grey matter football quiz (with answers)
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GREY MATTER
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No using GPRS!
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A match during the 1993-94 season. It was Andorinha (________’s first club)
versus Camacha, who at that time were one of the strongest teams on the islands of Madeira.
At half-time Andorinha was losing 2-0 and ________ was so distraught that he was sobbing like a child who's had his favourite toy confiscated.
In the second half he came onto the pitch and scored two goals, leading the team to a 3-2 win. He definitely did not like to lose. He wanted to win every time and when they lost he cried. That’s why he was given the nickname ―the Crybaby‖.
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Q3. Originally, they played in pink shirts
with a black tie, but only because they had
been sent the wrong shirts by their
supplier. The father of one of the players
made the earliest shirts, but continual
washing faded the colour so much that in
1903 the club sought to replace them.
Since then have played in the famous
black and white striped shirts, with white
shorts, sometimes black shorts. ID this
club??
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Q5. If Celtic FC and Rangers are together
called as the Old Firm, then Aberdeen
F.C. and Dundee United F.C. together
would be called _______
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Q6. In the year 1994 X was at La Masia, the training ground of FC Barcelona watching the youngsters play. He saw a player playing and said ―This kid Y is going to retire me‖. But ultimately X and Y ended up playing together in the midfield. Then at 1999 in La Masia, X and Y were watching Z play. Impressed, X says to Y ― Now this kid is going to retire both of us‖
ID X,Y,Z
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Q8. This man standing at 195 cm tall and
weighing 84 Kgs, rather unusually tall for
a top class footballer. He’s also a black
belt in Taekwondo. He has won every
single league championship he’s been a
part of since the year 2005 till date. Which
player are we talking about??
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Q9. Name the three teams in the FIFA world
cup 2010 which only had all 23 players of
their squad playing in the in the leagues
of their home country.
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Q 10. X started out as a player and
eventually switched to management.
After spells working as an assistant
manager and a youth team coach in the
early 1990s, he became an interpreter for
Sir Bobby Robson at FC Barcelona. After
that he got his big break and has gone on
to win lots and lots of trophies.
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Diego Latorre Ariel Ortega Marcelo Gallardo Juan Román Riquelme Pablo Aimar Andrés D'Alessandro Javier Saviola Carlos Marinelli Carlos Tévez Lionel Messi Sergio Agüero Ezequiel Lavezzi Mauro Zárate
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Q 14. A bust erected in his honour is
outside Athletic Bilbao’s San Mamés
Stadium. It is a tradition for teams visiting
the stadium for the first time pay homage
to him by leaving a bouquet of flowers at
its base. ID?
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Q 15. Joan Gamper, a Swiss man was highly
regarded as a footballer and was club
captain at X (A football club). He then
went on to found a new club Y with his
friends taking the legendary Blaugrana
colours of his old club X. Both clubs till
date continue to use the same colours in
their kit.
ID X,Y.
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Q 17. Legend has it that Pep Guardiola
drove through the night to meet him at his
home in Argentina and discuss coaching
tactics by watching his extensive football
video collection of several thousand
videos. They reportedly talked football
for over 11 hours. Guardiola has often
praised him as his master and him being
his pupil. Before taking on his side just
over a month ago he called him ―the best
coach on planet earth‖.
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Q18. Something very unique happened
during the Germany V/S Ghana match in
the 2010 world cup. What??
Hints
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This is a toy used to pacify crying babies in
Spain. The sound it makes gives it its name.
What is it’s significance to modern day
football?
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The 1994 World Cup match between
Cameroon and Russia, which finished 6-1
in favour of Russia, is famous for 2
remarkable records that haven’t yet been
broken.
Roger Milla became the oldest player to
score at the WC at the age of 42.
What was the other record set on that
day?
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1984–88: San Lorenzo
• Games 122, Goals 0 1988-91: Zaragoza
• Games 79, Goals 1 1991–2000, 2003-04: Vélez Sàrsfield
• Games 347, Goals 48 2000–02: Strasbourg
• Games 52, Goals 1 2002–2003: Peñarol:
• Games 14, Goals 4 Whose club record?
