Football facts that you didn’t know

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Adolf Hitler was a Shalke 04 fan








And i bet he got tickets for Borissia Dortmund away with no loyalty points

here's a fact that i know for a fact that nobody else knows...

a lot of us know that when a.dolf hickler was staying with his brother in liverpool in 1912-13,
he visited rochdale to view the stained glass windows of the rather splendid town hall.

a lot of us know that he stated at the time that if ever he ruled the world he would transport them back to his homeland because he loved them so dearly.

a lot of us know that when he was warmongering in the 1940's he decreed that no bombs must ever fall on rochdale and as a consequence none did.

but that is all by the by...
the fact that i know that nobody else knows is that during his visit he went to see the dale play a game.

the match was at home on 4th feb 1913.
the scoreline was rochdale 1 man city 0

(@johnny crossan you might or might not know that a distant relative of yours called danny crossan was a defender for the dale at the time)

anyroad,
a.dolf was so taken by the green colour of shirt of the goalkeeper, billy biggar, that from then onwards he only ever wrote in green ink.

 

[Vienna_70]

here's a fact that i know for a fact that nobody else knows...

a lot of us know that when a.dolf hickler was staying with his brother in liverpool in 1912-13,
he visited rochdale to view the stained glass windows of the rather splendid town hall.

a lot of us know that he stated at the time that if ever he ruled the world he would transport them back to his homeland because he loved them so dearly.

a lot of us know that when he was warmongering in the 1940's he decreed that no bombs must ever fall on rochdale and as a consequence none did.

but that is all by the by...
the fact that i know that nobody else knows is that during his visit he went to see the dale play a game.

the match was at home on 4th feb 1913.
the scoreline was rochdale 1 man city 0

(@johnny crossan you might or might not know that a distant relative of yours called danny crossan was a defender for the dale at the time)

anyroad,
a.dolf was so taken by the green colour of shirt of the goalkeeper, billy biggar, that from then onwards he only ever wrote in green ink.

That’s amazing.

I never knew any of that. I didn’t even realise that Hitler had ever visited Great Britain, never mind watch a football game here.

 

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That’s amazing.

I never knew any of that. I didn’t even realise that Hitler had ever visited Great Britain, never mind watch a football game here.

the main fairly well-known facts are out there if you care to look...

about him visiting his brother, alois, who resided in liverpool,
about him wanting the town hall windows,
about him insisting no bombs fell on rochdale,
et cetera.

the fact that he went to the game (coincidentally against us) has been passed down through my family generations because the goalie, billy biggar, was married to my great grandfather's sister.

seemingly hitler had very little grasp of english but his brother was fairly fluent.
after the game they introduced themselves to billy biggar
(his real name was william) and said how much they had admired his goalkeeping and his shirt.

the fact that hitler only wrote in green is also fairly well known.

 

[DiscoSteve]

I'm not going to google for Hitler and Rochdale town hall, I'm just not!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

here's a fact that i know for a fact that nobody else knows...

a lot of us know that when a.dolf hickler was staying with his brother in liverpool in 1912-13,
he visited rochdale to view the stained glass windows of the rather splendid town hall.

a lot of us know that he stated at the time that if ever he ruled the world he would transport them back to his homeland because he loved them so dearly.

a lot of us know that when he was warmongering in the 1940's he decreed that no bombs must ever fall on rochdale and as a consequence none did.

but that is all by the by...
the fact that i know that nobody else knows is that during his visit he went to see the dale play a game.

the match was at home on 4th feb 1913.
the scoreline was rochdale 1 man city 0

(@johnny crossan you might or might not know that a distant relative of yours called danny crossan was a defender for the dale at the time)

anyroad,
a.dolf was so taken by the green colour of shirt of the goalkeeper, billy biggar, that from then onwards he only ever wrote in green ink.

I knew about the Rochdale town stuff but he watched City...wonder if there is any relevance to City playing over there?

I know we were champions but, other teams would have been champions while he was dictating and didn't get the invite.

When City played in Berlin and foiled the Nazi propaganda machine

English champions went to Germany in 1937 on a hot streak to take on Hitler’s ‘political soldiers’ and came back with heads held high – but not their arms

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Harvster]

D ream at H/T

Was it not Under Cover with a terrible version of Gerry Rafferty's (RIP) Baker Street?

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Michael Caine knows all these facts.

 

[East Level 2]

149 clubs have played in the Football League.

 

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I'm not going to google for Hitler and Rochdale town hall, I'm just not!

why not?
all that stuff is fairly well-known.

go for it and see for yourself.

 

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I knew about the Rochdale town stuff but he watched City...wonder if there is any relevance to City playing over there?

I know we were champions but, other teams would have been champions while he was dictating and didn't get the invite.

When City played in Berlin and foiled the Nazi propaganda machine

English champions went to Germany in 1937 on a hot streak to take on Hitler’s ‘political soldiers’ and came back with heads held high – but not their arms

www.independent.co.uk

it would certainly seem to add up, wouldn't it.

 

[swpswp]

In that point, 149-0 is the highest recorded scoreline in an association football match. It was between two sides in Madagascar.

