In a way it was the precursor to the current Conference League. Which has a far more reasonable format, so UEFA learned something in the meantime...
In the Premier League, to be precise. It did happen in the old First Division.
Tbf, Mbappe is only 14 goals shy of the record and has played 53 less games than Giroud.
This one still annoys me now
Sadly one of the things I most remember about RVP that season is him hitting a dip in the spring, coniciding with the loss to Madrid when he missed 5/6 chances over the 2 legs that he had been putting away with ease all season.
Something weird like that. Does anyone remember the Anglo Saxon cup?
Ethelred the Unsteady was a star striker iirc
Had to Google that.
Me too. It was absurd at the time and gets worse with time.
It's one of those facts that may seem astonishing in the football world of today, but for those of us who lived through these times, it makes perfect sense. Firstly, Ferguson's formative years were the second half of the 80s. By the time of the PL's inaugural season, SAF had figured things out and United were ready to challenge for the title. So, it was more a case of a few final brush strokes than throwing money away to see how many holes we can plug.
And the opposite are Newcastle. They were the biggest spenders in England in the 90s. At one stage, like from 90 until 98 their total spend in that period was twice as high as United’s and their net spend was 4-5 times as high as United’s. And what do they have to show for it? Not even a league cup!
Just To clarify, they went for Robben because we convinced Ronaldo to stay. He definitely wasn't a preference over Ronaldo.
It was application based, even in the 90s uefa controlled version. After that i think it came down to league position, so if only one team from a league applied they would get in even if they were relegated. the cutoff point for application must have been late, because Juventus played the 1999 version after finishing 7th, which was the same points as the two uefa cup qualifiers directly above them. It mostly seems to have been used as a way to get into the uefa cup by teams that narrowly missed out on a european tournament place.
The fairs cup was a quite legit tough tournament once they started using league position for invites. It was basically the 60s uefa cup by the time Newcastle won it, and was turned directly into it when uefa took over.
Feck me, Rooney had a hell of a long career there!
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This is insane. Imagine being top scorers and being relegated
This happened to my team a few years ago. Jozo simunovic got sent off in a pre season friendly in Switzerland and then had to serve a two game ban in our league. Load of Celtic fans as usual crying conspiracy and that the SFA is out to get us , when in reality it was the decision of the Swiss FA and their referee who deemed it serious enough to report it to our FA and implement a ban.
No idea how serious your boys tackle/incident was but Scholes's and Rooney's were quite innocuous in my opinion. Not going to argue if the incident is worth a red, just not serious enough to be enforced in real matches.
No idea. What's your point?
Premier League I presume ?
How many third choice goalkeepers have world cup medals and have never played a game in the tournament?
Since 1984
And both in the same stadium.
