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big up to MMIM who wins with 1. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applaus.gif" alt="" />

 

MMIM - 1

nette - 0.5

cantos - 0.5

olaf - 0

bn1 - 0

kaiser - minus 2. muuug.

 

1) name the only british club to have a 100% record against barcelona - 2 home wins, 2 away wins?

 

Dundee United!!

 

2) name the 4 premiership players with 100 plus international caps

 

van der sar

poom

reyna

naybet

 

3) name a player still playing today who has played in the top flight in england, spain, germany, france and italy.

 

Florin Radiciou. stuttgart, ac milan, espanyol, west ham, monaco

 

4) which current or past premiership player's surname is worth the most points in a game of scrabble?

 

West Brom goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak scores a whopping 36 points (5+1+1+10+3+10+1+5 = 36), which puts him joint top with Aston Villa's Eric Djemba-Djemba (2+8+1+3+3+1+2+8+1+3+3+1). Close behind come former Chelsea defender Jakob Kjeldbjerg (31), Tottenham defender Goran Bunjevcevic and ex-Spurs man Paolo Tramezzani (both 30).

 

5) which team did the late pope john paul II support?

 

cracovia cracow

 

Throughout his long and pious life, Pope John Paul II worshipped only one god. But when it came to football teams, he was much freer with his affections. For the pontiff, a handy goalkeeper in his youth, had ties to at least six sides - including Liverpool, Barcelona and Fulham.

 

His alleged support of Fulham, in particular, has journeyed from urban myth to apparent fact - with local legend having it that John Paul II stood on the terraces at Craven Cottage in the 1930s when he was studying as a priest in Roehampton.

Sadly, the story is untrue - for one thing, the Pope, born in 1920, wasn't ordained until 1946.

 

(An aside: when the Daily Star reported his support for the Cottagers as fact - and cunningly doctored a photo of his holiness holding a Fulham scarf to illustrate the story - the paper was reported to the Press Complaints Commission and forced to apologise.)

 

The story does not end there, mind. In 1999, Ken Myers of the supporters' group the Fulham Independent Fanline phoned the Vatican to ask about the rumours, later telling reporters: "I'd heard the Pope was a fan so, as it was Easter, I thought I'd give him a ring. I couldn't believe it when I got through to his press spokesman. This guy even knew we were playing Wigan and was happy to talk about it."

 

Pope John Paul II's special envoy, Kieron Conroy, was a bit less forward on the subject, however. "The Pope wishes Fulham fans all the best," he said. "He has written before hoping Fulham's fortunes would be reversed and offers his support, such as he can give it."

 

The Pope was also a keen Liverpool fan, at least according to the club's Polish keeper, Jerzy Dudek. "I spoke to a couple of guys who are very close to the Pope, and they told me he is always watching our games and he is always thinking of me when Liverpool play," he revealed last year after visiting the Vatican.

 

This list of clubs doesn't end there, however. The pontiff was also an honorary member of several European clubs, including - bizarrely - both the German side Schalke (a strongly Catholic club that signed him up in 1987) and their bitter local rivals Borussia Dortmund (which he "joined" earlier this year).

 

The Pope had a lifelong Barcelona membership card - No 108,000 - which he was given after performing mass at the Nou Camp stadium, in front of 120,000 people, in November 1982. However, rumours that he was a season-ticker holder are wide of the mark.

 

But despite all these fanciful affiliations, most Poles will tell you the Pope really only had eyes for one team - Cracovia Cracow.

 

The evidence fits: as Marek Ignatowicz and others point out, the pontiff was born 30 miles from Krakow, undertook his university and seminary studies in the city and watched the team from the terraces in his youth. That support seems to have lingered until the end: he granted the team's players and staff a private audience in the Vatican earlier this year.

 

After giving them his blessing, the pope assured the team he still supported them. They weren't alone, that's all.

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no googling!

1) name the only british club to have a 100% record against barcelona - 2 home wins, 2 away wins?

2) name the 4 premiership players with 100 plus international caps

3) name a player still playing today who has played in the top flight in england, spain, germany, france and italy.

4) which current or past premiership player's surname is worth the most points in a game of scrabble?

5) which team did the late pope john paul II support?


1) Rangers
2) Van Der Sar, Kanu, Bergkamp, Dallagio
3) Hamman
4) Hollely-Bessey
5) Juve
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thank google jnr for the early end to the competition westy. van der sar would have got you joint top with billy ( <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applaus.gif" alt="" /> ) and mmim <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applaus.gif" alt="" />

 

 

bn1 - on appeal, penalty reduced. final score 0.5

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