Football trivia

[METALMAN]

That is a good prize.

[Colly]

I'm quitting while I'm ahead.

I tell a lie, I did the second one, got another 7 out of 10 and got David Ginola. Wonder if I can get a clean sweep?

Can't believe I got Colin Cooper wrong. He looks too young.

[nihilist]

I got 8/10, 7/10, 3/10, 2/10 

 

From Newcastle to Swindon Town

[Colly]

1 and 5 on the last two. 3rd one was bloody hard.

[TCO]

I got 6/10, 6/10, 5/10, 8/10

Although I hit on some guesses along the way because most of these are just slightly before my living memory kicks in!

[METALMAN]

5/10, 4/10, 3/10 and 1/10!

Oh dear. I recognised most of the names but had no idea what they looked like. Great questions though!

[Naitch]

I played them out of order because my tabs opened funnily. I got 2/10, 2/10, 3/10, 0/10, all rated as Swindon. The only one that was more than an uneducated guess was

a Norwich City choice where I could rule one out as Gary Holt and managed to make the correct pick from the remaining three. Unfortunately, I failed to recognise Dmitri Kharine immediately when he came up, and went for a random name before I processed that he was even an option. 

I reckon I'd do a lot better at a 00s version on account of actually having memories from that decade.

[Chris2K]

9/10, 8/10, 7/10, 7/10

I was a Merlin sticker collector from 93/94 onwards and I think a lot of the pictures were the same as the stickers which helped significantly.

[Gazz]

25 minutes ago, Chris2K said:

9/10, 8/10, 7/10, 7/10

I was a Merlin sticker collector from 93/94 onwards and I think a lot of the pictures were the same as the stickers which helped significantly.

This, there were questions there that I could have answered without the options but I'd be absolute shit at a modern day version of this.

[FLiam]

10/10, 6/10, 3/10, 5/10

Thought I'd ace them all after the first one. 

I remember Jan Stesjkal being heavily featured on old 'Saves Galore' VHS that my Dad used to have. 

[Malenko]

On 16/04/2020 at 01:40, Troy said:

GK - Akinfeev
LB - Schmelzer
CB - Van Dijk
CB - Maldini
RB - Coleman
CM - Ruben Neves
CM - Casemiro
LW - Giggs
CAM - De Bruyne
RW - Messi
ST - Kane

Please tell me none of these clash  

I regret to inform you your central midfield partnership played for Porto. 

[Kyle]

4 minutes ago, Malenko said:

I regret to inform you your central midfield partnership played for Porto. 

Why are you the way you are?  

Attempt number two and if anybody clashes in this I give up.  

GK - Akinfeev
LB - Schmelzer
CB - Van Dijk
CB - Adams
RB - Coleman
CM - Totti
CM - Casemiro
LW - Giggs
CAM - De Bruyne
RW - Messi
ST - Joao Felix

[METALMAN]

6 hours ago, Troy said:

Why are you the way you are?  

Attempt number two and if anybody clashes in this I give up.  

GK - Akinfeev
LB - Schmelzer
CB - Van Dijk
CB - Adams
RB - Coleman
CM - Totti
CM - Casemiro
LW - Giggs
CAM - De Bruyne
RW - Messi
ST - Joao Felix

Chris Coleman and Ryan Giggs are both Welsh

 

 

 

 

(sorry for the lame joke)

[Cymbols]

Alright. Same as the last one, but strongest XI English side from your lifetime. But only one from any club.

Bonus points if you can squeeze Crouchy in.

[Adam]

GK: Nick Pope

RB: Gary Neville

CB: John Terry

CB: Tony Adams

LB: Leighton Baines

RM: Trevor Sinclair

CM: Steven Gerrard

CM: Kalvin Phillips

LM: Jadon Sancho

CF: Harry Kane

CF: Alan Shearer

Much like Sven, I got very stuck on the left midfield slot so had to cop out and go with Grealish in the end. If I can think of someone better I'll sub him out, but I think this is a pretty good team to be honest and I don't think there's any club overlap.

EDIT: Immediately realised Terry ended his career at Villa. Doh. Back to the drawing board on that left winger then...

EDIT2: Kane played on loan at Leicester and Norwich too. Bye Maddison . This is doing my head in now.

EDIT3: Sancho never played a senior game for Man City and Phillips is pretty good. It'll do. Pretty good team all told.

[TCO]

I'd do this for Ireland but you'd have to include Robbie Keane and his boyhood clubs would make the task nearly impossible!

[METALMAN]

David Seaman

Michael Gray

Richard Rufus

Terry Butcher

Matt Lowton

Jadon Sancho

Matt le Tissier

Frank Lampard

Steven Gerrard

Gary Lineker

Paul Scholes

 

I think that works...but I did this on my phone so couldn’t really check out as thoroughly as last time 

Edited April 18, 2020 by metalman

[TCO]

Sancho and Lampard both played for Man City

[METALMAN]

I had no idea Sancho was at Man City. 
 

But how are we doing this though? Do you actually have to have played for the team to be disqualified, or is having a contract with them sufficient? 😏

[Adam]

Sancho never played at senior level for City, so he doesn't clash with Lampard.

David Seaman did though.