Thursday trivia...

[paokman]

And the answers are.....

 

1) Name the UK cities to host more than one European/Champions League semi-final?

London (Arsenal, Chelsea & Tottenham), Glasgow (Celtic & Rangers) and Dundee (United and Dundee)

 

2) Who was the first non-UK manager of a Premier League club?

Dr. Jozef Vengloš - Aston Villa (threw a curve ball on this one as the question should have said top flight club, not Premier League)

 

3) What connects these teams: Man United, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Everton, Coventry and Accrington Stanley.

They are the only sides from the current 92, not to have been involved in play-offs within or to the Football League

 

4) and what connects this little lot too: Lincoln City, Accrington Stanley, Aldershot, Walsall, Hartlepool and Southend.

They are the only sides from the current 92 to have never played at Wembley in any competition

 

5) Which player, who went on to make nearly 250 Football League appearances, scored the first away goal ever conceded by Hornchurch in the FA Vase?

Phil Walker, who scored the only goal of the game for Epsom & Ewell in the fifth round in 1975, before moving on to Millwall.

 

6) Why did India forfeit the right to play in the 1950 World Cup finals?

As Bird Brain rightly said, they were refused permission by FIFA to play in bare feet

 

7) It is an urban myth that Jairzinho is the only player to score in every round of the World Cup finals.. Who is the other?

Uruguay's Ghiggia in 1950. True, Juste Fontaine scored in every game for France in 1958, but they didn't reach the final

 

8) What local Essex non-league team (now defunct) were drawn to play Manchester United in the FA Cup, but lost in a replay thereby missing their chance.

South Weald. As to where they played and it what league I know not the answer. But in 1905-6 they drew away to Staple Hill - from the Bristol area - 0-0 in the 4th Qualifying Round, with the winners drawn at Manchester United. Unfortunately for Essex history, the Weald lost 1-4 at home in the replay and never entered the competitioin again.

 

9) Which player has played the most games at Wembley (Finals, internationals, etc)?

According to my sources, it is one Tony Adams - 60 times.

 

10) Coca-Cola, Nationwide, Endsleigh, Barclays, Canon and which other company have sponsored the Football League?

Again, Bird Brain came up trumps here and indeed it was the defunct national paper, Today, who sponsered the FL for the 1986-7 season.

 

Thank you and good night..

 

 

 

In the book " Lost Football Grounds of Essex" it says South Weald played at Warley Road , Brentwood and ceased to exist in 1912 after they fielded W Bailey in the final of the Romford Charity Cup when he was under suspension. When the ECFA fined the club three guineas the Chairman , a Mr Pike, in a fit of pique folded the club and took his ball home with him.

 

Got the book in Swan Books in Upminster for chrissie, lots of little anecdotes and good value at £14.95

[coupwotcoup]

I can hear the sound of pounding feet galloping towards the keyboards as we speak

Sounds an interesting book, will have to look out for it. Just did a Google Map search and there is no Warley Road in South Weald, only on the Brentwood side of the A12.

I would imagine that in the early years of the last century, most clubs would have played in their own conurbation (apart from Dial Square/Woolwich Arsenal/The Arsenal/Arsenal).

There could be a two-fold answer to this of course. Warley Road, South Weald may have had a change of name over the years, or South Weald was to Brentwood then as Havering is to Romford and Hornchurch now.

Manchester United, who had only just changed their name from Newton Heath three years previous, were not the big fish of now in those days and were to win Division Two that season (Championship for our younger viewers).

[Nutchutney]

2) Who was the first non-UK manager of a Premier League club?

Dr. Jozef Vengloš - Aston Villa (threw a curve ball on this one as the question should have said top flight club, not Premier League)

 

That's not a curve ball, that's a poorly worded question and therefore I believe the answer is Ossie Ardiles.

 

Good questions to set the grey matter buzzing.

[coupwotcoup]

2) Who was the first non-UK manager of a Premier League club?

Dr. Jozef Vengloš - Aston Villa (threw a curve ball on this one as the question should have said top flight club, not Premier League)

 

That's not a curve ball, that's a poorly worded question and therefore I believe the answer is Ossie Ardiles.

 

Good questions to set the grey matter buzzing.

 

Further update to question four.. Southend have played at Wembley!

In 1930, Orient had to rebuild part of their ground and played two home league games at Wembley (why West Ham or somebody else local wouldn't let them share, who knows).

One was against Brentford and the other was Southend.

That's the trouble with history, you find out something new every day..