Trivia Thread

[Danny]

And done

Club - Highest Every - Current Highest (or next highest)
AFC Bournemouth - King - Wilson
Arsenal - Henry - Giroud
Burnley - Ings - Barnes
Chelsea - Lampard - Hazard
Crystal Palace - Armstrong - Puncheon
Everton - Ferguson - Lukaku
Hull City - Jelavic - Hernandez
Leicester City - Vardy - Mahrez
Liverpool - Fowler - Sturridge
Manchester City - Aguero - Toure
Manchester United - Rooney - Mata
Middlesbrough - Ricard - Downing
Southampton - Le Tissier - Rodriguez
Stoke City - Walters - Crouch
Sunderland - Philips - Defoe
Swansea City - Sigurdsson - Dyer
Tottenham Hotspur - Sheringham - Kane
Watford - Deeney - Capoue
West Bromwich Albion - Odemwinge - Morrison
West Ham United - Di Canio - Noble

[Weaver]

The 400th goal by an Italian in the Premier League was scored recently - name all of the 42 Italians to have scored in the Premier League.

I think we might've done this one on the old board, but we'll go again because it's Saturday.

[CJay]

Benito Carbone
Gianluca Vialli
Gianfranco Zola
Paolo Di Canio
Roberto di Matteo
Fabrizio Ravanelli

That should cover the 90s.

42 goal scorers seems like a lot. I wouldn't have said that there has been a huge number of Italians over here.

[Weaver]

Benito Carbone
Gianluca Vialli
Gianfranco Zola
Paolo Di Canio
Roberto di Matteo
Fabrizio Ravanelli

That should cover the 90s.

42 goal scorers seems like a lot. I wouldn't have said that there has been a huge number of Italians over here.

6/42.

I thought that too - there are quite a few on the list who only scored one or two goals though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Gianluca Festa
Corrado Grabbi
Bernardo Corradi
Manolo Gabbiadini
Samuele Dalla Bona
Mario Balotelli
Graziano Pelle
Fabio Borini
Alessandro Pistone

[Weaver]

Gianluca Festa
Corrado Grabbi
Bernardo Corradi
Manolo Gabbiadini
Samuele Dalla Bona
Mario Balotelli
Graziano Pelle
Fabio Borini
Alessandro Pistone

All correct - 15/42.

[Giggles]

Silenzi? Or did he ever score?

[Adamski]

Lorenzo Amoruso
Emanuele Giaccherini

[Max Power]

Pierluigi Casiraghi
Marco Materazzi
Stefano Okaka

[Adamski]

Didn't Mannone get one? Or was it another keeper who scored into him?

[Max Power]

Francesco Baiano
Vincenzo Montella

[Weaver]

Silenzi? Or did he ever score?

No goals for him, unfortunately.


Lorenzo Amoruso
Emanuele Giaccherini

Both correct - 17/42.

[Weaver]

Pierluigi Casiraghi
Marco Materazzi
Stefano Okaka

Stefano Baiano
Vincenzo Montella

22/42.

No goalkeepers on the list, Adamski.

[Max Power]

Andrea Dossena
Gianluca Festa
Don't think Roberto Mancini bagged in his short spell for us but I'll mention anyway

[Jimmy Floyd]

Stefano Eranio or whatever he was called at Derby

I don't think Gabriele Ambrosetti notched in the FA Carling Premiership alas.

[Disco]

Has anyone said Lombardo?

[Max Power]

DId Panucci bag for The Pensioners?

[Jimmy Floyd]

DId Panucci bag for The Pensioners?

Only against St Gallen iirc.

[Weaver]

Dossena, Eranio and Lombardo are correct.

No to Mancini, Ambrosetti and Panucci, and Jimmy already has Festa, Max.

17 to go.

[Max Power]

Alberto Aquilani
Angelo Ogbonna

[Weaver]

Alberto Aquilani
Angelo Ogbonna

16 to go.

I think Ogbonna's scored a cup goal for West Ham, but no league goals as of yet.

[Reg]

Zaza
Darmian? He's scored but not sure it was in the league.

