The most interesting pieces of soccerball trivia you know (that are 100% false)

3. Luc Nilis' "career ending injury" was actually a stunt involving a prosthetic limb Nilis had devised to get out of his Aston Villa contract. Ironically, on the way home his leg was irrepairably damaged in a car crash involving a drunken David Busst.

4. Dennis Wise has the UKs largest collection of Wades Whimsies.

5. Wrong Fashanu.

6. Mark Viduka loves a big meat pie with tomato sauce.

7. The guy who scored the goal in the USA's famous 1950 shock 1-0 victory over England went on to play bass for the Question Mark and the Mysterions after his career ended.

8. Arthur Scargill is buried under one of the goals at Elland Road.

9. Northwich Victora are named after Victoria Coren, her father Alan having served as a board member in the 1960s.

10. Albert Fish was a big Casino Salzburg fan.

11. Old Trafford takes its name from a Neolithic stone circle sited close to the ground. Archaeologists have so far proven unable to account for the fact that the stones are not local to Lancashire but appear to have been transported 180 miles northwest from the lower Thames Valley.

12. Alan Carr's pregnant mother was on board the plan involved in the Munich air disaster, making him the youngest survivor of the crash

13. The Bosman ruling takes its name from former WWF midcarder The Big Bossman, who went to the European Court of Human Rights in 1994 to help him get out of his contract with Livorno.

14. Steve Stone is an honorary tribal elder of the Eleniak people of southern Borneo.

7. Frank Sidebottom made 14 appearances from the bench for Manchester City in th 1973/74 season

8. Israel's 1970 World Cup squad spent 3 days in a London CGI studio recording the motion capture for the football scenes in Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks

15. Sir Alex Ferguson was the original choice for the role of Jimmy Krankie

16. Doncaster Rover's official matchday theme song is MC Tunes' "The North at its Heights".

17. Graham le Saux is actually as thick as fucking donkeyshit.

18. Pat Nevin can be heard dropping an ecstasy tablet in the background of The Durutti Column's "English Landscape Tradition".

19. Angelo Di Livio has no anus

20. Accrington Stanley were named in honour of Paul Stanley of Kiss, the so-called "Starchild" of the band

21. Frank McAvennie once lost a battle of the bands to Tallulah Gosh

22. Bobby Robson could once remember his own name

23. Molineux is the only ground in the English league with an M in its name

24. David Seaman is godfather to Donny Tourette.

25. In 1990, Andy Hinchcliffe became the first ever white footballer to play a full league match for Everton

26. Ulises De La Cruz' real name is Richard Higgins. A native of Blackheath, he adopted the gimmick of an Ecuadorian footballer who donates his salary to his home village from a recurring minor strip in the short-lived 1990s relaunch of Roy of the Rovers. The strip centred around De La Cruz' far-fetched exploits to support the fictional village of Piquiucho and was once famously described by Alan Parry as "the second most racist thing I have ever seen".

27. Steve McClaren is the most successful England manager in terms of second quarter records, with his England team conceding 0 goals and scored on average 0.15 goals per match in all matches between 22:30-45:00.

28. The Brazillian version of Deal Or No Deal is hosted by Cafu wearing a sailor's outfit.

29. During a fourth round tie in the 1976-7 season, Mr Brian Kettlechip of Bradford became the first supporter in England to give a fuck about the League Cup. The feat has yet to be repeated.

30. John Robert Parker Motsoncroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Motson, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style, John Motson was a popular and respected DJ and broadcaster. He was one of the first to play reggae and punk on British radio. His significant influence on alternative rock, Pop, British hip hop and dance music is acknowledged. He was the longest-serving of the original DJs of BBC Radio 1, broadcasting on it from 1967 until his death in 2004.

31. An anagram of Rangers FC is "Hot Anal Nuns".

32. That Was A Toepoke

33. They'll bring back the Watney Cup.

34. Players at the Ryman's leagues second-most famous breakaway club touch a sign above their heads' proclaiming 'This is Enfield' before taking to the pitch.

35. Ever wondered what happened to the bits of 'Dead' from Mayhem's skull that didn't get made into a necklace? Next time Jan Aage Fjortoft is on Footballer's Cribs, take a close look at the headboard above his bed...

36. Jay Boothroyd was an original member of Another Level, eventually being replaced by Dane Bowers when his football career took off

37. Hardline Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is an ardent follower of St. Mirren FC: the result of a torrid teenage affair with former Saints midfield hardman, Billy Abercrombie.

38. In terms of goals per minutes on the pitch, the most prolific striker of all time is Ricky Shakes.

39. The Royal Engineers enjoyed an unbeaten run of 257 matches between 1907 and 1916, which only came to an end after the side's 5 England midfielders were wiped out on the first morning of the Battle of the Somme.

