Quiz Thread

roanoke

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

well the Denmark game was Eoin Hand's last and the next game was v Wales which was Charlton's first but that was 1986 not 1987

Yep, Charlton's first Ireland game was vs Wales in 86. However that is not part of the connection. In fact the Welsh player (whilst already an international player by 1986) did not play in that March 86 game vs Ireland at all. That might be a hint in itself.

Hint : I only mention "Dublin" because that's where the Dane played. It could however have been probably anywhere in Europe. Also the Welshman who did it in 87 didn't play vs Ireland at all that day. So rule out any/all Ireland connections. It just happened that vs Ireland in Dublin was one of the games in question occurred.

Al Capwned

So a dane v Ireland in 85
A Welshman v unknown team in 87

ANd not likely to happen nowadays...

roanoke

Al Capwned wrote: »

So a dane v Ireland in 85
A Welshman v unknown team in 87

ANd not likely to happen nowadays...

Yes. I'd say it would not happen in the modern era (not at least in UEFA anyway). I guess it might still happen in one of the other continental federations, but I'd be tempted to say there's rules and regulations nowadays to prevent it happening anywhere in the world .

Another Hint : Both the Dane and the Welshman went onto club management. One of the two players even went on to manage the club that was mentioned in the original question (the club they both played for).

Jarrod

Is it Swansea? I reckon Laudrup and maybe Hughes, dunno if they played for Barca at the same time. I still have no idea on the feat though.

EDIT: Just re-read your clue, obviously not those two then.

roanoke

Jarrod wrote: »

Is it Swansea? I reckon Laudrup and maybe Hughes, dunno if they played for Barca at the same time. I still have no idea on the feat though.

EDIT: Just re-read your clue, obviously not those two then.

Note : I mentioned they played for the same club when they did this feat. This is so. However they never played for this club at the same time. The two players never played together at club level. (I might have phrased that bit poorly). Rereading the q I can see how that could have been taken two different ways.

Jarrod

Okay, so just to see what we have.

A Danish player in '85, in Dublin, and a Welsh player in '87 both achieved a feat unlikely to be seen again. They played for the same club at the time of the feat, but never played together. Both went into management and one of them managed said club.

Am I missing anything?

osarusan

Jarrod wrote: »

Okay, so just to see what we have.

A Danish player in '85, in Dublin, and a Welsh player in '87 both achieved a feat unlikely to be seen again. They played for the same club at the time of the feat, but never played together. Both went into management and one of them managed said club.

Am I missing anything?

They played for the same club, but at different times.

I think I know who the Welsh player is, purely because I know of a welsh player active at that time who did something unique, but it seems like th OP is looking for a full answer. No idea about the Dane.

roanoke

Jarrod wrote: »

Okay, so just to see what we have.

A Danish player in '85, in Dublin, and a Welsh player in '87 both achieved a feat unlikely to be seen again. They played for the same club at the time of the feat, but never played together. Both went into management and one of them managed said club.

Am I missing anything?

That is all correct. Also I think I mentioned they never played together at club level for any club.

Jarrod

osarusan wrote: »

They played for the same club, but at different times.

I think I know who the Welsh player is, purely because I know of a welsh player active at that time who did something unique, but it seems like th OP is looking for a full answer. No idea about the Dane.

Why don't you say who you think it is and what they did and maybe we can come up with the Dane too. Roanoke doesn't have to say if it's right or wrong until we formulate a full answer. No bother if you'd rather not, this one is driving me mad though.

roanoke

Osarusan if you think you know the answer then you should hazard a guess. You don't have to name either of the players to be right as far as I'm concerned.

osarusan

Mark Hughes played two games in a day at some stage in his career. That's the only thing I can think of as unique, and you also mentioned that it would probably not be allowed now?

roanoke

osarusan wrote: »

Mark Hughes played two games in a day at some stage in his career. That's the only thing I can think of as unique, and you also mentioned that it would probably not be allowed now?

Correct! Both played for club and country on the same day :

Mark Hughes :

On 11 November 1987 he played two competitive matches in one day: firstly he played for Wales against Czechoslovakia in Prague in a Euro 88 qualifier, and he was then driven across the border into Germany to come on as a substitute for Bayern in their 2nd round cup replay victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach.

The other player was Soren Lerby of Denmark

His commitment is attested to by the fact he chose to play two competitive matches in two different countries on a single day on 13 November 1985. First in the afternoon a World Cup qualifier with Denmark in Republic of Ireland, later in the evening a DFB-Pokal match with Bayern Munich against VfL Bochum.[1]

GavRedKing

Moral over the story, never join Bayern or you'll play twice in a day. :pac:

Good question though and a very interesting one at that.

Jarrod

Okay, new question.

Since Alan Shearer in '96, eight players have broken the world transfer record fee. Name them. Bonus points for the clubs involved.

GavRedKing

4 I can think of

Denilson to Betis from Sao Paolo ( i think)
Crespo to Lazio from Parma.
Zidane to Real from Juventus
Ronaldo to Real from Utd


I think Christian Vieri is another one, to Inter from Parma.

Kerrydude1981

Jarrod wrote: »

Okay, new question.

Since Alan Shearer in '96, eight players have broken the world transfer record fee. Name them. Bonus points for the clubs involved.

Buffon Parma to Juventus?

Denlison to Betis?

Idu

Figo. Barcelona to Madrid
Ronaldo. Barcelona to Inter
Kaka. Milan to Real

DDC1990

Zidane, Kaka, Denilson and Christiano Ronaldo off the top of my head.

Zidane was Juve- Madrid
Denilson was some brazillian club to Real Betis (odd one)
Kaka Milan-Madrid
Ronaldo- UTD-Madrid

Madrid have a few more don't they. Figo or Robinho?

