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Posted by marsonator on 19 September 2011 - 12:17pm.
OK. I've made this one up myself by surfing on Wikipedia and think I know the correct answer but here goes:
The European Trophies - European Cup, Cup Winners Cup, UEFA Cup including all of their slightly different names eg Champions League, Fairs Cup etc.
Out of all the teams that have won one of these trophies and are still going/functioning which one is currently playing at the lowest level in their country ? (ie lowest compared to all of the other winners)
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It's not Ipswich is it?
Nah
Not Ipswich
No its not Ipswich...
...it just sems like it at the moment.
Need to beat Coventry tonight....c.o.y.b!
3-0
- that's more like it
We weren`t too bad were we?
Oldest midfield in history and half a team of loanees doesn`t bode too well for the future though. Three tricky games coming up too.
I know that this is answering a different question but....
If we were to ask which winer of the FA CUp is currenly in the lowest league position, would the answer be Bradford City?
And would anyone other than me care?
No & Not sure
What about Oxford University, Old Etonians, and Old Carthusians all of which won it before 1900 and all of which are still playing in non-professional leagues?
I'm not sure I "care" but your question was diverting!
Of all the previous winners of the FA Cup
Oxford University AFC play in the BUSA Midlands Div 1A
Old Etonians play in the Arthurian League Premier
Wanderers play in the Surrey South Eastern Combination
Royal Engineers AFC don't play in a league but still go. Attention!
Clapham Rovers are defunct from 1892 (some imposters have the name nowadays but no link)
Old Carthusians also play in the Arthurian League Premier
Blackburn Olympic defunct from 1889
All other winners are still in the Premier/Football League at some level or another.
Therefore the lowest league of those mentioned above is the winner (or loser as the case may be).
Anyone know anything further of the Arthurian League ? Sounds a bit posho but it appears to be the only non league division where one can witness two FA Cup winners facing up to one another this season.
The big match between Old Etonians and Old Carthusians, according to the fixture list, is on 29th October at Dutchman's Playing Fields, Pococks Lane, Eton so sup up your beer and collect your fags, there'll be a row going on down near Slough that day....
Old Etonians 1 Old Cathusians 8
Match played 12th November 2011.
After going to White Hart Lane yesterday
I'd have to say Liverpool
As an Arsenal fan
I'd say we're doing much, much worse than Liverpool...
Only three points in it!
Mind, I think your humiliation at Old Trafford just about trumps our thrashing at the hands of Spurs.
Magdeburg?
They won the Cup-winners Cup in the 70s, but I think they're now in the league below Bundesliga 2.
Magdeburg?
Cup Winners Cup 1974 - Now in the German 4th division.
Doh!
DOH!
OK Agreed
Now back to work
Typical Leeds
They couldn't even win this competition.
Good Question that.
What would the answer be for European Cup Winners (or Champions League if you must)? I don't know, just wondered if you found that out in your research. Is anyone lower in their league set up than Notts Forest?
Ahem
Nottingham Forest.
It's Notts County, but Nottingham Forest. Expect Cloughie's ghost to come and clip you round the ear later, young man...
Sorry
I wasn't aware of that difference. The thought of a clip from Cloughie means I'll never forget.
Great quote from Mr Clough
Was on the radio the other day " You know that frank Sinatra. He met me once" Jose Mourino is just an amateur
Yeah.....
...by my reckoning all previous winners of the European Cup/Champions League are playing in their respective countries' top tier apart from Nottingham Forest.
What about runners-up though?
...
All playing in the top tier of their respective countries....
............EXCEPT the following clubs who are in the second tier of their leagues:
Stade de Reims & Monaco (France)
Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany)
Leeds United (England)
Sampdoria (Italy)
That's the European Champions Cup only of course
Any request for comment on the Cup Winners Cup ?
After Yesterday
I'm tempted to say Celtic but I suspect it may be a German team. Or perhaps French. Then again,eastern europe is a possibility.
Well,they certainly have a blue kit. Or red. With stripes. Possibly.
Here's another one
Who was the last England manager to win a trophy?
