Useless footy trivia thread....

[king billy]

......has anyone got any useless pieces of footy trivia they want to share?

One to start off....

Only teams which have won the FA Cup can have triangular corner flags - Blackburn Rovers have the honour of being allowed their club crest on their flags, the reason being they won the FA Cup 3 times in a row in the 1800's but the FA were too skint to give them the cup so bestowed the honour of the club crest on their flags!!....

[king billy]

Spurs were the 1st ever British side to win a European competition (the Cup winners cup) in 1963.

C*ltic *spits* are the only team to ever win a European cup with an entire team made up of players from the country they represent!

The 1st British club to enter the European cup were Hibs in 1955!

[king billy]

Andrei Kanchelskis (sp) is unsurprisingly the only player ever to have played in a Merseyside derby - a Manchester derby and a Glasgow derby!

[Devil's Advocate]

*Are you having fun?!?!*

Robert Earnshaw is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the Premiership, Championship, League 1 and League 2. tup:

[Rambo]

Colin Todd is a c*nt

[Jamaica Love]

Grimsby Town are the only team who play every single game away. Their ground is not actually in Grimsby it is in Cleethorpes.....;)

[Blue Monday]

Tony Cottee is one of only a few players to play in all four divisions during one season - 2000/01
Leicester, Norwich, Barnet and Millwall

Who the others are, I do not know................

[Rambo]

Hull City is the only football club you cant colour in the letters.

[Rambo]

Despite urban myth, Ryan Giggs was never eligible to play for England's senior squad.

(played for U21s under the name Ryan Wilson)

[king billy]

Northampton Town were the 1st club to have been promoted through all 4 divisions - in the 1960's!

[Jamaica Love]

The most ever goals scored by a player in 1 game is 16!!!

[Rambo]

Justin Fashanu was a gay

Tony Yeboah is black

[Northern]

There's only 1 team in the English & Scottish leagues that does not contain any of the letters from the word FOOTBALL!

Dundee

[tony d]

Steve Finnan has to have one of the most fulfilling career records ever after playing in all leagues including the Conf....

Welling in the conference in 1993
Notts county in the old third division
Fulham winning the old Second in 1999
Fulham winning the old First division 2001
Liverpool in the Prem since 2003

Also playing in and winning the following on top of his league successes

Played and won in the Intertoto cup 2002 with Fulham
Played and won the UEFA Champions League 2004/5
Played ad won the European Super Cup 2005
Played and won the FA Cup 2005/6
Played and won the Community Shield in 2006

Not forgetting being a losing finalist in the following...

League Cup 2004-05
FIFA Club World Cup 2005
UEFA Champions League 2006-07


Sadly very unlikely to win the European Championships or the World Cup but a remarkable record none the less...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Finnan.jpg/200px-Finnan.jpg

[Herr Doktor]

Juventus originally played in pink shirts but changed after asking one of their english players (John Savage) if he had any contacts in England who could supply a kit that would stand up better to the elements. The friend he asked was a Notts County supporter and therefore they were sent black and white shirts.

[billybantam]

Liverpool, Charlton Athleitc, Northampton Town and Aston Villa are the only premiership and football league teams to start and end with the same letters.

Crystal Palace, Rochdale, Port Vale, Plymouth Argyle and now Morecambe and Dagenham and Redbridge are the only teams from the premier league and football league to end in an "e"

Crewe Alexandra, Aston Villa and Chelsea are the only clubs to end in an "a".

[lee]

Juventus originally played in pink shirts but changed after asking one of their english players (John Savage) if he had any contacts in England who could supply a kit that would stand up better to the elements. The friend he asked was a Notts County supporter and therefore they were sent black and white shirts.

Meeeeeeelan were founded by an Englishman and that's why they have retained the English spelling of 'Milan'. I think the original club also included a cricket club.

All told to me by a Greek bloke so apologies if it's bollocks! :)

[Northern]

Only 2 players have have been relegated with 4 different Premiership clubs!

Ashley Ward (Norwich City, Barnsley, Blackburn Rovers, Bradford City)

Nathan Blake (Sheffield United, Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Wolverhapton Wanderers)

[Elleb]

The first dug out for managers in British football appeared at Aberdeen

[Elleb]

QPR were the first to install an artificial pitch

[Elleb]

Celtic were the first british team to win the eurpoean cup

[Blue Monday]

Only 2 players have have been relegated with 4 different Premiership clubs!

Ashley Ward (Norwich City, Barnsley, Blackburn Rovers, Bradford City)

Nathan Blake (Sheffield United, Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Wolverhapton Wanderers)

Please Hermann Hreidarsson to the list:cool:
Crystal palace, Ipswich, Wimbledon and Charlton

[beerbantam]

Justin Fashanu was a gay

Tony Yeboah is black

Alan Smith is ****!













(and gay);)

[Elleb]

The 1966 World cup saw the first......
Drug testing in football
World Cup mascot used (Englands Willie the lion)
Player to score a header in the final (Geoff Hurst)

[NormanCorner]

Andy Coles first 4 caps were under 4 different England managers.

Don't ask who the managers were ....I've got Alzheimers

[lancashirebantam]

Bury have the shortest full name in English League football

[Blue Monday]

even though it is not in Merseyside, edgley park - Stockport is the nearest football ground to the river mersey

[billybantam]

The Hawthorns, home of West Bromwich Albion, is at the highest alltitude of any football stadium in the Premier League or Football League.

[Rick]

In 1995 I think to try promote the game to the asian community Bradford City reserves played a game against an Asian XI at Valley Parade. This is one of a few times the Kop end has been given to away fans :D

[billybantam]

Dudley is the largest town in England not to be represented in the football or premier leagues.