[Weaver]

Zaza
Darmian? He's scored but not sure it was in the league.

No league goals for Zaza, but Darmian is on THE LIST.

15 to go.

[Max Power]

Diamanti

[Jimmy Floyd]

Davide Santon
Pierlugi Casiraghi

[Weaver]

Yes x2 (Max already got Casaraghi). 13 to go.

I'll put a list together when we've got ten left with the teams the leftover ones played for.

[Disco]

Gabiadinni, the new chap at West Ham?

[Disco]

Nicola Berti.

[Weaver]

Jimmy got Gabbiadini earlier, but Nicola Berti is correct.

12 to go.

[Disco]

Dino Baggio at Blackburn?

[SvN]

Rossi got one for us

[Max Power]

Marco Di Vaio?
Cambiasso had an Italian passport :henn0rz:

[SvN]

Ventola
Did Osvaldo score in his disastrous spell?

[Max Power]

Yeah Osvaldo scored a worldie against Man City I remember.

Watford centre back Angella defo scored in the Championship dunno about the PL

[Weaver]

Baggio is correct, as are SVN's three.

Di Vaio hasn't played in the Premier League, and Angella isn't on the list.

Eight to go...

[Jimmy Floyd]

What was your man called who scored for United. Macheda?

[Weaver]

What was your man called who scored for United. Macheda?

Seven to go.

[Weaver]

Manchester City in the 2000s
Middlesbrough in the 1990s
West Ham in the late 2000s/early 2010s
Middlesbrough in the 2000s
Blackburn in the 1990s
Swansea in the 2010s
Sheffield Wednesday in the 1990s

For the other seven.

[Shindig]

Benito Carbone?

[Weaver]

He was the first correct answer, Shin :D

[Disco]

Maccarone for Middlesbrough?

[Max Power]

Alberto Paloschi

[Weaver]

Both correct.

Five to go.

[Shindig]

He was the first correct answer, Shin :D

Excellent. I should know that West Ham geezer. I'm having a mare. I just looked up Gaston Ramirez to see if he was Italian. :moop:

[Disco]

Have we had Corradi for Man City?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Has anyone said Lombardo?

[Disco]

Yup.

[Weaver]

Corradi and Lombardo have both been said, yeah. About to post the full list of correct answers, bar the five we haven't got...

Lorenzo Amoruso – Blackburn Rovers (Adamski)
Alberto Aquilani – Liverpool (Max)
Dino Baggio – Blackburn Rovers (Disco)
Francesco Baiano – Derby County (Max Power)
Mario Balotelli – Manchester City, Liverpool (Jimmy)
Nicola Berti – Tottenham Hotspur (Disco)
Fabio Borini – Liverpool, Sunderland (Jimmy)
Benito Carbone – Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa, Bradford City, Derby County, Middlesbrough (CJAY)
Pierluigi Casiraghi – Chelsea (Max Power)
Bernardo Corradi – Manchester City (Jimmy)
Samuele Dalla Bona – Chelsea (Jimmy)
Matteo Darmian – Manchester United (Reg)
Paolo Di Canio – Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United, Charlton Athletic (CJAY)
Roberto Di Matteo – Chelsea (CJAY)
David Di Michele – West Ham United
Alessandro Diamanti – West Ham United (Max Power)
Andrea Dossena – Liverpool (Max Power)
Stefano Eranio – Derby County (Jimmy)
Gianluca Festa – Middlesbrough (Jimmy)
Manolo Gabbiadini – Southampton (Jimmy)
Emanuele Giaccherini – Sunderland (Adamski)
Corrado Grabbi – Blackburn Rovers (Jimmy)
Attilio Lombardo – Crystal Palace (Disco)
Massimo Maccarone – Middlesbrough (Disco)
Federico Macheda – Manchester United (Jimmy)
Marco Materazzi – Everton (Max Power)
Vincenzo Montella – Fulham (Max Power)
Stefano Okaka – Fulham, Watford (Max Power)
Dani Osvaldo – Southampton (SVN)
Alberto Paloschi – Swansea City (Max Power)
Graziano Pellè – Southampton (Jimmy)
Alessandro Pistone – Newcastle United, Everton (Jimmy)
Fabrizio Ravanelli – Middlesbrough, Derby County (CJAY)
Giuseppe Rossi – Manchester United (SVN)
Davide Santon – Newcastle United (Jimmy)
Nicola Ventola – Crystal Palace (SVN)
Gianluca Vialli – Chelsea (CJAY)
Gianfranco Zola – Chelsea (CJAY)

With Man City 2000s, Middlesbrough 1990s, West Ham late 2000s/early 2010s (probably the latter), Blackburn 1990s and Sheffield Wednesday 1990s to go.