Vague
Is that deliberatey vague CSC?
Do you mean the last English manager to win a European trophy? Or the last English manager to win any trophy? Or the last manager of an England national team at any age group? Are we even talking football?
Perhaps deliberately vague
The last England football manager to win any trophy with the senior squad
Well
They won the 2004 FA Summer Tournament on goal difference after a draw with Japan and a victory over Iceland, when Eriksson was manager. I know because I took my kids to see the Iceland game. Post-match celebrations of their impressive triumph were notable by their absence.
Does that count?
Beaten!
I thought it was Glenn Hoddle and Le Tournoi in 1997, when England beat Italy and France to win the much coveted (ahem) trophy.
You have better knowledge it seems!
A Guess
Bobby Robson.
If the "Fair Play" award at the World Cup in 1990 was regarded as a trophy, that is...
Robson
Later won the Cup Winners with Barca.
Marsonator
What's the answer then mate? Is it Forest?
I'd assumed
I'd assumed it was Magdeburg, with his 12.30pm post being a response to clivetemple's one of 12.29pm?
Ah, missed that one
Thanks, I wouldn't have got a wink of sleep.
here's some from the Vaults
1)Who is the only English player to win two European Cup Winner's medals with different English clubs?
2) Only five teams from their nation's capital city have won the European Cup/ Champions' League. Name them?
3) Name the British player who have played for 4 different teams that have won the European Cup though they have never won it themselves?
bonus
Which British footballer scored a goal at his home ground for the away team and it wasn't an own goal?
I reckon
1. Jimmy Rimmer (Man Utd '68 on bench) and Villa in '82 ? Once went to watch Aston Villa train at Bodymoor Heath in about 1980 as my dad was working with a post war former Villa player called Amos Moss who was best mates with Ron Saunders. Anyway this kid kept pestering my dad for his autograph on his Shoot! middle page team photo convinced he was Jimmy Rimmer. The kid wouldn't take no for an answer. Priceless.
2. Real Madrid, Benfica, Ajax, Red Star Belgrade and Steaua Bucharest.
3. ?
4. ?
Dean Saunders
Played for Benfica, Forest, Villa and Liverpool
I'm guessing......
......that question 4 relates to a team that shares a ground so on the day in question they were actually the away team so something like Paul Gascoigne for Lazio against Roma perhaps ?
No. 4 is Kenny Dalglish
Scored for Scotland against Wales at Anfield in 1977, by which time he was a Liverpool player.
Does that mean I can have a go? OK then: what is the largest European city never to have won a European trophy?
I've no idea what the answer is mind, I thought it could have been Naples, but I've just seen that Napoli won the UEFA Cup in 1989. Any ideas?
Berlin?
or Paris?
Istanbul (not Constantinople)
?
Could be Berlin
Paris St Germain won the Cup-Winner's Cup, and Galatasaray won the UEFA Cup.
Surely the answer to that one...
... is Moscow.
Population: 11½ million.
CSKA Moscow
Won the Uefa cup a couple of years ago, I think.
Yep
In 2005.
So what is the answer?
Athens
possibly?
I don't know the answer to this
Sorry if I gave the impression that I did. I was hoping that someone else would know. Berlin or Athens look pretty good contenders at the moment. I'm guessing that they're bigger than, say, Warsaw, Prague or Budapest.
Agree..
Athens and Berlin are practically the same population, round 4 million. Slightly bigger is St.Petersburg, but Zenith won the UEFA Cup about 3 seasons ago, including Arshavin I think.
Next in line would be Rome, as neither Roma nor Lazio have ever done it, have they?
Declan
Lazio won the last ever Cup Winners Cup (at Villa Park)
Ain't 'alf been some ..
clever bastards,
Marsonator
(smiley thing!)
all correct
Marsonator got 1 & 2& 3
Hawkfall got number 4
Here's one...
which player has played in a North London derby, a North East derby, a Merseyside derby, a Milan derby and a Munich derby?
Was it
Christian Ziege?
Good Work!!!
.
Derbies
Which footballer played in Manchester, glasgow & Merseyside derbies?
