Association Football Trivia Thread

[Akmuq]

Yes to all three 👍

But your getting to the harder one now!

See my edit.

Errm, only other players I can think of are Phil Neville(doubt it) and Danny Murphy(possibly)

 

[Liquid]

Oooh, two players who played for Everton at the turn of the millennium but I don't know if they played for England;

Steve Watson
Alan Stubbs

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Yes to Murphy and Unsworth, Akmug has got 7 right so he gets the next question (sorry Liquid!)...

...but there's still one more to get, Everton player, probably won one cap in the Eriksson era..

 

[Liquid]

Leon Osman
James Vaughan
James Beattie

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Beattie is the one, Akmug got Osman, don't think Vaughan played in a Merseyside derby let alone score in one..and he hasn't played for England

So in full the answers are...Johnson, Unsworth, Osman, Gerrard, Carroll, Heskey, Owen, Sturridge, Beattie, Barmby, Murphy, Lescott and Crouch

Your turn Akmug..

 

[Akmuq]

You go Liquid, ain't got a question lined up.

 

[Liquid]

Oh smashing, I have several in store to keep this thread alive for a while.

Which is the largest English town/city to have never had a football league team?

 

[Emptyone]

I'll nominate Bath as my hometown with an 80,000 population, but I have a sneaking suspicion they were one season wonders around 2007/8 ish.

 

[Liquid]

Neither of those is true, unfortunately.

 

[Wiegert]

Given the current population of my hometown (Telford having a pop. of roughly 150,000), and that both F.C. and A.F.C. incarnations have failed to reach higher than the Conference Premier division, I'll go with that.

 

[Liquid]

Nope, the population we're looking at is ~340,000.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Its not Wrexham again is it Liquid?!

 

[Matty]

Dudley or Croydon?

 

[Liquid]

Still no correct answer. But I am tempted to take a point away for the answer of Wrexham...

Dudley was a good guess, but it's a northern town, we're looking for.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Grimsby?

 

[Liquid]

More north.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Im thinking of teams in the Skrill....am I on the right track there?

 

[Famine]

Nope, the population we're looking at is ~340,000.

That's... not small. That's just about half the population of the entire Sheffield authority (including Rotherham). Even Newcastle AND Gateshead smooshed together doesn't hit 340k - and I can't even start to think of anything northier of the M62 corrider bigger than that.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Gateshead?

Although technically Famine could lay claim to Gateshead.

 

[Famine]

Gateshead's population is only about 80k.

 

[Liquid]

340,000 may be a combined figure in the same way London has a population of 1,500,00 but London City ia juat 7,000.

340,000 for the eponymous metropolitan area and 76,000 for the place itself. My bad.

Northern, more famed for rugby.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Widnes?

 

[Famine]

And I'm guessing it's also a city rather than a town - and the city I went to school in.

 

[Liquid]

Oooh, close but wrong side of the Pennines.

 

[SuperDiscoDaz]

I will guess Salford

 

[Famine]

As a clue, I went to school with one half of Groove Armada (2 years above me), one fifth of Maximo Park (in my year) and a rugbyist who captained his country then married a world champion equestrian member of the royal family (year below).

 

[Ross]

I'm going to have a guess at Harrogate. Took a lot of looking at Google Maps to come up with that

 

[MUSC4EVER]

That Rugby player Famine is on about is Mike Tindall, who of course is married to Zara Philips, no idea who he plahys for though!

 

[Liquid]

Still no correct answer. Funny how Famine reckons he knows but is waiting for the rest of you to figure it out...

 

[Famine]

I don't want to have to set another question