Football facts that you didn’t know

[East Level 2]

Barrow and Holker Old Boys are next door neighbours.

 

[BrianW]

United are the only team mentioned in the Bible:

'But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;' (Isaiah 64:6.)

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[Kippax77]

Liverpool got dry bummed by Leverkusen for Florian Wirtz

 

[Vienna_70]

Liverpool got dry bummed by Leverkusen for Florian Wirtz

I think the jury is still out on that one, but at present, it looks like you’re right.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

City's former keeper Eric Nixon is the only player to have played in each of the top 4 divisions in the same season, going on loan at Southampton (1st), Bradford (2nd), Carlisle (3rd) and Wolves (4th) during the 1986 / 87 season

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Roy Clarke holds the distinction of playing three consecutive games in three different divisions.
In May 1947, Clarke played for Cardiff City (3rd division) before signing to Manchester City (2nd division) in time to play in City's final game of the season. City had already achieved promotion to the 1st division and Clarke played in City's first game of the following season.

 

[Milesvk]

I don't know if its a fact but I'm sure I read somewhere years ago that Notts County don't have to wear an away kit.

 

[KentBlue]

I don't know if its a fact but I'm sure I read somewhere years ago that Notts County don't have to wear an away kit.

Never heard about that. A bit odd if true.

 

[Milesvk]

Never heard about that. A bit odd if true.

Yes, just AI it, its a myth, my bad

 

[Vienna_70]

Yes, just AI it, its a myth, my bad

Juventus modelled their kit on Notts County's originally.

 

[johnnytapia]

George Smith had two arms - however one arm / hand / fingers were disfigured due to a gunshot wound in WW2.
Didn’t stop him scoring 4 past the rags in a war time game but did cost him playing for England as the old boys selection committee couldn’t see past the injury.

When you say he had two arms,,were they right and left?

 

[Vienna_70]

When you say he had two arms, were they right and left?

A pistol and a rifle.

 

[blue for life]

Didn’t Celtic illegally not have numbers on the back of their shirts for years just on their shirts?

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Roy Clarke holds the distinction of playing three consecutive games in three different divisions.
In May 1947, Clarke played for Cardiff City (3rd division) before signing to Manchester City (2nd division) in time to play in City's final game of the season. City had already achieved promotion to the 1st division and Clarke played in City's first game of the following season.

Remember Roy as the steward of the old City club at Maine Road.
A true gentleman...

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Remember Roy as the steward of the old City club at Maine Road.
A true gentleman...

Along with his lovely wife Kathy.
I remember taking my girls to a junior Blues meeting at the Odeon cinema in town. The social club had gone, but Roy and Kathy turned up (along with Uwe Rosler) to see the kids.

 

[Kinkladze's crazy skills]

1950s Leicester duo Jack Froggatt and Stanley Millburn (Jackie's Millburn's cousin and uncle of the World Cup winner Jack Charlton) somehow shared an own goal, not 100% sure it's the only time that it's ever happened but it's the only instance I've heard of it.

Apparently both players went to clear the ball at the same time and kicked it together and nobody knew who touched it last, not even the players themselves which meant they potentially share football's only joint own goal.

 

[dickie davies]

If you ever want to upset a Newcastle supporter, or a Sunderland, mention that Newcastle’s original kit colours were red and white

Back in the day when kits were extraordinarily expensive for a club to buy, a large number of teams played in red and white
Newcastle only could afford one kit and were always borrowing Northumberland's kit
As the black and white rarely clashed with anyone else, Newcastle decided to change permanently to black and white

 

[Stephen230]

I don't know if its a fact but I'm sure I read somewhere years ago that Notts County don't have to wear an away kit.

I've never heard it about Notts County before, but it used to be a regular bullshit quiz question about which team(s) didn't have to wear an away kit, and the answer used to be either Preston ( first winners of the league ) or Reading ( because they're in the county of Royal Berkshire ) Or sometimes both. It's all nonsense anyway.

 

[bridgeno1]

Real Madrid have never beaten Arsenal in a competitive match.

 

[neilhb]

Didn’t Celtic illegally not have numbers on the back of their shirts for years just on their shirts?

No but they did have numbers on their shorts!