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This term has been most famously associated with Wisła Płock in Poland, SK Brann in Norway, Karşıyaka SK in Turkey, FC Volendam in Holland, Bofoakwa Tano in Ghana, Arminia Bielefeld in Germany and Birmingham City in England owing to the fact that these clubs hold records that are bittersweet at best.
Term/record?
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Q 24. Born on March 2, 1944 in Tunisia, Ali Bin Nasser’s World Cup
career spanned five matches including an appearance in a Round
of 16 match between Denmark and Spain.
However, about the incident that made him famous he claimed was
an adverse reaction to the treatment he was receiving for a latent
haemorrhoidal condition which caused his medium-distance
vision to suddenly become unfocused, causing him to miss the
infamous incident .
Which incident?
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X: I'm cleaning the Champions League trophy with a
Tottenham shirt.
Y:Thanks for cleaning it up for me. I'm already
creating space in my cup cabinet.
X:We're gonna give you a football lesson in London.
Y: I met your defence in Milan, it didn't look good. It
was like cheese with holes in it.
X:I found a good goalkeeper on eBay. Shall I send you
the link?
Y:We don't need him, you won't come into our penalty
area
Football banter on twitter! Id X and Y.
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Laid out for the race by Paul Nicholls, who also won the BGC
Partners Liverpool Hurdle with Big Buck's, What A Friend beat the
game Carruthers by three-and-a-quarter lengths. X, who shares
What A Friend with Jed Mason, said: "It's great to win any race, but
to win a big one is special. We'll aim for the Gold Cup next year
when he will be stronger and more mature.
"We had the opportunity to go for it this year, but Paul was right.
You could see what effect the hard race had on Imperial
Commander. It doesn't compensate for last night, but racing's a
great release. It gets me away from the grind of my job.― X?
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Congo National football team
Nkana
Grazer
Al Ahly
Belgium national football team
Deportivo Toluca
Manchester United
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That X is not accorded the respect he deserves comes as a shock to
many. But with X, somehow, it has always been thus. When he
starred for his country leading them to the FIFA Youth
Championship, a deserved Golden Ball award instead went to
Seydou Keita. His country's FA raised went so far as lodging an
official complaint with FIFA.
Years later, when X was among the top five nominations for the FIFA
World Player of the Year, the Daily Mail, inexplicably, ran an
infamous headline which read: "The best players of the world (and
X). Who is X?
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This phenomenon has become increasingly rare following the formation of the
Premier League. To the best of my knowledge, only four instances have
occurred since 1992-93—Stuart Pearce (Nottingham Forest, 1993), Michael
Gray (Sunderland, 1999), David James (West Ham, 2004) and David Nugent
(Preston North End, 2007).
Previous, more famous examples include CB Fry (Southampton, 1901),
Johnny ―₤100-a-week‖ Haynes (Fulham, 1955), Brian Clough
(Middleborough, 1959), Peter Shilton (Leicester City, 1970), Peter Taylor
(Crystal Palace, 1976), Trevor Brooking (West Ham, 1978) and Mark Hateley
(Portsmouth, 1984).
What phenomenon?
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Salvador Cabanas made a comeback to
professional football on 14th of April,
2012 when he played for 12 de Octubre
football club in the Paraguayan Third
Division.
What was so special? about this?
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A Derby match in football is a game
between two teams based in the same
city, and therefore being arch rivals.
Name the clubs involved in the following
derbies:
Merseyside Derby
Old Firm Derby
Basque Derby
Derby della Madonnina
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France vs Italy, July 9, 2006
Sampdoria vs Inter Milan, January 29,
2007
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Nottingham Forest
Aston Villa
******
Manchester United
Liverpool
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After a 3-1 loss to club Y in a friendly, the
players of club X persuaded their
manager to sign Z, one of the star
performers in that match.
Z was named after his father’s favorite
actor, who was also the President of the
US when Z was born.
ID X, Y and Z.
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This is what Manchester United fans often
say:
Pele good, Maradona better, ______
______
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Inter Milan vs. AC Milan, UCL semifinal,
2003
Australia vs Israel, Qualification playoff,
World Youth Championship, 1991
Bahamas vs British Virgin Islands, World
Cup 2010 qualifier
Also tell us why the application of the rule
is anomalous in the above cases.