Kanchelskis
.
I should think
Craig Bellamy has probably done it too.
Heres one for you
Which football team is named after a town that they don't actually play in?
AFC Wimbledon?
Is it
Grimsby Town ?
You mean like a Ryanair Airport?
There's probably quite a few, especially with all the stadium building that's been going on over the last 20 years. Brighton weren't playing in Brighton for a while, and Partick Thistle haven't actually played in Partick for decades. I'm sure there's probably more that I can't think of.
Is it Grimsby Town?
What is Abel Xavier's unique footballing achievement?
Grimsby Town is the answer;
Grimsby Town is the answer; they play in Cleethorpes.
You'll have to expand it to two
I was right about AFC Wimbledon. They play in Kingston.
Of their own accord?
.
Doesn't matter, does it?
They're a club who don't play in the area from which they take their name. And therefore, Grimsby can't be the only answer.
No...
... it was a joke with a degree of separation - I was going to say Jamaica - it didn't work - I'll get my coat.
Ah, sorry
Far to cryptic for me at this time of day!
Indeed they do. But they are
Indeed they do. But they are not called Wimbledon Town, which is what the question was aimed at.
Another one;
Name the 5 present and past Football League Teams that have the letter 'x' in their name?
Right
Exeter
Halifax
Wrexham
Oxford
Struggling on the fifth.
5x
Exeter City
Wrexham
Crewe Alexandra
Oxford United
Halifax Town
Ah
Crewe. The clue is not in the name.
Its the mighty Alex who
Its the mighty Alex who catch people out. Well done Spartacus.
Cheers!
Thanks for the clarification. Wimbledon is indeed not a town.
To that list you could also add...
Tranmere Rovers - who play in Prenton.
And Everton - who play in Walton.
Not forgetting....
Queens Park Rangers, who play in Shepherds Bush
West Ham United, who play in Plaistow
Millwall, who play in South Bermondsey
and Woolwich Arsenal who somehow play in Highbury!
Heathens
PORT VALE play in Burslem,Stoke on Trent
Port Vale
I think I'm right in saying that Port Vale isn't actually a place at all, but the name of a pub in which the club were formed.
I remember Richard Ashcroft saying he 'knew a bloke in Port Vale' who could 'sort out' a journalist who slagged him off. The daft get.
Raith Rovers
Kirkcaldy ?
Albion Rovers
Coatbridge.
Two suffixes for the price of one!
Two versions
Vale were founded in Port Vale House but not sure if it was a pub and the 2nd version is they were named after a Port on the Trent and Mersey canal.
Your second point, i can probably put a name to whom Ashcroft was refering to.
And Man U & Forest
Salford and West Bridgeford
Rotherham United play in Sheffield
Meaning Sheffield has 3 crap teams.
Carl Zeiss Jena?
CWC Runners up - now in German non league (I think) still in the original incarnation.
Third Div
Not as bad as Magdeburg where all this started but what about poor Lokomotiv Leipzig who reached the Cup Winners Cup Final as recently as 1987 when they lost to Ajax.
Now plying their trade in the German 5th division - surely the lowest of all previous European Finalists....how they must reminisce about Erich Honecker and the Wall.........
I also notice
that Alaves who gave Liverpool a close run in 2001 are now in the Spanish Third Division..........
I watched Carl-Zeiss Jena
the other week, when my German team (SpVgg Unterhaching) amusingly tonked them 6-0.
Education Education Eduaction
Just four players, from England's last four World Cup squads, were sons of University-educated fathers. Can you name them?
Walcott
Crouch
Le Saux
And one other.
Yep
3/4
Crouch?
?
And...
David James
4/4
Is the right answer.
David James
is the other one, isn't he?
Note to self...
...be quicker.
Name the last team
To have never played in the top or bottom flight of the four leagues of English football (i.e. They played only in the middle two leagues/divisions). This record isn't held by any team any more.
Plymouth Argyle ?
Just got relegated to League 2
Yep that's it...
Bristol Rovers (my team) were the second to last until they were relegated to League 2 in 2000.
