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Gary Lineker never received a booking in his entire career
Football facts that you didn’t know
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Zubrman
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No, his agent got him the MOTD gig and other punditry.
tregyblue61
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According to a bite-size video on BBC Sport OS, Coventry City are the ONLY club to get relegated from the Premier League down all the divisions then get back again. Congratulations.
***** Football didn't exist before 1992, but I'm sure plenty on here will tell you their team got relegated from Division 1, down to Division 4 and back again.
***** Football didn't exist before 1992, but I'm sure plenty on here will tell you their team got relegated from Division 1, down to Division 4 and back again.
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They post some shit, must be the low staffing levels.
Off the top of my head without any research Luton & Wolves....
Luton went down and out of the leagues altogether and then came back up.
Technically I think one of them may have been a demotion.
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Luton were relegated from the old First Division in 1992 so weren't relegated from the Prem.
You must be a young lad.
I suppose it is one way of blocking out the Luton match when David Pleat went full Michael Flatley.
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We played shite that day and there are better reasons to hate Luton.
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The Cobblers did it the other way around.
Division Four to Division One and right back down again.
I don’t think it was in consecutive seasons, but it wasn’t a very long time span.
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Felicitations due n long may he continue serving n contributing to the beautiful game...
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Burnley and Brighton too.
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I imagine a few people saw this on X today, same as me. But quite interesting/ surprising all the same. To me at least.
This years Champions League Final will be the first one for 55 years between teams from two different capital cities.
Considering how many times Real Madrid get to the final, it's especially surprising.
A big well done to anyone who can remember who the finalists were in 1971, the last time it happened.
This years Champions League Final will be the first one for 55 years between teams from two different capital cities.
Considering how many times Real Madrid get to the final, it's especially surprising.
A big well done to anyone who can remember who the finalists were in 1971, the last time it happened.
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Are you sure one of those teams is from the capital city? It's the major city, but not the capital,
Edit: Just checked: It is the capital, the place I was thinking of is the seat of government.
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Amsterdam & Athens?
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Top marks. I guessed Ajax because they were in the final quite a few times around then. But had no idea Panathinaikos had ever made a final.
It's increasingly rare I say this these days but it was a little bit before my time. I think the Leeds one in '75 was the first one that I really remember.
I thought the same thing at one time.
I worked with several Dutch lads years ago and they always said The Hague was their capital at that time.
Might have been what part of the country they were from then. I think from the mid 80's Amsterdam has been universally recognised as the capital.
It is unusual how capital cities haven't really fared that well. Thank god for Chelsea.
Italy and Germany being examples of not having had a winner and Paris for the first time last year having a champion.
Very true. I do like the one that says the dippers have only won two titles though.
Amsterdam has been the official capital since the early 1800's if I remember correctly, but it was the Hague prior to that. The Hague was always the administrative centre, where their government was based and considered by many to still be the true capital. I may be wrong but I think it was Napoleon that declared Amsterdam as the capital.
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Top tier to fourth and back again? Obvious ones are Luton, Sheffield U, Wolves and Burnley. Possibly Blackpool and Bolton but cba checking.
Always wonder why a football mad country like Germany hasn’t had a great Berlin side in living memory.
Hertha had a decent run of getting to their Grand Finals (they had a knock-out tournament to determine their champions) 6 years in a row in the 20s+30s, winning two of them. But Berlin hasn’t had a German champion since 1931.
Hamburger SV alone have won more league titles (6) than all Berlin teams combined (5: Hertha BSC, 2; Viktoria Berlin, 2; SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890, 1).