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X wore the number 3 jersey at club Y.
X’s father also played for Y.
Together, father and son have won 7
UEFA Champions League trophies for Y.
In honor of X, club Y retired the no. 3
jersey.
However, if either of X’s sons were to
make it to the first team of Y, they would
be given the 3 jersey.
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Answers
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Ricardo Kaka, Mario Balotelli and Thierry
Henry
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A match during the 1993-94 season. It was Andorinha (________’s first club)
versus Camacha, who at that time were one of the strongest teams on the islands of Madeira.
At half-time Andorinha was losing 2-0 and ________ was so distraught that he was sobbing like a child who's had his favourite toy confiscated.
In the second half he came onto the pitch and scored two goals, leading the team to a 3-2 win. He definitely did not like to lose. He wanted to win every time and when they lost he cried. That’s why he was given the nickname ―the Crybaby‖.
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Q3. Originally, they played in pink shirts
with a black tie, but only because they had
been sent the wrong shirts by their
supplier. The father of one of the players
made the earliest shirts, but continual
washing faded the colour so much that in
1903 the club sought to replace them.
Since then have played in the famous
black and white striped shirts, with white
shorts, sometimes black shorts. ID this
club??
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All of them were/are player managers of
their teams.
Kenny Dalglish (in the 80’s Liverpool),
Roberto Carlos (Anzhi Makhachkala) and
very recently Nicola Anelka (Shanghai
Shenzua)
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Q5. If Celtic FC and Rangers are together
called as the Old Firm, then Aberdeen
F.C. and Dundee United F.C. together
would be called _______
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The New Firm
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Q6. In the year 1994 X was at La Masia, the training ground of FC Barcelona watching the youngsters play. He saw a player playing and said ―This kid Y is going to retire me‖. But ultimately X and Y ended up playing together in the midfield. Then at 1999 in La Masia, X and Y were watching Z play. Impressed, X says to Y ― Now this kid is going to retire both of us‖
ID X,Y,Z
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X – Pep Guardiola
Y- Xavi Hernandez
Z- Andres Iniesta
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Dino Zoff (1982) and Iker Casillas (2010)
are the only two goalkeepers to have led
their nations to world cup glory.
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Q8. This man standing at 195 cm tall and
weighing 84 Kgs, rather unusually tall for
a top class footballer. He’s also a black
belt in Taekwondo. He has won every
single league championship he’s been a
part of since the year 2005 till date. Which
player are we talking about??
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Q9. Name the three teams in the FIFA world
cup 2010 which only had all 23 players of
their squad playing in the in the leagues
of their home country.
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England, Germany and Italy
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Q 10. X started out as a player and
eventually switched to management.
After spells working as an assistant
manager and a youth team coach in the
early 1990s, he became an interpreter for
Sir Bobby Robson at FC Barcelona. After
that he got his big break and has gone on
to win lots and lots of trophies.
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All are EPL club nicknames.Baggies (West
Brom), Toffees (Everton), Canaries
(Norwich) and Potters (Stoke)
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Diego Latorre Ariel Ortega Marcelo Gallardo Juan Román Riquelme Pablo Aimar Andrés D'Alessandro Javier Saviola Carlos Marinelli Carlos Tévez Lionel Messi Sergio Agüero Ezequiel Lavezzi Mauro Zárate
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One club legends. Men who started and
ended their carrer at one club. Gary
Neville (Man United), Paolo Maldini and
Franco Baresi (AC Milan), Tony Adams
(Arsenal)
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Q 14. A bust erected in his honour is
outside Athletic Bilbao’s San Mamés
Stadium. It is a tradition for teams visiting
the stadium for the first time pay homage
to him by leaving a bouquet of flowers at
its base. ID?
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Rafael Moreno Aranzadi better known as
Pichichi. Pichichi ,the award given to the
top scores of La Liga is named in his
honour.
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Q 15. Joan Gamper, a Swiss man was highly
regarded as a footballer and was club
captain at X (A football club). He then
went on to found a new club Y with his
friends taking the legendary Blaugrana
colours of his old club X. Both clubs till
date continue to use the same colours in
their kit.
