Football Trivia.

[Gramaisc]

A goalkeeper is still required to wear a jersey of a different colour from his team-mates - and the other team and officials, of course. Green may have been a common colour for their choice, but not for teams that played in green, Plymouth Argyle, Hibernian, etc....

 

[basil]

I seem to recall Gordon Banks appearing in a yellow jersey, which proved once and for all that it was no longer an effeminate colour.....

 

[John Marwood]

I was at a wedding in Surrey recently and most of the chaps ( not gay ) were wearing flared pink jeans.. In my day this would have been a straight red

 

[Scoot Doggy Dogg]

Why did Hull go down as a result of Man Utd securing a second leg one all draw at Inter Milan away (to go through to the Semi Finals of the Champions League) on March 17th 1999 ?

 

[Andreas Rex]

Cos it was Rod Hull!

 

[John Marwood]

And the only team named after a line in a novel are?

 

[Gramaisc]

Heart of Midlothian?

 

[John Marwood]

Damn Radio 4!

 

[Gramaisc]

Last team to win the FA Cup wearing striped shirts?

I might have already asked this....

 

[basil]

Man City '69 ?......

 

[Gramaisc]

No - come on - Sunderland was way after that, not that they're the answer.....

 

[John Marwood]

STAFFORD RANGers 1976

 

[Gramaisc]

Be serious - The Football Association Challenge Cup.

And who was the last non-Football League team to win it?

 

[basil]

No - come on - Sunderland was way after that, not that they're the answer.....

well that's the last one i can remember.......

 

[Gramaisc]

There is one after that -strange, but true. I'm off to the PandA House now, so I'll let you stew on that.....

 

[basil]

Royal Engineers.....

 

[John Marwood]

Sillett Bang

 

[Gramaisc]

Come on - last one wearing stripes and the last non-league team....

 

[John Marwood]

John Silletts stripey sky blue army

 

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John Silletts stripey sky blue army

John Silletts stripey sky blue army

ungungungung.