Soccer Facts
This great collection of fun soccer facts is free for your non commercial use. If you love the game you will love these bits of information - some of the strangest facts about the beautiful game.
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Soccer Facts
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Zinedine Zindane was never caught offside in his career.
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Gary Linekar was never booked or sent off in his career
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Cardiff City were relegated in 1929, even though they conceded the fewest goals in the league ( 1st Division )
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The heaviest ever England player was a goalkeeper called Willie 'Fatty' Foulke. At least 6' 6" tall, he weighed 22 stones and played for England around the turn of the century.
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The first official international football match took place in Glasgow, between Scotland and England, in 1872.
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The first set of rules for soccer were made by the London Football Association in 1863.
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in 1995 a Manchester City fan was banned from bringing dead chickens into the stadium. He used to celebrate City goals by swinging the birds around his head.
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In 1986 West Ham defender Alvin Martin scored a hat-trick against three different goalkeepers in the 8-1 win over Newcastle in 1986. Injured goalkeeper Martin Thomas was replaced in the Newcastle goal first by Chris Hedworth, then by Peter Beardsley.
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Until 1913, goalkeepers wore the same coloured shirts as their teammates.
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The last match of Manchester United's season in 1915 against Liverpool was a crucial one. They had to win to avoid relegation from Division One. And indeed United duly won 2-0. A later FA inquiry decided that the match had in fact been fixed, and seven players - four of them from Liverpool - were suspended for life. This ban was lifted at the end of the First World War when the league resumed. The team who had been relegated because of the match-fixing - Chelsea - were also allowed to stay in Division One because the division was enlarged.
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Everton were unlucky to be pipped for the League Championship by just one point by Newcastle United in 1905. In their match against Arsenal (then Woolwich Arsenal ) Everton had been 3-1 up when fog caused the game to be abandoned. Everton lost the replayed match 2-1, a game that cost them the trophy.
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India withdrew from the 1950 World Cup competition in protest against the rule that required all players to wear football boots.
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Former England and Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman developed the practice of signing autographs with the words 'Safe Hands'.
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In 1965 Stanley Matthew's became the first man ever to be knighted for his services to football.
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The first non-British football club to be established was founded in the French port city of Le Havre in 1872
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Sir Alex Ferguson was fired by St. Mirren in 1978 for swearing at a lady.
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Ryan Giggs' father was a professional Rugby League player.
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The record win in the top division is 9-0
Manchester United v Ipswich Town (1995)
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The record away win in the top division is 1-9
Newcastle United v Sunderland (1908)
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Fastest red card: 13 seconds, Kevin Pressman (2000)
Fastest yellow card: 3 seconds, Vinnie Jones (1992)
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