Association Football Trivia Thread

[dhandeh]

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Leicester City? Do remember hearing it not long ago.

Mattythedog did mention Leicester City, as well as a few others, so you can fight it out between yourselves who goes next.

Leicester City have been in four FA Cup finals and have lost every one of them.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Be my guest Matty!

 

[mattythedog]

Ok, rather surprised to be asking, but here goes:
Who was the first (and I think might be the only) player to be substituted by his brother during an international match at the old Wembley?

 

[Matty]

Phil for Gary? Think I seen this on BBC3's Worst Ever England Team.

 

[mattythedog]

No.

 

[Matty]

Damn... Ah Bobby for Jack Charlton?

 

[mattythedog]

Still no.

 

[Matty]

The Fashanu's?

 

[mattythedog]

Nope. Weird, I'd've though you of all people would get this.

 

[Matty]

Oh 💡

Wait.. Benny McCarthy doesn't have a brother who plays football..

EDIT: Guessing you mean Irish

FYI just in case Roy and Robbie Keane aren't brothers.

 

[mattythedog]

Saying more 'you' as in 'your country'.
Edit: you got it.
Edit 2:

FYI just in case Roy and Robbie Keane aren't brothers.

I'm not that unknowledgable about football.

 

[Matty]

Only Irish siblings I can think of is the O'Leary's and Dunne's. Don't know if either played in Wembley though.

 

[mattythedog]

Which one are you gonna go for...?

 

[Matty]

Ah.. since I said them first O'Leary's?

 

[mattythedog]

Correct! David O'Leary was replaced by his brother Pierce O'Leary in the 1980 fixture against England.

 

[Matty]

Woo, I nearly went alphabetically as well

Okay here's a tough one. Ireland have played Wales 13 times. But at how many different grounds have they played.

 

[mattythedog]

Using my amazing logical powers, it's got to be less than 13 and more than two. But I guess they've played in Euros and stuff, so I'm guessing 5.

 

[dhandeh]

8?

 

[Matty]

No to both. Extra points if you can name all the venues.

 

[mattythedog]

4? One has to be the Millennium Stadium, other than that I have no idea.

 

[Matty]

Not 4. Here's a clue. All the games have either been in Ireland or Wales and no Venue has been counted more then 3 times.

EDIT: Sorry, 2 times.

 

[mattythedog]

7?

 

[Matty]

Nope. This may take a while.

No two Wales home games have been played in the same stadium.

 

[mattythedog]

10?

 

[Matty]

We've hit all and around it. But still no cookie for nobodys

 

[mattythedog]

9?

 

[Matty]

Congratulations

They've played each other 12 times at 10 different venues.
Irish Venues:
Dalymount Park: 1
Tolka Park: 2
Landsdowne Road: 2
Aviva Stadium: 1
Croke Park: 1
RDS Arena: 1

Welsh Venue:
Vetch Field: 1
Racecourse Ground: 1
Millenium Stadium: 1
Ninian Park: 1

Turns out there was actually 10 (The site with the answer counted Aviva Stadium and Landsdowne Road as the same venue) but you said that anyway as well

 

[mattythedog]

Okaaay! Name the Englishman who has scored the highest number of Premiership goals without getting an international cap.

 

[Matty]

Holt?

 

[mattythedog]

Incorrectius.