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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,890
    edited March 1
    John Marquis has EQUALLED the record for quickest Red Card in English Professional Football, with the quickest only in 2000

    Peterborough 3-1 Shrewsbury: John Marquis 13-second red card equals record - BBC Sport

    I'd be pretty pissed off at that, I mean if you're getting sent off that early, you'd want it to be the quickest wouldnt you?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,119
    edited March 1
    ForeverAddickted said:
    John Marquis has EQUALLED the record for quickest Red Card in English Professional Football, with the quickest only in 2000

    Peterborough 3-1 Shrewsbury: John Marquis 13-second red card equals record - BBC Sport

    I'd be pretty pissed off at that, I mean if you're getting sent off that early, you'd want it to be the quickest wouldnt you?
    Reminds me of this joke (Definitely not safe for work).

    https://youtu.be/2vbGrWNgcd0?si=l01vXsYgAGnucFbc

  • DyerConsequences
    DyerConsequences Posts: 2,643
    A couple of Charlton Vs Barnsley facts:

    It took Barnsley 78 years to finally win a league game away at Charlton. The first meeting was in March 1930, they finally won at the 22nd attempt in November 2008. Charlton had won 13 and drawn 8 of the first 21 meetings at Charlton.

    Charlton and Barnsley have played 6 times in March, 2 draws and 4 Charlton wins. Chronologically these are the Charlton victories: 2-0 (1930), 3-1 (1932), 4-2 (1958), 5-3 (1985).

    If you don't have at least a quid on a 6-4 win tonight you've only got yourselves to blame.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,913
    DyerConsequences said:
    A couple of Charlton Vs Barnsley facts:

    It took Barnsley 78 years to finally win a league game away at Charlton. The first meeting was in March 1930, they finally won at the 22nd attempt in November 2008. Charlton had won 13 and drawn 8 of the first 21 meetings at Charlton.

    Charlton and Barnsley have played 6 times in March, 2 draws and 4 Charlton wins. Chronologically these are the Charlton victories: 2-0 (1930), 3-1 (1932), 4-2 (1958), 5-3 (1985).

    If you don't have at least a quid on a 6-4 win tonight you've only got yourselves to blame.
    Well that was a waste - keep your tips to yourself next time. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,890
    Huddersfield havent scored in their last ten home games

    And their last home goal was scored by someone who doesnt even play for them anymore. But still their unbeaten run goes back to the time of the Dinosaurs, and when Crystal Palace were considered a historic Football Club.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,826
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Huddersfield havent scored in their last ten home games

    And their last home goal was scored by someone who doesnt even play for them anymore. But still their unbeaten run goes back to the time of the Dinosaurs, and when Crystal Palace were considered a historic Football Club.
    I thought everyone knew that dinosaurs were extinct when Crystal Palaeolithic were formed in the early stone age
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,117
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Huddersfield havent scored in their last ten home games

    And their last home goal was scored by someone who doesnt even play for them anymore. But still their unbeaten run goes back to the time of the Dinosaurs, and when Crystal Palace were considered a historic Football Club.
    It's six games. Last goal was 29 December.

    Their run since then is 0-0, 0-1, 0-1, 0-0, 0-1, 0-1.
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,452
    Nathan Jones

    I loved him,
    then I hated him,
    and now I love him again. 

  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,764
    guinnessaddick said:
    Shamrocks Rovers finished their European Conference league game last night with two players born in 2009.
    They must have been knackered. 
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,117

    Jurgen Klopp managed 491 games in charge of Liverpool, but his most used starting lineup only started together FIVE times.

    Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson, Keita, Wijnaldum, Milner, Salah, Firmino, Mane.

    In his first season, Slot has gone past that by starting the same XI together 6 times.


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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,890
    edited March 10
    Erling Haaland has scored against all the English teams he's played against. except for one... Plymouth Argyle
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,452
    Nathan Jones was part of the Scarborough team relegated by Jimmy Glass's last minute goal for Carlisle.
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,472
    Stewart said:
    Nathan Jones

    I loved him,
    then I hated him,
    and now I love him again. 