40. Your favourite footballer is Ebbe Sand.

41. Viera vs Keane was a work.

42. Sammy Lee holds two European Cup winners medals and represented England on 14 occasions.

43. There is no scientific evidence that Scottish Third Division club Stenhousemuir actually exist

44. The first American to play in the English First Division was Samuel Butthurt IV who was goalkeeper for Oldham Athletic between 1920 and 1932.

45. West Adelaide FC was a football team.

46. "lol britpop zing culture" was invented by Walter Winterbottom, who once passed the time between England games by writing sarcastic missives about The Hollies to the Daily Telegraph. None were ever published.

47. Kenny Miller holds dual Scottish and Argentinian nationality, but opted to play International football for Scotland as he had never heard of Argentina.

48. When Roy Keane goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.

49. There are no steroids in football. Just players Roy Keane has breathed on.

50. On an average football pitch there are 1,242 objects Roy Keane could use to kill you, including the pitch itself.

51. Before becoming a professional soccerball player, Alexei Lalas was already an accomplished American footballer. His 46/-----%$34 pipecock return for the Tallashassee Goddammits in the 1991 Ultraplayoff was briefly an all-time record, but was famously shattered just weeks later by Jody "Zif" Stokenbokker Jr.

169 Gabriel Batistuta speaks Welsh.

169 joachim loew combines a stellar managerial career with critically acclaimed jazz freestyle sets, playing sax in a troupe called 'cooking on loew'. Many speculate that the group were never picked up by a major label because that's not how you pronounce 'loew'

170 the welsh community of patagonia presented batistuta with a golden leek for his contribution to fiorentina's demolition of inter in 95-96, considering it a belated revenge for the milanese swindler who had convinced them of the transmutative properties of llama urine, a costly delusion that bankrupted many in the 1920s

'llama urine' was a welsh inside forward who ran a successful bar in bridgend after retirement before it was burnt to the ground by an angry mob in the 1920's

171 artem milevskiy is known as 'piki', a reference to a controversial leaked video which appeared to show the then dynamo kyiv striker trying to hyponotize a capybara

172 rivaldo responded to suggestions that he was accepting blood money during his lucrative stay at budyodkor by telling journalists that he was 'not shami fucking chakrabarti'

173 jerome boateng is a wiccan

174. Martin Taylor's dad believes that 'Dune' is historically accurate.

175 eidur gudjohnsen's transfer to stoke was cast into doubt by an interview given to icelandic tv in which he compared the town's inhabitants to 'the kyphotic orcs who live in the cesspool [by the] bridge in akureyri -- inbred fucking scum, basically'

176 the daily sport reported in 2008 that ugo ehiogu had suffered an ectopic pregnancy, a mistranslation that caused the censure of a sub-editor and much mirth in the west midlands' retired footballer community -- 'to be honest with you it came out of the blue', says ehiogu, 'joachy [julian joachim] gave me a bit of stick but at the end of the today i wasn't even pregnant in the first place so it didn't effect things too much'

177 Today, 9th December 2010, Mike Ashley will propose the capture of Eddie McAvoy as Newcastle United's next manager and that he has the full support of the board.

178. Most football fans know that Alf Common was football's first £1000 transfer. Not many know that Common was also the first footballer to sign a sponsorship deal, which led to him playing the 1904-05 season with the Bass Beer Red Triangle tattooed on his face.

179 jordan henderson can be seen dressed as an SS officer in the background of the 22/10/02 edition of 'songs of praise'

180 ian holloway was deported from israel for defecating beside the wailing wall

181 during chris hughton's time writing for the morning star, he was among a delegation to albania that kicked to death an 'ideologically unsound' parrot for the personal entertainment of enver hoxha

182. Tony Pulis reproduces by parthenogenesis.

183. Owing to a rare genetic abnormality, if you cut Trevor Brooking he bleeds Claret and Danish Blue.

184 neil ruddock attributes his lactose intolerance to a curse from a gypsy girl who he projectile-sharted all over in nursery school

185 adam lallana was convicted for stealing a bart simpson toothbrush from the havant branch of superdrug

186 ruel fox was fired from the fox soccer channel in 2005 when execs discovered a passage in the news corporation 'ethics' guidebook that prevents employees from sharing the name of a product

187 Lee McCulloch was born Zephyrinus de Roumanie Mircea Bourbon-Parma, Prince of Hohenzollern and twenty-sixth in line to the Romanian throne, but for twenty years has lived life as a Caledonian commoner following an unfortunate impulsive decision made after watching Disney's 1990 adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper.

188 sidney samson's dance hit 'riverside' was inspired by chod, a teeside hardcore continuum offshoot that samson discovered during visits to his stepbrother, marvin emnes

189 hugo viana curbstomped a gateshead bookie in a 2004 dispute over the authenticity of pessoa's english-language poems

190 yuri zhirkov received a fine for littering in New Haven CT, pleading via an interpreter that he believed this was within his rights as a visiting dignitary

191. Mark Bright delivered his first son, specifically so he could ensure the first words the child heard were "There is no Father Christmas".

