Association Football Trivia Thread

[dhandeh]

Got to be someone who's played for one of the caretakers - Pearce, Wilkinson (twice) and Peter Taylor. It's not likely to be Taylor/Eriksson/McLaren/Capello, Eriksson/McLaren/Capello/Pearce or Turnip/Venables/Hoddle/Wilkinson given the timespan or McLaren/Capello/Pearce/Hodgson as Woy played very few single-figure capped players.

So I'll guess the four managers were four from Venables/Hoddle/Wilkinson/Keegan/Taylor/Eriksson - none but Eriksson was in charge more than three years and there's a period of three successive games with different managers in there (Keegan/Taylor/Eriksson).

So we need a player who was most active in the mid-90s but either crap and bizarrely called-up by successive managers or excellent but largely overlooked.

Edit: I'll go for Woodgate or... I unno... Kieron Dyer?

Red is your hints.

Woodgate and Kieron (totally Dyer) incorrect.

Darren Bent ?
Gareth Barry ?
Phil Neville ?

All wrong.

 

[NINE_HUNDRED]

Pretty sure it's Gareth Barry.

Keegan
Sven
Mclaren
Fabio

Nevermind then

 

[Famine]

Red is your hints.

I think I deserve a point for that one

Steve Stone or Robbie Fowler?

 

[dhandeh]

I think I deserve a point for that one

All good detective work is about narrowing down the search field!

Steve Stone or Robbie Fowler?

No and no.

 

[GTP_Plato]

Red is your hints.

Hmm that's a pretty big hint, out of the top teams that could be Arsenal, Man U or Liverpool.

Going by what Famine said I would guess this would be between 1995-2000, a manager during that time was Keegan. I'm sure this was the year he basically stated in a pre match interview that England wasn't good enough (words to this effect anyway)

This is only if I have your clue right

 

[dhandeh]

Hmm that's a pretty big hint, out of the top teams that could be Arsenal, Man U or Liverpool.

Going by what Famine said I would guess this would be between 1995-2000, a manager during that time was Keegan. I'm sure this was the year he basically stated in a pre match interview that England wasn't good enough (words to this effect anyway)

This is only if I have your clue right

He did play for both of these.

 

[GTP_Plato]

He did play for both of these.

Andy Cole

 

[dhandeh]

Andy Cole

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I take it you mean, Andrew Cole.

Cole earned his first four caps under four different managers. He made his debut against Uruguay under Terry Venables in 1995, appeared next against Italy under Glenn Hoddle at the Tournoi de France in 1997, made his third appearance against France under caretaker Howard Wilkinson in 1999 and finally earned his fourth cap against Poland under new manager Kevin Keegan in his first starting appearance a few weeks later.

 

[GTP_Plato]

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I take it you mean, Andrew Cole.

Yeah that's right, I don't think he made many appearances for arsenal though

 

[Famine]

Oooh! Oooh! I've got it... Premier League goalscoring record breaker and not very often England player - famously left out of the 1998 World Cup squad for needing too many chances despite being player of the year...

Andrew Cole? He played for Hoddle once (Le Tournoi) and was in one of Wilkinson's games, so would fit Venable/Hoddle/Wilkinson/Keegan...

Edit: Oh you anuses!

Double-edit: Oh beans. He wasn't player of the year in 1998, but runner up to Bergkamp. Still, not taking him to the World Cup was famously moronic.

 

[GTP_Plato]

Oooh! Oooh! I've got it... Premier League goalscoring record breaker and not very often England player - famously left out of the 1998 World Cup squad for needing too many chances despite being player of the year...

Andrew Cole? He played for Hoddle once (Le Tournoi) and was in one of Wilkinson's games, so would fit Venable/Hoddle/Wilkinson/Keegan...

Edit: Oh you anuses!

He is in the top 5 all time goal scorers behind Shearer, not sure where exactly. Strange how he didn't have the best of England careers.

 

[dhandeh]

Yeah that's right, I don't think he made many appearances for arsenal though

Just the one!

