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Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 411 goals since turning 30 years old, that's more than the career goals of...

PlayerGoals Count (Club and Country)
T.Henry411
D.Villa400
Neymar375
Shevchenko374
Drogba367
Van Nistelrooy366
Rooney366
Ronaldo360
Del Piero343
Platini338
Cruyff327
Van Persie324
Totti316
Di Stefano315
Van Basten301
Torres301
Maradona194

Note: Only goals scored in the top division of the top European leagues are counted.

You know what's even crazier? Lukaku is on 379 career goals right now, thats more than everyone but the top two above. And Villa is in his sights, He should end his career with more goals than Henry.
 
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Shaw has been at the club for almost 10 years.

Time is not supposed to fly by so fast! :(
 
The great Liverpool team of the early 80s, who some people say were the greatest of all time, finished 5th in the 1980-81 season.

It's funny how Souness never mentions that!
 
Josh 76 said:
The great Liverpool team of the early 80s, who some people say were the greatest of all time, finished 5th in the 1980-81 season.

It's funny how Souness never mentions that!
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Anything remotely decent at that club is always touted as the greatest of all time ever never to be surpassed
 
Josh 76 said:
The great Liverpool team of the early 80s, who some people say were the greatest of all time, finished 5th in the 1980-81 season.

It's funny how Souness never mentions that!
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They won the European cup that season though, the last time Madrid lost a European final.

Still weird for a team that won 2 titles in a row before and after that season.
 
RedStarUnited said:
They won the European cup that season though, the last time Madrid lost a European final.

Still weird for a team that won 2 titles in a row before and after that season.
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Madrid lost to Fergie's Aberdeen in the Cup Winner's Cup final in 82/83.
 
Scandi Red said:
Shaw has been at the club for almost 10 years.

Time is not supposed to fly by so fast! :(
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Martial's in his ninth season at the club. He'll have qualified for a testimonial if he survives to the end of next season.
 
Speaking of Ronaldo's goal record, in 21 years he has never scored against England, Italy or Brazil and he only has 1 against Germany and Argentina. He does have 11 against Luxembourg though.

Lukaku has twice as many goals against the mighty Estonia as he has against England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina combined.

As Eusebio said when Ronaldo passed him in the scoring charts: "The comparisons make me sad. It's easier now. I never played against Liechtenstein and Azerbaijan".
 
Veni_Vidi_Vidic said:
Speaking of Ronaldo's goal record, in 21 years he has never scored against England, Italy or Brazil and he only has 1 against Germany and Argentina. He does have 11 against Luxembourg though.

Lukaku has twice as many goals against the mighty Estonia as he has against England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina combined.

As Eusebio said when Ronaldo passed him in the scoring charts: "The comparisons make me sad. It's easier now. I never played against Liechtenstein and Azerbaijan".
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Another reason why goal stats suck
 
Veni_Vidi_Vidic said:
Speaking of Ronaldo's goal record, in 21 years he has never scored against England, Italy or Brazil and he only has 1 against Germany and Argentina. He does have 11 against Luxembourg though.
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Zehner said:
Another reason why goal stats suck
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Goals stats may suck, but this is just cherrypicking. Ronaldo has scored against Spain (3) and France (2). Since he's also scored against Germany (1) and Argentina (1), that means he's scored against the last 4 World Cup winners, which is more relevant than scoring against England.
 
Iker Quesadillas said:
Goals stats may suck, but this is just cherrypicking. Ronaldo has scored against Spain (3) and France (2). Since he's also scored against Germany (1) and Argentina (1), that means he's scored against the last 4 World Cup winners, which is more relevant than scoring against England.
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Well firstly his goal against Argentina was 13 years ago in a friendly so them winning the world cup recently is completely and utterly irrelevant. His goals against Spain were 8 years after they won the world cup also. Then, just look at his record:

Goals by opponent
Opponent Goals
Luxembourg 11
Lithuania 7
Sweden 7
Andorra 6
Hungary 6
Armenia 5
Latvia 5
Switzerland 5
Bosnia and Herzegovina 4
Estonia 4
Faroe Islands 4

He's a flat track bully, at international level at least. He didn't even need to play a lot of those games, especially for not the whole 90 mins or close to it. He just wants to stat pad. He bragged recently about the number of goals he's scoring in the Saudi league.
 
When England reached the1982 World Cup, it was the first they qualified for the tournament in 20 years.
 
Sergio Ramos has never received a red card while playing for his national team Spain.
 
Brazil has won at least once against every nation they have played against except for one nation. In 4 attempts, they have not been able to beat Norway
 
Hugo Sanchez scored 38 goals for Real Madrid in the 1989/90 season. All 38 goals were scored with a one-touch, first time finish.
 
17Larsson said:
That was a sympathy call up. As far as I remember he was well into his thirties at that stage. He was right to reject it
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33/34 years old and the call-up was for a friendly against Nigeria, for which England were short of centre-backs.

Steve Howey got his first cap in the game, and Neil Ruddock his only cap.

Bruce, rightly, considered it a sympathy call-up, and had actually received an apology for not being called up a year or two prior from Bobby Robson when United were playing Benfica.
 
17Larsson said:
That was a sympathy call up. As far as I remember he was well into his thirties at that stage. He was right to reject it
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It was 1994 and he'd just captained Man United to a double.

If he didn't want to play for England then fair enough but the reason he never got a cap is because he said no to a call up, not because he didn't get called up.
 
duffer said:
It was 1994 and he'd just captained Man United to a double.