ID X,Y.
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The Gazza. Paul Gascoigne
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Q 17. Legend has it that Pep Guardiola
drove through the night to meet him at his
home in Argentina and discuss coaching
tactics by watching his extensive football
video collection of several thousand
videos. They reportedly talked football
for over 11 hours. Guardiola has often
praised him as his master and him being
his pupil. Before taking on his side just
over a month ago he called him ―the best
coach on planet earth‖.
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Q18. Something very unique happened
during the Germany V/S Ghana match in
the 2010 world cup. What??
Hints
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This is a toy used to pacify crying babies in
Spain. The sound it makes gives it its name.
What is it’s significance to modern day
football?
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The sound they make is ―tiki taka‖, used to
describe the Spanish style of play.
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Players who moved directly from
Real Mardrid to Barcelona or
vice versa.
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The 1994 World Cup match between
Cameroon and Russia, which finished 6-1
in favour of Russia, is famous for 2
remarkable records that haven’t yet been
broken.
Roger Milla became the oldest player to
score at the WC at the age of 42.
What was the other record set on that
day?
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Oleg Salenko of Russia scored 5 goals in
that game, which still is the maximum
number of goals scored in a WC match.
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1984–88: San Lorenzo
• Games 122, Goals 0 1988-91: Zaragoza
• Games 79, Goals 1 1991–2000, 2003-04: Vélez Sàrsfield
• Games 347, Goals 48 2000–02: Strasbourg
• Games 52, Goals 1 2002–2003: Peñarol:
• Games 14, Goals 4 Whose club record?
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Jose Luis Chilavert
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This term has been most famously associated with Wisła Płock in Poland, SK Brann in Norway, Karşıyaka SK in Turkey, FC Volendam in Holland, Bofoakwa Tano in Ghana, Arminia Bielefeld in Germany and Birmingham City in England owing to the fact that these clubs hold records that are bittersweet at best.
Term/record?
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Yoyo clubs. They keep getting promoted
and relegated from their football
divisions.
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Q 24. Born on March 2, 1944 in Tunisia, Ali Bin Nasser’s World Cup
career spanned five matches including an appearance in a Round
of 16 match between Denmark and Spain.
However, about the incident that made him famous he claimed was
an adverse reaction to the treatment he was receiving for a latent
haemorrhoidal condition which caused his medium-distance
vision to suddenly become unfocused, causing him to miss the
infamous incident .
Which incident?
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Ali Bin Nasser was the referee that didn’t
see the ―Hand of God‖ goal from Diego
Maradona against England in the 1986
WC.
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X: I'm cleaning the Champions League trophy with a
Tottenham shirt.
Y:Thanks for cleaning it up for me. I'm already
creating space in my cup cabinet.
X:We're gonna give you a football lesson in London.
Y: I met your defence in Milan, it didn't look good. It
was like cheese with holes in it.
X:I found a good goalkeeper on eBay. Shall I send you
the link?
Y:We don't need him, you won't come into our penalty
area
Football banter on twitter! Id X and Y.
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X- Wesley Sneijder
Y- Rafael Van der Vaart
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Laid out for the race by Paul Nicholls, who also won the BGC
Partners Liverpool Hurdle with Big Buck's, What A Friend beat the
game Carruthers by three-and-a-quarter lengths. X, who shares
What A Friend with Jed Mason, said: "It's great to win any race, but
to win a big one is special. We'll aim for the Gold Cup next year
when he will be stronger and more mature.
"We had the opportunity to go for it this year, but Paul was right.
You could see what effect the hard race had on Imperial
Commander. It doesn't compensate for last night, but racing's a
great release. It gets me away from the grind of my job.― X?
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Sir Alex Ferguson
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Congo National football team
Nkana
Grazer
Al Ahly
Belgium national football team
Deportivo Toluca
Manchester United
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All these teams are nicknamed the Red
Devils.
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That X is not accorded the respect he deserves comes as a shock to
many. But with X, somehow, it has always been thus. When he
starred for his country leading them to the FIFA Youth
Championship, a deserved Golden Ball award instead went to
Seydou Keita. His country's FA raised went so far as lodging an
official complaint with FIFA.