[Max Power]

Nocerino at West Ham?

[Weaver]

Nope, not him... Apparently the person on the list played for them in 2008-2009. I was convinced it was more 2010 or 2011, but there you go.

[Max Power]

Di Mechele (sp)

[Weaver]

Bingo.

Four remain.

[Guybrush]

Rolando Bianchi.

[Weaver]

Well done Guybrush.

Three to go, I've only actually heard of one of them.

[-james-]

Man City, Man United, Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool each have one of these players in their current squad. Chelsea have two. Spurs have none.

[Lewis]

I was going to say World Cup winners, but, in finding out, I've just been confronted with a picture of Juan Mata without his beard, and now I don't like football anymore.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Infuriating question. I've tried all sorts of things. Thought I had it with former Bolton players, but no.

[John]

First thought was Golden Boy winners, but that would skew heavily towards the Manchester clubs. It'll be something daft like players named Danny.

[Adamski]

Man City, Man United, Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool each have one of these players in their current squad. Chelsea have two. Spurs have none.

I was going to say homosexuals right up until none for Spurs.

[John]

Players over a certain height? Say six four?

Kompany, Zlatan, Mertesacker, Joel, Courtois, Matic. Falls down on Liverpool. :moop:

[SvN]

United also have Fellaini

[phonics]

Played in Champions League finals with other clubs?

[John]

United have Mata and Pogba.

[SvN]

Everton don't have anyone, do they?

[phonics]

I thought Deolefeu (or whatever) might have snuck in somehow. Forgot Mata was still at Chelsea back then.

[John]

Deulofeu is at Milan.

[John]

Players with brothers who also play football? United have Pogba, Chelsea have Hazard and Batshuayi, Everton have Lukaku, City have Toure, Arsenal have Xhaka, and Liverpool must have someone.

EDIT - Can't be it. Matip has a brother and I know from FM that Lovren has one too.

[SvN]

I reckon that's it.

[wullie]

Players with internationals in their immediate family?
Man City - Kolo Toure
Man Utd - Mathias Pogba
Arsenal - Taulent Xhaka
Everton - Jordan Lukaku
Liverpool - Mike Origi
Chelsea - Thorgan Hazard, Marcos Alonso Pena

EDIT: Matip ruins that, unless there's another Chelsea player with an international brother?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Could it be La Masia alumni?

Chelsea: Fabregas / Pedro
Arsenal: Bellerin
Everton: Deulofeu

Not sure on the other three mind.

[CJay]

Liverpool - Mike Origi


Genuinely thought this was you being funny. Turns out he's a real person.

[-james-]

One of you got close.

[John]

Footballing dads?

[-james-]

Not family related.

[CJay]

Won the Champions League with another club?

Liverpool - Sturridge
United - Mata
City - Toure
Chelsea - Pedro / ?
Arsenal - Cech
Everton - ?

Maybe not.

[Reg]

Copa America winners?

[-james-]

Nope and nope.


I'm not going to do the whole league, but Southampton have two and Hull have none.

[John Arne]

Players whose national team have 3 vowels or less in when spelt in anglicised Thai.

[SvN]

If this is shit I'm going to be fuming.

[wullie]

Who got close, if it doesn't give it away too much?

[-james-]

I think it's gettable.

Four of the players had this happen in 2014, one in 2011, one in 2013 and one in 2015.

[Reg]

Players whose former clubs won the title the season after they left?

[-james-]

Nope.

There is a red herring in there, by the way.

[John Arne]

UEFA team of the year members?