Nope
Argyle were in the bottom division in 1995/96. Won the playoff final against Darlo I think. Here's a table:
http://www.rotherhamunited-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadlgt.asp?divno=83&ssnno=...
Apologies for pedantry.
Heres one.
If all English football league clubs were placed in alphabetical order, which club would be first?
(& by league clubs, I mean the premier league as well)
I know this ( I think )
AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth is the answer (TTBOMR).
OK, Prior to the ban on English clubs playing in European competition, which were the last BRITISH team to win a European trophy?
Everton?
ECWC Final in Rotterdam the week before the Heysel disaster.
Everton
Correct - the usual answer I get is Aberdeen (same tournament 1983)
Ummm
AFC Bournemouth? But A = Association so I suppose Arsenal?
Aha! ...er....
I think it's because their actual name is AFC Bournemouth officially, like. Not Association Football Club Bournemouth. Happy to be put right but that's been my understanding since it was on Question of Sport in the David Vine era.
Who are they?
Accrington Stanley?
Good shout
Decades: Who?
* Captained a top-flight English football club in three different decades?
* Played Test cricket for England in four different decades?
Cricket
Odd one...
Ray Illingworth and Brian Close?
The Good Doctor played in 5 decades I think.
It's Brian Close
Made his debut as a youngster in the late 40s, was recalled as a gnarled veteran to stand up to the pounding England were getting from the West Indies pace attack in the mid-70s.
Oooh.....tough one.
1. John Hollins (Chelsea 60's, QPR 70's, Arsenal 80's) - if same club - Ron Harris at Chelsea (60's, 70's, 80's) or Ryan Giggs (90's, 00's, 10's)?
2. Geoffrey Boycott? ('59 - '81)
Wobbly gob
Didn't debut for England until 1964.
If Emlyn Hughes...
...captained Blackpool it would be him (Blackpool 60s, Liverpool 70s, Wolves 80s) but I don't know if he did.
More recent
Not sure if "Big" Em "skippered" Blackpool. It's more recent. And the same club.
Ryan Giggs?
Has he ever been captain?
Not sure, maybe for the odd game. But the answer to this one is a full-one proper captain. Got asked it at the weekend by a fellow trivia bore and didn't get it myself, but it's really obvious: one of the most prominent "captains" of recent times.
Ah right
Yeah, I thought he might've captained the odd game throughout his career. Tony Adams?
Tony Adams is the right answer
First captained Arsenal in the late '80s. Packed in early "noughties".
Jimmy Armfield ?
Blackpool late 50s to early 70s ?
Football
Ray Clemence?
An easy one...
... two players, who've both played for England in the last 20 years, with the same name?
Alan Smith
Correct!
.
One from earlier that is unanswered
What is Abel Xavier's unique footballing achievement?
Does growing a beard that resembles a Border Terrier count?
Ha
That and being the only player to have played league football in England with a surname beginning with X?
Although...
... both those answers maybe true, they're not what I'm looking for.
Well, he played professional football in 8
different countries (Portugal, Italy, Spain, Holland, England, Turkey, Germany and the USA) ... but surely that can't be a record. Can it?
I'll give you a big clue...
... Merseyside.
Xavier
Is it that he played for both LFC & EFC in derby games in the same season?
Yes it is...
... well done.
Who is the former Manchester United player
named after a German newspaper?
It's not
Barry Frankfurter Rundschau, is it?
Or...
... Stew Deutsche-Zeitung?
Come on!
It`s Gerry Daly innit?
Copyright Tommy Docherty.
That's like the old
Two Man Utd centre Forwards named after Flowers. (This joke doesn't work when written down ) ?
Oh yes, an old favourite
Dennis Viollet and Ted MacDougall
Much chortling ensues!
Easy if you know it: which current league team name
starts with 5 consonants?
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace
Ah
But Y is a vowel in that instance, is it not? Could we get the views of a writer or extreme pedant on this? ;-)
We could ask They Might Be Giants
At The World Cup in 1998
England were knocked out by Argentina in the second round. In that game both a player and his teacher played. Who were they?