Jarrod

Denilson (Sao Paulo to Betis), Crespo (Parma to Lazio), Zidane (Juve to Real), Ronaldo (Man Utd to Real), Figo (Barca to Real) all correct.

Vieri is correct but went from Lazio to Inter.

Buffon is incorrect.

2 more to get.

Jarrod

Kaka, AC Milan to Real is correct. One more left.

DDC1990

Jarrod wrote: »

Kaka, AC Milan to Real is correct. One more left.

Is there not 8?

Idu said Ronaldo (the real one) from Barca to Inter. That should be 8?

Ronaldo x2
Figo
Kaka
Vieri
Denilson
Crespo
Zidane

Jarrod

Yep, apologies, I missed that in his post. That's all eight then.

Kolido

Maybe it was asked already, but here's one,

Which 3 teams have won the top 4 divisions in England, namely divisions 1-4 in old money.

Al Capwned

Derby?
Forest?
Preston?

batistuta9

Kolido wrote: »

Maybe it was asked already, but here's one,

Which 3 teams have won the top 4 divisions in England, namely divisions 1-4 in old money.

Huddersfield
Leeds
Birmingham
Middlesborough

Kolido

Al Capwned wrote: »

Derby?
Forest?
Preston?

batistuta9 wrote: »

Huddersfield
Leeds
Birmingham
Middlesborough

Preston is correct, 2 more to get

Oat23

I'll stick up a tricky question..

Name the German player who has scored a goal in the top 4 divisions of German football.

Al Capwned

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I'll stick up a tricky question..

Name the German player who has scored a goal in the top 4 divisions of German football.

LARS!!!!!! You're wanted here.... :pac:

batistuta9

Kolido wrote: »

Preston is correct, 2 more to get

Wolves

batistuta9

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I'll stick up a tricky question..

Name the German player who has scored a goal in the top 4 divisions of German football.

Marco Reus

Beasty

Kolido wrote: »

Maybe it was asked already, but here's one,

Which 3 teams have won the top 4 divisions in England, namely divisions 1-4 in old money.

Preston
Burnley
Wolves

Oat23

batistuta9 wrote: »

Marco Reus

Nope! Scored for RW Ahlen in the Regionalliga and the 2.Bundesliga then for Gladbach & Dortmund in the Bundesliga. No goals/appearances in the 3.liga.

Hint:

Current BL player, scored in all divisions for the same club

That should narrow it down a good bit.

Kolido

batistuta9 wrote: »

Wolves

Beasty wrote: »

Preston
Burnley
Wolves

Yep thats the 3

Washington Irving

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Nope! Scored for RW Ahlen in the Regionalliga and the 2.Bundesliga then for Gladbach & Dortmund in the Bundesliga. No goals/appearances in the 3.liga.

Hint:

Current BL player, scored in all divisions for the same club

That should narrow it down a good bit.

Must be a Fortuna Dusseldorf player. I couldn't even name one though!

Lawrence1895

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I'll stick up a tricky question..

Name the German player who has scored a goal in the top 4 divisions of German football.

Ibisevic or Ba

Oat23

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

Must be a Fortuna Dusseldorf player. I couldn't even name one though!

Yup!

Lars1916 wrote: »

Ibisevic or Ba

Nope Nope

Lawrence1895

It must be Lambertz then, he should be long enough with Duesseldorf

Oat23

Lars1916 wrote: »

It must be Lambertz then, he should be long enough with Duesseldorf

I'm shocked it was Lars, the German/Bundesliga fan that got it! :pac:

Good shout from SaulGoode narrowing it down to Fortuna too, silver star!

Lawrence1895

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I'm shocked it was Lars, the German/Bundesliga fan that got it! :pac:

Good shout from SaulGoode narrowing it down to Fortuna too, silver star!

Wouldn't have got it without the Fortuna Duesseldorf hint, tbh. I was too much focused on Hoppenheim :rolleyes:

May SaulGoode open the next round

osarusan

Maybe it has been asked before or is too easy for all you hotshots, but:

which player came on as a substitute to replace his father in an international match?




to the best of my knowledge, there is only one player who has done this.

Oat23

osarusan wrote: »

Maybe it has been asked before or is too easy for all you hotshots, but:

which player came on as a substitute to replace his father in an international match?




to the best of my knowledge, there is only one player who has done this.

Gudjohnsen. I believe you are right, it has only happened once.

Washington Irving

Might be a bit easy but following up that German leagues question, who is the only player to score a hat trick in each of English football's four highest divisions, the League Cup, the FA Cup and their country?

Idu

Earnshaw

Washington Irving

Idu wrote: »

Earnshaw

Correct

Kolido

First team to eliminate Real Madrid from the European Cup?

Red Crow

Kolido wrote: »

First team to eliminate Real Madrid from the European Cup?

Barcelona.

Red Crow

What was significant about a game involving a Romanian side and a Czech side in the mid sixties in Europe?

Lawrence1895

Eli Manning wrote: »

What was significant about a game involving a Romanian side and a Czech side in the mid sixties in Europe?

Both legs were played on a neutral venue, because of the cold war?

Jarrod

The first time a game was decided on away goals?

bijapos

Eli Manning wrote: »

What was significant about a game involving a Romanian side and a Czech side in the mid sixties in Europe?

You sure it wasn't Honved of Hungary and Dukla Prague of Czechlovakia? if so it's the away goals rule in the old ECWC in 65-66, it was a question on a radio show in England a few months ago.


Anyway here's one; what's the connection?

1930: 1
1934: 1
1938: 4
1954: 3
1958: 3
1962: 6
1966: 5
1970: 0
1974: 5
1978: 3
1982: 5
1986: 8
1990: 16
1994: 15
1998: 22
2002: 17
2006: 28
2010: 17