Years later, when X was among the top five nominations for the FIFA
World Player of the Year, the Daily Mail, inexplicably, ran an
infamous headline which read: "The best players of the world (and
X). Who is X?
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Xavi
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This phenomenon has become increasingly rare following the formation of the
Premier League. To the best of my knowledge, only four instances have
occurred since 1992-93—Stuart Pearce (Nottingham Forest, 1993), Michael
Gray (Sunderland, 1999), David James (West Ham, 2004) and David Nugent
(Preston North End, 2007).
Previous, more famous examples include CB Fry (Southampton, 1901),
Johnny ―₤100-a-week‖ Haynes (Fulham, 1955), Brian Clough
(Middleborough, 1959), Peter Shilton (Leicester City, 1970), Peter Taylor
(Crystal Palace, 1976), Trevor Brooking (West Ham, 1978) and Mark Hateley
(Portsmouth, 1984).
What phenomenon?
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Getting called up to the England national
squad while still being in the second
division of English football.
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Note that Jens Lehmann had in his socks
during the WC quarterfinal penalty
shootout against Argentina.
This note had instructions on where the
Argentinian players preferred to hit their
penalties.
The crossed out players had already been
substituted.
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The two footballs used for the first ever
WC final in 1930. One football chosen by
Uruguay wa used in the first half while
the second chosen by argentina wa used
for the second half.
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A young Sir Alex Ferguson
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Ryan Giggs keeps a bottle of champagne
for every championship that he has won.
He now has a lot more than the ones seen
in the picture!
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Salvador Cabanas made a comeback to
professional football on 14th of April,
2012 when he played for 12 de Octubre
football club in the Paraguayan Third
Division.
What was so special? about this?
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Salvador cabanas was shot in the head a
year ago and has made his comeback
from that injury.
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A Derby match in football is a game
between two teams based in the same
city, and therefore being arch rivals.
Name the clubs involved in the following
derbies:
Merseyside Derby
Old Firm Derby
Basque Derby
Derby della Madonnina
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Everton and Liverpool
Celtic FC and Rangers
Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao
Inter Milan and AC Milan
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All have been losing finalists in the FIFA
WC and have never won it.
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France vs Italy, July 9, 2006
Sampdoria vs Inter Milan, January 29,
2007
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Materazzi got headbutted in both games!
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Weird coincidence! All of these died a day
after Aaron ramsey scored a goal for
Arsenal.
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Nottingham Forest
Aston Villa
******
Manchester United
Liverpool
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Celtic FC
These are the only British clubs to have
won the European cup
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Website showing the time since Arsenal
FC last won a trophy
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After a 3-1 loss to club Y in a friendly, the
players of club X persuaded their
manager to sign Z, one of the star
performers in that match.
Z was named after his father’s favorite
actor, who was also the President of the
US when Z was born.
ID X, Y and Z.
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X-Sporting Lisbon
Y-Manchester united
Z-Cristino Ronaldo
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Ian Botham
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This is what Manchester United fans often
say:
Pele good, Maradona better, ______
______
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George Best
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Inter Milan vs. AC Milan, UCL semifinal,
2003
Australia vs Israel, Qualification playoff,
World Youth Championship, 1991
Bahamas vs British Virgin Islands, World
Cup 2010 qualifier
Also tell us why the application of the rule
is anomalous in the above cases.
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Away goals rule.
The anomaly is that both the two legs of the
tie were played in one stadium itself.
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X wore the number 3 jersey at club Y.
X’s father also played for Y.
Together, father and son have won 7
UEFA Champions League trophies for Y.
In honor of X, club Y retired the no. 3
jersey.
However, if either of X’s sons were to
make it to the first team of Y, they would
be given the 3 jersey.
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X- Paolo Maldini
Y-AC Milan
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Papa Boupa Diop, Phillip Lahm and
Siphiwe Tshabalala were the scorers of
the first goals in the previous three WC’s
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There are 12 people in this picture!
The guy on the left (standing) is a
prankster named Karl Power, who
pretended to be a United player and
walked on to the pitch!
Watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfg-
5l_z7yc for sheer disbelief!
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