Quiz Thread

RikkFlair

roanoke wrote: »

Correct!

(Birmingham City ; Ipswich Town ; Leeds United ; Leyton Orient ; Millwall ; Milton Keynes Dons ; Queens Park Rangers ; Tottenham Hotspur ; Watford ; Yeovil Town ; )

Thats mad....Marcus Bent was the name that came to me at first, but he only played u21.

Lovely Bloke

name the only england player to have played in the finals of a major international tournament in 3 different decades

RikkFlair

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

name the only england player to have played in the finals of a major international tournament in 3 different decades

Rio Ferdinand?

roanoke

Tony Adams?

Michael D Not Higgins

Bobby Charlton?

Morzadec

Shilton perhaps? He played an awful long time and 'm pretty sure he was there in 1990

Lovely Bloke

roanoke wrote: »

Tony Adams?

Yes, 88/96/98/2000

golfball37

Morzadec wrote: »

Shilton perhaps? He played an awful long time and 'm pretty sure he was there in 1990

England didn't qualify for anything in the 70's, if they did it would have been the 76 Euros and in which case Ray Clemence would have been no 1 at the time.

Green Giant

What do all of these players have in common?

Bryan Ruiz
Ryo Miyachi
Maya Yoshida
Gaston Ramirez
Ravel Morrison
Lucas Leiva
Wilfried Bony

ispini1984

Stab in the dark, all made debuts in english football as a sub ?

Beasty

golfball37 wrote: »

England didn't qualify for anything in the 70's

They did (not that it impacts on the question though);)

(they qualified for the 1970 WC by winning the one in 1966)

In those days the final stages of the euros had only 4 teams with England being knocked out in the qualifying competition QF in 1972 and not getting past the qualifying group stage in 1976

Lawrence1895

Green Giant wrote: »

What do all of these players have in common?

Bryan Ruiz
Ryo Miyachi
Maya Yoshida
Gaston Ramirez
Ravel Morrison
Lucas Leiva
Wilfried Bony

Are they all the same age?

roanoke

They all have their first name on the back of their shirt? (Leiva, Ruiz and Bony do anyway).

Michael D Not Higgins

roanoke wrote: »

They all have their first name on the back of their shirt? (Leiva, Ruiz and Bony do anyway).

Morrison too. Good shout

Green Giant

roanoke wrote: »

They all have their first name on the back of their shirt? (Leiva, Ruiz and Bony do anyway).

Correct!

losthorizon

It happened to Irish Football in 1979, Scottish Football in 1881 and Belgian Football in 1987. What am I talking about?

golfball37

losthorizon wrote: »

It happened to Irish Football in 1979, Scottish Football in 1881 and Belgian Football in 1987. What am I talking about?

The Scotland thing is throwing me. All I can think of is Monaghan who played in Belgium park from 1979 on? Am I anyway in the right ball park

Morzadec

losthorizon wrote: »

It happened to Irish Football in 1979, Scottish Football in 1881 and Belgian Football in 1987. What am I talking about?

Wild guess - first English player to play in each country? Though I imagine there probably would have been an Englishman in the Irish League before 1979.

eigrod

losthorizon wrote: »

It happened to Irish Football in 1979, Scottish Football in 1881 and Belgian Football in 1987. What am I talking about?

Tough one.

Is it something to do with the introduction of a Reserve League ?

(PS: Is 1881 correct, or is it a typo and should it be 1981 ? Just wondering because of the order you put them in.)

roanoke

First black player? I'm defo on Hughton for Ireland 1979. Scotland and Belgium, who knows!

doncarlos

roanoke wrote: »

First black player? I'm defo on Hughton for Ireland 1979. Scotland and Belgium, who knows!

This looks right to me. I was thinking waaaaaaay outside the box.

Beasty

roanoke wrote: »

Scotland .., who knows!

Andrew Watson

losthorizon

Never came back to check if someone got my question right but yes that was the answer. Well done roanoke. Threw in Belgium to confuse people!

Kolido

There are 31 (that I know of) managers who have managed in both the EPL and international teams including caretaker positions. Can you name them all?

grohlisagod

Eriksson
Ferguson
Hodgson
McCarthy
Strachan
McCleish
Hughes
Scolari
Walter Smith
Hoddle
McClaren
Venables
Robson

13 there

grohlisagod

Hiddink
Graham Taylor?
Chris Coleman
Lawrie Sanchez
Worthington
Keegan
Peter Reid (Thailand?)

Kerrydude1981

Peter Taylor
Howard Wikinson

grohlisagod

Stuart Pearce?

Kerrydude1981

Bryan Robson managed Thailand for a bit

Avram Grant

Kolido

All answers so far are correct and there were 2 I didn't account for so the total now is 33

correct so far 25; 8 left and maybe some more I didn't account for.

Eriksson
Ferguson
Hodgson
McCarthy
Strachan
McCleish
Hughes
Scolari
Walter Smith
Hoddle
McClaren
Venables
Robson
Hiddink
Graham Taylor?
Chris Coleman
Lawrie Sanchez
Worthington
Keegan
Peter Reid (Thailand?)
Peter Taylor
Howard Wikinson
Stuart Pearce?
Bryan Robson managed Thailand for a bit
Avram Grant

roanoke

Believe it or not but AVB managed the British Virgin Islands when he was about 20.

