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Wednesday, 19 August 2015

I Didn't Know That!

                                      Recognise the footballers in the film 'Escape To Victory'?


Manchester United and Manchester City have both had 2 sets of brothers playing for them. Rafael & Fabio Da Silva; Gary &Phil Neville  -  Sean & Bradley Wright-Phillips and Yaya & Kolo Toure.

In 1981 Liverpool were in 12th place at Christmas but went on to win the First Division Championship.

 In 1982 Steve Archibald appeared twice in the same episode of Top of the Pops singing 'We Have A Dream' with Scotland's World Cup Squad and 'Tottenham, Tottenham' with his Spurs team mates.

Bobby Moore played in the same side as Pele once ?  It was in the film 'Escape to Victory'.

Harry Redknapp won the 'Manager of the Month' award with 4 different clubs - West Ham, Portsmouth, Southampton and Tottenham.

Man City's Football Administrator Brian Marwood's England career lasted just 9 minutes in a game against Saudi Arabia in 1988.

Chris Sutton scored the Premier League's 5,000th goal whilst Les Ferdinand scored the 10,000th.

 Alan Mullery of Spurs was the first player to be sent off for England. He has stated that England manager Alf Ramsey paid his fine.


Roger Hunt scored the first goal on the first televised MOTD against Arsenal (above) at Anfield in 1964.

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