This is a cheeky one isn't it...
... Batty and his tutor.
It is indeed
Correct!
Which club...
... had 6 England captains (past, present and future) all playing at the same time - and name them.
At a guess...
At a guess (no googling, I promise), I would be thinking THFC at around 1989.
Hoddle
Clemence
Mabbutt (?)
Hodge
Gasgoine (?)
Lineker (?)
Liverpool
Gerrard, Heskey, Owen, Carragher, Ince, Redknapp.
I'm guessing.
Man U
Beckham
Robson
Ferdinand
Scholes(?)
Neville (?)
Neville (?)
(Your face is a mess)
Southampton
Peter Shilton
Dave Watson
Mick Mills
Mick Channon
Kevin Keegan
Alan Ball
(I know this as I was about to pose it myself if no-one else had!)
Right team ...
... Mick Mills signed for Southamptom after Keegan left - the other player who has captained England and played in the team was Mark Wright.
Good answer
Good answer.
Have an arrow.
Clough
With earlier references to Clough senior and Nottm Forest it seems appropriate (as a Derby fan) to highlight his sons achievment this last weekend. Nigels Derby County overcame a first minute converted penalty and sending off of their keeper to beat their local rivals 1 - 2 at the City Ground. Nigel is quoted as saying it was one of the proudest moments in his football career. I bet "old big ead" would have been proud of his lad as well.
Proud?
I'm sure his dad will be particularly proud of the way he instructed his players to not kick the ball out of play while a Forest player was down with a potentially season ending injury. The only Clough in Nigel is his name.
Mardy Bum
I sense a little disappointment. As young Nigel was quoted as saying "from the age of 5 you are taught to play to the refs whistle". Furthermore I was taught from a similar age to lose graciously, but as you have started it I will remind you of the chant that echoed around the City Ground on Saturday "Ten men we've only got ten men". I wont go on any further because if your honest your face is as red as your teams shirt!
Here's one for you
Who IS the wanker in the black?
Ken Bates
if he has our away strip on.
Is it....
...Clive Thomas ?
Oh yes.
It is.
Hamilton was never offside.
Paul Waring. Nursing derby-related grudges since 1977.
Scunthorpe United
have had three future or past Engerlund captains playing for them. Name them?
And who is the only Scottish International to play in two European Cup Finals (as in THE ECF) for two different teams?
Scunny
Keegan, Clemence(?) and, er, Botham.
Yep
and the Scottish one Smarty Pants?
ulp.
Steve Archibald?
Frank Gray
Played for Leeds in 1975 and Forest in 1980.
Three English footballers have a European Cup winner's medal
and a World Cup winner's medal.
Two are Bobby Charlton and Nobby Stiles. Who is the other?
Ian Callaghan
Oh...
... so that was a bit of an easy one, then.
I dunno
I just remembered reading an article a few years back about him and a few other '66 squad members getting belated WC winners medals.
As a Liverpool fan, I already knew he'd won the EC.
I'm against that
If they couldnt be bothered to pick them up on the day they shouldnt get them...
(yes, I know - only the 11 on the pitch got them at the time).
Here's one
I compiled for BBC Manchester/Onion bag magazine years ago and have posted here before I Think.
Man Utd have Thousands every Year,
Man City have Hundreds every year,
Stockport have never had one,
Oldham had one and it was a dog,
What do they have every Year ?
Supporters up from Essex?
I'm stumped
My guess is requests for ashes to be scattered on the pitch?
The dog bit worries me
I was going to say "wedding requests"
Come on Mr. Crout!
Put us out of our misery.
Look above,Formbyman
Austin got it right,
It's requests to have ashes spread on the pitch. It was 1993 and i phoned all the clubs involved and that was what they told me.
BTW My Uncle Eric had his ashes spread on a premier league ground about 18 months ago. it involved climbing over two gates at 4am and avoiding 3 security guards.We have photos but the club concerned might not be too happy.
Who he?
Which player has played in the all 4 of the top English divisions, the Conference, Champions League, UEFA Cup and La Liga in Spain?
Chris Waddle?