    Let’s take a trip down…
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,890
    Charlton arent the only team who play at a Ground with "The Valley"; but there is also Redditch United who play at "The Valley Stadium"
  • Gillis
    Gillis Posts: 998
    Manchester City Women appointment Nick Cushing as their interim head coach on 10th March. His first four fixtures will all be against Chelsea (League Cup final today, two legs of the Champions League quarter final and a league fixture).
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,890
    Reading were 8th ten games ago... They've not lost a game since, winning four, and drawing six... They're still 8th
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,387
    West Ham's Jarrod Bowen's partner is Dani, Danny Dyer's daughter, show biz meets sports biz
  • 9goalswentpastperry
    9goalswentpastperry Posts: 1,111
    Lincsaddick said:
    West Ham's Jarrod Bowen's partner is Dani, Danny Dyer's daughter, show biz meets sports biz
    Fair play to you, Lincs, if this is new news to you. I wish I didn't know such inane trivia.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,922
    They’ve been together four  or five years and have couple of kids. 

    After he scored winner when they won the euro cup they had video of the players singing

    Bowen’s on fire 
    and he’s shagging Dani Dyer
  • CoveredEnd1905
    CoveredEnd1905 Posts: 155
    Leicester have scored 2 goals in their last 9 Premier League games. They were both away at Tottenham 

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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,913
    CoveredEnd1905 said:
    Leicester have scored 2 goals in their last 9 Premier League games. They were both away at Tottenham 
    Unbelievable, I agree, principally because it’s not true…
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,924
    SporadicAddick said:
    CoveredEnd1905 said:
    Leicester have scored 2 goals in their last 9 Premier League games. They were both away at Tottenham 
    Unbelievable, I agree, principally because it’s not true…
    I think it is true:

    Palace 0-2
    Fulham 0-2
    Spurs 2-1
    Everton 0-4
    Arsenal 0-2
    Brentford 0-4
    West Ham 0-2
    Chelsea 0-1
    Man Utd 0-3

    They have also lost their last 7 home games without scoring a goal in any of them. That is a new PL record. 
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,117
    Addick Addict said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    CoveredEnd1905 said:
    Leicester have scored 2 goals in their last 9 Premier League games. They were both away at Tottenham 
    Unbelievable, I agree, principally because it’s not true…
    I think it is true:

    Palace 0-2
    Fulham 0-2
    Spurs 2-1
    Everton 0-4
    Arsenal 0-2
    Brentford 0-4
    West Ham 0-2
    Chelsea 0-1
    Man Utd 0-3

    They have also lost their last 7 home games without scoring a goal in any of them. That is a new PL record. 
    Just looked at their fixtures and the gulf in class from PL to Championship stood out with the fact that Leicester (who are terrible) played QPR (average champ side, not good but not that bad) in the FA Cup and beat them 6-2.
  • CoveredEnd1905
    CoveredEnd1905 Posts: 155
    SporadicAddick said:
    CoveredEnd1905 said:
    Leicester have scored 2 goals in their last 9 Premier League games. They were both away at Tottenham 
    Unbelievable, I agree, principally because it’s not true…
    Is definitely true as shown above 
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,117
    edited March 17
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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,913
    SporadicAddick said:
    CoveredEnd1905 said:
    Leicester have scored 2 goals in their last 9 Premier League games. They were both away at Tottenham 
    Unbelievable, I agree, principally because it’s not true…
    Edit.

    I misread the fact, thinking it meant that the two goals had been scored in separate matches.

    There was no need for me to make that interpretation, other than the fact that, in that context, it might have qualified as "doesn't sound true but [is]", whereas the fact as stated does sound true. They've only scored in one of their last 9 matches. That it was two goals in one game against Tottenham isn't an element that makes it sound untrue. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,924
    Bradford's crowd of 23,381 for their 4-1 win against Colchester in League 2 on Saturday is more than double the capacity of Premier League Bournemouth's Vitality Stadium. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,401
    I'm going to assume Bradford coming back means American ownership 
  • DyerConsequences
    DyerConsequences Posts: 2,643
    Huddersfield are one of only 3 teams Charlton have played at least one competitive fixture against every decade since we entered the football league.

    The other 2 are Bolton and Portsmouth.

    We have also so far played Wolves at least once every decade except for the 2020's. So 4 1/2 years left to keep that going.
  • 9goalswentpastperry
    9goalswentpastperry Posts: 1,111
    DyerConsequences said:
    Huddersfield are one of only 3 teams Charlton have played at least one competitive fixture against every decade since we entered the football league.

    The other 2 are Bolton and Portsmouth.

    We have also so far played Wolves at least once every decade except for the 2020's. So 4 1/2 years left to keep that going.
    Cheers, I like this one. I shall remember it. 

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