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.
Facts about football that shouldn't be true - but are
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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 .." *amazing
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.
No VAR to determine if his kneecap was ahead of the 2nd last opponent
Were they out of Brazil nuts?
Wasn't this in the nadir when he tried to join City and was generally a complete wanker on and off the pitch?
Yeah, it was. I started following football and United during Rooney’s barren spell
Arsenal have never scored more than 2 goals in a Premier League game at Old Trafford....
Well that's ending
Still can't quite believe we've managed to hang on to the "never lost at Old Trafford in the Premier League when leading at half time" record.
It's also the only country to have Van Halen compose their national anthem.
That record’s stood for 40 fecking years. There are grandparents who are younger than that.
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That's cause we're never winning at half time
Since 1980 Celtic and Rangers have played each other in 4 Scottish Cup finals. Today's was the first since 2002.
Considering both teams constantly win the league, it's pretty amazing.
Considering both teams constantly win the league, it's pretty amazing.
How many times in that stretch has one knocked the other one out before the final
Today’s FA Cup win is only our third since the turn of the millennium.
Erik Ten Hag’s Man Utd have now won more trophies than Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal.
Why would you expect more finals? Not only do you have to avoid one of the teams who also keeps winning a minimum of 4 times for this final to be possible. But even in a world where they could not possibly meet each other pre-final, they would individually not have significantly lower odds of reaching the final vs the combined odds of the 4 teams they have to go past.
It is just not very likely that they will both reach the final considering how much could go wrong: 8 banana peels and the possibility of meeting each other pre-final.
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I get the possibility of meeting before the final but that hasn't happened as much as you'd think.
Both teams barely ever lose to other Scottish teams in the league
in half as much seasons one might add
But there is a total of 8 banana peels in knockout format. 8 times of trying to do what other teams have done with a bigger skill gap(Iceland-England etc.)
The underdogs only need to do it 1/15 times to block that final more often than not.
And when we add the possibility of meeting each other, I doubt that there has ever been above 30% chance of them both reaching the final before the tournament starts.
Maybe a couple more finals would be expected, but I can't see that we are running that much below expectation that 4 finals seems not true. 10 cup finals would be running above expectations for sure.
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