Topic: Football facts that don’t seem real

[J_Kopite]

Yep, had we not won at Chelsea, Everton vs West Ham was 2 days after that match, a win by either team would have seen them winning the title, a draw would have us win the title, we had the better GD too.  I remember Neville Southall doing his ankle ligaments in in an International near the end of that season & was out for the remainder of the season, including the cup final, that cost the Ev big time too.

https://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1530

Side note, i think that match 85/86, was our last win at Stamford Bridge in the league at least until 2008/09 season

No we won there in 2003/04 - Cheyrou scored

[A weatherfield winter wonderland]

Yep, had we not won at Chelsea, Everton vs West Ham was 2 days after that match, a win by either team would have seen them winning the title, a draw would have us win the title, we had the better GD too.  I remember Neville Southall doing his ankle ligaments in in an International near the end of that season & was out for the remainder of the season, including the cup final, that cost the Ev big time too.

https://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1530

Side note, i think that match 85/86, was our last win at Stamford Bridge in the league at least until 2008/09 season

We beat them 5-2 under Kenny around 89/90 ish. We did go ages without a win there in the Premier League era but somehow won in 2002/03 during Bruno Cheyrou’s ‘purple patch’ that lasted all of 3 games I think.

[Kekule]

No we won there in 2003/04 - Cheyrou scored

Diouf was sent off when Mutu jogged past him, fell over his own shoe laces and the ref showed a second yellow. Diouf was minding his own business (for a change) at the time.

It was just about the only time you could muster any sort of sympathy for him.

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Diouf was sent off when Mutu jogged past him, fell over his own shoe laces and the ref showed a second yellow. Diouf was minding his own business (for a change) at the time.

It was just about the only time you could muster any sort of sympathy for him.

I think Dudek had to go off injured towards the end and Patrice Luzi (?) came on. Had forgotten all about that mad game until now.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Diouf was sent off when Mutu jogged past him, fell over his own shoe laces and the ref showed a second yellow. Diouf was minding his own business (for a change) at the time.

It was just about the only time you could muster any sort of sympathy for him.

Wasn't it that Mutu's stoods got caught in Diouf's laces? Either way, a ridiculous decision. Similar to Alonso getting sent off for slipping into I think Fabregas. The referee had his head turned, looked back to see them both on the floor.

[Craig S]

I think Dudek had to go off injured towards the end and Patrice Luzi (?) came on. Had forgotten all about that mad game until now.

Yes he did, we had a semi boycott cos it was £49 a ticket. I think we took half the normal East Stand allocation, from the half way to Mathew Harding.
Luzi played about the last 10-15. I remember we were just singing his name to the Patrick Berger song (la-la-la-la-la one), for virtually the whole time he was on the pitch. I don't think he had to do much other than claim crosses.

[free_at_last]

Shame they were up against Miller and McLeish.

I thought I read something that Hansen wasn't popular in the Scottish camp because he wouldn't give up secrets about Liverpool forwards(eg. Rush) weaknesses(I think for the Wales play-off game) so he was blacklisted. I remember at the the time how I was astonished that Hansen didn't make the Scottish world cup squad.

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Divock Origi has scored more goals for Liverpool than John Arne Riise & Luis Garcia.

[Statto Red]

No we won there in 2003/04 - Cheyrou scored

I forgot that one.

Diouf was sent off for double booking, the second yellow was later rescinded.

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The last 21 goals scored at the Hawtotns have been scored by the away team.

Heard that on The Anfield Wrap earlier, incredible!

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Nuri Sahin was substituted in all 7 of his Premier League appearances for Liverpool

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Nuri Sahin was substituted in all 7 of his Premier League appearances for Liverpool

Criminally mis-used by Rodgers. Was an early sign of everything wrong with his relationship with the transfer committee.

[Red_Rich]

Read one recently.

Hungary went 4 years unbeaten (32 games) before losing in the World Cup Final in 1954 having been 2-0 up.

My Dad never got over that result!  He was 18 at the time.  Puskas scored what looked like an equaliser to make it 3-3 but was quite clearly wrongly ruled offside robbing the best side never to win a World Cup the prize they so richly deserved.  Incidentally, they'd already beaten West Germany 8-2 in the group stages.  My Dad WAS at the famous 7-1 thrashing of England in the qualifying games leading up to that tournament.

[B0151?]

Criminally mis-used by Rodgers. Was an early sign of everything wrong with his relationship with the transfer committee.

Cminally seems excessive considering his career since

[chrissycc]

It's a well known fact that Shankly used just 14 players during the whole of the 65/66 campaign which saw us win the First Division and reach the European Cup Winners’ Cup final. In comparison, and very much enforced, Klopp has used (if I'm correct) 16 players to cover just the back 5 positions so far this season!

Keepers: Alisson, Adrian, Kelleher
Left back: Robertson, Tsimikas
Right back: Trent, N. Williams, Milner
Centre back (quicker to list those that haven't played, but): VVD, Gomez, Matip, R. Williams, Phillips, Fabinho, Henderson, Koumetio

Other than Koumetio's league cup appearance, all have been in important Prem or Champions League games.

And it's likely (hopefully) going to increase in the coming weeks!

[BoRed]

Benjamin Pavard currently holds the World Cup, the Champions League, Club World Cup, the European Supercup, the Bundesliga, the German Cup and the German Supercup.

As Bayern manager, Hansi Flick has won more trophies than he's lost games.

[red-nosed reign-debs]

Benjamin Pavard currently holds the World Cup, the Champions League, Club World Cup, the European Supercup, the Bundesliga, the German Cup and the German Supercup.

As Bayern manager, Hansi Flick has won more trophies than he's lost games.

