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Louis Saha has scored more League goals than any Derby player this season.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had the best minutes/goals ratio in the Premier League in 3 seasons including his last one.
Ronaldo scored 11 more league goals than the entire Derby County team this season.
A few weeks ago Bristol City were top of the Championship and Colchester were bottom. Bristol City had scored 46 goals and Colchester had scored 58.
In fact there was one week when Bristol City were top with a negative goal difference, 1st time I have ever seen that.
These are a few things I noticed this season, here are few funny ones down through the years.
Staf Van den Buys scored an amazing own goal hat-trick when he played for Germinal Ekeren in their Belgian Premier League home game against Anderlecht.The result was 2-3, so without his three own goals, Germinal would have won the match!
On the 4th July 1999, an Argentinian called Martin Palermo set a new record when he missed 3 penalties...in the one match! Argentina ended up losing the match 3-0 so if he had scored all three...
The highest score between two, full-strength international teams occurred in the 1966 Arab Cup played in Iraq. The result was Libya beating Oman 21-0!
A Manchester City fan was banned in 1995 from bringing dead chickens into City’s Maine Road ground. He used to celebrate City goals by swinging the birds around his head.
There are only two football teams in the Isles of Scilly – The Gunners and the Wanderers. They play each other every week in the league, the only break being when they meet in the Cup.
Stopping off en route to Iceland , the Albanian national team were thrown out of England in 1990 after going on a shopping spree at Heathrow. They had thought “duty free” meant help yourself.
The Scottish Cup tie between Falkirk and Inverness Thistle in 1979 was postponed no fewer than 29 times because of bad weather.
When England entertained Malta in 1971, the match was so one-sided that the ball didn’t cross the England goal-line once in the entire 90 minutes. And Gordon Banks in the England goal didn’t have a shot to save.
At the age of 52, Pedro Gatica cycled from his home in Argentina to Mexico for the 1986 World Cup, only to find on arrival that he couldn’t afford to get in. While he was trying to haggle for a ticket, thieves stole his bike.
Any one got any other crazy football facts or stories please post.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had the best minutes/goals ratio in the Premier League in 3 seasons including his last one.
Ronaldo scored 11 more league goals than the entire Derby County team this season.
A few weeks ago Bristol City were top of the Championship and Colchester were bottom. Bristol City had scored 46 goals and Colchester had scored 58.
In fact there was one week when Bristol City were top with a negative goal difference, 1st time I have ever seen that.
These are a few things I noticed this season, here are few funny ones down through the years.
Staf Van den Buys scored an amazing own goal hat-trick when he played for Germinal Ekeren in their Belgian Premier League home game against Anderlecht.The result was 2-3, so without his three own goals, Germinal would have won the match!
On the 4th July 1999, an Argentinian called Martin Palermo set a new record when he missed 3 penalties...in the one match! Argentina ended up losing the match 3-0 so if he had scored all three...
The highest score between two, full-strength international teams occurred in the 1966 Arab Cup played in Iraq. The result was Libya beating Oman 21-0!
A Manchester City fan was banned in 1995 from bringing dead chickens into City’s Maine Road ground. He used to celebrate City goals by swinging the birds around his head.
There are only two football teams in the Isles of Scilly – The Gunners and the Wanderers. They play each other every week in the league, the only break being when they meet in the Cup.
Stopping off en route to Iceland , the Albanian national team were thrown out of England in 1990 after going on a shopping spree at Heathrow. They had thought “duty free” meant help yourself.
The Scottish Cup tie between Falkirk and Inverness Thistle in 1979 was postponed no fewer than 29 times because of bad weather.
When England entertained Malta in 1971, the match was so one-sided that the ball didn’t cross the England goal-line once in the entire 90 minutes. And Gordon Banks in the England goal didn’t have a shot to save.
At the age of 52, Pedro Gatica cycled from his home in Argentina to Mexico for the 1986 World Cup, only to find on arrival that he couldn’t afford to get in. While he was trying to haggle for a ticket, thieves stole his bike.
Any one got any other crazy football facts or stories please post.