 

[Famine]

I just looked him up now we've got it - 2nd behind Shearer... Still 37 goals ahead of the next player with any hope of catching him, Frank Lampard, and 44 ahead of Wayne Rooney.

 

[GTP_Plato]

Here we go, hope this is not to easy

This player has only received 1 England cap and was a captain on the quiz show Question of Sport, he has also appeared on a reality tv series.

 

[dhandeh]

For those years under Keegan at Newcastle he was deadly. Admittedly, he missed a few but the amount of chances they created It didn't really matter.

Here we go, hope this is not to easy

This player has only received 1 England cap and was a captain on the quiz show Question of Sport, he has also appeared on a reality tv series.

Lee Sharpe is the only one I can think of for a reality programme. Or Stan the Man.

 

[Famine]

Here we go, hope this is not to easy

This player has only received 1 England cap and was a captain on the quiz show Question of Sport, he has also appeared on a reality tv series.

Well... it's not Emlyn Hughes

 

[TyrrellRacing]

Here we go, hope this is not to easy

This player has only received 1 England cap and was a captain on the quiz show Question of Sport, he has also appeared on a reality tv series.

Joey Barton ?

 

[GTP_Plato]

No to all

 

[Famine]

Oh no... I've just worked it out - oddly from reading the article about Andrew Cole just now...

Razor

 

[GTP_Plato]

Oh no... I've just worked it out - oddly from reading the article about Andrew Cole just now...

Razor

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Started off well but your persistence of wanting to learn about an England flop killed it

 

[dhandeh]

Oh no... I've just worked it out - oddly from reading the article about Andrew Cole just now...

Razor

Would have needed a clue to get that one. Razor Ruddock, who famously had to have shorts specially made as his arse was so big.

 

[GTP_Plato]

Would have needed a clue to get that one. Razor Ruddock, who famously had to have shorts specially made as his arse was so big.

Did I not give enough clues

BBC3 for UK viewers sure has been a help for some of these questions, it's had Euro shocking moment programs and terrible managers, not to mention them piecing together the all time worst England team

Wow Famine, was that luck that you came across that? I just skimmed through that article and noticed his name was mentioned for breaking both Andrew Cole's legs. He doesn't seem to be so upset about doing it though

 

[dhandeh]

Did I not give enough clues

BBC3 for UK viewers sure has been a help for some of these questions, it's had Euro shocking moment programs and terrible managers, not to mention them piecing together the all time worst England team

ITV and BBC have a new series this June/July on the worst ever England team. Although I may be optimistic about it reaching July.

 

[Matty]

Oh was he the goalie? Ah.. Can't think of his name but the BBC nicknamed him the cat..

Or Fashanu.

 

[Famine]

Razor's on Andrew Cole's Wiki page because he broke Cole's legs. As I got to that part I realised he'd been on QoS as a captain, had amazingly pulled on the England shirt once and has been on all sorts of TV pap.

I need to think up a new question

 

[GTP_Plato]

Razor's on Andrew Cole's Wiki page because he broke Cole's legs. As I got to that part I realised he'd been on QoS as a captain, had amazingly pulled on the England shirt once and has been on all sorts of TV pap.

I need to think up a new question

Thought that was the reason you come across his name, they mentioned it on TV the other day. Added a video of what you said about breaking Cole's legs as well.

 

[dhandeh]

Oh was he the goalie? Ah.. Can't think of his name but the BBC nicknamed him the cat..

Or Fashanu.

Ruddock was a centre back, who struggled with his weight. He had the turning circle of a cruise liner. Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell is nicknamed 'the cat' as well as 'tuffers'.

 

[Sureboss]

ITV and BBC have a new series this June/July on the worst ever England team. Although I may be optimistic about it reaching July.

I saw something about that on BBC3, I think, it was truly horrific.

 

[Matty]

Ruddock was a centre back, who struggled with his weight. He had the turning circle of a cruise liner. Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell is nicknamed 'the cat' as well as 'tuffers'.

I was trying to answer the question

I think the keepers name was Peter Bonetti..

And I realise now that the answer has already been said.

 

[dhandeh]

Who is up next, Famine?