What is the most amazing sporting fact?

[bi0boy]

Burma Cricket Team lost to Hong Kong in the 2006 ACC Trophy by 422 runs

 

[Phenotypic Dai]

Are you sure? The earth is only around 25,000 miles in circumference.

FC Luch-Energiya play within sight of the Pacific ocean.

FH somethingorother play in the west of Iceland.

I think it might even be possible for a longer round trip if a team based in the Canary islands qualified, but don't shoot me if this happens to be false.

A side note regarding FC Luch-Energiya...

Situated in the far east of the country, their location poses a significant problem for away teams:9 hours by flight from Moscow. When playing FC Zenit Saint Petersburg at home, a trio of Zenit fans (Evgeny Stepanov, Aleksandr Zaraysky and Veronika Davidova) drove 15,000km across the country only for their car to break down when in Vladivostok, leaving them unable to drive home. These fans thus took the Trans-Siberian Railway back to Saint Petersburg, upon which the club rewarded them with a new car on October 1, 2006. In addition to this, Igor Akinfeev, the CSKA Moscow goalkeeper, said that "they should play in the Japanese League", after his team lost 4-0 after a seven hour flight.

 

[Maggot]

FC Luch-Energiya play within sight of the Pacific ocean.

FH somethingorother play in the west of Iceland.

I think it might even be possible for a longer round trip if a team based in the Canary islands qualified, but don't shoot me if this happens to be false.

A side note regarding FC Luch-Energiya...

I know it's a long way, but how can the return trip be longer than the earth's circumference? Even if they were at the opposite ends of the planet, the maximum journey length would be about 25,000 miles.

 

[Phenotypic Dai]

Dunno.

I hold my hands up. You fact buster, you.

 

[Maggot]

According to MapCrow, the distance between Vladivostok and Rekyavik (which is only 10km from the club) is 4,885 miles so the round trip would be 9,770 miles. Where did you get your 'fact' from?

 

[discokermit]

in the eighties the wolves line up included mutch, bull, downing, streete.

 

[discokermit]

that's not amazing at all, now i think of it.

 

[embree]

Notts County, playing at the rural sounding Meadow Lane, are the only football team in Nottingham

Nottingham Forest, who play at the City Ground, don't play in the city at all but in West Bridgford in the borough of Rushcliffe

 

[CyberRose]

The most amazing sporting fact is that when having a knock around I lobbed the keeper who was staning in a 5 a side net (about 3 feet high)!

 

[stavros]

Uruguay and England are the only countries with 100% records in World Cup Finals.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Kettering Town F.C. have scored more goals in the FA Cup than any other team.

 

[stavros]

Gary Taylor-Fletcher scored the League's 500,000th goal in 2006 for Huddersfield.

 

[dessiato]

During a formula one race the tyres lose about 0.5kg in weight due to wear.

 

[tangerinedream]

Gary Taylor-Fletcher scored the League's 500,000th goal in 2006 for Huddersfield.

And gtf now plays for the worlds greatest football team!

 

[stavros]

And gtf now plays for the worlds greatest football team!

I wonder what the odds are on him getting the League's 1,000,000th goal for Blackpool.

 

[stupid kid]

Notts County, playing at the rural sounding Meadow Lane, are the only football team in Nottingham

Nottingham Forest, who play at the City Ground, don't play in the city at all but in West Bridgford in the borough of Rushcliffe

Plymouth play all their matches at Home Park, but don't play any of their away matches at Away Park.

 

[BlackArab]

Gil Scott Heron's dad palyed for Celtic.

Youra Eshaya, the first Iraqi to play in Europe played for Bristol Rovers in the 1954-55 season.

 

[marksims68]

The first Bulgarian to play in England was Bontcho Guentchev, who played for Ipswich, and the first Russian international to play in England was Sergei Baltacha, who also played for Ipswich.

And Sergei Baltacha's daughter is Elena Baltacha, the British tennis player.

I saw her in the Eastbourne tennis championships a few years ago and met Sergei Baltacha, I was wearing my Ipswich shirt at the time and we talked about his time at Ipswich, lovely bloke.

AND........I met Bontcho Guentchev in his restaurant in london in around 2000ish, again wearing my Ipswich shirt! Got a free meal!

I'm full of facts tonight folks.......

 

[Bunjaj Pali]

Between 1930 and 1932 another London club joined the football league called Thames AFC. They played at West Ham Stadium, which had nothing whatsoever to do with West Ham Utd, and in 1930 recorded the lowest ever attendance in football league history, 469, against Luton Town. The stadium's capacity was 120,000.

 

[kabbes]

One I learned on Fighting Talk last week: Gail Emms*' mum played for England in the women's football World Cup in Argentina in 1971.

I do like a good FACT.

*of Emms and Robertson, badminton duo fame, who aside from winning Olympic silver went into the homeland of badminton -- China -- and walked away with the world championship and the #1 world ranking

 

[Diamond]

Frank Lampard doesn't score his own goals.

 

[Bunjaj Pali]

Gil Scott Heron's dad palyed for Celtic.

Bloody hell, so he did ... and Kidderminster Harriers!!

 

[Bakunin]

One of my relatives (centre forward) was once the proud holder of the then world record transfer fee of 5000 pounds.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WHpuddefoot.htm

 

[aylee]

Boast: fellatio-act in Soho?

....

are all anagrams of The Football Association

No wonder Sven took the job ....

 

[SpookyFrank]

Tottenham Hotspur are, apparently, a football team

 

[tangerinedream]

Between 1930 and 1932 another London club joined the football league called Thames AFC. They played at West Ham Stadium, which had nothing whatsoever to do with West Ham Utd, and in 1930 recorded the lowest ever attendance in football league history, 469, against Luton Town. The stadium's capacity was 120,000.

Really? What else was the stadium for?

 

[tangerinedream]

Really? What else was the stadium for?

greyhound racing apparantly. Brilliant, fact, I didn't know anything about them or that stadium....

 

[Lazy Llama]

Unusually, the record attendance at Old Trafford is not for a Manchester United home game. Instead, on 25 March 1939, 76962 people watched an FA Cup semi-final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town.

 

[ymu]

The father of the captain of the English football team is a cocaine dealer.

Nonsense. Sun reporter turns up to his local posing as a chauffeur with two colleagues posing as his millionaire clients. "Chauffeur" asks about scoring for them. The guy explains that the kind of coke they can score for him, at £40/g, is not going to make his clients at all happy and he'll probably get the sack. "Chauffeur" insists. Delivery is arranged and he hands over 3g and the "chauffeur" hands over £120. The guy drops a hint that he wouldn't mind a g for his trouble and gets another £40 handed over.

Fucking pathetic non-story. Totally outrageous.

 

[dessiato]

Unusually, the record attendance at Old Trafford is not for a Manchester United home game. Instead, on 25 March 1939, 76962 people watched an FA Cup semi-final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town.

And look where The Mighty Mariners are now, this is a depressing fact.