Except I thought he was in France not Spain?
Next guess would be Jermaine Pennant.
No & No
But as you mentioned Pennant, I'll give you a clue: The footballer in question is a former team-mate of his.
Steve Finnan
seemed to be permanently injured here at Espanyol.Only played 4 times in a year.
Correct
Another 2 from me
1 - First player to win the FA cup, in consecutive seasons with 2 different clubs
2 - First (& TTBOMR only) player to score 2 goals in the FA cup 6th round (QF), Semi Final & Final. (In the same season)
I think the answer to No.2
is Alan Taylor of West 'am, who in 1975 scored 2 goals in the QF against Arsenal, 2 in the Semi (replay) against Ipswich and of course 2 in the final gainst Fulham.
No.1
wasn't Brian Talbot, was it? (1978 with Ipswich, 1979 with the Arsenal).
duc01
Both correct. I am obviously out of my depth here.
Former ( 1960s)English champions, they had 3 players whose surnames ended in double letters.
Club & players please.
TTBOMR - Only Footballer to win the English double with 2 different clubs ?
Ashley Cole?
Ashley Cole
Forgot about him ! (Told you I was out of my depth)
I am looking for someone else.
The other one
Andy Cole?
Hang on
Ashley Cole was a guess - it might be wrong!
Not seen an answer to the
Not seen an answer to the first question, but I'd say it's Manchester City with Bell, Lee and Summerbee.
Two more -
Who were the last English 4th Division Champions?
Which British player has scored hat tricks in all 4 divisions, the English FA and League Cups and a full international match?
Burnshaw
Burnley were the last 4th division champions in 1992.
Is the last one Robert Earnshaw?
Manchester city
Manchester city - Correct.
D'oh
Sorry, complete rubbish my last answer.
Name the 5 England players
in the 11-man 1966 World Cup winning side who had first names ending in the letter N.
5
R. Charlton
J. Charlton
Cohen
Wilson
Erm...
Ah, first names: forget I said owt!
Gordon Banks Alan
Gordon Banks
Alan Ball
Martin Peters
Ramon "Ray" Wilson
John "Jack" Charlton
Actually, there were six
You forgot about:
Russian Linesman
And on that subject
Sorry for replying to my own comment, but one of my favourite football stories involves the Russian linesman from the 1966 World Cup final. Apparently, when the linesman was on his deathbed, a journalist visited him and asked him how he could have been so sure that that the ball had crossed the line for England's third goal. The Russian looked at the journalist and replied with one word: "Stalingrad".
A pedant speaks
The linesman in question - Tofik Bahramov - was Azerbaijani not Russian.
I met some Azeris at a hockey tournament earlier this year. Calling them Russian seems to provoke the same reaction as calling a Scot English, especially if they've been knocking back the Baku Cognac, as is their wont.
Which three teams
have got rude words within their name?
Ramsbottom United
Well, 'Ramsbottom United,' who play in the North West Counties Football League Premier Division, has got the word "bottom" in its name. Which is fairly rude.
I know this one.
Arsenal
Scunthorpe
Manchester F**king United.
Correct
Spoken like a true resident of the western end of the East Lancs Road.
Actually if truth be known
Invoking the 'Enemy's Enemy' principle, I don't really mind ManYoo that much...
As a "neutral"
Well, a Crewe fan if truth be told, my recent first time visit to see Man Utd demolish Arsenal 8-2 went well down the path towards making me appreciate them much more than previously. This seasons squad look bloody good.
That's the problem
United are looking great this year, with Phil Jones and Ashley Young slotting in brilliantly. It just makes them even more bloody annoying.
winner of two doubles for different clubs....
must be Ray Kennedy for the Arse and Liverpool mustn't it?
Ray kennedy
He nearly did it for LFC in 77, but lost the FA cup final to MUFC.
the player I was looking for was Nicholas Anelka AFC in 98, & CFC in 2010.
In true pub quiz
In true pub quiz fashion,
Which is the only UK club none where of the letters of its name can be coloured in?
and
Which is the only UK club whose name contains none of the letters of the word 'football'?
