What is the most amazing sporting fact?

[huxley71]

Roger Milla was aged 38 in two consecutive World Cups.

 

[Bunjaj Pali]

Really? What else was the stadium for?

and speedway

 

[StanSmith]

At Chester's Deva stadium if you kcik the ball out of play you can kick it from England into Wales!

I reckon Stoke do that most weeks from the Brittania!

 

[StanSmith]

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

To be fair most of them were Wolves fans

 

[StanSmith]

TV "star" and Medium Derek Acorah used to play for Liverpool

 

[Maggot]

TV "star" and Medium Derek Acorah used to play for Liverpool

he was in the squad, but never played for the first team.

 

[Ride]

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.

Is that so?

 

[ymu]

Yeah, that is so. I got all my information directly from the fucking Sun report (or was it NoTW, can't remember). Clear clear entrapment, and the guy is clearly not a dealer - he had to ring his dealer to come and deliver.

 

[tbaldwin]

The`lowest ever attendance at a league game is THIRTEEN at Old trafford in the 70s.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Leicester City, the world's best football team, have never one the league or the FA Cup, though have been finalists thrice.

Unbelievable that such a footballing titan has only stocked the cabinet with the league cup. And play-off trophies. And lower div trophies.

The fact that West Ham have never won the league is a pretty ridiculous one. We're a big club (if one is using the villa/spuds/citeh etc barometer rather than the 'huge club' one of the big four) - I've been to China and met West ham fans within a week of moving to an obscure city. So 3rd place as the highest finish is just ridiculous. Tragic lack of ambition from a club which produces some cracking players. IMO.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

That football admission prices and crowds have both gone up so much in the last 20-30 years.

Yeah, I remember someone on here saying they were paying 50p at the gate at Arsenal as recently as 1989

 

[Maggot]

The`lowest ever attendance at a league game is THIRTEEN at Old trafford in the 70s.

Link?

 

[tbaldwin]

Link?

ted heath.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The fact that Britain, inventor of the Queensberry rules, didn't have an undisputed heavyweight champion for 100 years until Lennox Lewis is quite a ridiculous one.

 

[internetstalker]

Leicester City, the world's best football team, have never one the league or the FA Cup, though have been finalists thrice.

Unbelievable that such a footballing titan has only stocked the cabinet with the league cup. And play-off trophies. And lower div trophies.

They won the league cup in 2000 & 1997

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Can you read?

 

[internetstalker]

Can you read?

clearly not!







*taxi*

 

[8ball]

The top 3 hardest pub quiz footie questions ever all involve Gunter Netzer.

 

[embree]

The`lowest ever attendance at a league game is THIRTEEN at Old trafford in the 70s.

Not quite - the lowest ever PAYING attendance at a league match was for Stockport County v. Leicester City at Old Trafford on 7 May 1921. The game was played as a double header with Manchester United v Derby and it is estimated that between 1,000 and 2,000 stayed on to watch the Stockport game. Only 13 actually paid specifically to watch it though.

Game played at Old Trafford because Edgeley Park was closed due to crowd trouble

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

That of Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Hungary and Spain, Spain are the one never to have played in a World Cup final.

This was the 64,000 quid queston on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and I was screaming the answer at the telly

 

[tangerinedream]

Something in my head tells me that Brentford's Griffin Park used to be home of the word's biggest billboard advert which was actually the roof of a stand - it was on the flightpath somewhere or something like that...

It's a tenuously remembered fact if indeed a fact at all....

 

[Corax]

Spurs are fourth.

 

[tangerinedream]

Something in my head tells me that Brentford's Griffin Park used to be home of the word's biggest billboard advert which was actually the roof of a stand - it was on the flightpath somewhere or something like that...

It's a tenuously remembered fact if indeed a fact at all....

According to a Brentford fansite "At the time (referring to the above...) it was the biggest advertising hoarding in Europe as I recall."

 

[N_igma]

Xabi Alonso has an All-Ireland Schools Gaelic Football medal.

 

[tangerinedream]

Xabi Alonso has an All-Ireland Schools Gaelic Football medal.

How on earth did he get that?

 

[Maggot]

He nicked it off an Irish schoolboy.

 

[N_igma]

How on earth did he get that?

Something to do with coming over as an exchange student when he was younger and getting on the school team.

 

[rapattaque]

St Johnstone is the only British league club with a J in their name.

No. You can also have Swansea City The Jack Bastards (full title).

 

[tbaldwin]

Not quite - the lowest ever PAYING attendance at a league match was for Stockport County v. Leicester City at Old Trafford on 7 May 1921. The game was played as a double header with Manchester United v Derby and it is estimated that between 1,000 and 2,000 stayed on to watch the Stockport game. Only 13 actually paid specifically to watch it though.

Game played at Old Trafford because Edgeley Park was closed due to crowd trouble

Dont believe everything you read on the internet.
Apart from what i tell you.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

The reigning Olympic gold medal holders for rugby is the USA