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Football facts that don't sound true (but are)
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Wesley Fofana hit Dean Gaffney with his car back in 2022.
https://www.joe.co.uk/news/dean-gaffney-run-over-by-chelsea-star-on-night-out-4187452 -
We'd be top of the league.
If the games only ran from the 61st to the 75th minute. Wigan's points deduction is not factored in:
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Like how you can do that - What site is that from ?0
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https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/league-one/tabellenachminuten/wettbewerb/GB3?saison_id=2023&range=60%27%3B75%27&time_start=61&time_end=75
For reference, other positions by period:
Kickoff - 15: 8th
16-30: 12th
31-45: 15th
45+1 - HT: 16th
HT - 60: 11th
76-90: 10th
90+1 - FT: 12th
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Poor woman had an acca on 5 aways that came in. When it's not your day!!!!North Lower Neil said:
Rules out 132 suspects straight away.Algarveaddick said:I (or someone else) may have posted this before, but something just reminded me, so I thought I would put it out there in case nobody had.
The second Jack the Ripper murder (Annie Chapman) happened on the same day the first Football League matches were played.2 -
Mauritania playing in the AFCON today, have a player in the starting 11 named AK47….who is number 27.
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Weirdly, thats Aboubakar Kamara who used to play for Fulham2
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Bet he's got a great shot on him7
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And a bullet header.2
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Yeah who was squad number 47. He’s kept the nickname for team sheets 🤣CAFCsayer said:Weirdly, thats Aboubakar Kamara who used to play for Fulham1 - Sponsored links:
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4776 players have made at least one Premier League appearance.
James Milner has played against 2277 of them.4 -
stackitsteve said:4776 players have made at least one Premier League appearance.
James Milner has played against 2277 of them.
James Milner has played 928 apps in senior football: league, cups, Europe and internationals.
Milner is second to James Vaughan in being the youngest scorer in the Premier League at 16 years 356 days.
If he can score for Brighton some time until the end of this season he will be in the top 7 oldest scorer's in Premier history.
Milner was 38 on 4th January.0 -
Excluding Alfie May, Lloyd Jones' goal against Bolton is our only league goal scored by a member of today's starting XI since George's Dobson's successful effort in the opening game of the season against Orient on 5th August
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I know it’s boring to always refer back to the Powell promotion season, but in that season we had 14 different goalscorers.Addick Addict said:Excluding Alfie May, Lloyd Jones' goal against Bolton is our only league goal scored by a member of today's starting XI since George's Dobson's successful effort in the opening game of the season against Orient on 5th August0 -
Michael Appletons master plan for preventing us conceding late goals was to make sure we were already beaten before 80 minutes2
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Manchester City's goal tonight follows exactly 100 previous unsuccessful attempts on goal at Spurs' new Stadium since it was first built0
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Imagine how many of those 100 would have gone in if they were at The Valley...Addick Addict said:Manchester City's goal tonight follows exactly 100 previous unsuccessful attempts on goal at Spurs' new Stadium since it was first built1 -
Just noticed there’s a full league one programme today.
Not sure how often no 3rd tier club has made the 4th round of the cup.1 -
Just goes to show how incredibly average this division is. And how bad we must be!paulbaconsarnie said:Just noticed there’s a full league one programme today.
Not sure how often no 3rd tier club has made the 4th round of the cup.1 -
There’s a team in Dubai called Slugs and Goats FC.0
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Now that’s a proper protest.Algarveaddick said:I (or someone else) may have posted this before, but something just reminded me, so I thought I would put it out there in case nobody had.
The second Jack the Ripper murder (Annie Chapman) happened on the same day the first Football League matches were played.No ifs, no buts!1 -
None of the 8 teams that played in the quarter finals of the previous African Cup of Nations in 2021 have reached the quarter finals of this year's tournament.2
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At one point quite a way into the season they got relegated, Brian Kidd was ManUre’s top scorer with low single figures, Alex Stepney was second on two. What’s hard to believe about that? He was the goalie.Addick Addict said:Sheffield Wednesday have played 20 Championship matches this season and their top scorer is Michael Smith who stands alone with the "massive" total of three goals.1 -
On PPG, Reading were better.North Lower Neil said:Leicester and Ipswich have made the best ever two starts to a Championship season.
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Apart from being writers, being a ‘keeper is what he and Albert Camus have in common.Lincsaddick said:Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock H author etc) played in goal for Portsmouth (long time ago) using the name A C Smith .. he also played 'first class' cricket for the M C C0 -
Sorry lost me there.AddicksAddict said:
On PPG, Reading were better.North Lower Neil said:Leicester and Ipswich have made the best ever two starts to a Championship season.
They've all played 20 games.4 -
Apparently tonight is the first time that Reading have won in midweek, and not against a team beginning with the Letter: "B" since 20143
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The first column is wins not games.AddicksAddict said:
On PPG, Reading were better.North Lower Neil said:Leicester and Ipswich have made the best ever two starts to a Championship season.0 -
That explains it.North Lower Neil said:
The first column is wins not games.AddicksAddict said:
On PPG, Reading were better.North Lower Neil said:Leicester and Ipswich have made the best ever two starts to a Championship season.1 -
In the 89-90 La Liga season, Hugo Sanchez scored 38 goals for Real Madrid. All of them came from first touch finishes.8
