Quiz Thread

Peppa Pig

St. Petersburg?

DDC1990

Is it the next biggest Russian city after Moscow and St. Petersburg.

One of the Siberian cities or something?

EDIT: Using Wikipedia Yekaterinburg? It has one team FC Ural Sverdlorvsk Oblast :P

Al Capwned

Gav said Eastern Europe and was sort of right????

Sofia, Bulgaria?

Will I Amnt

Yep, it's St Petersburg.

Lovely Bloke

The one about the PL and Bundesligs

Answers

Arjen Robben, Jens Lehmann, Michael Ballack, Edin Dzeko, Owen Hargreaves.

roanoke

This should be straightforward enough:

Which former League of Ireland player scored a goal in the Confederations Cup?

Lawrence1895

Was it Wes Hoolahan?

Jarrod

Joseph N'do.

roanoke

Lars1916 wrote: »

Was it Wes Hoolahan?

Jarrod wrote: »

Joseph N'do.

No, not either of these two.

Green Giant

roanoke wrote: »

This should be straightforward enough:

Which former League of Ireland player scored a goal in the Confederations Cup?

Was it a New Zealander named Raf de Gregorio?

roanoke

Green Giant wrote: »

Was it a New Zealander named Raf de Gregorio?

Correct. Ex Bohemians.

roanoke

Main question:
Which famous former German international footballer was sacked at half-time in a game during the 90's?

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As a bonus question which English second division player was also famously sacked at half-time in the 90s? (If you can name the club or the manager who sacked him then I'll give it to you also)

Al Capwned

Heard of a manager being sacked at half time alright, but not a player.
Cant remember who that manager was - may have read it in Four Four Two???

Jarrod

Bonus one is Leyton Orient. John Sitton was the manager and I can't remember the players name.

amiable

Al Capwned wrote: »

Heard of a manager being sacked at half time alright, but not a player.
Cant remember who that manager was - may have read it in Four Four Two???

Martin Jol was supposedly sacked at half time during a Spurs match

Jarrod

I know there's a video of it one Youtube. After he sacks the bloke he challenges someone else to a sort out and tells him to 'bring his dinner', one of the funniest 'threatening' lines I've heard.

On a side note, does anyone else dread coming on boards and seeing that roanoke was the last poster on this thread? It usually results in a very unproductive day for me as I rack my brains for every FA Cup final and obscure football league memory I have

roanoke

Jarrod wrote: »

Bonus one is Leyton Orient. John Sitton was the manager and I can't remember the players name.

Correct on Sitton/Orient (the player was Terry Howard).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYDIMWpcKqI

Jarrod

I just watched an interview with John Sitton from last year on Youtube. He never managed again after that infamous documentary aired and now drives a taxi. He speaks like a stereotypical taxi driver, lamenting the foreign influence on the British game and the millionaires wages.

Oat23

Toni Schumacher was sacked at half-time by Fortuna Köln.

Edit: I read the question again, maybe that isn't the answer

Famous former football-turned manager or like with the bonus question, an active player?

Captain Havoc

Jarrod wrote: »

I just watched an interview with John Sitton from last year on Youtube. He never managed again after that infamous documentary aired and now drives a taxi. He speaks like a stereotypical taxi driver, lamenting the foreign influence on the British game and the millionaires wages.

I watched that also, he does look and talk like a typical taxi driver.

roanoke

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Toni Schumacher was sacked at half-time by Fortuna Köln.

Edit: I read the question again, maybe that isn't the answer

Famous former football-turned manager or like with the bonus question, an active player?

You are correct. Harald 'Toni' Schumacher, most famous for his antics vs France at WC82.

Jarrod

Captain Havoc wrote: »

I watched that also, he does look and talk like a typical taxi driver.

There's 4 parts, I just about managed to sit through one of them and couldn't take anymore.

Hamadeusentman

Peppa Pig wrote: »

David Bentley scored a hat trick against Man Utd

Correct.

Lawrence1895

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Toni Schumacher was sacked at half-time by Fortuna Köln.

Edit: I read the question again, maybe that isn't the answer

Famous former football-turned manager or like with the bonus question, an active player?

Bonus question from me
What was the name of the sporting director, who sacked him?

Anyway, Toni Schumacher went to Borussia Dortmund shortly after as a goalkeeper's coach, I met him a few times, sound lad, just a bit crazy

batistuta9

cambo2008 wrote: »

Yep, it's St Petersburg.

who's PSG's local derby with?

Peppa Pig

batistuta9 wrote: »

who's PSG's local derby with?

No one really but St. Petersburg has over double the population of Paris making it the biggest with no local derby.

