Football Questions..

Sheridan · 14/08/2003, 5:14 PM

Originally posted by pineapple stu
1. - Cork City in the InterToto? Two 0-0s anyway, possibly two 1-0 defeats in a five team group?

Correct-a-mundo! Except they had three 0-0s against Standard Liege, Maccabi Petah Tikva and Aarau, as well as a 0-2 defeat at home to FC Koeln.

Still waiting for correct answers to 2 and 3 (the latter is quite surprising.)

**joe** · 14/08/2003, 6:39 PM

Originally posted by Sheridan
Some quick Euro-teasers for the day that's in it:

2: Against teams from which country have LOI clubs scored the most victories in European competition?

poland?

Originally posted by Sheridan

3: Against teams from which country have LOI clubs scored the most GOALS in European competition? (The number of goals is 24, incidentally.)

scotland?

Sheridan · 14/08/2003, 7:01 PM

Originally posted by joe
scotland?

Check out the big brain on joe! Scotland is correct (BTW, LOI clubs have conceded 75 goals against Scottish clubs....)

Answer 2 is incorrect, Rovers' wins over Odra Wodzislaw were the first for an Irish club against Polish opponents, to the best of my knowledge. Clue: Stu was fairly close to the answer.

**Bluebeard** · 15/08/2003, 10:41 AM

Originally posted by Sheridan
Some quick Euro-teasers for the day that's in it:

2: Against teams from which country have LOI clubs scored the most victories in European competition?

I have this sneaking suspicion it's Cyprus.

Sheridan · 15/08/2003, 11:40 AM

Originally posted by Bluebeard
I have this sneaking suspicion it's Cyprus.

Well played, that man! Six wins in all, here's hoping Derry make it seven.

**Bluebeard** · 26/08/2003, 12:05 PM

Sh*te, I should have posted one, shouldn't I? Right, a handy one and a tough one.

Who was the last League of Ireland player capped before Glen Crowe?

Who is the oldest player in the League of Ireland to play a competitive European club competition match? (Champions League, Uefa, Inter-toto, CWC, Intercity Fairs, Super Cup...). He was the oldest man in Europe to do so at the time, and I reckon that he still might be.

**Dodge** · 26/08/2003, 1:26 PM

Originally posted by Bluebeard
Sh*te, I should have posted one, shouldn't I? Right, a handy one and a tough one.

Who was the last League of Ireland player capped before Glen Crowe?

Who is the oldest player in the League of Ireland to play a competitive European club competition match? (Champions League, Uefa, Inter-toto, CWC, Intercity Fairs, Super Cup...). He was the oldest man in Europe to do so at the time, and I reckon that he still might be.

1) Pat Byrne (for Ireland anyway) as you didn't say for Ireland I'd say Mbabazi for Uganda or John for Trinidad & Tobago have loads of recent caps
2) Was it Jim Grace?

**Bluebeard** · 26/08/2003, 2:03 PM

Originally posted by Dodge
1) Pat Byrne (for Ireland anyway) as you didn't say for Ireland I'd say Mbabazi for Uganda or John for Trinidad & Tobago have loads of recent caps

Ooops, should have out that in, now, shouldn't I. Yes, Pat Byrne, then of Shamrock Rovers. I don't know about players representing other nations, anyone know, please start another thread here, as I'd like to find out

[i]2) Was it Jim Grace? [/B]

Sorry, try again on that one.

**pineapple stu** · 26/08/2003, 4:46 PM

Originally posted by Bluebeard
Who is the oldest player in the League of Ireland to play a competitive European club competition match? (Champions League, Uefa, Inter-toto, CWC, Intercity Fairs, Super Cup...). He was the oldest man in Europe to do so at the time, and I reckon that he still might be.

Al Finucane? Retired aged 46 anyway - was playing for Limerick until a few years previously?

**pineapple stu** · 27/08/2003, 12:42 PM

Just thinking - could have been Alek Ludzic as well for Cork?

**Bluebeard** · 27/08/2003, 2:02 PM

Originally posted by pineapple stu
Al Finucane? Retired aged 46 anyway - was playing for Limerick until a few years previously?

Al Finucane it was, with the Blues against Bordeaux. I think that the record is still the European one, though I haven't checked in a while.

**pineapple stu** · 02/09/2003, 12:52 PM

Right, suppose I should put one up so. This is courtersy of CollegeTillIDie -

Name four players to have played League of Ireland who also played in the 1966 World Cup Final.

Cork fans shouldn't find this too hard...

**Bluebeard** · 15/09/2003, 10:16 AM

Originally posted by pineapple stu
Right, suppose I should put one up so. This is courtersy of CollegeTillIDie -

Name four players to have played League of Ireland who also played in the 1966 World Cup Final.

Cork fans shouldn't find this too hard...

Screw this, I want to know who the others are, and people seem to have forgotten to answer it.

Bobby Charlton was one, I think. Was Cohen, of Everton at the time, one of the others?

**Dodge** · 15/09/2003, 10:30 AM

Gordon Banks played for Pats

Sheridan · 15/09/2003, 11:06 AM

Uwe Seeler turned out for Cork Celtic in the late seventies, I believe.

Just Googled it, http://www.google.ie/search?q=cache:...hl=en&ie=UTF-8 would seem (to this non-German-speaker) to confirm that he did.

23.4.1978 Einsatz f�r Cork Celtic FC im Ligaspiel der irischen Premier Divison gegen Shamrock Rovers FC (2:6, 2 Tore)

**pineapple stu** · 15/09/2003, 12:46 PM

That's three of them alright. One more...

Incidentally, that German bit translates as "Appearance for Cork Celtic FC in an Irish Premier Division league game against Shamrock Rovers (lost 2-6, scored twice)

**pineapple stu** · 17/09/2003, 12:42 PM

Thr fourth, incidentally, is Geoff Hurst, who played about three games for Cork (can't remember which one) in the late 70s.

**Shed End John** · 19/09/2003, 9:30 AM

I fully realise that I haven't answered a question recently, or even been on the site to do so, but I just have to ask this one.

Q: Before the former Yugoslavia broke up into Serbia, Croatia etc, who did they play their last international against and what was the score?