In 1937/1938, Man City were champions. And got relegated with a positive goal difference and were the top scorers in the division.
Funny thing is this could happen again very soon.
Facts about football that shouldn't be true - but are
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Funny thing is this could happen again very soon.
Six months of 26-year-old Garrinchas's life of the pitch in 1959, between his two World Cup wins:
-Ran over his father while drunk driving, father survived.
-Wife gave birth to the fifth of their 8 daughters.
-One of his mistresses publicly announced that she was pregnant with his child.
-Went on tour with his club Botofogi to Sweden and made at least one Swedish girl pregnant. Grandson is now a semi-pro footballer.
-Father died at 49 of alcohol-related cirrhosis which had led to liver cancer
Much earlier in his life, he lost his virginity to a goat, and the person to reveal that story to the public was himself.
-Ran over his father while drunk driving, father survived.
-Wife gave birth to the fifth of their 8 daughters.
-One of his mistresses publicly announced that she was pregnant with his child.
-Went on tour with his club Botofogi to Sweden and made at least one Swedish girl pregnant. Grandson is now a semi-pro footballer.
-Father died at 49 of alcohol-related cirrhosis which had led to liver cancer
Much earlier in his life, he lost his virginity to a goat, and the person to reveal that story to the public was himself.
Is the goat story true or an urban legend? The only sources I can find are The Sun or the Daily Star and.. well, they are The Sun and the Daily Star.
Garrincha himself said it to the author of his biography. I read it in the early 2000s in that book.
I hope Messi was old enough
great thread
The 05-06 team who got dumped out of the CL in a group with Lille, Benfica and Villareal got 4 points less than the 07-08 European double winning team.
When the premier league started MUFC had 7 league titles and Everton had 9
The surprise is that we've scored 2 there, such is the bizarre way we go to pieces there.
I still remember an Arsenal fan pointing out it was 11 titles each between us and them at sixth form.
However, we went 12-11 in my last year of school 98/99
Chelsea's first title win under Mourinho was only their 2nd in their history.
That's another mad sounding one.
Even pre money City had 2 by the time their money came in.
That's another mad sounding one.
Even pre money City had 2 by the time their money came in.
Ffs, i already shared that.Yeah, they absolutely are. I've checked 3 and all of them are wrong
I mean, thread says "facts". @RedStarUnited middle finger emoji for you.
Bastian Schweinsteiger is the first, and so far only, German to have ever made an appearance for Manchester United. Marcel Sabitzer is the first, and so far, only Austrian to have ever made an appearance for Manchester United. They are therefore the only two players so far from a majority German-speaking country to have played for Manchester United.
(PS: I do know that German keeper Ron-Robert Zieler was on our books before I started following football; however, he never played for our first team. Similarly, a Finnish player has never played for our first team either, although we had a Finnish guy on our books in the 2005-06 season.)
(PS: I do know that German keeper Ron-Robert Zieler was on our books before I started following football; however, he never played for our first team. Similarly, a Finnish player has never played for our first team either, although we had a Finnish guy on our books in the 2005-06 season.)
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Not sure if the maths stack up on that one mate.
Cubarsi is 17 and Pepe is 41. Pepe would have had to become a father at 12 and his son likewise for Pepe to have a 17 year old grandson.
Ffs, i already shared that.
I mean, thread says "facts". @RedStarUnited middle finger emoji for you.
You read my other responses?
Isnt Quinton Fortune the only South African to play for us as well and Mark Bosnich the only Australian
I’m pretty sure that is the case. Odion Ighalo is the only Nigerian and Mame Biram Diouf is the only Senegalese.
Saidy Janko?
Born and grew up in Switzerland (majority German speaking). played in the infamous 4-0 defeat to MK Dons in the League Cup. He represents The Gambia now, but was playing for Switzerland U21s while at United.
Didnt he end up joining Celtic?
It's so interesting that when you play for city nobody cares. Except city fans of course. If Haaland was playing for any other team he would be making headlines, but you play for city and you might as well play in South Africa.
I didn’t even know that he was Swiss nor that he now plays for the Gambia. I remember when he played for us his country was England, I’m pretty sure. I did look up statistics on native languages in Switzerland, and a majority, rather than just a plurality, of people in Switzerland do indeed speak German (over 60% according to the Swiss government website), however I didn’t include it because I did not know that Janko played for Switzerland (and even then, he only played for their under-21s, which doesn’t really count IMO; one wouldn’t really count Jamal Musiala as English even though he played for England up to and including under 21 level because he plays for Germany at senior level) and because of Switzerland’s multilingual nature, with the fact that French and Italian are also official languages, as well as Romansh. In the case of Germany and Austria, German is the sole official language and is spoken by a much wider percentage of the population. According to a 2019 survey of Swiss people, 38% regularly use two languages.
