Trivia Thread

[Spikey M]

Kane
C. Ronaldo

[niko_cee]

????

If that list isn't exhaustive could it be something like scored a goal on their birthday? If it is just those names then clearly not.

[SincereTheRebel]

Steven Gerrard wasnt given the opportunity. Is the biggest key.

[Ben]

I'm stuck here. I thought it'd be something about scoring in CL finals (penalties maybe) but Batistuta never got to a final.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Steven Gerrard wasnt given the opportunity. Is the biggest key.

Yeah, having written several of these knobhead questions, that one suggests that it's something outside his control, e.g. he's from the wrong country (not the case as Lampard did it), or he didn't come up against a particular opposition.

Is Ronaldo referring to Cristiano Ronaldo or Bob Ronaldo?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Given the time span I was going to suggest something like 'score past Buffon in the Champions League' but Gerrard must have had the opportunity to do that.

[Spikey M]

????

If that list isn't exhaustive could it be something like scored a goal on their birthday? If it is just those names then clearly not.

I thought Sincere's post about having 2 penalties while captain was a question rather than an answer.

[niko_cee]

Depends how specific the Gerrard not being able to do it it is - is it just him or are there other unlisted players that fit? Could be something to do with playing all/most of a career for one team - ie never scored against his first club or something, but that assumes Messi has scored against Barcelona and a few other unlikely occurrences [Scholes, Kane] so I don't think it's that. Also someone like Giggs would never have had the chance, for example.

[Spikey M]

Perfect hattricks? (Left, right, head)

[Jimmy Floyd]

Gerrard had the opportunity to do that, unless we're officially classing him as a headless chicken.

[SincereTheRebel]

Perfect hattricks? (Left, right, head)

Gerrard not having the opportunity rules this out. He had 600+games to do this.

[Spikey M]

You can't score a hollywood header from 50 yards.

[niko_cee]

Didn't he score a header from the edge of the box once? Might have been Suarez.

[Spikey M]

I've cheated and found it on Twitter. I won't give anything away but it's annoying.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I wondered if it was something like 'Score against Steven Gerrard'. Doubt Batistuta or Raul will have done that; Owen probably not while at Real Madrid, United or Liverpool; Scholes is the most likely one I think as Kane and Salah would be too late.

EDIT: Just looked up Scholes, only scored two goals against Liverpool, one of them Gerrard was playing. Bollocks.

[Waffdon]

I've cheated and found it on Twitter. I won't give anything away but it's annoying.

Yeah I seen it yesterday.

Such a pointless trivia question

[Manc]

Has Maradona done it?

[Danny]

I've cheated and found it on Twitter. I won't give anything away but it's annoying.

Yeah it’s an annoying one but seemed perfect for this place.

[Danny]

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The answer is, they've scored against a PL team in a CL final from open play.

[niko_cee]

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Loads of players have done that though, so non-exhaustive list = rubbish.

[Baz]

Rubbish

[wullie]

I wasn't a million miles off, just a few hundred

[Ben]

I think it’s also wrong anyway, as Batistuta never made it to a CL final.

[SincereTheRebel]

Terrible.

[John Arne]

This may be a tad niche, but here go.

Fill in the blanks of players to have international caps and also played for Super Crewe Alexandra (not necessarily at the same time) - super tough ones are given.

# Caps Country
1 - 79 Trinidad & Tobago
2 - 62 England
3 - 45 St. Vincent & Grenadines
4 - 42 Wales
5 - 40 N.Ireland
6 - 39 Wales
7 - 32 Wales - Fred Keenor
8 - 32 Zimbabwe
9 - 29 N.Ireland - Steve Jones
10 - 14 Jamaica - Joel Grant
11 - 12 Nigeria
12 - 11 N.Ireland - Michael O'Connor
13 - 9 England
14 - 8 England
15 - 3 N.Ireland - Matty Lund
16 - 1 England
17 - 1 England

[Baz]

Danny Murphy
Robbie Savage
Rodney Jack

[John Arne]

Danny Murphy
Robbie Savage
Rodney Jack

Yup, yup and yup.

[Max Power]

Neil Lennon
One of the Sodje brothers?

[John Arne]

Neil Lennon
One of the Sodje brothers?

Yes and yes, Efe.