Liamalone

Carlo Ancellotti

golfball37

Santini,Hughes and Alan Perrin are 3 more.

Kolido

AVB and Santini are correct. That leave 6 to find.

@golfball37 which Hughes do you mean?

ispini1984

Gerard Houllier
Egil Olsen
George Burley
Bobby Gould
Joe Kinner
Ian Porterfield

Kolido

Yeah that's the 6 I have. Well played, I wonder where you pulled that answer out off!

ispini1984

Kolido wrote: »

Yeah that's the 6 I have. Well played, I wonder where you pulled that answer out off!

had 4 of them straight off, other 2 had to think about

Liamalone

Liamalone wrote: »

Carlo Ancellotti

What about Carlo?

Kolido

Liamalone wrote: »

What about Carlo?

Which international team did he manage?

Liamalone

Kolido wrote: »

Which international team did he manage?

Italia I would think

Edit: Google says no lol

Beasty

Simple maths question, and not related to current standings (ie assumimg the position prior to any group stage matches being played):

What is the minimum number of points a club needs to guarantee qualification for the knock-out stages of the Champions League?; and

What is the minimum possible number of points (assuming no point deductions) a club could qualify with?

KevinK

Beasty wrote: »

Simple maths question, and not related to current standings (ie assumimg the position prior to any group stage matches being played):

What is the minimum number of points a club needs to guarantee qualification for the knock-out stages of the Champions League?; and

What is the minimum possible number of points (assuming no point deductions) a club could qualify with?

13

4?

batistuta9

Beasty wrote: »

Simple maths question, and not related to current standings (ie assumimg the position prior to any group stage matches being played):

What is the minimum number of points a club needs to guarantee qualification for the knock-out stages of the Champions League?;

9

Beasty wrote: »

and
What is the minimum possible number of points (assuming no point deductions) a club could qualify with?

4

theoretically a team could win the CL (or whatever) not winning a game, drawing 13 times & win the final on pens

grohlisagod

11 for the Champions League.

Beasty

KevinK wrote: »

13

4?

Correct - if there's a positive result in all matches there would be 36 points available in total. If one team lost all their matches the 36 could be shared by the other 3 - ie 12 each, meaning you would need 13 to guarantee qualification

At the other extreme one club could win all 6 of their matches, with the other 3 teams effectively playing a "mini-league" for the secind place. If all those matches were drawn that would be 4 points for each of the 3 teams, with one going through on goal difference (or drawing lots)

batistuta9 wrote: »

theoretically a team could win the CL (or whatever) not winning a game, drawing 13 times & win the final on pens

It is possible to draw 4 matches and lose 2 as explained above, meaning a club could win with 11 draws and 2 defeats

batistuta9

Beasty wrote: »

Correct - if there's a positive result in all matches there would be 36 points available in total. If one team lost all their matches the 36 could be shared by the other 3 - ie 12 each, meaning you would need 13 to guarantee qualification

At the other extreme one club could win all 6 of their matches, with the other 3 teams effectively playing a "mini-league" for the secind place. If all those matches were drawn that would be 4 points for each of the 3 teams, with one going through on goal difference (or drawing lots)

if after 3 games team A reached 9 points and the others drew with each other, the most the other teams could get is 11, though if one gets 11 - say D - B & C can only reach 8 max

Beasty wrote: »

It is possible to draw 4 matches and lose 2 as explained above, meaning a club could win with 11 draws and 2 defeats

yeah so it is, that's even worse

Beasty

batistuta9 wrote: »

if after 3 games team A reached 9 points and the others drew with each other, the most the other teams could get is 11, though if one gets 11 - say D - B & C can only reach 8 max

The question was set to envisage the possibilities before matchday 1 - as soon as the tournament starts the actual results open up a whole new set of scenarios - basically 4 and 18 points are the extremes of points that "can" qualify and most (but not all - it's not possible to gain 17 for example) of the numbers in between are possible

batistuta9

Beasty wrote: »

The question was set to envisage the possibilities before matchday 1 - as soon as the tournament starts the actual results open up a whole new set of scenarios - basically 4 and 18 points are the extremes of points that "can" qualify and most (but not all - it's not possible to gain 17 for example) of the numbers in between are possible

4 can qualify but reaching 4 points doesn't guarantee it - guaranteeing it means it's impossible not to qualify

the question was What is the minimum number of points a club needs to guarantee qualification for the knock-out stages of the Champions League?

surely you have to go through all scenarios to know what the minimum number of points is to guarantee it?

how can you say it's 13, using that scenario and ignoring the others?

the minimum that guarantees it might actually be 8, the CL always follows the same matchday pattern

Kolido

The key word in the question is guarantee. If you say before the first match you will get 13 pts then you are guaranteed to qualify as no other 2 teams can finish above you.
Sure you can qualify with less pts but it was obvious he meant before the first match otherwise there would be no correct answer to the question.

I guess you could also phrase the question, what is the max pts you need to guarantee qualification.

Lovely Bloke

other than negredo last night name 5 players to have scored a hat-trick in the champions league for an english team since 2006