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David Seaman's ponytailed look is his most iconic and you'd presume it spanned a large section of his career, but he only wore it for about three years, these years being his final ones in professional football.
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In 9 seasons at Chelsea, Didier Drogba only scored more than 20 goals in just two seasons. In comparison, Diego Costa did it twice in 3 seasons, Harry Kane has done it continuously in past 5 seasons and Aguero in 8 out of 9 seasons.
Just shows goals is not the only metric of quality, specially when comparing players of different times.
In the 00s, I believe goals were split more among other players than they are today, not to mention you didn't see 6-7 goal trashing every other week.
I remember Anelka being top PL scorer with less than 20 goals. Unthinkable today.
 

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David Seaman's ponytailed look is his most iconic and you'd presume it spanned a large section of his career, but he only wore it for about three years, these years being his final ones in professional football.
Does anyone remember the urban legend that Seaman only started wearing his hair in a ponytail because Arsenal had a deal with a hair tie company and had to find someone to replace Petit as the representative?
 

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Just shows goals is not the only metric of quality, specially when comparing players of different times.
In the 00s, I believe goals were split more among other players than they are today, not to mention you didn't see 6-7 goal trashing every other week.
I remember Anelka being top PL scorer with less than 20 goals. Unthinkable today.
That shows Drogba wasn't reliable goal scorer and people forgot how inconsistent he was too. Also that Anelka season was in 2008-09, before that season Ronaldo scored 31 league goals and Henry, RVN regularly scored more than 20 league goals.

2008-09 was exception, we struggled to score a lot and Ronaldo was injured was first few months of the season.
 

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Patrice Evra came on (and scored) playing right back during United 7-1 Roma.

Sidenote, the bench included the likes of Dong and Eagles.
 

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Timo Werner is joint top scorer for Chelsea this season - both overall and in the league.
 

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Phil Foden has won the same amount of Premier Leagues as Frank Lampard.
 

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The European Cup Final is settled in one of 3 ways:

- regulation time
- extra time
- penalties

Utd's 3 x European Cups have been won in these 3 ways.
 

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Manchester United signed Carlos Tevez on loan....from some bloke.
 

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Klopp has managed in more Champions league finals than Guardiola.
 

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That if two defenders on the same team go down at the same time, they need not have to go off the pitch to be treated but have to be treated on the pitch.
 

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Joe Willock scored more league goals than any Chelsea player this season.
 

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Moyes finished in a higher league position with WHU (6th) than where her finished with Manchester United who were the defending champions (7th).

Was thinking about this the entire season.
 

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All top 5 clubs in EPL season 2020/21 made more points in away than in home fixtures.

City: 41 points home, 45 points away
ManUtd: 31 home, 43 points away
Liverpool: 33 home, 36 points away
Chelsea: 33 home, 34 points away
Leicester: 28 home, 38 points away
 

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Moyes finished in a higher league position with WHU (6th) than where her finished with Manchester United who were the defending champions (7th).

Was thinking about this the entire season.
He didn't finish the season, so it's not really true
 

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Moyes finished in a higher league position with WHU (6th) than where her finished with Manchester United who were the defending champions (7th).

Was thinking about this the entire season.
If we had given him time he would've got us up to 6th
 

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Kylian Mbappe and Danny Welbeck have the exact same record at international level. 42 games, 16 goals.
 

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Kylian Mbappe and Danny Welbeck have the exact same record at international level. 42 games, 16 goals.
Honestly, I'm actually quite impressed Welbeck scored as many as 16 goals for England. That's a very respectable record given the way his career has gone.
 

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Till he was 27, Yaya Toure had scored fewer than 25 goals in his club career. In fact those with long memories will recall he was one of the centre halves in the Rome final (2009).
 

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The highest paid goalkeeper in the world has missed more penalties than he has saved in the last five years.
 

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The highest paid goalkeeper in the world has missed more penalties than he has saved in the last five years.
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It's quite a feat as a goalkeeper to come out of a penalty shootout with the worst impression. Often, when your team wins, you are the hero, because you saved at least one penalty. And when your team loses, those that missed their penalty are to blame. But to concede every single penalty and to be the only one who misses must be unique (or at least extremely rare).
 

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It's quite a feat as a goalkeeper to come out of a penalty shootout with the worst impression. Often, when your team wins, you are the hero, because you saved at least one penalty. And when your team loses, those that missed their penalty are to blame. But to concede every single penalty and to be the only one who misses must be unique (or at least extremely rare).
I'm going to suggest that it has never happened before. The odds of the first 21 penalties being scored in a shootout, then the 22nd being missed by the second keeper to take one seems remarkably low.
 

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This was the 39th game Italy have played at the Euros, and the first time they’ve ever scored 3 goals.
 

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It's quite a feat as a goalkeeper to come out of a penalty shootout with the worst impression. Often, when your team wins, you are the hero, because you saved at least one penalty. And when your team loses, those that missed their penalty are to blame.
Possibly a case for Peter Shilton too at Italia '90. He was never saving any of the German penalties with his 'dive once they've kicked it' method and they knew that even a tame shot somewhere near the corner was job done, no need for power shots carrying that off-target risk. Pearce and Waddle just ensured the shootout ended sooner rather than later.
 

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Spain lost their first World cup qualifying match tonight since 1993.
 

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That shows Drogba wasn't reliable goal scorer and people forgot how inconsistent he was too. Also that Anelka season was in 2008-09, before that season Ronaldo scored 31 league goals and Henry, RVN regularly scored more than 20 league goals.

2008-09 was exception, we struggled to score a lot and Ronaldo was injured was first few months of the season.
Drogba wasn't really tasked with being an outright goal scorer though. His goal scoring stats aren't great but he always did a lot of work that went underappriciated (like being able to occupy two CB's.) Additionally, he was a real big game player in that he played in something like 9 or 10 finals for Chelsea and scored in 8 of them. He was almost like the reverse of a flat track bully.
 

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England played Hungary this week. The last time they did was in 2010. Frankie Fielding and Scott Loach were in the England squad.

Now plenty of players who have gone on to have less than amazing careers have made the squad at times like Geoff Thomas or Francis Jeffers but I had to google Fielding and Loach when it was mentioned on the radio the other day. :nervous: