Football Trivia Question of the Day (continued)

[George Hannah]

Which teams share the record for winning most second division championships?

I believe City is one of them.
Is dirty Leeds the other?

Yes, City is one and lancs blue got the other - Leicester City - my very old answer was they both have won it 6 times but that's wrong - East Level 2 is right that City are the outright winners with 7 - 1898–99, 1902–03, 1909–10, 1927–28, 1946–47, 1965–66, 2001–02 - although Leicester must be odds on to tie it again this season.

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Which top flight team finished its league game with only 6 men and none were sent off?

 

[aguero93:20]

Which teams share the record for winning most second division championships?

I believe City is one of them.
Is dirty Leeds the other?

Yes, City is one and lancs blue got the other - Leicester City - my very old answer was they both have won it 6 times but that's wrong - East Level 2 is right that City are the outright winners with 7 - 1898–99, 1902–03, 1909–10, 1927–28, 1946–47, 1965–66, 2001–02 - although Leicester must be odds on to tie it again this season.

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Which top flight team finished its league game with only 6 men and none were sent off?

until I saw none were sent off I was gonna say sunderland. Has to be food poisoning or something, so ill say Spurs.

 

[George Hannah]

I believe City is one of them.
Is dirty Leeds the other?

Yes, City is one and lancs blue got the other - Leicester City - my very old answer was they both have won it 6 times but that's wrong - East Level 2 is right that City are the outright winners with 7 - 1898–99, 1902–03, 1909–10, 1927–28, 1946–47, 1965–66, 2001–02 - although Leicester must be odds on to tie it again this season.

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Which top flight team finished its league game with only 6 men and none were sent off?

until I saw none were sent off I was gonna say sunderland. Has to be food poisoning or something, so ill say Spurs.

not Spurs

 

[Anonymous]

Dunno if any were sent off that day, but didn't Warnock pull a stunt at Sheff U where they ended up with few players on the pitch in a bid to get the game abandoned?

 

[George Hannah]

Dunno if any were sent off that day, but didn't Warnock pull a stunt at Sheff U where they ended up with few players on the pitch in a bid to get the game abandoned?

not the Blades although the Warnock story sounds interesting!

 

[Falastur]

The laws of the game say that if one team is reduced to 6 men, even temporarily, the match must be abandoned. I'm guessing this is another one of those "old as the hills" stories?

Huddersfield?

 

[deedee]

Was it the Wurzberg " der bombers" first 11, during the christmas truce of 1914.

1 to a sniper
2 to 18 pounder shrapnel
1 to a cunning bayonet in the gut
and 1 tripped into a shell hole.

If not: t'was us - 1906 versus the Gooners. Game was played during a heat wave.

 

[Anonymous]

Dunno if any were sent off that day, but didn't Warnock pull a stunt at Sheff U where they ended up with few players on the pitch in a bid to get the game abandoned?

not the Blades although the Warnock story sounds interesting!

The allegation was made that Warnock instructed his players to get sent off (so having thought about it and dug up the wiki page, i shouldn't have answered Sheff U :)) but I don't think it was eve proven:

<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bramall_Lane" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bramall_Lane</a>

 

[moon]

Which top flight team finished its league game with only 6 men and none were sent off?[/b]

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[George Hannah]

Was it the Wurzberg " der bombers" first 11, during the christmas truce of 1914.

1 to a sniper
2 to 18 pounder shrapnel
1 to a cunning bayonet in the gut
and 1 tripped into a shell hole.

If not: t'was us - 1906 versus the Gooners. Game was played during a heat wave.

not Huddersfield and not in the Flanders trenches but in 90 degree heat at Hyde Road. Heat exhaustion on the hottest August day on record carried off six City players but the game was completed an we lost 1-4.