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Quiz 59 -
General Football - Answers
Ten more general football
questions. The first target is five to get to the pass mark and anything
above five shows a very good
all-round knowledge of football...and a good memory!
Best of luck....
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Assistant
referee Ole Hermann Borgan was due to run the line at the Champions League
final between Arsenal and Barcelona in May 2006 but the Norwegian was
replaced shortly before the Paris match. Why?
Because photogrphs of him wearing a Barcelona shirt appeared in newspapers.
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The 2000 Euro Championship finals
were the first to be hosted by two countries - which two
countries?
Belgium and
Holland
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3. |
Back in 2006 when this photo was taken the players would emerge
from the tunnel of which ground to this view?
The
Memorial Ground, home of Bristol Rovers.
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4. |
Who was England
manager at the time of England's humiliating defeat to Iceland
at the Euro 2016 finals?
Roy
Hodgson - he resigned shortly after the match
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5. |
In the 2011/12 season which
country - Cyprus or Malta - for the first time had a club in the
quarter-finals of the Champions League?
Cyprus (Apoel Nicosia)
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6. |
Who
was the first player to make 100 full international appearances for
Northern Ireland?
Pat Jennings
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7. |
Name
the 'Preston Plumber' whose picture is printed alongside.
Tom Finney
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8. |
Name
the former World Cup winner (as a player and a coach) who was nicknamed 'The
Kaiser'.
Franz
Beckenbauer |
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9. |
Local fans of Arsenal and Chelsea usually only have short trips to make
for Arsenal v Chelsea matches - but not when those clubs met in the 2019
Europa Cup Final. In which far-off country was that match played?
Azerbaijan
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10. |
In
May 1996 what brought together Dixie Dean, Bobby Moore, Duncan Edwards,
Billy Wright and Danny Blanchflower?
A
set of British postage stamps - each player was featured on a stamp in a
set issued to mark the holding of Euro 96 in England
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