TL;DR: Switzerland, despite being part of the Germanosphere and being a country in which the majority of people (though not a large majority, although by some definitions a supermajority) speak German, wasn’t included because it is also part of the French and Italian speaking worlds, and Swiss children are expected to learn another one of the country’s languages depending on their native one, whereas with German and Austrian children, the only language they will use in regular conversation is German (both dialectal and standard), and will learn foreign languages (especially English) but will not use it in regular conversation. As a Scottish person myself, a lot of this is based on Google Searches and educated guesses, so it might not be entirely accurate.
Yes, we sold him the following summer after that MK Dons game after he had a brief loan at Bolton.
Andy Kellet's name popped up recently, might've even been in this thread. In an unuusal move we took Kellet from Bolton in a loan exchange move for Janko. We'd just loaned out Reece James (not the famous Reece James) to Huddersfield and sold Marnick Vermijl to Sheffield Wednesday. So to facilitate Janko's loan move we asked for a defender from Bolton's reserves to fill a gap in our own reserve squad. They sent us Kellet.
Arsenal massively choked the 2008 league title by only taking 20 points from a possible 36 in the run in. 5 more points would have been enough to do it, in that time they drew with Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa and Wigan
Arsenal were elected into the top division.
For the 1919/20 season, the first season after the First World War, Arsenal were controversially elected in to the first division, despite finishing fifth in the last season before the outbreak of war in the second division. However, they have remained at this level ever since.
For the 1919/20 season, the first season after the First World War, Arsenal were controversially elected in to the first division, despite finishing fifth in the last season before the outbreak of war in the second division. However, they have remained at this level ever since.
Markus Neumayr was so close to being the first German.
Had a wee look at some of those nationalities that have played for Utd. 29 Welsh players have made over 1900 appearances for Utd, almost half of them were Ryan Giggs.
Yes, I've heard Spurs fans bring that up from time to time, they thought they were robbed and have sometimes accused Arsenal of bribery etc. Just looking up the details now.
1914/15 season finishes, 20 teams in the league. Two are due to be relegated. These are Chelase who finished 19th and Spurs who finished 20th.
World War 1 breaks out and football is suspended for a few years.
Football is due to restart in 1919/20 and a decision is made that Division One will be expanded to 22 teams. These will be the 18 teams that stayed up in 1914/15, the 2 teams that would have been promoted that season (Derby and Preston) but then they needed to work out who the other 2 teams would be.
Teams were asked to apply and clubs voted for who they thought it should be.
Chelsea won one of the spots so were repreived from being relegated after finishing 19th before the war.
Spurs thought they had a good claim to be reprieved too after finishing 20th as did Barnsley who had finished 3rd in divison 2 pre-war. The other teams who applied were Wolves (4th in div 2), Arsenal (5th in div 2, although they were actually thought to be 6th due to a clerical error at the the time that wasn't even noticed until 1980), Birmingham (6th, but incorrectly awarded 5th in div 2 before the war), Hull, and Forest (7th and 18th in div 2 before the war).
Liverpool's chairman spoke up for Arsenal on the grounds that they'd been a member of the Football League the longest and they won the vote, Spurs get relegated.
Spurs and Barnsley were a bit robbed there. Think I'd have gone Barnsley myself for symmetry after Chelsea's reprieve. Save one club from relegation (Chelsea), promote one extra club (Barnsley). On merit Spurs definitely had a better case than Arsenal by the looks of it.
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5 out of the 8 players with the longest bans ever given out for doping bans in football history have played for Manchester United.
Jaap Stam
Rio Ferdinand
Mark Bosnich
Andre Onana
Paul Pogba
Jaap Stam
Rio Ferdinand
Mark Bosnich
Andre Onana
Paul Pogba
The league attendance record was set by us at City's stadium.
- Record league attendance: 83,260 – Manchester United v Arsenal played at Maine Road First Division (17 January 1948).
When was that?
2005 / 2006 season.
Miroslav Klose has the most goals in World Cup history
Rooney, Van Nistelrooy, Giggs, Keane, Scholes and Ronaldo only started one match together and we lost
Always thought it was somewhat fishy that Jaap Stam got caught shortly after leaving suddenly, all of us like to think Man Utd players aren’t doping/have never doped. My conspiracy theory is that Stam was caught internally and SAF decided to get rid asap.
That is unbelievable. this one…above all the others stands out for me!!
just crazy to think there was no instinct for a first touch to set himself to strike.
In a top league as well
Man utd have only won 3 European cups despite being arguably the biggest club in the world
CF's that played for England (Ollie Watkins), Wales (Kieffer Moore) and Northern Ireland (Jamie Reid) last week were all born in Torquay.
Memphis Depay paying bail to get the convicted rapist Dani Alves out of prison.
Steve Bruce never played for England, not even in a friendly.
Almost all the class of 92 will be in their 50s next year.