[-james-]

Nah, colder.

[-james-]

I can PM the answer if anyone wants. Maybe it's trickier than I thought.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Players who have been sold by Pep Guardiola?

Romeu/Hojbjerg at Southampton
Touré at City
Fabregas and dunno at Chelsea

[-james-]

Very warm indeed.

[John Arne]

Danny Dichio?

[Reg]

Sold by former managers and now being managed by said managers?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sold by former managers and now being managed by said managers?

Must be this, Mata at United, Can (?) at Liverpool, not sure who Puel has flogged to the south coast though. Maybe not.

[-james-]

Nope. Bit of not seeing the wood for the trees going on.

[-james-]

Mata and Romeu are two of the players.

[SvN]

Former Chelsea players?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mata and Romeu are two of the players.

People sold by Mourinho at Chelsea?

Cech at Arsenal
Mata at United
Romeu/Bertrand at Saints
De Bruyne at City
Sturridge at Liverpool (not a Mourinho sale, actually)

[-james-]

Former Chelsea players?

:)

Chelsea: David Luiz, Nemanja Matic
United: Mata
City: De Bruyne
Liverpool: Sturridge
Arsenal: Cech
Everton: Lukaku
Southampton: Romeu, Bertrand

[SvN]

United - Mata
Liverpool - Sturridge
Arsenal - Cech
Chelsea - Matic, Luiz
Everton - Lukaku
City - De Bruyne

I'm annoyed I didn't get this earlier, as I thought it was players that have been sold and re-signed (thought Pogba would be the United one).

[Reg]

Here's one. Jimmy's favourite stat.

Name the top 20 assist makers in the Premier League era. Totals range from 131 to 50.

edit-forget that!

[wullie]

To think I saw Fraser Forster and Olufela Olomola for Southampton and briefly thought I'd cracked that it was alliterative names.

[Reg]

Oh shit. Forget that. Different sites have wildly different totals.

[Jimmy Floyd]

And that, Reg, is why it is my favourite stat.

I will have one similar to James's in a minute unless somebody posts one first.

[Jimmy Floyd]

OK - there are 12 of these players currently in the Premier League (as far as I can see). United, Liverpool and Spurs all have one, but Chelsea, Arsenal and City don't - and there is no club with more than one in their squad.

[SvN]

Current international captains was my guess, so I'm going to throw that out there without doing any checking.

[SvN]

Doesn't work, Everton have 2

[wullie]

Is it something related to squad number?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Not squad numbers, no.

As an extra clue, Chelsea have a player who would have qualified until fairly recently.

[Chris]

Olympics medal winners?

EDIT: Nope, Jesus has got one.

[SvN]

I've not got anywhere near this.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Clue drop. One of the 12 is Gylfi Sigurdsson.

[Reg]

Players who have been capped the most times for their country?

[wullie]

I was thinking top scorers for their country, but Ibrahimovic and Rooney together balls that one up. I'm drawing a big blank.

[Boydy]

Players who have scored against England?

[SvN]

That was one of my first thoughts, but Sigurdsson didn't score against us.

[Disco]

Is it something to do with loan players?

[Jimmy Floyd]

None of those particularly close, but I'd suggest the international theme is one to keep looking down.

Another one of the 12: Salomon Rondón.

[CJay]

The only internationals from their country in the Premier League?

[-james-]

That looked spot on until I remembered the Icelandic sson at Burnley.

[Max Power]

Players from countries that have never been to a World Cup?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Max wins.

From memory the others were the other Icelander at Burnley, Victor Wanyama, Henrikh Mkhytaryan, Didier Ndong, a couple of Malians, Ragnar Klavan and some Lithuanian keeper at Watford.

[SvN]

Jesus Christ.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The man answered it, that's all I'm saying.

[Max Power]

Fourteen players (I think) who have won the Premier League were born in a different country to the one they represent/represented internationally. Who are they????

[SvN]

Surely it will be loads of French players.

Vieira for starters.

[Max Power]

Not as many as you'd think. Vieira is one, he was born in Senegal.

[SvN]

Wes Morgan
Kante?
Mahrez


Are we counting countries that renamed or broke up?

