Weird things about football that are true but don't sound it

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Only two teams not named Benfica, Porto or Sporting have won the portuguese league since its start in 1934. They both only won it once and did it by only one point.

No team outside of the cities of Porto and Lisbon has won it.
 

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Zlatan has already scored the third highest amount of goals for United of any of our current squad (28).
 

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Zlatan has already scored the third highest amount of goals for United of any of our current squad (28).
Wayne Rooney has 250 :confused:

Robert Lewandowski would've signed for Blackburn but he couldn't travel because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland affecting air travel.
 

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Liverpool have scored significantly more injury time winners than Manchester Utd in Premier League history. Arsenal are second most, Chelsea are third and then......... Everton. Spurs, Utd and Newcastle were joint equal after that, as of last year.
 

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Cr7 has scored more goals in champions League than city.
 

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In 1980 Madrid played the Copa del Rey final against Real Madrid B.
Madrid Castilla eliminated 4 first division teams and qualified to play the former UEFA Cup winners cup
 

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In 1969, El Salvador waged war on Honduras
after it lost against it in a football match and almost 3.000 people died in this conflict.

The very first game of basketball was played with a football.

Vidic's name is the number 607 in roman numerals.
 

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In 1969, El Salvador waged war on Honduras
after it lost against it in a football match and almost 3.000 people died in this conflict.

The very first game of basketball was played with a football.

Vidic's name is the number 607 in roman numerals.
Vidic played exactly 607 games in his career.


Might not be true
 

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Here's one.

Steaua Bucharest has the record for the longest unbeaten league run in the history of european football with 104 games between 1986 and 1989.
 

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I've heard this fact before which I hope is true:

In his career as a manager Sir Alex Ferguson never lost a football match after going two goals ahead.
 

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Algeria, Ghana, South Korea and Saudi Arabia are part of an elite group, being the only countries in the world to boast an undefeated record against England

Fernando Torres scored in 7 official club competitions during the 2012-13 season. The Chelsea striker netted in the Premier League, Champions League, Europa League, FIFA Club World Cup, FA Community Shield, FA Cup and League Cup.

Jari Litmanen is the only footballer to have played international football in four different decades.
 

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Ok - let's add some as well:
Steve Bruce scored 13 league goals in 31 matches in the 90/91 season - 19 in 50 in all competitions.

Norwich beat Manchester United 5 times in a row in the late 80's - at least one Norwich-player later to join United was on the pitch in every game

Uniteds record of most games in a season is 66 in 2008/2009 - this season we will play 72 or 73

When United won the league in 1993 - Aston Villa came second and Norwich came 3.
When United won 2 division in 1974 - Aston Villa came second and Norwich came 3.

When United got relegated to 2nd division - the mighy Carlisle got promoted to the 1 division.
 

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Norwich just beat Brighton 2-0 without a single shot on target.
 

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Robbie Earnshaw is the only player to score a hat trick in the Premier League, all three divisions of the English Football league, the League cup, the F.A. cup and in an international match.
Whilst being off balance due to his big head
 

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Only two teams not named Benfica, Porto or Sporting have won the portuguese league since its start in 1934. They both only won it once and did it by only one point.

No team outside of the cities of Porto and Lisbon has won it.
Hmmm. That's an FM challenge there.
 

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In 2002 German national team players from Bayer Leverkusen like Michael Ballack lost the finals of the World Cup, the DFB Pokal and the Champions League. They furthermore just lost out to Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga on the last match day in the 74th minute when Dortmund scored on Bremen.

Also I still cannot fathom that Greece won the 2004 Euros.