Will I Amnt

batistuta9 wrote: »

who's PSG's local derby with?

They don't have one either. The question was based on largest city per capita.
Population of Paris approx 2.2m
St Petersburg approx 4.9m

batistuta9

Peppa Pig wrote: »

No one really but St. Petersburg has over double the population of Paris making it the biggest with no local derby.

what population area are you using for that?

paris has about 12 million

roanoke

I really must brush up on my geography. I always had this idea that Paris had well over 7 million, but I guess they must be counting suburbs and metro areas etc. Very confusing to know what's what!

I'll have to brush up on this list tomorrow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population

Will I Amnt

batistuta9 wrote: »

what population area are you using for that?

paris has about 12 million

The City itself is recognised as having a population of 2.2 million. When you include the metropolitan area it would be about 12 million.

batistuta9

cambo2008 wrote: »

The City itself is recognised as having a population of 2.2 million. When you include the metropolitan area it would be about 12 million.

if you include the Paris metro area it's about 17 million

the urban area is about 12 million

not a trick question, but very very pedantic :pac:

batistuta9

roanoke wrote: »

I really must brush up on my geography. I always had this idea that Paris had well over 7 million, but I guess they must be counting suburbs and metro areas etc. Very confusing to know what's what!

I'll have to brush up on this list tomorrow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population

but if you use the limits like that London & New York only have 8 million

roanoke

Q: What unique international (ie while playing a game for their country) feat did Michel Platini, Alan Shearer and Robbie Keane manage during their careers?

GavRedKing

Score on their first games as captains of the national teams?

roanoke

GavRedKing wrote: »

Score on their first games as captains of the national teams?

No, nothing to do with being captain, but you're right insofar as it has to do with scoring goals in a particular game.

Peppa Pig

Scored in normal time and in the penalty shootout but still ended up on the losing team?

Idu

One I heard the other day:

Six players who have played in the champions league for Real Madrid and Barcelona

Green Giant

roanoke wrote: »

No, nothing to do with being captain, but you're right insofar as it has to do with scoring goals in a particular game.

Scored on their 100th caps?

Idu wrote: »

One I heard the other day:

Six players who have played in the champions league for Real Madrid and Barcelona

I think I have four:

Luis Figo
Ronaldo
Javier Saviola
Michael Laudrup

Skylinehead

Idu wrote: »

One I heard the other day:

Six players who have played in the champions league for Real Madrid and Barcelona

Eto'o?

Idu

Green Giant wrote: »

Scored on their 100th caps?



I think I have four:

Luis Figo
Ronaldo
Javier Saviola
Michael Laudrup

Not Ronaldo. Other 3 are right

Idu

Skylinehead wrote: »

Eto'o?

yep

roanoke

Peppa Pig wrote: »

Scored in normal time and in the penalty shootout but still ended up on the losing team?

Michael Owen and Gary Lineker (and others) have done that too.

Green Giant wrote: »

Scored on their 100th caps?

IIRC Shearer only played around 60 games and Platini maybe 70-80?

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I'll give a clue : Keane did it in the shortest amount of time (approx 30mins). Platini took around 94 minutes and Shearer took even longer.

Jax Teller

Luis Enrique ?

You sure about Ronaldo not being right ?

Al Capwned

Jax Teller wrote: »

Luis Enrique ?

You sure about Ronaldo not being right ?

He was only one season with Barca and they won the Cup Winners Cup that year iirc.

jmayo

roanoke wrote: »

Michael Owen and Gary Lineker (and others) have done that too.



IIRC Shearer only played around 60 games and Platini maybe 70-80?

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I'll give a clue : Keane did it in the shortest amount of time (approx 30mins). Platini took around 94 minutes and Shearer took even longer.

Has it anything to do with scoring hat tricks in Stadia that are about to be knocked down or not used for internationals anymore ?

roanoke

jmayo wrote: »

Has it anything to do with scoring hat tricks in Stadia that are about to be knocked down or not used for internationals anymore ?

I like your guess but that's probably more obscure/specific than I was thinking. To answer your question, no the stadium each player did the feat in doesn't matter (also it's not hat-trick related).

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Another clue : Zidane didn't manage this feat, but probably/possibly would have if things had turned out differently.

Fr Tod Umptious

roanoke wrote: »

Q: What unique international (ie while playing a game for their country) feat did Michel Platini, Alan Shearer and Robbie Keane manage during their careers?

Score an injury time equalizer v (West) Germany

Kiwi_knock

Scored two penalties in a game.

roanoke

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Score an injury time equalizer v (West) Germany

No. All three did it vs three different teams.

Will I Amnt

roanoke wrote: »

No. All three did it vs three different teams.

Anything to do with penalties?