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    Really Hard Football Quiz (from last week)... the answers. Archived Message

    Posted by Fuzzbox on 2/3/2020, 12:49 pm

    I don't think Q3, Q4, Q5 or extra Q11 were the only ones not be answered correctly.

    REALLY HARD FOOTBALL QUIZ

    1.Which English football club has played the most top flight League games, yet never played in the Premiership? Preston North End. They are also the only Football League champions and post WW1 FA Cup winner never to play in the EPL.

    2.Which is the only real-life football team to have been featured in the Thomas the Tank Engine TV series? Why was that team chosen? Barrow. They were chosen as they were the nearest team to the fictional ‘Island of Sodor’ where Thomas The Tank Engine lives. There is supposed to be a bridge from the Island of Sodor to Vickerstown (a suburb of Barrow) on the Isle of Walney, although the Barrow team arrives by ferry, bizarrely already dressed in their full kit.

    3.Which still living, retired Football League manager started his career in management with a Football League club the longest time ago? Hint – it is not Tommy Docherty, who started his manager career in 1961. Tony Collins, who started his career with Rochdale in 1960 and ended it with Rochdale in 1967. Now 93 years old, he is also the first non-white manager of a Football League club (mother was white, father was black). Docherty, Frank o’Farrell and Keith Burkinshaw also started in the 1960s (and still alive), but started their career after Collins.

    4.In what respect have Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Lincoln City and Notts County lose out to the Germans and Arsenal lost to the Polish? There were a fleet of trawlers named after football clubs which got drafted into the Royal Navy during the Second World War. HMS Aston Villa, HMS Blackburn Rovers, HMS Lincoln City and HMS Notts County were all sunk by the Germans. HMS Arsenal was sunk by accident after a collision with a Polish destroyer. There was no HMS Stockport County.

    5.Which is the only former Stockport County player to have had full international caps with two different nations during his footballing career? Jack Reynolds, who played for both Ireland (5 caps) and England (8 caps) and had one appearance for us in 1903 towards the end of his career. He was one of the most prominent footballers of the 1890s and was notorious for his drinking and womanising. He is the own footballer to score for and against England in full internationals.

    6.Name the four Tameside clubs who have applied to be members of the Football League, yet were never successful. Ashton United are the only one still in existence. They applied shortly after the Second World War. The others are Stalybridge Rovers, Ashton North End and Fairfield (Athletic), who all tried their luck pre World War 1.

    7.Which two Premier League players have had their surname on the front of their shirts, their surname on the back of their shirts and have played their home games in a stadium which shares their surname? Both play(ed) for Leicester City: Ian Walker (Walkers Crisps, Walker’s Stadium), Andy King (King Power, King Power Stadium).

    8.Which former footballer comes next in this sequence? Johnny Weissmuller, Stephen Crane, George Bernard Shaw, H.C. Westerman. The answer is Albert Stubbins of Liverpool. Apparently I missed out Issy Bon in the sequence, but they all appear on the cover of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper album cover.

    9.Which club once only played 34 out of a scheduled 42 game Football League season, yet weren’t relegated or suffered points deductions by the Football League? Port Vale in 1919-20. Leeds City FC started the season, but were expelled in October for financial irregularities after playing 8 games (won 4, drew 2, lost2). Non-League Port Vale were invited to take over the remaining fixtures and actually started where Leeds City left off with 10 points on the board. County had not played Leeds at the time of expulsion, but lost both home and away to Port Vale later in the season.

    10.Why did ‘Manchester City’ become ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ in May 1937, and ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ subsequently become ‘City of London’ in September 1937? One for the train buffs. London North Eastern Railway ‘B17’ class loconmotive no 2870 was originally named Manchester City. City were just crowned League champions in 1937 and wanted a special train hauled with the newest member of the class. So brand new 2871 was named ‘Manchester City’ and old 2870 became ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ instead. 2870 was renamed again in September 1937 as ‘City of London’ when it was modified in streamlined form to haul special expresses. There was no ‘Stockport County’ but probably would have been one if a further batch of these locomotives was built as Stockport was covered by London and North Eastern Railway territory.

    11.Which test cricketer has also been chairman of a European Cup winning football club? Bit of a trick question – the answer is Geoffrey Boycott of Melchester Rovers (Roy of the Rovers fame). The Roy of The Rovers cartoon strip was featured in ‘Tiger’ comic in the early 1980s and Geoffrey Boycott had a page in Tiger every week (ghost written probably). Geoffrey was invited to be a ‘celebrity’ chairman. It was also around this time that the Kemp brothers of Spandau Ballet were regular first team players for Melchester Rovers. Geoffrey and the Kemps were not on board the bus that was bombed by terrorists during an ill-fated tour of the Middle East, which killed eight of the Melchester squad.





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