joint on 10 trophies with Hibs)
🧢 Rangers have won more major trophies than any other team in Europe with 117 - Celtic are one behind on 116
🇮🇪 Celtic are the only team in the world to have won over 50 league titles and a European Cup/ Champions League
Hibs vs Hearts is the most continuously played local derby in world football
🏆 Celtic are the only team in the world to have won a quadruple of league title, league cup, FA Cup and European Cup
Five Scottish teams have reached the last 4 of the European Cup
😮 Queens Park’s home attendance record is 3rd in Scotland, 7th in Europe and more than any English club have ever managed for a domestic game
European football’s first black player was a Scotland international
🇬🇧 Celtic are the current British champions and have won every officially sanctioned UK wide tournament between Britain’s top clubs (The British League Cup, The Empire Exhibition trophy and the Coronation Cup)
🏟️ Scotland holds European attendance records for any game (Scotland vs England), Domestic game and cup final (Celtic vs Aberdeen), European Cup final (Real Madrid vs Eintracht Frankfurt at Hampden), league game and local derby (Rangers vs Celtic), European competition (Celtic vs Leeds), home tie for lower league team (Queen’s Park vs Rangers), fourth tier game (Rangers vs East Stirlingshire), junior football, away fans travelling to another city (Zenit vs Rangers in Manchester), away fan’s travelling abroad (Porto vs Celtic), away tickets sold for foreign stadium (Lazio vs Celtic) and away fans in Champions League (Barca vs Rangers and AC Milan vs Celtic)
🏆 Hearts lost the league on a controversial “goal average” rule so led a campaign to change it to goal difference only to be the first team to lose the league on goal difference after it changed (they would have won both titles if it had been the other way around)
💜 Hearts hold the record for most league goals in a season
🍀 But Celtic hold the world record for most goals scored in all competitions in one season
More people in Scotland attend a live match every week per head of population than anywhere in the world
🇺🇸 famous American soul singer Gil Scott Heron’s dad played for Celtic
😮 A far right political group in the 1930s called the SPL wanted to ban Celtic from playing in Scotland and won nearly a third of the votes in the country
🐑 Aberdeen have won as many European trophies as both Old Firm teams put together.
😳 Dundee once had a forward line of Claudio Caniggia and Fabrizio Ravanelli
🏆 Celtic were the most successful team (in terms of league titles) in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 2000s, 10s and so far in the 20s - every decade from 1950s apart of the 90s but have still won less than Rangers overall
More Scottish managers have won the English Premier League than English managers (the only country who can boast such a record in another country)
🏆 Celtic are the only team to win the most prestigious prize in Europe with a full squad of players born within 30 miles of their stadium
Scotland is the only country of less than 10 million to have 3 teams that have won a European trophy
🎖️ Aberdeen were the last team to beat Real Madrid in a major final
🏆 Celtic have won more domestic trebles (8) than any other professional team in world football (and the only team to win 4 trebles in a row)
⚽️ Jimmy McGrory is the top scorer in the league’s history and his nearly double the amount of goals as second placed Ally McCoist in around half the amount of gamed
🤨 Random celebrity fans of Scottish clubs include Marie Osmond (Kilmarnock), Donald Trump (Aberdeen), David Hasslehoff (Partick Thistle), Isiah Whitlock Jnr (Stenhousemuir), AC/DC and WWE’s Triple H (Rangers) and Snoop Dogg, Bob Marley and Coolio (Celtic)
✊ A former member of American civil rights group The Black Panthers wore a Celtic top on CNN in his first TV interview after wrongly spending 30 years in solitary confinement
🇦🇷 A guy called Brown with a Scottish grandad scored for Argentina in a World Cup final
the first official international football association game was held in Glasgow
🏆 In 1978 Scotland were third favourites to win the World Cup
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You lost it when you said Scotland have a top 50 league.1
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This season, West Ham won 12 games in the Conference League. That’s one more (11) than they won in the Premier League.5
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The last month in which Julian Alvarez did not play a game for club or country was August 2020.
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Howard Kendall and Bryan Ferry played in the same U13 football team
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Saw one today - there's been 10 domestic cup, domestic league, European Cup/Champions League trebles by European clubs, by 8 different teams.
Can you name them? One surprised me, I wouldn't have guessed it (so doesn't sound true, but is!).0 - Sponsored links:
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Is the surprise one maybe Steaua Bucharest?0
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Good guess but no.iaitch said:Is the surprise one maybe Steaua Bucharest?0 -
The obvious are Man City, Man U, Barcelona, Inter, Bayern, Ajax and Celtic.North Lower Neil said:Saw one today - there's been 10 domestic cup, domestic league, European Cup/Champions League trebles by European clubs, by 8 different teams.
Can you name them? One surprised me, I wouldn't have guessed it (so doesn't sound true, but is!).
Can't remember who the other was but i think i read it was in the 80s.0 -
Surely Real Madrid must have done it?0
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All spot on.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
The obvious are Man City, Man U, Barcelona, Inter, Bayern, Ajax and Celtic.North Lower Neil said:Saw one today - there's been 10 domestic cup, domestic league, European Cup/Champions League trebles by European clubs, by 8 different teams.
Can you name them? One surprised me, I wouldn't have guessed it (so doesn't sound true, but is!).
Can't remember who the other was but i think i read it was in the 80s.
Bonus fact on the last team - they only won 3 matches in the European Cup the year they won it (out of 9 games), and didn't win a game inside normal or extra time after the second round.0 -
Red Star Belgrade?0
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Steau Bucharest in '86 could fit that descriptionNorth Lower Neil said:
All spot on.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
The obvious are Man City, Man U, Barcelona, Inter, Bayern, Ajax and Celtic.North Lower Neil said:Saw one today - there's been 10 domestic cup, domestic league, European Cup/Champions League trebles by European clubs, by 8 different teams.
Can you name them? One surprised me, I wouldn't have guessed it (so doesn't sound true, but is!).
Can't remember who the other was but i think i read it was in the 80s.
Bonus fact on the last team - they only won 3 matches in the European Cup the year they won it (out of 9 games), and didn't win a game inside normal or extra time after the second round.0 -
Sure I read the other day that Man City’s win makes England the 2nd country to have two clubs that have done it, the other was Netherlands if I remember correctly.
so I’d guess PSV.?0 -
No.iaitch said:Red Star Belgrade?0 -
Yes!! Great guess.stackitsteve said:Sure I read the other day that Man City’s win makes England the 2nd country to have two clubs that have done it, the other was Netherlands if I remember correctly.
so I’d guess PSV.?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987–88_European_Cup0
