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22/11/2015, 3:48 AM
gustavo

Trivia Questions

What does this team represent?

(Not just an All Ireland XI)

---- ---------Forde------------
Hughes O'Shea- Evans McShane
Coleman Hoolahan Meyler McClean
--------Long Lsfferty----------
Subs - Rogers, McCullogh, Magennis, Dennehy, Doyle
22/11/2015, 10:45 AM
pineapple stu

Just going off a few, but Forde, the entire mid and Long all played LoI, as did Doyle on the bench.

Don't know where O'Shea and McShane fit in though? Unless they're different O'Sheas or McShanes of course. Lafferty played IL I'm fairly sure.

So - they all started their careers in the domestic league?
22/11/2015, 4:00 PM
gustavo

It's good but it's not right :)
23/11/2015, 1:13 PM
osarusan

Hertha Berlin beat Hoffenheim 1-0 at the weekend.

Since these kind of stats first started being compiled in 1994 (for the German league at least), what particular stat was this the first game to achieve?
23/11/2015, 4:48 PM
OwlsFan

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Originally Posted by gustavo

What does this team represent?

(Not just an All Ireland XI)

---- ---------Forde------------
Hughes O'Shea- Evans McShane
Coleman Hoolahan Meyler McClean
--------Long Lsfferty----------
Subs - Rogers, McCullogh, Magennis, Dennehy, Doyle

All born in different counties ?

p.s. How are you getting on?
23/11/2015, 11:55 PM
gustavo

That's correct ! Doing well hope to be leaving for rehab very soon
24/11/2015, 8:41 AM
pineapple stu

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Originally Posted by osarusan

Hertha Berlin beat Hoffenheim 1-0 at the weekend.

Since these kind of stats first started being compiled in 1994 (for the German league at least), what particular stat was this the first game to achieve?

Had a quick look at some stats on this, and the only unusual thing I can see is that there was only one shot on target all game? So one shot and one goal?

Here's an article on the game actually, with a few photos of the blizzard during it.

Edit - actually, it was an own goal - so was it that Hertha had no shots on target but still won?
07/12/2015, 9:14 AM
OwlsFan

What was unusual about the Burnley v Preston game last Saturday ?
07/12/2015, 9:35 AM
Hitman

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

What was unusual about the Burnley v Preston game last Saturday ?

Twins in direct opposition.
07/12/2015, 5:29 PM
osarusan

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Edit - actually, it was an own goal - so was it that Hertha had no shots on target but still won?

It was the first game with no shots on target.
28/01/2016, 1:46 PM
OwlsFan

What unique achievement has Robbie Earnshaw accomplished ?
28/01/2016, 5:27 PM
SkStu

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

What unique achievement has Robbie Earnshaw accomplished ?

Actually ate an apple through a letterbox?
28/01/2016, 8:53 PM
Hitman

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

What unique achievement has Robbie Earnshaw accomplished ?

I think this is a trick question. A hat-trick at every level is the obvious answer, but his really unique achievement is this.
29/01/2016, 7:42 PM
nigel-harps1954

Hat trick at every level in England, FA Cup, League cup and national team.
10/05/2016, 4:50 PM
OwlsFan

Which ground holds the record for the biggest attendance at a European football match?
10/05/2016, 5:40 PM
BonnieShels

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Which ground holds the record for the biggest attendance at a European football match?

I would have said Bernabeu or Nou Camp or Wembley... But now I'm thinking something Eastern European... hmmmmmmmm...
10/05/2016, 6:43 PM
TheBoss

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Which ground holds the record for the biggest attendance at a European football match?

I'd have a guess at Ernst Happel Stadion (Praterstadion).

Either you know this or you don't, no in between really, Who is the only known player to play club football in all 6 FIFA confederations?
10/05/2016, 7:00 PM
kksaints

Benfica's home ground, Estadio de luz maybe.
10/05/2016, 7:11 PM
BonnieShels

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Originally Posted by TheBoss

I'd have a guess at Ernst Happel Stadion (Praterstadion).

Either you know this or you don't, no in between really, Who is the only known player to play club football in all 6 FIFA confederations?

No idea but I bet he's Brazilian... Robinho?
10/05/2016, 10:04 PM
TheBoss

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Originally Posted by BonnieShels

No idea but I bet he's Brazilian... Robinho?

No, he's German
10/05/2016, 11:14 PM
BonnieShels

A Boy From Brazil eh?
11/05/2016, 9:07 AM
pineapple stu

Quote:

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Which ground holds the record for the biggest attendance at a European football match?

Is it not Hampden Park - 130,000 or something daft for one of Real Madrid's early European Cup wins? Against Eintracht Frankfurt maybe?

Edit - 127,621 in 1960.
11/05/2016, 9:09 AM
pineapple stu

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Originally Posted by TheBoss

Either you know this or you don't, no in between really, Who is the only known player to play club football in all 6 FIFA confederations?