If so:
Kanchelskis
Vidic
Poborsky

[Danny]

Nani

[SvN]

Diarra (For Chelsea)
Makelele
Cech
Wiltord

[Max Power]

Mahrez is correct.

With the old Soviet Union/Yugoslavia I'm saying if the place they were born is now in a country, they were born there if you get me? So Kanchelskis is correct as the city he was born in is located in the Ukraine (and he played for Russia). Whereas the city Vidic was born in is currently in Serbia now the Yugoslavia has broken up. Kanchelskis is the only one I have on my list from Eastern Europe anyway.

Nani is correct also.

[SvN]

Isn't Wes Morgan correct?

[Max Power]

Shit yeah Morgan right as well

[John Arne]

Does Le Saux count?

[SvN]

I never knew Nani wasn't born in Portugal.


Are we talking medals by the way? For example, I think Neil Sullivan will have won the league with Chelsea when Mourinho was first there, but I don't think he played a single league game.

[SvN]

Jordi Cruyff? No idea where he was born, but thinking it might've been in Spain

[Max Power]

If they got a medal, through appearances or special dispensation. Sullivan had left Chelsea before Mourinho.

Cruyff was born in Holland.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Darron Gibson

[Adamski]

Sterling.

[Max Power]

Gibson is correct. Eight more

[Danny]

Costa

[John Arne]

Sterling.

Has he won the BPLSBB?

[Max Power]

Diego Costa is also correct.

[Adamski]

has he won the bplsbb?

oh lol.

[Danny]

Makelele? Or did we have him already.

[SvN]

This is a lot harder than I initially expected.

Did Rossi get a medal with us?

[CJay]

Deco?

[Max Power]

Morgan
Mahrez
Makelele
Kanchelskis
Nani
Gibson
Costa

All correct so far. You want clues for the remaining seven?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Jose 'centre back in a Champions League winning side' Bosingwa

Malouda was born in the French Caribbean somewhere but I dunno if that counts.

[Max Power]

Deco right as well. Six left.

[Adamski]

Giggs

[Max Power]

Bosingwa also correct. I'm filing Malouda with Le Saux tbh. Not having it.

Five left.

[John Arne]

"Giggsy" was born in some Welsh shithole.

[SvN]

Evra, of course
And our favourite Canadian Owen Hargreaves

[Max Power]

Both right

[SvN]

Balotelli?
Saha

[Adamski]

I'm sure Andy King at Leicester was born in England was he not? Might be confused ala Giggs.

[Adamski]

Balotelli?

Racist.

[Max Power]

Andy King is correct.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't know where he was born, but Jeff Schlupp was never born in Ghana.

[Adamski]

I always thought he was Dutch for some reason so you might be onto something there.

[Max Power]

Jeffrey Schlupp was born, sadly without a brain, in Germany.

One to get and it's the hardest of the lot imo. This geezer played his football for Australia.

[Adamski]

Where was Kasper Schmeichel borned?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Jeffrey Schlupp was born, sadly without a brain, in Germany.

One to get and it's the hardest of the lot imo. This geezer played his football for Australia.

Bosnich? Strikes me as having been born in middle class Melbourne and tried his hand at AFL and cricket though tbh.

[John Arne]

Robbie Slater (with a bit of research - never knew his was a plastic scouser).

[Danny]

Surprised there weren't any "Irishmen"

[Max Power]

Yeah Robbie Slater is the one.

[Adamski]

Name the only played to have scored in each of the three major European finals? Cup Winners Cup, UEFA Cup & European Cup/Champions League.

[SvN]

I genuinely have no idea who Robbie Slater is.

[Giggles]

Surprised there weren't any "Irishmen"

I was wondering this too. Was going to say Jeff Kenna but I think he was born here.

Did Arsenal win one in the Eddie McGoldrick years?

[phonics]

@Adamski (http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/member.php?u=61)

Is it Raul? Nah wait it's the other one. Morientes.

[Danny]

I know Koeman scored in the European Cup and Cup winners cup final. Not sure about the other though

[Adamski]

No to all 3.