If only the losing team had a Madagascan Steve Lomas to take the ball to the corner a few times. They could have got away with a narrow 140-0 loss. Those 9 goals could have kept em up.

 

[bennyboy]

why not?
all that stuff is fairly well-known.

go for it and see for yourself.

No concrete evidence.lol

 

[bennyboy]

Adolf Hitler was a Shalke 04 fan








And i bet he got tickets for Dortmund away with no loyalty points

What was his Austrian team.

 

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No concrete evidence.lol

i know.
can you believe!
all those people walking around with phones in their pockets,
and nobody took a photo of an unknown fella.

thankfully,
that's why we have the phrase "legend has it..."

there's no concrete proof he even came to england,
other than, if it can be called proof,
his (iirc) sister-in-law said he did so in her autobigraphy,
in order to swerve austrian conscription.

i'd be interested to know what exactly you could come up with as a single possible example of concrete proof that someone visited somewhere over 100 years ago?

 

[KS55]

am i missing something here?

you started a thread about facts that you did not know,
then went on to list a load of facts that you do know,
followed by asking people to list facts that they do not know,
and in turn people list facts that they know.

there are countless facts i do not know.
how am i expected to list them?
madness of the highest order.

Here’s a fact I don’t know: er…

 

[bennyboy]

i know.
can you believe!
all those people walking around with phones in their pockets,
and nobody took a photo of an unknown fella.

thankfully,
that's why we have the phrase "legend has it..."

there's no concrete proof he even came to england,
other than, if it can be called proof,
his (iirc) sister-in-law said he did so in her autobigraphy,
in order to swerve austrian conscription.

i'd be interested to know what exactly you could come up with as a single possible example of concrete proof that someone visited somewhere over 100 years ago?

What i do know is he served with some distinction in the first world war.

Military career of Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

the only thing that could make any sense,
as far as i can gather,
is that every single reply should be along the lines of...

i do not know any facts that i do not know.
(which doesn't really make much sense)


are there any facts that you do not know, jc?

You are Donald Rumsfeld and I hereby claim my £5

 

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What i do know is he served with some distinction in the first world war.

Military career of Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

well, of course you know that.
there are records that act as concrete proof.

but with respect,
what has that got to do with the question i asked you?

you mocked by laughing out loud at the suggestion he didn't visit rochdale because there is no concrete proof.

i'll ask again,
what proof could there be?

the town hall is still to this day visited by admirers.
i shan't take a guess but there must have been a hell of a lot of people who visited it in 1913.
what concrete proof could there possibly be that any of them did so?
which means, by your reasoning, nobody at all visited it in 1913.

the same can be said of his time in liverpool.
there is zero concrete proof of it because he was just a bloke from abroad staying with his brother.

the literacy rate at the time was quite decent,
but it's highly unlikely that some scouser who lived in toxteth kept a diary along the lines of,

"saw that adolf fella in the pub again tonight.
not sure about him.
he prances about all day doing watercolours.
but it has to be said he can down a lot of ale in the evening.
after a few he starts smashing his fist on the table and shouting."

and yet legend would have it that he did that very thing for many months.
legend has it that his brother paid for him to go there and looked after him because he was properly skint.

perhaps it's just coincidence that when he returned to austria he packed his bags and swiftly left for germany to continue his avoidance of conscription,
(which, by the way, is concretely proven despite what he did in the first world war, the fact of which you pointed out).

perhaps it's just coincidence that rochdale was never bombed.

 

[bennyboy]

well, of course you know that.
there are records that act as concrete proof.

but with respect,
what has that got to do with the question i asked you?

you mocked by laughing out loud at the suggestion he didn't visit rochdale because there is no concrete proof.

i'll ask again,
what proof could there be?

the town hall is still to this day visited by admirers.
i shan't take a guess but there must have been a hell of a lot of people who visited it in 1913.
what concrete proof could there possibly be that any of them did so?
which means, by your reasoning, nobody at all visited it in 1913.

the same can be said of his time in liverpool.
there is zero concrete proof of it because he was just a bloke from abroad staying with his brother.

the literacy rate at the time was quite decent,
but it's highly unlikely that some scouser who lived in toxteth kept a diary along the lines of,

"saw that adolf fella in the pub again tonight.
not sure about him.
he prances about all day doing watercolours.
but it has to be said he can down a lot of ale in the evening.
after a few he starts smashing his fist on the table and shouting."

and yet legend would have it that he did that very thing for many months.
legend has it that his brother paid for him to go there and looked after him because he was properly skint.

perhaps it's just coincidence that when he returned to austria he packed his bags and swiftly left for germany to continue his avoidance of conscription,
(which, by the way, is concretely proven despite what he did in the first world war, the fact of which you pointed out).

perhaps it's just coincidence that rochdale was never bombed.

Sorry if I offended you.Never meant to.
Just a silly joke about a concrete building and concrete evidence.

 

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Sorry if I offended you.Never meant to.
Just a silly joke about a concrete building and concrete evidence.

ah, very good.
although, it's made of stone not concrete.

no offence was taken :)

i'm always happy to waffle about hitler and rochdale.