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A lil football brain teaser...

  • 09-04-2002 4:57pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭


    Theres 3 players in the Premier League, whos second names are the same as their Managers first names.

    Name them :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 irelandforever


    steven gerrard, laurant robert and finidi george
    that was easy something a lttle more challenging please


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    Was already post here

    Gerard Houllier - Steven Gerard
    Fillini George - George Burley &
    Dean Gordon - Gordon Strachan


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭PiE


    Damn You All To Hell!

    Took me like 2 hrs to get that Bobby Robson -> Laurent Robert link.

    Actually yea theres 4 ;]


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    Originally posted by PiE
    Bobby Robson -> Laurent Robert

    They are not the same names :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭s8n


    ok heres one......only one player has ever played in a manchester, merseyside and old firm derby.
    Who is he????


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    Andrei kanshelkis (spelling?) for Man U, Liverpool and rangers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭s8n


    mmmm....very quick off the mark

    anyone got anymore???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 irelandforever


    kanshelkis played for everton, not liverpool


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭PiE


    Originally posted by Keeks


    They are not the same names :)

    Bobby short for Robert and you know it :p

    Merseyside applies to Liverpool and Everton, hence the "Merseyside Derby"? Probably applies to Tranmere too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    Originally posted by irelandforever
    kanshelkis played for everton, not liverpool

    doh....had liverpool on the brain yesterday.....was having nice dreams of them being beaten and then i realized it wasn't a dream..:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 570 ✭✭✭manonthemoon


    As Alex would say himself

    "Must say the standard of questions was not up to scratch.

    Very Poor. Have to do better"


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    Ok...Who was the First Player to be sent off in a FA Cup final?

    Its an easy one really.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭s8n


    would it be kevin moran


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭bucks73


    What name appeared on every FA Cup Final team sheet from 1983 to 1987?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 570 ✭✭✭manonthemoon


    Gary Steven (Spurs and Everton)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭Drag00n79


    See can ye get this one? Who was the first £1million player in world football. (By the way it's not Trevor Francis. It's way before him!).


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    John Aldridge, answer to keeks fa cup final question, pretty sure on this


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    Nope...kevin Moran was the first player to be sent off in a cup final....John Aldridge was the first to miss apenalty in a cup final.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    your right, what i wanna know is how i got that wrong?!!? hmmm


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Johnny_the_fox


    what was the last first division club to win the f.a cup?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    what do u mean...b4 the premiership

    If so Liverpool...If not sunderland?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Johnny_the_fox


    keeks -> 10 points

    tried to con people.... :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭bucks73


    Gary Steven (Spurs and Everton)


    Spurs or Everton were not in the 1983 final.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    Gary Stevens played for Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1983 Cup final...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭bucks73


    Exactly.

    1 Gary Stevens played for Brighton and Spurs and the other one played for Everton.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    But thats the name that appeared on every team sheet between 83 and 87


  • Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭nore


    Name the last country to eliminate Italy from a World Cup Finals in regulation time? The round, the year and the score?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    France italy 86 2 nil i tink


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    It was mexico 1986, France beat them in the Second round 2-0, Platini and Stropya scored the goals


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    Originally posted by Shamrok
    Who was the first £1million player in world football. (By the way it's not Trevor Francis. It's way before him!).

    was it johann cruyff by any chance???


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