Association Football Trivia Thread

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73 goals at international level.
European cup winner.
Premiership player.

That's unlike any player I have ever heard of. Klose and Keane are the all time European international goalscorers and don't meet all of the criteria so it isn't a European player. Ali Daei scored over 100 goals for Iran and might have won a European Cup with Bayern Munich but was never a Premiership player.

Tricky.
 
I've found the answer but I cheated so I won't say it.
It appears that the 173 goals figure is the total for his senior career at club level?
 
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73 goals at international level.
European cup winner.
Premiership player.

That's unlike any player I have ever heard of. Klose and Keane are the all time European international goalscorers and don't meet all of the criteria so it isn't a European player. Ali Daei scored over 100 goals for Iran and might have won a European Cup with Bayern Munich but was never a Premiership player.

Tricky.
I'm almost positive we've had this question before and it's Jari Litmanen.
 
Who scored 32 international goals, not 173.
Indeed. I think Ali Daei is still the world's record scoring international with only just over 100, so perhaps @MUSC4EVER meant he's the most prolific person of his nationality across his career.
 
The answer is Jari Litmanen, made his Finland debut in 1989 and retired in 2010 with 137 caps and 32 goals, he scored 173 goals in his club career not his international career (my bad) which took him to Liverpool, Barcelona and Ajax amongst other clubs and it was of course at Ajax were he won the European Cup in 1995, he was once considered one of the best attacking midfielders in the World....

Next Question goes to Famine, has that question been asked before??
 
I think Ali Daei is still the world's record scoring international with only just over 100

Men's record. The overall record is currently held by Abby Wambach who has scored 178 goals in 239 games for the United States. In fact, there are six players with more goals than Daei's 103 and fourteen in total who have scored 100 or more.

Just an interesting aside. It's your turn to ask one anyway.
 
the only player to have scored in all four divisions of the pre-1992 Football League and also the Premier League?
 
Lee Dixon. Played in the bottom division with Chester and had a few clubs before Arsenal. I'm confident he at least played in all four divisions and the Prem, less confident that he scored in the old Second, Third and Fourth.
 
Lee Dixon. Played in the bottom division with Chester and had a few clubs before Arsenal. I'm confident he at least played in all four divisions and the Prem, less confident that he scored in the old Second, Third and Fourth.
Nope.

Edit: I'm only staying awake now in case there are some more guesses to come. I really want to collapse for now.
 
Aha! So there is still another player to get.

John Aldridge has the old four divisions covered with Newport, Oxford and Liverpool but he never played in the Premiership; he was with Tranmere in the second and third tier by then.

Steve Bull never played in the top flight at all.

Edit: Scratch Brian Deane, I'll change my answer to Dean Saunders. He played up and down the country in every division including the Premiership.
 
Aha! So there is still another player to get.

John Aldridge has the old four divisions covered with Newport, Oxford and Liverpool but he never played in the Premiership; he was with Tranmere in the second and third tier by then.

Steve Bull never played in the top flight at all.

Edit: Scratch Brian Deane, I'll change my answer to Dean Saunders. He played up and down the country in every division including the Premiership.
You haven't mentioned the one I was thinking of. Still can't believe that I missed Lee Dixon also doing it?!?!
 
David Speedie?
No.

An edit/a post script. I want to stay awake until you say the answer but I really must sleep now. I hope I haven't got my trivia wrong. I hope to wake up tomorrow to see somebody has answered it. Otherwise, it might mean that I've fauxed pas.

Another edit: His Wikipedia page says this
, and is also the only player to have scored in all four divisions of the pre-1992 Football League and also the Premier League.
 
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As nobody is answering, maybe I should reveal the answer that I had (who seemingly is alongside Lee Dixon in accomplishing the feat) & then @Liquid should have the next question for getting Lee Dixon?
 
So this player scored in the Fourth Division, the Third Division, the Second Division, the First Division and the Premiership with just two clubs, one of which is Sheffield United.

Not someone like Chris Kamara?

Sheffield is more @Famine territory so perhaps he knows which bacon stripe it is.
 
So this player scored in the Fourth Division, the Third Division, the Second Division, the First Division and the Premiership with just two clubs, one of which is Sheffield United.

Not someone like Chris Kamara?

Sheffield is more @Famine territory so perhaps he knows which bacon stripe it is.
It's not Kammy.

Edit: if you want the other club, that will probably give it away.
 
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