Association Football Trivia Thread

[Liquid]

Fifth tier. My team's current division. And it's not Wrexham; we're on about 14-16 ups and downs.

Lincoln - Up and down the lower leagues, in and out of the non-league at times
Gateshead - Historically a league team, would have surely been up and down a few times
Southport - Another team who were in the league decades ago
Grimsby - Very much an up and down team
Tranmere - On the verge of the Prem 20 years ago and were still in the second tier a shade over 10 years ago.

I'd say Tranmere Rovers.

 

[polysmut]

Fifth tier. My team's current division. And it's not Wrexham; we're on about 14-16 ups and downs.

Lincoln - Up and down the lower leagues, in and out of the non-league at times
Gateshead - Historically a league team, would have surely been up and down a few times
Southport - Another team who were in the league decades ago
Grimsby - Very much an up and down team
Tranmere - On the verge of the Prem 20 years ago and were still in the second tier a shade over 10 years ago.

I'd say Tranmere Rovers.

Not Tranmere but you have said the right answer in there somewhere.

 

[Liquid]

Must be Grimsby.

 

[polysmut]

Must be Grimsby.

That's the one, yes.

 

[Liquid]

At last. And I'll pass on my turn. Someone else can ask a question.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

I've got one...

Tonight, Gary Neville become only the fifth Englishman to manage in the Champions League proper, name the other four.

And when I say proper I mean group stage or later, not qualifying...

 

[Liquid]

Redknapp (Spurs) and Robson (Newcastle) spring to mind. I suspect there's an Englishman with a foreign team here somewhere so I'll plump for McClaren (Twente) as well.

Unsure on a fourth one.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Redknapp and Robson is right, not McClaren as he did manage Twente in the qualifiers but didn't make it to the group stage, two most obvious ones have been correct...

 

[Liquid]

In which case my other foreign manager suspects are Hodgson with Inter (doubtful) and Baraclough with Sligo Rovers (extremely doubtful).

Not sure what the exact times in the season it was but would Phil Thompson and Liverpool count? Although that might have been the UEFA Cup year, not a CL year.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Aww come on Liquid let someone else have a go!

Phil Thompson is right, he was Liverpool's assistant who was made temporary manager when Gerard Houllier had his heart problems in the early 2000's, he did take charge in some of their Champions League games, I'm not sure how many.

One more to get...

 

[Akmuq]

Read a Sky Sports article on this 10 minutes ago.

The final answer is Ray Harford with Blackburn in 1995/96.

 

[polysmut]

I see the league table in the OP is now split into divisions. That's a nice touch.

 

[Liquid]

I see the league table in the OP is now split into divisions. That's a nice touch.

Arbitrary. You need more than 1 point to get into League One, more than 3 points to get into the Championship, and more than 10 points to get into the Premiership.

I don't know if people really pay attention to the points table but yeah, it's a little something extra. Merry Christmas, and stuff.

 

[daan]

Damn. @dhandeh has got me on goal difference.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Harry Redknapp, Bobby Robson, Phil Thompson and Ray Harford are the answers, Liquid got three of them and Luke got Harford, point and question to @Liquid

 

[Liquid]

@Luke can ask.

 

[daan]

Just to keep the thread ticking over, here's a question based on an interesting fact I just read in fourfourtwo.

As Boca Juniors were formed in Argentina by mainly Italians from Genoa, how did they end up playing in blue and yellow?

 

[Barra333]

They agreed that the colours of the strip would be those of the flag on the next ship into the harbour - it was a Swedish ship.

 

[daan]

Yeah, they used to play in light blue and that was very similar to the strip of their neighbouring team (Nottingham de Almagro) so they played off to see who got to keep the colours, and Boca lost, so they went to the harbour and decided to use the colours of the next ship.

 

[Barra333]

Another thing I learned when I visited Boca - their rivalry with River Plate (who wear red) is so friendly that the Coca-Cola logos on advertising in the Boca stadium are black instead of red.

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This may be a quick one, but which are the youngest and oldest teams in the current premier league season?

 

[MUSC4EVER]

The youngest and oldest squads you mean?

 

[Barra333]

Sorry, I mean foundation dates of the clubs.

 

[Akmuq]

Aston Villa and Bournemouth?

 

[Barra333]

Nope and nope.

 

[Liquid]

Are we counting foundation as with just the current name or the overall lineage? E.g. Man United as Newton Heath, Everton as St. Domingo's and so on.

I think Crystal Palace is the youngest. There was an older team called Crystal Palace but they have no ties to the current team, which was founded around 1905, I think.

Everton must be a shout for the oldest.

 

[christara321]

I,d go for Stoke and Palace.
Oh I see Palace have been chosen, Maybe AFC Bournemouth. (Wild Shout?)

 

[Barra333]

Are we counting foundation as with just the current name or the overall lineage? E.g. Man United as Newton Heath, Everton as St. Domingo's and so on.

I think Crystal Palace is the youngest. There was an older team called Crystal Palace but they have no ties to the current team, which was founded around 1905, I think.

Everton must be a shout for the oldest.

The list I am looking at has both Everton and Man U being founded in 1878, which does count the Newton Heath and St Domingo's days. Though they are not the oldest. Even using the current names only does not make any difference to the answers.
Nor are Crystal Palace the youngest - though the year you state is correct relative to the source I have.

I,d go for Stoke and Palace.
Oh I see Palace have been chosen, Maybe AFC Bournemouth. (Wild Shout?)

Stoke is indeed the oldest, formed in 1863. The only older club currently in the football league is Notts County (1862).
AFC Bournemouth are not the youngest - they date to 1899.

 

[Liquid]

Oh fiddlesticks. I even went through the oldest pro teams "Notts County, Stoke, Wrexham" in my head but it just didn't register.

Watford might be quite young.

 

[christara321]

Ooh just going to go for Watford, Maybe Norwich then as a second shout?

 

[Barra333]

Oh fiddlesticks. I even went through the oldest pro teams "Notts County, Stoke, Wrexham" in my head but it just didn't register.

Watford might be quite young.

Quite old actually - 1881

Ooh just going to go for Watford, Maybe Norwich then as a second shout?

Nope, 1902