Association Football Trivia Thread

[Liquid]

I was just thinking out loud to try and get some names. Is it any of the names already mentioned?

 

[Akmuq]

I was just thinking out loud to try and get some names. Is it any of the names already mentioned?

Yup.

 

[Liquid]

Dunne
Müller
Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo de Lima
Nordahl
Piola
di Stefano
Charles
Puskas

Hmm. No better place to start than Puskas. He was a simply phenomenal goalscorer. Maybe he set it with Madrid.

 

[Akmuq]

Nope.

The record has been set since 1970.

 

[Barra333]

I don't think it would be C. Ronaldo or Messi, otherwise we would have heard about little else when it happened. And a stats sponge like @Liquid would remember that.

 

[Liquid]

Dunne
Müller
Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo de Lima
Nordahl
Piola
di Stefano
Charles
Puskas

None of the really old boys then. Müller.

 

[Akmuq]

Still nope.

 

[Liquid]

@Barra333 You have a shortlist to work from here. Go on, my son!

 

[Barra333]

Haha. Despite my thinking to the contrary, my guess from that shortlist would be Messi, with the hype of consecutive goals lost in the thousands he scored in that particular year.

 

[Akmuq]

Yes, it's Messi. He scored in 19 consecutive games for Barcelona before picking up injury, coming back and extending it to 21. In the entire 2012/13 season he only failed to score in two games which he played!

 

[Barra333]

Hopefully this is not too easy for the boffins, but aside from Man U's accomplishments in the Premier League era, which 3 teams have won 3 league titles in a row?

 

[polysmut]

Huddersfield Town, Liverpool, Arsenal.

I had a science teacher who supported Huddersfield.

 

[Barra333]

Well, 🤬, I was hoping that part at least would slow up a couple of people. I might go back to observing and just looking up the answers to learn stuff for my own interest .

 

[Akmuq]

I think you just got unlucky to be honest Barra, never in a million years was I getting Huddersfield.

 

[polysmut]

I'll aim to have a question lined up within the next 24 hours as long as @Liquid confirms that he's content that I nailed the last one?

 

[Barra333]

I'll aim to have a question lined up within the next 24 hours as long as @Liquid confirms that he's content that I nailed the last one?

They were the 3 answers I was going to take, and it isn't exactly an ambiguous stat, so fire away whenever you have a question.

 

[polysmut]

Which 3 English League clubs have changed divisions on a record 28 occasions each?

 

[daan]

Which 3 English League clubs have changed divisions on a record 28 occasions each?

I saw/read/heard that somewhere but can't recall who it was. Portsmouth is in my head for some reason.

 

[SuperDiscoDaz]

I'd guess one of them is Blackpool. Not sure about the others.

 

[polysmut]

Portsmouth

Blackpool

Neither of those.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Yeovil
Rotherham
West Brom

 

[polysmut]

Yeovil
Rotherham
West Brom

No to all.

 

[christara321]

Birmingham

 

[polysmut]

Birmingham

Yes!

2 more to get.

 

[Liquid]

Notts County, Wolves and West Brom must be somewhere up there. They historically had predilections for yo-yoing.

 

[polysmut]

Notts County

Notts County is one.

One more to go.

 

[Liquid]

Huddersfield?

 

[polysmut]

Huddersfield?

No.

I'll think of a clue if it comes to it.

Edit: This clue may be needed for clarity.

The outstanding correct answer is a club who currently play non league football but they have played in the top flight in the past.

 

[Liquid]

Stockport? I'd have a hard time thinking of another recent-ish non-league team to have been anywhere near the top flight in its history.

Unless, all divisions included, a team like Darwen, Bradford PA or Glossop North End have really been up and down the leagues.

 

[polysmut]

Stockport? I'd have a hard time thinking of another recent-ish non-league team to have been anywhere near the top flight in its history.

Unless, all divisions included, a team like Darwen, Bradford PA or Glossop North End have really been up and down the leagues.

None of those.
Currently in the fifth tier of English football.

There's another clue ready if you think it's time for that.