Maybe he needs to move on somewhere to challenge himself [emoji12]

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[elsewhere]

Cminally seems excessive considering his career since

exactly, he's been garbage wherever he went since leaving us and now playing for a Turkish mid table team.

[Jingle wils 21 thrills]

Bumping this to highlight the clear fabrication in Luke Shaw and Gareth Bale both apparently being 6”1, Timo Werner and Phil Jones both being 5”11 and (perhaps the least believable of all) smaller than all of those guys is Ivan Toney who is allegedly 5”10.

[Statto Red]

Aston Villa once had Jimmy Brown and Barrie Hole on their books, along with an Argentinian called Oscar Arce. Legend has it that they had a back three of Brown, Arce and Hole - although this guy reckons it never happened. Shouldn't let the facts spoil a good story though.

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=58039.0

One of the best ones was Charlton Athletic from 2002, when they had Jorge Costa, Mark Fish, & Jonathan Fortune in the same team, which brought out famous line, Fish Costa Fortune.

[AndyInVA]

Weird rule based fact.

There are no offsides for goal kicks.

If you have a shorter field and a goalkeeper who can really boot it, you can put your forwards past the defensive line and they will not be off side.

More relevant to amateur games, its a rarely used tactic on Sunday leagues to have attackers in clearly offside positions on goal kicks. You just have to hope the referee knows the rules.

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One of the best ones was Charlton Athletic from 2002, when they had Jorge Costa, Mark Fish, & Jonathan Fortune in the same team, which brought out famous line, Fish Costa Fortune.

They had Luke Young at the time too so their back four was Young Fish Costa Fortune.

Ireland had a Donaghy Babb centre back pairing got a while.*

*They didn’t. Mal Donaghy played for Northern Ireland didn’t he?

[Jingle wils 21 thrills]

Weird rule based fact.

There are no offsides for goal kicks.

If you have a shorter field and a goalkeeper who can really boot it, you can put your forwards past the defensive line and they will not be off side.

More relevant to amateur games, its a rarely used tactic on Sunday leagues to have attackers in clearly offside positions on goal kicks. You just have to hope the referee knows the rules.

Surprised City haven’t tried this as Ederson can punt them long.

[Statto Red]

Going to bump this one up as these are quite amusing.

Liverpool hold the record for most different premier league stadiums won at, having won at least once at 59 of the 61 grounds at which they've played.

Everton have the most premier league defeats 448 in total.

[Speedy Molby]

Going to bump this one up as these are quite amusing.

Liverpool hold the record for most different premier league stadiums won at, having won at least once at 59 of the 61 grounds at which they've played.

Everton have the most premier league defeats 448 in total.

Are Bloomfield Road and Wembley the two we’ve played at but not won?

[stoz]

In LFC's 132 year history, less than 1,000 men have made a first-team appearance for the club.

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Are Bloomfield Road and Wembley the two we’ve played at but not won?

We won at Wembley the second season we played Spurs there. 2-1 when Wijnaldum scored a header and Bobby got a tap in/forced an own goal.

[Ciara (with a capital "C")]

Anyone worke out what the question was on The Weekend show (TAW) that Martin Fitzgerald mentioned? The answer was London was the first city to win a European Cup but I think they got confused as to what the question was.

[Always in a pub barney on christmas eve]

Are Bloomfield Road and Wembley the two we’ve played at but not won?

Kenilworth Road I think is the other one. Like Blackpool, played once without winning.

[Hark the Howard Angels Sing]

Anyone worke out what the question was on The Weekend show (TAW) that Martin Fitzgerald mentioned? The answer was London was the first city to win a European Cup but I think they got confused as to what the question was.

Was it the Fairs Cup?

[A weatherfield winter wonderland]

Was it the Fairs Cup?

Yeah think when he raised it he might have meant ‘a’ European Cup rather than ‘the’ European Cup but even then that wouldn’t have made sense with Real winning stuff in the 50s.

Maybe Fairs Cup was the answer. The general point about teams from European Capitals being a bit shit in Europe (apart from Real!) is interesting though.

London, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Athens, Moscow (I could go on, there are other European capitals) all generally rubbish in Europe.

Only really Madrid, Lisbon and Amsterdam (shared capital with The Hague?) who have much to shout about.

[Statto Red]

Kenilworth Road I think is the other one. Like Blackpool, played once without winning.

Indeed it is Kenilworth Road, Luiz Diaz scored an equalizer in the 95th minute in a 1-1 draw, & we lost 2-1 at Blackpool one of the first premier league matches after the owl was sacked.

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Indeed it is Kenilworth Road, Luiz Diaz scored an equalizer in the 95th minute in a 1-1 draw, & we lost 2-1 at Blackpool one of the first premier league matches after the owl was sacked.

Black kit , Poulson given a run out, a shudder.

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Falkirk have paid a world record transfer fee.

[Terrys chocolate orange]

Falkirk have paid a world record transfer fee.

I had to Google that.
Wow.

[kesey]

Gary Lineker has only scored one goal oytside the box. It was at Old Trafford.

[kesey]

Kenilworth Road I think is the other one. Like Blackpool, played once without winning.

Unless Iam misreading the question we won there in 87/88 with a Gary Gillespie header.

[A weatherfield winter wonderland]

Unless Iam misreading the question we won there in 87/88 with a Gary Gillespie header.

Probably a Premier League stat from 1992 onwards rather than a since records began type. Vaguely remember that Gillespie winner, we always hated that plastic pitch didn’t we?!

[kesey]

Probably a Premier League stat from 1992 onwards rather than a since records began type. Vaguely remember that Gillespie winner, we always hated that plastic pitch didn’t we?!

Yes we did. Do you remember the FA Cup fiasco ?

[FiSh77]

Yes we did. Do you remember the FA Cup fiasco ?

Fucking snowed in my arse