I know the first one.
Hull City.
Not coloured in letters:
Not coloured in letters: Hull City
No letters from 'Football': Exeter City or Dundee
Do "football" and "City"
not both include a "t"?
You could also make a strong case to say
That there is a 't' in Exeter.
And following straight on from that
Which english club is the only one that, if written in upper case, has no curves in its name?
MILLWALL
MILLWALL
Must be MILLWALL (just
Must be MILLWALL (just checking, not shouting)
Yep, both correct
No-one likes them etc.
More Pointless Football Trivia
4 English League Teams, 2 English Non-League Teams and 4 Scottish League Teams start and end in the same letter. Who?
What is the biggest English city never to have had a League Team?
Sunderland won it in 1979, Villa in 1981. Who won it in 1980?
Who as a player has won the League Championship, League Cup, FA Cup, European Cup, European Cup Winners Cup and the World Club Championship, whilst as a club manager has won the League Championship, FA Cup, Milk Cup, Littlewoods Cup, European Cup, European Cup Winners Cup and the UEFA Cup, and has also managed England?
Question 3
Brooking - winning goal scorer in 1980 FA Cup Final
Yeah - got one!
Starting with the Addicks
Charlton Athletic
Northampton Town
Aston Villa
York City
Dundee United
Celtic
East Fife
East Stirlingshire
Missing two...
Liverpool
is the missing English club.
Nuneaton Town
play in Blue Square Conference North.
Kilmarnock?
Did the original question assume that East Stirling was the full name?
Just a guess...
But could it be Roy of the Rovers?
Answer (if you haven't already got 'em)
Aston Villa
Charlton Athletic
Liverpool
Northampton Town
Stafford Rangers
York City
(forgot Nuneaton Town - so make that 3 Non-League Teams)
Celtic
Dundee United
East Stirlingshire
Kilmarnock
Biggest City? Wakefield
1980? Brooking
Won everything? Roy Race
Referee!
Surely Glasgow Celtic begins with a G and ends with a C? I'm sure they're different letters?
Indeed they are!
But thankfully, the club is officially called Celtic, not Glasgow Celtic.
Bugger Me...
Sorry about that, have to admit, I always thought they were known as Glasgow Celtic (I'll just shuffle off quietly stage left, hope nobody noticed I was here...)
Mr Digit....
Question 3: This is Alan Sunderland and Ricky Villa.
Question 4: If the answer is Roy Race, then you are in deep trouble. I will personaly come round and burn your cat and kidnap your house.
Maybe.
Number 4
is indeed Roy Race (fortunately I haven't got a cat)
Any pets then?
Apart from a goldfish or any other type of aquatic pet... see, the accellerant won't work with anything wet.... a hamster perhaps? Or maybe a Norwegian Blue? I will even settle for a pet mouse.
I've got a Slug
It can't talk, so its scarcely a replacement for a parrott
One more...............
Which currently playing English player has scored the most league goals against Liverpool?
Jamie Carragher
Own Goals?
Indeed................
...........about 346 at the last count
What a great stat!
Good old Carra.
Before Sunday's game
I saw the amazing stat that Carragher has scored the same number of goals for Tottenham as he has for Liverpool.
Incredible
He once scored a brace of own goals in a game against Man Utd.
What player...
...has achieved this:
Bundislega winner...3 times
La Liga winner... 3 times
Bundislega Cup winner....1 time
Cope Del Rey winner... twice
Cope Del Liga winner.... once
UEFA Cup.... Two wins
ECWC.... one loss
European Cup... one win, one loss
European Football Championship Winner.... twice
World Cup Final.... one loss
Who is he?
He is (was?) the only player to play in all major three European Cup finals (EC, ECWCC, UEFA Cup) and also the European Nations Cup Final and also The World Cup Final.
Probably the best player you have never heard of.
Oh, he also managed a national team in a major European Championship....
Blimey
Is it Thomas Dolby?
Correct! Maybe.
Correct! Maybe.
Nearly
Could be Ulrich Stielike, but his European Championship record is "won one lost one" with Germany.