192. The French FA refused to recognise the Offside law until 1983 as they were unable to agree on a suitable Gallicisation of the word.

193. Peter Withe is a popular manga character in Japan due to his resemblance to the deity Ebisu.

194. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dubious_Goals_Committee&diff=412443044&oldid=412441598

Trying to take this concept out into the wider world a little.

Nani replaces Manuel Almunia (o.g.) in Manchester United's 3-1 win against Arsenal.

this is such, such bullshit

Former Tottenham and England midfielder Darren Anderton was breastfed until the age of 32, and was only weaned because his mother refused to move to Birmingham with him in 2004. As such, his apparent calcium deficiency remains a scientific and medical mystery.

move to ILF

196. bradley pritchard has a higher bleep test score than usain bolt

197. Ryan Shawcross speaks fluent Tagalog after he found an injured Filipino man on the street as a child and nursed him back to health in his parents' shed.

198. In the 1994/5 season, Skonto Riga played away games in 'Frankie says relax' t- shirts

199 avant garde techno producer actress once had a contract with west bromwich albion before being forced to retire at 19 due to injury

200. Tony Cascarino's left nipple is Taiwanese.

201. BBC foreign correspondent Orla Guerin is a former member of the Derby Lunatic Fringe

202. https://www.instagram.com/p/BCJQ1mVtsLC/

203 Aleksandr Kokorin is the second-highest paid Russian player in the Premier League after Igor Denisov, his former team-mate from Dynamo Moscow. Kokorin is now so rich and famous that his bulldog, Rony, has his own Instagram page.

204 Ansi Agolli has played for Qarabag since 2010 and has become a fans’ idol there while winning in three league titles, and two domestic cups. His status as well-loved player in Azerbaijan was boosted after Albania’s qualification for Euro 2016. Agolli will be part of Azerbaijani football’s history books, through being the league’s first player to take part in the competition.

205 Razvan Rat is an avid wine collector, a hobby he began while playing for Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine – where he met his wife, too. He grew up in a small Romanian town, Piatra-Olt, where he watched the country’s legendary 1994 World Cup campaign at his neighbours’ house because his family did not have a television.

Despite being affectionately nicknamed "Thor" by Aston Villa fans, Birkir Bjarnason's name is actually the Icelandic for "Bucky Barnes". The Captain America sidekick is by a significant margin the most popular Marvel character in Iceland, with 8% of Icelandic men being named after him.

Bjarnason himself credits his 2012 transfer to Standard Liege to feeling more motivated as a result of Marvel's early 2010s revival of the character.

Javi Martinez is a World Cup champion and multiple Bundesliga title winner, but the Bayern Munich man also claims to have come up with the concept for ‘The Hunger Games’.

Suzanne Collins is the published author of a series of books which have been turned into Hollywood blockbusters.

The first instalment of her trilogy was released in 2008, with subsequent offerings hitting the shelves in 2009 and 2010.

‘The Hunger Games’ focuses on a futuristic world in which the inhabitants of impoverished ‘districts’ fight for survival in a compulsory televised battle royale.

By the time the books became movies in 2012, over 26 million copies had been sold.

Bayern star Martinez claims he missed out on a piece of that profit having come up with a similar idea in his youth.

The 30-year-old Spain international told German magazine Socrates : “Writing is a great pleasure for me, even as a teenager I started to write a book.

“And believe it or not, the plot was pretty much the same as 'The Hunger Games'.”

When Collins’ version of events hit the big screen, Martinez admits he found it difficult to watch.

He added: “That was strange, I was sitting in the cinema and thought: ‘It does not exist, that's my idea, which I had years ago, the creators must have stolen my computer’.”

Marvel Cinematic Universe mainstay Sebastian Stan was given a custodial sentence in 2009 for the aggravated stalking and subsequent attempted kidnap of then-Birmingham City midfielder Sebastian Larsson. The Acocks Green native, born Jordan Scuggins, later adopted his stage name as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the incident, quipping to Tim Lovejoy that it "might help me remember about the restraining order."

Disgruntled former romantic conquests of Rohan Ricketts at one point organised into a support group named "The Riders of Rohan". The collective's efforts to raise awareness of the former Wolves midfielder's apparent shortcomings in the bedroom ultimately floundered amid confusing legal action from the Tolkien estate and New Line Cinema.

I had read that separately tbh

1. Claudia Caniggia doesn't sweat.

― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:12 (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

more sinister now ofc

This thread is very funny. For some reason I am particularly enjoying “Jerome Boateng is a wiccan”

210. Declan Rice exudes a unique pheromone which makes him sexually irresistible to English commentators and pundits