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50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by danduchi(m): 6:25pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
1.Ronaldinho first gained media attention when his youth team won 23-0. He scored all 23goals. 2.Chelsea have been relegated more times than they have won the league. 3.The difference in Messi's age & Ronaldo's age is 869 days,the same difference between Messi and Ronaldo's son. 4. Arsenal bought Anelka, Overmars, Petit,Henry,Vieira, Fàbregas, RVP, Toure, Adebayor and Nasri for £42m and sold them for £206m. 5.Zinedine Zidane was never caught offside in his whole career. 6.Only one gold EPL trophy has been awarded and it was to Arsenal because in 2003/2004 season they didn't lose any match. 7.Brazilian legend, Pele, scored 92 hat- tricks,four goals on 31 occasions, five on six occasions,and eight on an occasion. 8.When Mourinho says you have a bright future;It means you can't make his team at the present. 9.Cristiano Ronaldo was expelled from school at the age of 14 after throwing a chair at his teacher for mocking his family's financial status. 10.CR7 has no tattoos because he frequently gives blood & getting a tattoo would render him unable to do so for 6 months. 11.RealMadrid sold 50,000 James Rodriguez jerseys in one day. Juventus sold 0 Bendtner jerseys in one season. 12.In January 2003, Van Gaal was SACKED by Barcelona after leaving them just three points above the relegation zone. 13.Arsenal have won two trophies since Manchester United last won a competitive match. 14.Burnley have spent £45million on transfers since1882. 15.Manchester United have spent £59.7million this week. Louis Van Gaal and David Moyes Attendedthe SameTactical Management School. 16.Cardiff City were relegated in 1929, even though they conceded the fewest goals in the league (1st division). 17.In 1975 an international match between Chile & Uruguay was abandoned after 19 players were sent off. 18.Ryan Giggs’s real surname is Wilson and he’s part African. His dad, Danny Wilson, is a half-Welsh, half- Sierra Leonean rugby professional who used to play for Wales. Giggs took his mother’s maiden name when his parents split up. 19.The heaviest ever England player was a goalkeeper called Willie ‘Fatty’ Foulke. At 6 feet 6 inches tall, he weighed 22 stones and played for England around the turn of the century. 20.Dave Watson played for Everton, for Liverpool, against Everton against Liverpool, for England and against England. 21.A Manchester City fan was banned in 1995 from bringing dead chickens into City’s Maine Road ground. He used to celebrate City goals by swinging the birds around his head. 22.In 1957, the Salisbury and District FA of Rhodesia officially approved the payment of £10 to hire a witch doctor. Salisbury had lost every match the previous season. 23.Striker Elisha Banda, who played for Zimbabwe airforce team Cone Textiles, was kidnapped, drugged and tortured for eight days by team-mates angry that he’d signed for civilian team.. He was found bound and gagged on scrubland outside Harare. 24.There are only two football teams in the Isles of Scilly – The Gunners and the Wanderers. They play each other every week in the league, the only break being when they meet in the Cup. 25.In 1973, the entire Galilee team spent the night in jail for kicking their opponents during an Israeli League game. 26.Stopping off en route to Iceland , the Albanian national team were thrown out of England in 1990 after going on a shopping spree at Heathrow. They had thought “duty free” meant help yourself. 27.Italian referee Marcello Donadini was taken to hospital in 1973 after being bitten in the back by a player who didn’t agree with a decision. 28.Barcelona ’s Hristo Stoichkov was banned for six months in 1990 for stamping on the referee’s foot after being sent off in a Cup tie against Real Madrid. 29.The Liberia team escaped imprisonment by holding Gambia to a goalless draw in 1980. The Liberian Head of State, Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, had threatened to jail them it they lost. 30.West Ham defender Alvin Martin scored a hat-trick against three different goalkeepers in the 8-1 win over Newcastle in 1986. The injured Martin Thomas was replaced in the Newcastle goal first by Chris Hedworth, then by Peter Beardsley. 31.A referee at a friendly match in Brazil drew a revolver and shot dead a player who disputed a penalty decision. The referee escaped in horseback. 32.Hollingsworth Juniors football team from Manchester fell victim to an own goal in a match with Stalybridge Celtic Colts in 1999. Colts were leading 2-1 when 13-year-old striker Danny Worthington tried a speculative shot from 25 yards. The ball was sailing way over the bar until it hit a passing seagull on the head, spun over the Hollingsworth goalkeeper and landed in the net. Despite protests, the goal was allowed to stand. Realizing they were up against 12 men, demoralized Hollingsworth went on to lose 7-1. 33.The Scottish Cup tie between Falkirk and Inverness Thistle in 1979 was postponed no fewer than 29 times because of bad weather. 34.The first Littlewoods Pools coupon attracted the interest of just 35 punters. 35.The Sampdoria team and 200 players walked 20 miles to a mountain sanctuary near Genoa in 1969 to thank the Madonna for helping them stave off relegation. 36.In 1990, the Football League banned Scarborough from wearing shirts advertising Black Death vodka on the grounds of bad taste. 