I'm guessing
Uli Stielike but he never won the European Cup.Lost in two finals but he fits the other requirements.
Oops
I should've carried on reading there!
the only player to play in all major three European finals
I think you will find a lots of Leeds players did that between 71 - 75
Sour Crout
You are one sad man....
How did you know that?
German perhaps, given your name?
Yep, Uli is the guy.
Got the research a tad wrong, but understandable considering his superb achievments.
Littlish guy, moustache, bald, tackled like a roll of barbed wire.
Him, not you that is.
Kudos to Mr Crout.
thank you
it had to be a German who played in Spain and i worked it out from there
which 2 english teams have
which 2 english teams have played each other the most times?
Wanderers and Corinthians...
... who played each other 112 times between 1873 and 1903.
It's going to be one of those sorts of answers, isn't it? Either that or it'll involve Melchester Rovers.
In The First division
wasn't it Aston Villa and Everton ?
p.s I'm right,nearly 200 times according to a Villa supporting mate.
Is it
Everton V Liverpool? (I know it is the most common FA cup fixture)
want some hard ones
1)What connects Alfie Conn jr and Alan Hudson ?
2)what connects Gunnar Halle, Craig Forrest, Michel Vonk and Robert Warzycha ?
3) apart from Petr Cech,name the 3 other Czech Republic goalkeepers that have played in the Premier League?
2)
The only foreigners to play on the opening day of the Premier League?
nearly right
re-word your answer,Spartacus.
Alfie Conn jr and Alan Hudson
Is it that they both played Indoor football in the United States - Conn with Pittsburgh Spirit and Hudson with Cleveland Force?
Not what i had in mind,Duco01
but good answer.
What i'm looking for is something akin to Clive Allen at Arsenal.
3 other Czech Republic goalkeepers
I think Pavel Srnicek is one of them.
Czeck Keepers
Ludek Miklosko
Tomas Cerny (?)
Jan
Stejskal?
Correct but OOPs
meant to write 4.
answers
Radek Černý (Spurs)
Luděk Mikloško (West Ham)
Jan Stejskal (QPR)
Pavel Srníček (Newcastle)
3 of them played for QPR at some stage and all 4 are internationals.
Tomáš Černý plays for hamilton in Scotland
Mr Crout
Wonderfull stuff.
Alfie Conn and Alan Hudson?
Have absolutely no idea.
Became taxi drivers?
Geeza clue.
One for you... who is the only player to win the Scottish Player Of The Year award that did not win an international cap for his country?
Is it.....
.....Jim Duffy
which award
PFA or Football writers? and exluding non Scottish born players. And full caps?
Sandy Clark?
Scottish
And in these bygone days the players did not have a say on jackshit.
It was the writers.. Ken Gallacher, and Hugh Taylor etc...
A clue
Both played (?) for the same club.
Gordon Wallace?
Amazing what six years' education in Scotland teaches you...
Mr Honest
That's the guy....scored something like 30 goals in a year when Raith Rovers only scored 20 all year... or something like that.
Does that mean.....
.....they were dancing on the streets of Raith that year?
geacher53
Carlos Cuéllar.
Ah Mr Crout
once again I feel you have bettered me. Cuellar not the answer I was looking for, but I will check, but I fear you may have found #2.
No, the first was a Jock, Dundonian if memory serves.
Alfie Conn and Alan Hudson
Aside from (I think) the fact that they both were in European Cup Winners Cup winning teams, they both signed for clubs but never actually played for them.
Correct
Well done,Pilleus
Alfie Conn and Alan Hudson both ,allegedly, signed for Hercules Alicante but neither played a competitive match. In the case of Hudson the club denies actually signing him. Having met Hudson in his pub he had in Stoke,I know who i believe.
At the risk of sounding like Bogbrush...
...from Private Eye's spoof message board:
Great Work Guys!
I knew about 10 of the answers to these questions. My memory is shocking though.
Hmmm.
OK, which team has supplied more players for the England national team than any other?
Clue: Ferguson was dead wrong recently.
Liverpool
Is it Villa?