Or maybe he'll bring Right Wing Back
Facts about football that shouldn't be true - but are
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Zeki Fryers. Having looked, it was back on 2012/13 he played for us. Didn’t think it was that far back.
he’s had a nothing career, not even played 100 games.
Ooh that’s a good one
I know, it was my mistake. If you read further down the thread, someone else mentioned it too. I thought no one would read the whole thread from the start after all this time. Nevertheless, i'll edit the post.
that’s the one. Took me a bit of Googling to find him.
Nothing can go wrong tonight now, can it ?
So sorry mate, didnt get that far through the thread yet.In 57 games, United have only beaten Spanish teams 13 times
Both if by English game you mean English League games excluding the cups I dont know about that record in cup competitions but in all English League games in our entire history its a true fact
Not in your entire history, since 1984.
You lost 2-1 at home to Ipswich town (in the league) after being 1-0 up at half time.
https://www.worldfootball.net/matches_today/1984/may/7/
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Jesse Lingard scoring more than one goal on the same day that Liverpool lost on Wednesday wasn't the first time that feat happened, however you'd have to go back to 21st September 2013 for the other occurrence. Lingard scored FOUR goals for Birmingham City on his debut in the Championship while Liverpool lost at home to Southampton.
Jordan Henderson played in both Liverpool games and Michail Antonio played in both games that Jesse Lingard was involved in - in 2013 he played for Sheffield Wednesday (Birmingham City's opponents that day) and in 2021 he played on the same side as Jesse Lingard when he scored the brace.
Jordan Henderson played in both Liverpool games and Michail Antonio played in both games that Jesse Lingard was involved in - in 2013 he played for Sheffield Wednesday (Birmingham City's opponents that day) and in 2021 he played on the same side as Jesse Lingard when he scored the brace.
Ipswich Town have played 31 home games in European competitions throughout their history and have lost none of them, with only five draws and a goal record of 84-12. Their opponents have included the likes of Barcelona (twice), Real Madrid, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Roma, Lazio and Feyenoord. Ipswich beat all of them.
United finished 3rd in the FA Cup in 1970.
For a period of 5 years they had a 3rd & 4th place match, I managed to go my whole life without knowing that until recently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup_Third-fourth_place_matches
For a period of 5 years they had a 3rd & 4th place match, I managed to go my whole life without knowing that until recently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup_Third-fourth_place_matches
Jon Moss passed a bleep test.
I'll find you and slap you.
30 minutes to hold out or you’re getting permabanned
Literally had no idea about this. So weird.
City haven't won at Anfield in 18 years. That's ridiculous to me. I know City haven't always been this City, but the takeover was in what, 2008? 2007?
Thats still a lot of time to not win at Anfield.
Thats still a lot of time to not win at Anfield.
The EFL trophy is called the Papa John's trophy
Dion Dublin once wore a hat
Haaland has scored more CL goals than the likes of Ronaldo (R9), Zidane, Villa, Tevez, Falcao & Adriano.
Ryan Giggs didn't score as many goals as some may think.
His most prolific season was 93-94
In fact he only managed more than 10 goals in 5 seasons.
He scored 168 goals in 963 appearances. Paul Scholes got 155 in 718 appearances.
I wonder how he'd be viewed in the modern era of wingers being inverted goal-scorers?
This isn't me having a pop at Giggs, just saying that I thought he regularly got double figures.
His most prolific season was 93-94
In fact he only managed more than 10 goals in 5 seasons.
He scored 168 goals in 963 appearances. Paul Scholes got 155 in 718 appearances.
I wonder how he'd be viewed in the modern era of wingers being inverted goal-scorers?
This isn't me having a pop at Giggs, just saying that I thought he regularly got double figures.
This is the most interesting thing. In all honestly, he'd probably have played more on the right, higher up and with 3 CMs behind him with more instruction to score goals.
Different game, different systems. Wingers of yesteryears are more suited as wingbacks in the modern game.
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I feel like 4 is a really small number for this??
4 is a big number for Benteke
I would have thought one of our players would have held the record
I think our goals after 90 minutes are quite spread out. We pack the box so virtually anyone can get a goal including the keeper.
I don't. It's a goal in 90th+ minute and a winning goal.
Also that stat is winning goal. There’s plenty of goals 90+, but winning goals happen very rarely. We probably get 1 or 2 a season max. And as said, the last minute winners have a decent chance of being a big defender.
Insane amount of assists though.
I think he would work brillantly in a modern 3-4-2-1 or 3-4-1-2 formation. He is not a goal scoring threat like many modern (inverted) wingers, and he would be a bit to weak defensively for a fullback in a four man defence. But in such a formation he could play on the wing and be quite important for his team.
If Giggs came up in Spain in the mid 00s he would have been Iniesta
He’d have just adapted his game the way he had to when he couldn’t run as fast anymore.
Giggs was a good finisher, he'd regularly hit 20+ seasons as a wide forward in the modern game
In what way? Giggs didn't even come close to being anywhere near as good as Iniesta was. I know your point is based around him growing up in the Spanish system so would've likely been a much better player but I still can't see it personally. Iniesta is, IMO, the best midfield player of all time.
36 y.o. Iniesta is the fifth highest paid footballer, playing in J1 (Japanese League).
2001 FIFA Survey: approximately 250 million footballers worldwide.
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2019 FIFA Report:
TOTAL NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS* 128,983
Top 5:
MEXICO 9,753
BRAZIL 9,177
ENGLAND 5,935
ARGENTINA 3,920
TURKEY 3,693
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2019 FIFA Report:
TOTAL NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS* 128,983
Top 5:
MEXICO 9,753
BRAZIL 9,177
ENGLAND 5,935
ARGENTINA 3,920
TURKEY 3,693
I wonder how many countries have a football pyramid that has as many professionals tiers as England. In the Netherlands, for example, there are only two tiers of professional football; every else is amateurs (even if there are payments of some kind at the top amateur level).