Mark Robins came on as a sub in a FA Cup replay to save Sir Alex Ferguson his job, he also 34years later totally embarrassed a Manchester United manager nearly knocking them out of the FA Cup to practically cost ETH his job.
Facts about football that shouldn't be true - but are
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Gary Medel(170cm) has played CB for inter and many more times for his national team.
Saved the club twice. He's the hero we needed, but don't deserve.
Sheffield United, currently sitting on 16 points, have lost 11 points this season from own goals scored after the 85th minute.
At half time Manchester United have only been behind once away from home all season in the league. This is the fewest of any team in the division.
Kind of surprising to me. I know we can capitulate, but we just feel crap in general away.
In contrast we've led at Old Trafford 3 times all season at half time. Only have Sheffield Utd (twice) have been in front less often at home.
Kind of surprising to me. I know we can capitulate, but we just feel crap in general away.
In contrast we've led at Old Trafford 3 times all season at half time. Only have Sheffield Utd (twice) have been in front less often at home.
I read on Facebook (I know) that Andy Cole was only caught offside 24 times in 414 PL games of thats true thats an incredible stat
That can't be true. That's 1 offside every 16 games for a player who relied heavily on his speed in behind?!
Scott Parker has won the footballer of the year award, Bryan Robson and Paul Scholes never did.
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amazingThat is surprising indeed. Was that Arsenal away?
Took me a while to find out who it was. Bournemouth quite recently. 2-1 down at half time.
I remember when first posting that, I was looking through information on here and it didn't have the results - https://www.soccerstats.com/halftime.asp?league=england
Now we're not top of the away half time table, that's Arsenal, but still we've been trailing less often than they have.
Drogba didn't take penalties though.
We’ve not won the league since Fergie retired…
I agree. I love Olise aswell and think he’s a great talent but the last thing we need is another injury prone player.
How is this a fact that shouldn’t be true but is?
From March 2010 to January 2011 Rooney scored 1 league goal.
New Zealand were the only unbeaten side at the 2010 World Cup
Patrice Evra has played in more Champions League finals than Lionel Messi
Israel plays their home games in a Hungarian village where current prime minister Orban grew up. The stadium's capacity is 3900 and the population is less than 1900.
Manchester United are sitting in at 8th spot in the Premier League
More of this, brilliant
I regret the day we sold OG.
They're already going down
That's similar to "Heskey played more matches for England than Andy Cole .." *
I don't check the stats
And the stadium is literally right next to his family home. He basically had it built right in his backyard.
Andy Cole has 15 England caps, Heskey has 62...
Alan Pardew was linked with Real Madrid job back in late 2015. Real most probably weren't interested but I like to believe they were.
Now linked with the Bayern job
Probably talking about the obscurity of the fact.
How many games did he play? Was it injury related?
Yes... he scored five goals in his last three successful scoring matches in February/March and then had an injury. Only played three more league games that season in which he didn't score, so arguably not only missed he matches but that injury knocked him off his streak. He also missed nine matches of the 2010/11 season due to injury, so played only ten league matches in that frame. In those ten he got indeed only one goal, but also six assists, which in total is a decent amount. At that time Berbatov was scoring for fun (like a hattrick against Liverpool) and Rooney could focus on being a playmaker, more than scoring himself.
Salto (population 100.000) had two players on the 23-man Ballon d'Or shortlist in 2013.
Europa League/Uefa Cup winners in the 20th century:
Sevilla: 7
Russian teams: 2
Ukrainian teams: 1
Turkish teams: 1
Italian teams: 0
A French team has never won it but Ipswich Town have.
This is what I do to take my mind off the fact that Palace just hit the post when 4-0 up against us.
Sevilla: 7
Russian teams: 2
Ukrainian teams: 1
Turkish teams: 1
Italian teams: 0
A French team has never won it but Ipswich Town have.
This is what I do to take my mind off the fact that Palace just hit the post when 4-0 up against us.
The Nigerian Civil War was halted for 48 hours so that both sides could watch Pele play.
In the 1962 World cup, the Chilean team ate Swiss cheese before beating Switzerland, Spaghetti before beating Italy, Drank vodka before beating the USSR, and drank coffee before losing against Brazil.
In the 1962 World cup, the Chilean team ate Swiss cheese before beating Switzerland, Spaghetti before beating Italy, Drank vodka before beating the USSR, and drank coffee before losing against Brazil.
Toni Kroos is only a year older than Kevin De Bruyne.
No idea if the stats bear it out. But it feels like we’ve had these massive swings between home and away form over the last few years post Mourinho. Never good or average at either. But really good home OR away and atrocious in the other direction. Seem to remember title challenging H or A records in the last 5 years, and bottom half A OR H records at the same time.
Panama(better FIFA-ranking than Ireland, Finland,Greece and Norway) has never had a player in the premier league.
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If its FM.. he probably had Anticipation, Off the ball, pace, acceleration, decision, vision, team work all maxed out.
PPM
Likes to beat offside trap
Places shot
Likes to round keeper
Moves into channel
Plays one-twos
Likes to cut inside from both wings
Yes. They only started collecting more of the detailed data from around 2006 onwards. So those 24 offsides are likely to be from solely his final season with Portsmouth.