Fairly sure that's where I lifted it from. Going to change now that mega-money 'glamour' clubs (Chelsea/PSG etc) are attracting the oligarch types - leaving City out of the equation. Capital cities haven't done too well, and I could have added Berlin, but you have to leave Amsterdam and Madrid out of the equation to make it work.
Weird things about football that are true but don't sound it
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Fairly sure that's where I lifted it from. Going to change now that mega-money 'glamour' clubs (Chelsea/PSG etc) are attracting the oligarch types - leaving City out of the equation. Capital cities haven't done too well, and I could have added Berlin, but you have to leave Amsterdam and Madrid out of the equation to make it work.
And he's married to Shakira.
This is mostly a western European thing.
Kyiv, Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Prague, Zagreb and Moscow all dominate football historically in their respective countries.
Then there’s Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Asunción, La Paz, Caracas and Lima in South America.
Danish football has also largely been dominated by first Brøndby IF (just outside Copenhagen) and then FC Copenhagen in more recent times.
Ashley young is closing in on top ten all time premiership assists list
And Berlin. Nottingham have won more than the 5 largest cities in Europe.
ballack lost the treble in 1 week. 3games 3 loses 0 trophies.
Ill bet at least 1/3 of those assists were crosses to Fellaini.
Guiseppe Bergomi has played in four world cup tournaments for Italy.
Never played a single world cup qualification match though.
Never played a single world cup qualification match though.
Gerrard never won a league title . Shearer only went to Newcastle to win trophies.
Liverpool had a number 9 that went the entire season failing to score a goal in any competition.
(That wasn't down to injury either, he was just shit)
(That wasn't down to injury either, he was just shit)
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Steaua Bucharest won what is now the Champions League. Against Barca. On penalties. With Barca missing all penalties against a keeper called Duckadam.
Karim Benzema has scored more Champions League goals than Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Thierry Henry and Andriy Shevchenko.
- There is a bigger age difference between Ronaldo and Messi than Jones and Bailly.
- Lingard is older than Pogba and Lukaku
Which shit striker? Origi, aspas, voronin, Carroll, Babel, Borini or Lambert?
Lingard is also born in the same year as Jones.
Paul Pogba scored more league goals in Serie A in four seasons than Zinedine Zidane did in five seasons.
Not to be a smart ass, but still: Moscow, Istanbul, St. Petersburg and Madrid are comfortably larger than Paris or Rome (and Berlin, mostly). So basically Madrid fecks up the statistics.
Ouch baby, very ouch!Which shit striker? Origi, aspas, voronin, Carroll, Babel, Borini or Lambert?
It wasn't any of them
. It was El Hadji Diouf. Horrible player but an even worse person (which is really difficult considering how shite he actually was)Gabi was Atletico Madrid’s captain in both their Champions League finals, but never got a single cap for Spain.
Ashley Cole has more England caps than Sir Bobby Charlton.
Austrian club Rapid Wien has more german league titles than Bayer Leverkusen
Edit: or Schalke 04. Only mention those 2 as those are the "biggest" clubs in germany that haven't won the league
Edit: or Schalke 04. Only mention those 2 as those are the "biggest" clubs in germany that haven't won the league
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Bob Paisley is Englands most successful manager winning 20 trophies in 9 yrs. Yes SAF won more trophies (38) but it took him 27 yrs to do it.
So Augero is the best striker ever in the premier league, because his games to goal ratio is better than Alan Shearer , but Shearer has scored more goals.
No Premier League manager has retained their job for a full season after winning the Premier League since Sir Alex Ferguson in 2011.
Zidane has only won one champions league in his whole career.
Micheal Owen has scored in a major cup final for Manutd.
Phil Neville has played more games for Everton than Manutd.
David Beckham only won one major honour in 5 years at Real Madrid.
Micheal Owen has scored in a major cup final for Manutd.
Phil Neville has played more games for Everton than Manutd.
David Beckham only won one major honour in 5 years at Real Madrid.
Germany has faced Brazil only once in a world cup (2002 Final)
Germany never beat Italy in an offical match
Greece won the European Championships
1.FC Koeln was record champion in Bundesliga
80% of footballs are manufactured in Pakistan
The North Korean Rungrado May Day Stadium is the largest football stadium in the world (150k capacity)
Greenland can't join the FIFA because not enough grass grows for a football field
Germany never beat Italy in an offical match
Greece won the European Championships
1.FC Koeln was record champion in Bundesliga
80% of footballs are manufactured in Pakistan
The North Korean Rungrado May Day Stadium is the largest football stadium in the world (150k capacity)
Greenland can't join the FIFA because not enough grass grows for a football field
Spurs have conceded the second most goals in Premier League history
Everton have conceded the most, and lost the most games too
Everton have conceded the most, and lost the most games too
So how is Bob Paisley more successful I'd Alex Ferguson won nearly DOUBLE what he won?
You need a tagline to explain your mistake.
Every World Cup final since 1982 has had an Inter player featuring in it.
Am I missing something? 7-1...
That’s not true. He played 386 games for United and 303 for Everton.
And Germany knocked Italy out of Euro 2016.
To be fair it’s not like it was a memorable game or anything.
The amazing stat about the 1-7 game is that it was Brazil’s first competitive loss at home since 1975. In a World Cup semi final. By six goals. And the scoreline flattered them.
That one is not true in regards to Schalke. They won the german title 6 times between 34‘ and 42‘, plus one title in 58‘. They just never won the Bundesliga title because Bundesliga started in 1963-1964, but Rapid didn‘t either, they won their title in 41‘.
Puskás started 77 games for Hungary, scored 84 goals.
feck I loved seeing sideshow bob embarrass himself
Oh, sorry. Wasn't looking that much into Schalke. Thanks for the info
Last Sunday really brought back memories