[Adamski]

Well this is a bit shit, I have a couple of clues if you would like?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Vialli?

Van Basten?

[phonics]

I was so sure I'd nailed it that I've become completely demoralised if I'm honest.

[Disco]

Vieri?

[CJay]

No idea. I thought it might be Nedved but I checked and it isn't. I've gone through all the Cup Winners Cup finals from the 90s and I don't think it's any of those scorers, so unless it's someone way older who none of us would get?

[Offshore Toon]

Kluivert?

[Adamski]

Older than these.

[Reg]

Linekar
Di Baggio

[Adamski]

No. The only final he lost was European Cup.

He is Scandinavian and played in lower league England also for a spell.

[Disco]

Fuck knows who that is then.

[Disco]

Actually, default Scandies for that period are Brolin, Dahlin, and Kennet Andersson although the first two played in the Premiership rather than lower league.

[Adamski]

It's older than that. Late 70's early 80's.

[CJay]

Allan Simonsen.

[Adamski]

And you said we wouldn't get it! The wonders of the internet eh?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Here's a testy but gettable one.

What is the logic test for these lists of clubs:

YES
Aberdeen
Arsenal
Aston Villa
Burnley
Chelsea
Everton
Fulham
Leicester
Liverpool
Man City
Man Utd
Norwich
Spurs
Stoke
Swansea
West Brom
Wolves

NO
Bournemouth
Celtic
Crystal Palace
Hull
Middlesbrough
Rangers
Southampton
Sunderland
Watford
West Ham

IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING
Newcastle

[John Arne]

Who am I?

After impressing in Sweden's North Division 1, I was given my chance in the English second division.
I won my leagues' top scorer award in 1993
I was my teams 'player of the year' in 2005
I ended up playing in all 4 English divisions
I played in two World Cups and 1 European Championship
I scored the first ever goal live on Sky Sports

[Adamski]

I thought I knew it from the first ever goal but Sweden is throwing me.

[John Arne]

Jimmy Floyd Something to do with name changes?

[SvN]

Teddy Sheringham

[John Arne]

Yeah, Super Ted. Too easy, I think.

[SvN]

The last bit threw me a bit because I thought that was Brian Deane, but perhaps that's the first goal ever rather than the first televised goal.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Jimmy Floyd Something to do with name changes?

Nope.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Couple of other clues:

- All other British clubs not mentioned are NO
- Many foreign clubs are YES
- Only one other club in the world, other than Newcastle, is IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING

[Baz]

Something to do with the manager?

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's to do with their current squads.

[Adamski]

This is a right old head scratcher, James.

[John]

Players who appeared at the last Euros, with the manner of speakings being players out on loan from the two clubs?

[Adamski]

Good effort but Cabaye breaks that.

[Reg]

I feel like this one would be really satisfying to get... But I've no idea what it is.

[Adamski]

So many jokes about igor_balis sex life on the forum recently.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Players who appeared at the last Euros, with the manner of speakings being players out on loan from the two clubs?

Close.

Some selected (but there are many more) foreign clubs on the YES list:

Atlético Madrid
Barcelona
Juventus
Paris St-Germain
Real Madrid
Bayern Munich
Al-Wahda
Rapid Vienna
Lugano

[John]

AFCON players?

[Weaver]

We've got Henri Saivet out on loan at St Etienne who could be the 'link' between Newcastle being a sort-of club and the AFCON, but we also had Diamé, Atsu, Mbemba and someone else at the tournament.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's nothing to do with the Afcon.

The 'sort of' isn't to do with loans either.

The other 'sort of' club is Sweden's Hammarby.

[The Merse]

They've all 'produced' players who went to the Euros?

edit - nah fuck that.

[Boydy]

Have players that scored at the Euros?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Boydy wins. Euro 2016, if there was any doubt.

The sort ofs were own goal scorers Ciaran Clark (Newcastle) and Kristinofi rugbiufb rug ui Saevarsson (Hammarby).

[Jimmy Floyd]

What does this represent?

