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Football facts that don't sound true (but are)
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Didier Drogba stopped a 5 year long civil war in the Ivory Coast by just asking both sides to lay down their arms and organise elections.
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Alex Ferguson was sacked by Scottish club St. Mirren for swearing at his office secretary, not paying her for six weeks.
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In 2013 Juan Mata and Fernando Torres were holders of all 4 continental trophies - Champions league, Europa League, World Cup, and Euros.
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Yes, seems as though my post got swept along with the currentletthegoodtimesroll said:
Is that for the current season ?Sage said:52 of the current 91 teams have had their current manager for less than a year.0 -
Yet neither have won a league titleNorth Lower Neil said:In 2013 Juan Mata and Fernando Torres were holders of all 4 continental trophies - Champions league, Europa League, World Cup, and Euros.4 -
Also find it weird that Torres played 30 more games for Chelsea than Liverpool despite being there around the same length of time, 3 and a half years.
Feels odd, I'm sure he was in and out of the Chelsea team whereas he was one of the first names on the teamsheet at Liverpool.1 -
There's a COPA 90 special on this. Powerful stuff!North Lower Neil said:Didier Drogba stopped a 5 year long civil war in the Ivory Coast by just asking both sides to lay down their arms and organise elections.0 -
Crystal Palace and Man City are the only 2 Premier League teams with 100% record when playing on Amazon Prime5
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Roy Kean is unbeaten in Manchester derby's yet OGS has never won one as a player or manager.0
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Doesn’t sound true thatCafc43v3r said:Roy Kean is unbeaten in Manchester derby's yet OGS has never won one as a player or manager.
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Courtesy of Opta...
Today is the first GE since 2001 where Chelsea are not top of the league on polling day.3 -
Todays game will be the 4,000 in a row that Manchester United have had an academy player in their team and the run dates back to October 19376
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When will they ever learn, you won’t win anything with kids.paulie8290 said:Todays game will be the 4,000 in a row that Manchester United have had an academy player in their team and the run dates back to October 19372 -
If that’s true, the 4000 games in a row is impressive, but the surprising bit to me is the idea that they played a game in 1937 without a homegrown player.paulie8290 said:Todays game will be the 4,000 in a row that Manchester United have had an academy player in their team and the run dates back to October 1937
I would’ve thought most players were homegrown back then.0 -
Academy, not homegrown.lordromford said:
If that’s true, the 4000 games in a row is impressive, but the surprising bit to me is the idea that they played a game in 1937 without a homegrown player.paulie8290 said:Todays game will be the 4,000 in a row that Manchester United have had an academy player in their team and the run dates back to October 1937
I would’ve thought most players were homegrown back then.3 -
Ah, ok. Misinterpreted.Ross said:
Academy, not homegrown.lordromford said:
If that’s true, the 4000 games in a row is impressive, but the surprising bit to me is the idea that they played a game in 1937 without a homegrown player.paulie8290 said:Todays game will be the 4,000 in a row that Manchester United have had an academy player in their team and the run dates back to October 1937
I would’ve thought most players were homegrown back then.
Although now I’m thinking it’s pretty surprising that there were football academies before the war. I can’t imagine many people back then packing their boy off to “football school”.It’s a pretty good “Surprising but true” on a couple of levels.0 -
In the 108 year history of the South Wales Derby neither Cardiff or Swansea have ever done the double over the other team.13
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Charlton did the double over Millwall the first time we were in the same division as them (and for the record it's not the only time).3
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In 1998, Japanese player Masashi Nakayama scored hat tricks in four games in-a-row. He also broke another record by being the first player to score for Japan in a World Cup game.
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Does anyone have an idea at how far back it goes for us?paulie8290 said:Todays game will be the 4,000 in a row that Manchester United have had an academy player in their team and the run dates back to October 1937
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Not the question you asked as I believe the United stat includes players on the bench but...ForeverAddickted said:
Does anyone have an idea at how far back it goes for us?paulie8290 said:Todays game will be the 4,000 in a row that Manchester United have had an academy player in their team and the run dates back to October 1937
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Cheers - Id started doing some research myself on it, wasnt including those youth players who came off the bench, nor was I including kids like Aribo / Davison / Hackett-Fairchildstackitsteve said:
Not the question you asked as I believe the United stat includes players on the bench but...ForeverAddickted said:
Does anyone have an idea at how far back it goes for us?paulie8290 said:Todays game will be the 4,000 in a row that Manchester United have had an academy player in their team and the run dates back to October 19370 -
Heard a belter of a fact over new year - Leeds have been top of their respective league at the end of the last 4 decades.
Leeds United league position at the end of each decade:
End of 1989 - Top of the Second Division
End of 1999- Top of the Premier League
End of 2009 - Top of the League One
End of 2019 - Top of the Championship10 -
And how many of those leagues did they win?1
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When new champions are crowned at the end of the season it’ll be the first time in premier league history that Alex Ferguson was won less titles than all other managers together. He‘s been retired 7 years. 13 of the currently 26 premier league years belong to him.
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Hasn’t there been 27 premier league seasons already though?Cafc43v3r said:When new champions are crowned at the end of the season it’ll be the first time in premier league history that Alex Ferguson was won less titles than all other managers together. He‘s been retired 7 years. 13 of the currently 26 premier league years belong to him.
19/20 is the 28th?
Maths not my strong point, so could be wrong.0 -
I have a pathological hatred for any stat that only takes into account “Premier League years”.10
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First one was 92/93 so this is the 27th.stoneroses19 said:
Hasn’t there been 27 premier league seasons already though?Cafc43v3r said:When new champions are crowned at the end of the season it’ll be the first time in premier league history that Alex Ferguson was won less titles than all other managers together. He‘s been retired 7 years. 13 of the currently 26 premier league years belong to him.
19/20 is the 28th?
Maths not my strong point, so could be wrong.0