[Ben]

Dean Ashton

[wullie]

Clayton Ince

[John Arne]

# Caps Country
1 - 79 Trinidad & Tobago - Clayton Ince (Wullie)
2 - 62 England
3 - 45 St. Vincent & Grenadines - Rodney Jack (Baz)
4 - 42 Wales
5 - 40 N.Ireland - Neil Lennon (Max)
6 - 39 Wales - Robbie Savage (Baz)
7 - 32 Wales - Fred Keenor
8 - 32 Zimbabwe
9 - 29 N.Ireland - Steve Jones
10 - 14 Jamaica - Joel Grant
11 - 12 Nigeria - Efe Sodje (Max)
12 - 11 N.Ireland - Michael O'Connor
13 - 9 England - Danny Murphy (Baz)
14 - 8 England
15 - 3 N.Ireland - Matty Lund
16 - 1 England
17 - 1 England - Dean Ashton (Ben)

[John Arne]

Dean Ashton

Clayton Ince

Yah, and yah.

[Ben]

Zimbabwe must be Grobbelaar. I'm sure he went to Liverpool from there.

[John Arne]

Zimbabwe must be Grobbelaar. I'm sure he went to Liverpool from there.

He did indeed. 24 games, 1 goal.

[thommo]

Platt started at Crewe didn't he? Got to be the player with 62 caps if so.

[John Arne]

Platt started at Crewe didn't he? Got to be the player with 62 caps if so.

Technically through Man Utd's academy, but made his name at Crewe. Arguably the most successful former Crewe player. Also played for Crewe more than any other of his clubs.

[John Arne]

# Caps Country
1 - 79 Trinidad & Tobago - Clayton Ince (Wullie)
2 - 62 England - David Platt (Thommo)
3 - 45 St. Vincent & Grenadines - Rodney Jack (Baz)
4 - 42 Wales
5 - 40 N.Ireland - Neil Lennon (Max)
6 - 39 Wales - Robbie Savage (Baz)
7 - 32 Wales - Fred Keenor
8 - 32 Zimbabwe - Bruce Grobbelaar (Ben)
9 - 29 N.Ireland - Steve Jones
10 - 14 Jamaica - Joel Grant
11 - 12 Nigeria - Efe Sodje (Max)
12 - 11 N.Ireland - Michael O'Connor
13 - 9 England - Danny Murphy (Baz)
14 - 8 England
15 - 3 N.Ireland - Matty Lund
16 - 1 England
17 - 1 England - Dean Ashton (Ben)

[Shindig]

Robert Lee.

[John Arne]

Robert Lee.

Never played for Crewe.

[Shindig]

For some reason I got Crewe and Charlton confused.

[John Arne]

For some reason I got Crewe and Charlton confused.

Easily done. Same colours, both shit.

Added years to the missing answers...

# Caps Country
1 - 79 Trinidad & Tobago - Clayton Ince (Wullie)
2 - 62 England - David Platt (Thommo)
3 - 45 St. Vincent & Grenadines - Rodney Jack (Baz)
4 - 42 Wales - David Vaughan - (Max)
5 - 40 N.Ireland - Neil Lennon (Max)
6 - 39 Wales - Robbie Savage (Baz)
7 - 32 Wales - Fred Keenor
8 - 32 Zimbabwe - Bruce Grobbelaar (Ben)
9 - 29 N.Ireland - Steve Jones
10 - 14 Jamaica - Joel Grant
11 - 12 Nigeria - Efe Sodje (Max)
12 - 11 N.Ireland - Michael O'Connor
13 - 9 England - Danny Murphy (Baz)
14 - 8 England - Rob Jones
15 - 3 N.Ireland - Matty Lund
16 - 1 England - Seth "40 grand-a-week" Johnson (Ben)
17 - 1 England - Dean Ashton (Ben)

[Max Power]

David Vaughan for the Welshman.

[John Arne]

David Vaughan for the Welshman.

Spot on. Great player on his day. Former Real Sociedad, terrible hair.

[SincereTheRebel]

Billy Jones never quite made it did he?

[John Arne]

Billy Jones never quite made it did he?

He didn't. He was so good when he was young, but seemed to hit his peak at 22/23. Was ace on one of the older versions of FM.

[Ben]

That year helped the one cap wonder. Seth Johnson. Another great player if it weren't for injuries. Bit of a theme at Crewe that.

[John Arne]

That year helped the one cap wonder. Seth Johnson. Another great player if it weren't for injuries. Bit of a theme at Crewe that.

Correct. All the kiddy fiddling makes you injury prone.

[Danny]

Geoff Thomas for the last one.

Too many Crewe fm games for me

[John Arne]

Geoff Thomas for the last one.

Too many Crewe fm games for me

Hmm.. Thomas has 9 caps, so should be there, but the list I have doesn't list him at all. It's Rob Jones, Crewe's very own Gary Neville.