37.In 1998, The Macclesfield mascot, was sent off for making obscene gestures during a players’ brawl in the match with Lincoln City. 38.Cash-strapped Portsmouth cancelled their weekly order of new jockstraps in 1999, a move which would save £112. Administrator Tom Burton ordered the club to wash them instead of buying new ones. 39.When England entertained Malta in 1971, the match was so one-sided that the ball didn’t cross the England goal-line once in the entire 90 minutes. And Gordon Banks in the England goal didn’t have a shot to save. 40.Visitors Kilmarnock had to take the same penalty seven time during a fixture at Partick in 1945. The spot-kick was eventually saved and Partick went on to win 5-3. 41.Bury players refused to do any more promotional work for the club in 1997 as a protest at the lack of nappy-changing facilities at Gigg Lane for their wives. 42.In an attempt to boost gates, Bristol City staged a chimps’ tea-party before the 1976 game with West Ham. 43.Plymouth Argyle striker Dwight Marshall was accidentally injured by one of his own fans after scoring at Chester in 1999. 44.In 1993, HFS Loans League team Congleton were forced to call off a minute’s silence to mourn the death of the club’s oldest fan…when he walked into the ground. (oops…) 45.Referee Henning Erikstrup was about to blow full- time with Norager leading Ebeltoft 4-3 in a Danish league match when his dentures suddenly fell out. While he scrambled around looking for them, Ebeltoft equalised. Despite vehement protests from Ebeltoft, Mr Erikstup disallowed the goal, replaced his false teeth and promptly blew the final whistle. 46.A Tanzanian soccer match was postponed in 1978 after the referee was arrested on the pitch and accused of smoking marijuana just before the kick- off. 47.In the space of five minutes at Sunderland in November 1998, Barnsley striker Ashley Ward scored, missed a penalty and was sent off. 48.Leicester City went through an entire FA Cup tie with Northampton Town in 1997 without committing a single foul. Leicester won 4-0. 49.In 1999, a Manchester City fan threw an asthma inhaler on to the pitch during a disappointing home draw against Northampton. 50.Dundee United’s Premier Reserve League game against Dunfermline at Arbroath in 1998 was abandoned after just 90 seconds because of high winds. 51.At the age of 52, Pedro Gatica cycled from his home in Argentina to Mexico for the 1986 World Cup, only to find on arrival that he couldn’t afford to get in. While he was trying to haggle for a ticket, thieves stole his bike. 52.Giuseppe Lorenzo of Bologna was sent off after just ten seconds of the Italian League match with Parma in 1990 for striking an opponent. 53.Romanian midfielder Ion Radu was sold by Second Division Jiul Petrosani to Valcea in 1998 for 500kg of pork (Worth about £1750). 54.A 1984 match between Sheffield United and Oldham was postponed when a war-time bomb as found near Bramall Lane. 55.Fans at Gillingham were subjected to celery searches in 1996. a craze had started for waving sticks of celery while chanting an obscene song. So anyone caught in possession of the vegetable was threatened with a life ban. |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by lomprico(m): 6:34pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
@15 wahala dey! GGMU! |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by Nobody: 6:35pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
Do you know? Manchester United and a Toothpick have something in common. - THEY HAVE TWO POINTS |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by opportunist: 6:37pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
nice1 |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by ggrin(f): 6:50pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
frankben: Do you know?dead |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by Nobody: 6:54pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
ggrin: deadlol.... Na true na you just enjoy your sunday finish you no invite me |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by bastien: 7:15pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
Arsenal golden epl trophy gosh Gunners for life |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by ggrin(f): 7:21pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
frankben: lol.... Na true nalol,happy sunday |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by Nobody: 7:27pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
ggrin: lol,happy sundayby this time? It's 7:25pm |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by Nobody: 7:27pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
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Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by MisterLongman(m): 7:41pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
E be like say Messi and Ronaldo started their rivalry from heaven...... Now their children is involved 1 Like |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by Nobody: 7:48pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
Scrap off No2 its not necessary and that of mourinho got me laughing |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by Wolexi15(m): 9:25pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
Well,,I knew all dat already since I was 7yrz,,bt m sure u didn't knw dat I surpassed ronaldinho'z record and scored 25goalz y.dae |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by danduchi(m): 11:21pm On Sep 07, 2014 |
Wolexi15: Well,,I knew all dat already since I was 7yrz,,bt m sure u didn't knw dat I surpassed ronaldinho'z record and scored 25goalz y.daewow....no wonder you're this famous....25goals or 25 overs |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by millhouse: 6:28pm On Sep 10, 2014 |
interesting |
Re: 50 Football Facts You Probably Don't Know by IRRESPONSIBLE(m): 7:40pm On Sep 10, 2014 |
Crazy facts... Doubted some of em though. Many were damn hilarious |
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