If he didn't want to play for England then fair enough but the reason he never got a cap is because he said no to a call up, not because he didn't get called up.
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It was still a sympathy call-up though. The fact that the central defenders that game were Steve Howey getting his first of four caps and Neil Ruddock getting his only cap says it all.

England had just failed to qualify for the '94 World Cup and the next tournament was two years away, by which time he'd have been almost 36-years-old, and leaving United to drop a division and play for Birmingham in the second tier.

You're correct that he rejected a call-up, but the "Steve Bruce never got an England cap" fact is quite clearly about him not getting one despite being one of the better English central defenders for a good while, and not about him rejecting a sympathy cap, in his mid-30s, when they needed numbers for a meaningless friendly.

There are probably plenty of facts in here that you can caveat with a "well, actually..."
 
Norwegian side Hamarkameratene ended the 09-season with a +8 goal difference, but not enough points to avoid relegation.
 
marcus rashford used the word 'dream' in an open letter, as many times as hes scored in the league this season.
 
Andy Cole, Eric Cantona, Mark Hughes and Ole Solskjaer never scored 20 league goals in a season for United.
 
Henning Berg became a Blackburn player and premier league champion because a doctor thought England was leading 1-0 when it was 0-0.

Wembley, 1992: Berg was on the bench when Norway was playing England, and early in the first half a Norwegian defender went down after an aerial duel holding onto his head. The player seems to be okay to continue, but the doctor routinely asks him what the score is. He replies 0-0. The Doctor orders him off the pitch as he somehow thought England had scored. Henning Berg replaces him and plays a very good game in front of Blackburn Manager Kenny Daglish. Berg then gets invited to a successful trial resulting in a contract and a premier league title first with Blackburn and then united later.
 
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dazjoe said:
Andy Cole, Eric Cantona, Mark Hughes and Ole Solskjaer never scored 20 league goals in a season for United.
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In some ways it's rarer than you'd think. Nobody achieved that for United from the time Denis Law did it in 66/67 until Brian McClair did it in 87/88 and they played more league games then. Mind you, there were also zero top flight league titles in that time! Different story with the players you mentioned.

chomsky89 said:
Henning Berg became a Blackburn player and premier league champion because a doctor thought England was leading 1-0 when it was 0-0.

Wembley, 1992: Berg was on the bench when Norway was playing England, and early in the first half a Norwegian defender went down after an aerial duel holding onto his head. The player seems to be okay to continue, but the doctor routinely asks him what the score is. He replies 0-0. The Doctor orders him off the pitch as he somehow thought England had scored. Henning Berg replaces him and plays a very good game in front of Blackburn Manager Kenny Daglish. Berg then gets invited to a successful trial resulting in a contract and a premier league title first with Blackburn and then united later.
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Someone needed to check if the doctor was ok :lol:
 
In his most productive season ever last year, Rashford scored 4 more league goals than Steve Bruce did in his highest scoring season for us.

And yes yes, before someone says; penalties. I know.
 
Veni_Vidi_Vidic said:
Speaking of Ronaldo's goal record, in 21 years he has never scored against England, Italy or Brazil and he only has 1 against Germany and Argentina. He does have 11 against Luxembourg though.

Lukaku has twice as many goals against the mighty Estonia as he has against England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina combined.

As Eusebio said when Ronaldo passed him in the scoring charts: "The comparisons make me sad. It's easier now. I never played against Liechtenstein and Azerbaijan".
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He did stick four past those notorious football titans North Korea though.
 
Liverpool have only ever won the League and FA Cup double once which was in 1986.
We have won more than one trophy in a single season (not counting charity shields, super cups, club world cups) on 10 separate occasions.
Added this to this thread as it has always surprised me that we didn't do it at least once more considering how dominant we were in the 70s and 80s.
 
Only once have the 3 newly promoted teams been relegated from the PL. Where as all 3 side have avoided the drop in 4 seasons.

97/98 - Burnley, Palace & Bolton.

Looks like this year it's finally going to happen again.
 
Oranges038 said:
Only once have the 3 newly promoted teams been relegated from the PL. Where as all 3 side have avoided the drop in 4 seasons.

97/98 - Burnley, Palace & Bolton.

Looks like this year it's finally going to happen again.
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That's a crazy stat! Certainly won't be too fussed about losing Burnley and Sheffield Utd as they don't bring anything to the league, but it would be a shame to see Luton go down.
 
If Haaland does not score in his next 50 CL games, he will still have a better CL-goal-to-game ratio than Suarez, Van Persie, Rooney, Zlatan, and Samuel Eto'o
 
RedStarUnited said:
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 411 goals since turning 30 years old, that's more than the career goals of...

PlayerGoals Count (Club and Country)
T.Henry411
D.Villa400
Neymar375
Shevchenko374
Drogba367
Van Nistelrooy366
Rooney366
Ronaldo360
Del Piero343
Platini338
Cruyff327
Van Persie324
Totti316
Di Stefano315
Van Basten301
Torres301
Maradona194

You know what's even crazier? Lukaku is on 379 career goals right now, thats more than everyone but the top two above. And Villa is in his sights, He should end his career with more goals than Henry.
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Uh? Maradona has 311 goals at club level alone...

Those numbers might be wrong mate
RedStarUnited said:
They won the European cup that season though, the last time Madrid lost a European final.

Still weird for a team that won 2 titles in a row before and after that season.
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Liverpool did the league/EC double twice, as many times as United and one more than City

In 68 seasons, the EC/CL was one by a league champion in the same season 31 times. Barcelona are the only team with multiple titles to never win it without also winning the league

Madrid, Liverpool and Milan combine for 27 titles, and 7 doubles
 
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