1. Germany
2. Argentina
3. Brazil
4. France
5= Ireland, Costa Rica
7= Spain, Holland
9. Italy
10= Mexico, Romania
12. England

[SvN]

Top goalscorers at the 2014 world cup?

Presumably including penalty shootouts

[Jimmy Floyd]

No...

Don't remember Ireland smashing the goals in.

[wullie]

League table of World Cup penalty shootouts

[SvN]

That'll be it. I'm surprised there's only 12 teams that have participated in them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bingo (those who have played 2+, anyway).

[-james-]

http://i.imgur.com/wyjZUWm.jpg

Name this man.

[Adamski]

Seen it so I won't play.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Brian Little?

[wullie]

That Lazio player who was meant to be 15?

[John Arne]

Taribo West?

[Chris]

Pretty sure that's Mario Melchiot

[John Arne]

Paul Ince?

[Shindig]

Freddy Adu.

[Giggles]

Robert Mugabe.

[-james-]

Melchiot it is.

[John Arne]

Name the 7 Japanese players to have played in the BPLSBB....

[Mazuuurk]

Is BPLSBB Premier League?

Is so:

Okazaki
Kagawa
Yoshida
Myagagi or what he's called (that Arsenal guy)
Nakata

[wullie]

Inamoto, the OG

[Mazuuurk]

Well that was very Google-able, found the others. Though it was Miyachigi
But won't say the last two then (didn't have a clue who they were anyway).

[John Arne]

Is BPLSBB Premier League?

Is so:

Okazaki
Kagawa
Yoshida
Myagagi or what he's called (that Arsenal guy)
Nakata

Bolded correct.

[John Arne]

Inamoto, the OG

Yup.

[Disco]

Miyachi

[John Arne]

Miyaichi

One left.

[John Arne]

Last one is quite difficult, only played 4 games whilst on loan at a Prem club in the early-mid 00's.

[Mazuuurk]

I fucking said the Miagaichai guy. Fuck off with your autism spelling criteria.

[John Arne]

Myagagi v Miyaichi..... give yer head a wobble.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Last one was some idiot at Spurs but I can't remember his name. I'll have a few guesses.

Hiteshi Miyamoto
Kazutoshi Iwada
Yaruhito Mitsuno
Kazuki Sato

[Mazuuurk]

The one at Spurs was probably called Harakiri.

[John Arne]

It was Kazuyuki Toda. I'd completely forgotten about him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I have a lot of time for the Japanese football team, and Iceland and various other teams because they all have homogeneous names. Sides like Germany these days are a disgrace with their Jerome Boatengs and their Gonzalo Castros.

Racial purity till I die.

[wullie]

Mike Havenaar's threatening to ruin it with Japan.

[Pen]

Surely he's too shit to make the team. And didn't they have one of then shit Brazilians in their team at some point.

[John Arne]

Tulio Tanaka was a quality player.

[Pen]

All about his namesake Atomu Tanaka for me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What links these players?

Craig Burley
Gonzalo Higuain
Robbie Keane
Lucas Radebe
Jon Dahl Tomasson
Georginio Wijnaldum

[Spammer]

Thus is actually a genuine question, but also a good trivia question:

Which manager was for, for maybe Arsenal or Tottenham, that got a ticket stub from the tube out during his first press conference?

I thought it was the Arsenal manager before Wenger

[Giggles]

Thus is actually a genuine question, but also a good trivia question:

Which manager was for, for maybe Arsenal or Tottenham, that got a ticket stub from the tube out during his first press conference?

I thought it was the Arsenal manager before Wenger


Christian Gross of Tottenham. Rioch was before Wenger but he never pulled a stunt like that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'This is the ticket to my dreams', iirc.

[Giggles]

Wasn't he trying to make out he was just like the fans too?

[Danny]

What links these players?

Craig Burley
Gonzalo Higuain
Robbie Keane
Lucas Radebe
Jon Dahl Tomasson
Georginio Wijnaldum

Not even a guess. Must be a good one

[Shindig]

Hmmm.... is it some kind of Player of the Year award? Jon Dahl Tomasson always stumps me. His entire career.

[John Arne]

They all grew up supporting L.A. Galaxy?