Groucho's Fact Hunt

[The Cowboy]

Used to get used as an emergency centre-forward, and put his head in where it hurts.

Was sound, was Mick. Me eldest brother used to get spares off him. Stopped him from chinning Andy King on the way home from a game in London (WHU, I think) because Andy told him he wern't that arsed they'd got beat....

Boo, don't like that stat. Goals need to be scored playing as a defender to count in my book (count towards the stat I mean, not in general).

 

[jaspercabbage]

Keown did score for England while an Everton player.

Remember listening to the game on the radio. It was a screamer from about 30 yards if my memory serves me right.

 

[Bilko]

When Aston Villa won the league on 80-81 ,they did so with 14 players,of which, none were current international footballers. Des Bremner had played once for Scotland while at Hibs,Jimmy Rimmer once while at Arsenal. After the championship was won ,Shaw,Withe,Morley,Evans & Cowans went on to represent their countries.
Club captain and Liverpool lad Dennis Mortimer was among the other players who never got international honours. (Mortimer btw was a super player).
what a reflection on the poor outfit they have in their ranks now !.

 

[edge]

Former Steaua Bucharest defender Popescu was actually a government informant during his playing career in totalitarian Romania.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Bobby Robson was the last English manager to win a European trophy, the ECWC with Barcelona 96-97.

Howard Kendall was the last to do so with an English club.

 

[Eggs]

.....Daniel Amokachi scored the first ever Champions League goal playing for Club Brugge in 1992. Not a lot of people know that.

 

[degsy]

About 50miles off shore there's an earthquake fault that runs down the w. coast of the usa.
There's a quake on average every 240yrs...the last one was 314yrs ago

 

[Bilko]

More Americans have died from guns in USA since 1968 (1.5m) than on battlefields in all wars in US history (1.4m).

quite amazing

 

[TheFinnFan]

More Americans have died from guns in USA since 1968 (1.5m) than on battlefields in all wars in US history (1.4m).

quite amazing

wow

 

[Seamus Colemole]

Katie Melua once played a concert 303 metres below sea level at the bottom of an oil rig.

She also had to have a live spider removed from her ear that had been living inside it for a week.

 

[summerisle]

Enver Hoxha, Albania's mad communist dictator for forty years, proclaimed his official title to be :
Supreme Comrade-Chairman-Prime Minister-Foreign Minister-Minister of War-Commander in Chief of the People's Army-Sole Hand-Enver Hoxha.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Enver Hoxha, Albania's mad communist dictator for forty years, proclaimed his official title to be :
Supreme Comrade-Chairman-Prime Minister-Foreign Minister-Minister of War-Commander in Chief of the People's Army-Sole Hand-Enver Hoxha.

But he never made it to be a Mod though.

 

[summerisle]

But he never made it to be a Mod though.

More weirdness from Albania, including the horrible fate of Ali Raxhedi.
http://www.losthighwaytimes.com/2007/04/comrade-loulou-and-fun-factory-chapter_20.html

 

[Fearthainn]

In Portuguese, the word Turquia (Turkey) has no meaning other than the name of the country. However, the word Peru means turkey.

A bit random how 2 different countries' names are the word for turkey in 2 different languages.

 

[Philw]

.....Daniel Amokachi scored the first ever Champions League goal playing for Club Brugge in 1992. Not a lot of people know that.

You've been on the bbc website...

About 50miles off shore there's an earthquake fault that runs down the w. coast of the usa.
There's a quake on average every 240yrs...the last one was 314yrs ago

*Puts on Will Smith mask*

Tick, tick, tick, tick Boom!