Bristol is the largest town/city in population which have never won the FA Cup.

[BBB]

Only 2 players have have been relegated with 4 different Premiership clubs!

Ashley Ward (Norwich City, Barnsley, Blackburn Rovers, Bradford City)

Nathan Blake (Sheffield United, Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Wolverhapton Wanderers)

hreidasson ???????

[BBB]

Might be wrong but St Johnstone the only team in scotland and england to have a J in its name

[Jantje]

Glossop is the smallest town to have a top flight team

[Kop Kred]

Glossop is the smallest town to have a top flight team

Whatcha talking 'bout Lewis??

[Jantje]

:rolleyes: Glossop is the place with the smallest population to have a team in the old First Division - 1898 99 is that any clearer KK:rolleyes:

[meelin]

Arsenal keepers always have their shirt washed seperately the night before an FA Cup Final, after some cock up by the keeper in the 1920's, against Cardiff, also the only time the Cup has been won by a team outside England.

[Kop Kred]

:rolleyes: Glossop is the place with the smallest population to have a team in the old First Division - 1898 99 is that any clearer KK:rolleyes:

"Glossop is the smallest town to have HAD a top flight team"

OH! I see... :D
;)

[Jantje]

"Glossop is the smallest town to have HAD a top flight team"

OH! I see... :D
;)

Thanks KK, i knew you'd get ittup: tup: :rolleyes:

[jimmy]

Bradford Park Avenue are the only team to have played in the top flight of English football,in green and white hoops.

[king billy]

I wonder how many Citys do not have a professional football team - there can't be many - Wakefield and Ripon are two - wonder what the others are....someone must know? :confused:

[Devil's Advocate]

Bath, Canterbury, Poole, Telford (non-league), Slough, Gloucester - off the top of my head!

[king billy]

Bath, Canterbury, Poole, Telford (non-league), Slough, Gloucester - off the top of my head!

Sorry to piss on your chips mate - but Poole, Telford and Slough aren't Citys....;)

[king billy]

I've just checked and the list of Citys without professional clubs (not including conference) is....

Bath,
Cantebury,
Gloucester,
Chichester,
Ely,
Exeter,
Hereford,
Lancaster,
Litchfield,
Salford,
Salisbury,
St Albans,
Truro,
Wells,
Westminster,
Worcester!!

Aswell as Ripon and Wakefield....

Just goes to show that a professional football team really does lift the profile - apart from Hereford and Exeter (because of their teams) who would have thought that many of those others were Citys?....

[Devil's Advocate]

Durham?
Winchester?

[Devil's Advocate]

I like piss on my chips. ;)

[king billy]

I like piss on my chips. ;)

Kinky!!

Is it like vinegar?...:eek:

[king billy]

Durham?
Winchester?

Aye - soz, missed them off!!

[Parrot]

Aye - soz, missed them off!!

Durhams a City?:eek:

WTF was Roger Whittacker singing about then? :rolleyes::D

[Devil's Advocate]

Aye - soz, missed them off!!

Tut, tut! And here I am thinking you were the font of all knowledge and chief chip-pisser!

[tony d]

Craig Bellamy started his career at Bradford Park Avenue 95-97 playing 2 games scoring once for their first team before going through the youth set up at Norwich.....

[billybantam]

The phrase "as sick as a parrot" comes from when Arsenal replaced Tottenham in the football league and coincidentally the club parrot at Tottenham FC died at the same time....

The phrase "back to square one" comes from when radio commentators used a chart from the radio times to explain which part of the field the ball was in. When the ball went all the way back to the end of the pitch the commentators were known to say the phrase.

[ernie06]

Just goes to show the silly old buggers in the olden days used to put cathedrials ?? - big churches - in any old place -


Wells is about the size of wibsey!!! - until Glastonbury kicks off then it swells a bit. :chatter:

[ernie06]

Dean Windass has never been relegated with any team he has been registered with - due to the fact he always got himself loaned out first!!!

[yankeebantam]

The Hawthorns, home of West Bromwich Albion, is at the highest alltitude of any football stadium in the Premier League or Football League.

i thought it was oldham.

[Skyebantam]

grimsby is the fookin coldest

[yankeebantam]

i thought the coldest also belonged to grimsby,i swear its the closest ive come to frostbite.

[ChuckleBantam]

Emile Heskey was world class for Wigan last season according to all the commentators...............apparently

[billybantam]

i thought it was oldham.

According to our friends at wikipedia, the hawthorns is 168m above sea level where as boundary park is 155m above sea level...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_English_football_stadia_by_altitude

[billybantam]

Bradford City FC and Motherwell FC are the only teams in Britain whos primary colours are claret and amber...

[Jamaica Love]

Until crouch took his crown fatty foulkes was englads tallest ever player:-


Peter Crouch's appearance against USA, 28 May 2005, makes Crouch the tallest player ever to star for England, standing at a proud 6ft 7in. Many thanks to reader Bob Dooley for bringing this to our attention.
Reader Bazza Wright also brought to our attention a story, "Fat Sportsmen," in the Observer Sport Monthly, 6 January 2002, which says Billy Foulke is also the tallest player to have worn an England shirt:
"At 6ft 6in 'Fatty' is the tallest footballer to have represented England. Although regarded as a freak show by many, Foulke was agile for his size and an expert penalty stopper. In the early 1900s, keepers didn't have to stay on the line for penalties, so as a kick was taken Foulke and his enormous bulk charged towards the penalty spot, putting opponents off."