Is that yer man Lutz Pfannestiel (or however he spells it)?

Also played a game in Antarctica I think.
11/05/2016, 10:22 AM
DeLorean

Darren O'Dea looked like he was going to have a crack at it there for a while!

No idea regarding the European attendance record, although I'd be surprised if it was 'only' 127,000.

I think the world record is the famous Brazil Uruguay 'final' in 1950, although after Googling it I can't say for sure. It was the record for all sports at one stage I think. I did discover that the guy who scored the winning goal for Uruguay died last year, the only remaining player from that team. He died on the 16th July, 65 years to the day after scoring the winning goal. Amazing really.
11/05/2016, 10:43 AM
pineapple stu

Alcides Ghiggian. Apparently he went to Brazil just a few years back and the passport officer - who wasn't born in 1950 of course - looked at his passport in amazement and asked if he was the real Alcides Ghiggia. Said they've never forgotten.

I think that is the world record alright - 199,000 or something. Officially.

The biggest stadium in the world today is in Pyongyang, though it's "only" 150,000 capacity.

Edit - a bit of googling suggests the 1937 Scottish Cup Final, also in Hampden, as having the European record. Attendance - 146,433. Some path� newsreel footage is on YouTube -
11/05/2016, 1:16 PM
seand

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Which ground holds the record for the biggest attendance at a European football match?

Hampden. About 135,000 for Celtic v Leeds 1970 European Cup semi-final. I have the programme somewhere. By 'European' match I'm assuming you mean a game in European competition, otherwise the Hampden record is something like 150,000 for an inter-war international v England or cup final.
11/05/2016, 1:22 PM
seand

Which Ireland international played in the Conference, League Two, League One, Championship, Premiership, Champions League and Intertoto Cup?
11/05/2016, 1:32 PM
DeLorean

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Alcides Ghiggian. Apparently he went to Brazil just a few years back and the passport officer - who wasn't born in 1950 of course - looked at his passport in amazement and asked if he was the real Alcides Ghiggia. Said they've never forgotten.

I wonder where the 1-7 will rank by comparison in 60/70 years?!
11/05/2016, 1:38 PM
BonnieShels

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Originally Posted by seand

Which Ireland international played in the Conference, League Two, League One, Championship, Premiership, Champions League and Intertoto Cup?

Steve Finnan
11/05/2016, 2:25 PM
OwlsFan

From the SFA site http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish....cfm?page=3091 The attendance record for a game at Hampden was set at 149,415 during a clash between Scotland and England in 1937, still a European record to this day.

Another one: which is the only club to have changed its name after winning the English league?
11/05/2016, 2:29 PM
pineapple stu

Did Blackburn Olympic ever win it?
11/05/2016, 2:42 PM
DeLorean

I suppose Newton Heath would be too obvious?
11/05/2016, 2:49 PM
BonnieShels

Quote:

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

From the SFA site http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish....cfm?page=3091 The attendance record for a game at Hampden was set at 149,415 during a clash between Scotland and England in 1937, still a European record to this day.

Another one: which is the only club to have changed its name after winning the English league?

Sheffield Wednesday
29/05/2016, 10:11 AM
DeLorean

Zinedine Zidane became the seventh man to win the Champions League/European Cup as both a player and a manager last night. Can you name the other six?
29/05/2016, 9:36 PM
TheBoss

Can only think of these, thought it would be easier when recalling them.

Ancelotti
Guardiola
Cryuff
Rijkaard
29/05/2016, 9:45 PM
DeLorean

All correct. One more fairly obvious one, the other not so much.
30/05/2016, 9:24 AM
OwlsFan

Trapp?
30/05/2016, 9:28 AM
pineapple stu

di Matteo?
30/05/2016, 9:28 AM
DeLorean

Trap yes. One to go. I'd be impressed if somebody knows though, I hadn't heard of him at all.

Not Di Matteo, never as a player.
31/05/2016, 9:36 AM
DeLorean

Miguel Mu�oz

Player (3): Real Madrid (1956, 1957, 1958)
Manager (2): Real Madrid (1960, 1961)

Giovanni Trapattoni

Player (2): AC Milan (1963, 1969)
Manager (1): Juventus (1985)

Johan Cruyff

Player (3): Ajax Amsterdam (1971, 1972, 1973)
Manager (1): Barcelona (1992)

Carlo Ancelotti

Player (2): AC Milan (1989, 1990)
Manager (3): AC Milan (2003, 2007); Real Madrid (2014)

Frank Rijkaard

Player (3): AC Milan (1989, 1990); Ajax Amsterdam (1995)
Manager (1): Barcelona (2006)

Pep Guardiola

Player (1): Barcelona (1992)
Manager (2): Barcelona (2009, 2011)

Zinedine Zidane

Player (1): Real Madrid (2002)
Manager (1): Real Madrid (2016)

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