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  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,342
    Sir Stanley Matthews played his last League game aged 50. He was last selected fpr England aged 42.
  • bristoladdick
    bristoladdick Posts: 1,147
    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:
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Robert Earnshaw has scored hat tricks in the Premier, champ, League 1, 2 both domestic cups and for Wales.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Bolton are the only league side to have has a polka dot home kit.
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    No fact was repeated until Addickted posted about Denmark at 6.09pm

    FACT.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Addickted said:
    No fact was repeated until Addickted posted about Denmark at 6.09pm

    FACT.
    And at 6.43
  • 25May98
    25May98 Posts: 712
    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. 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,612
    Darlington & Charlton are the only teams to have lost an FA Cup game and progressed to the next round.
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    Huddersfield's current unbeaten run of 372 games is a world record.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    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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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Charlton Athletic are undefeated in matches against international sides. 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,612
    Chizz said:
    Charlton Athletic are undefeated in matches against international sides. 
    France & China?
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    Michael Owen never scored 20 league goals in a season.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Jermaine Defoe is still scoring goals, just now actually. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    Joe Gomez’s middle name is Dave.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Miroslav Klose scored 71 goals for Germany and none of them were further out than 12 yards from goal, ie penalties.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    edited April 2019
    . 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    edited April 2019
    Just realised this was a duplicate!!
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    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.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
     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 Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    Alan Shearer has missed the highest number of penalties in the Premier League.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    David de Gea has never saved a penalty for Man Utd.
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    Ryan Giggs has been substituted for more than any player in PL history.
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    The only unbeaten team in the 2010 World Cup was New Zealand.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    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 Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    It took Cristiano Ronaldo, the World's most famous number 7, over 400 matches to score in the 7th minute of a game.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    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.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    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  :)
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    The Netherlands went 18 years (1996-2014 I think) always having a ‘van’ player in the team
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    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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