Sports Challenge

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Mon May 20, 2013 4:42 pm

arcadianagain wrote:In the boring close season why don`t we have a sports quiz similar to the history and motoring challenges.
I`ll start off with an easy one.
Which is the only top-flight football club in Europe named after a multi-national corporation?

Post by **Zidane** » Mon May 20, 2013 7:54 pm

Theres two possibles I can think of.....
"Red Bull" Salzburg or PSV Eindhoven (Phillips).

Post by **Bamboo Grove** » Mon May 20, 2013 8:52 pm

Bayer Leverkusen

Post by **arcadianagain** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:21 pm

Bamboo Grove wrote:Bayer Leverkusen

That was an easy one, did you know the answer BG or did Mr.Google help?

Post by **Bamboo Grove** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:32 pm

I knew it as I actually like to see how they are doing at the moment. This is because Sami Hyypiä is their gaffer.

Post by **Zidane** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:37 pm

arcadianagain wrote:
Bamboo Grove wrote:Bayer Leverkusen

That was an easy one,....

Easy for you,maybe,cos you asked the question !!

Is it OK for anyone to ask a question once the previous one has been correctly answered ?

Anyway,heres one.....
March 1976....Leicester City 2 Aston Villa 2.....on the face of it a run of the mill score between two ordinary teams,but what was so unusual about this game ?

Post by **caller** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:47 pm

I'll stay out of this one as I know the answer, but chuckle at just being reminded of it!

Post by **Bamboo Grove** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:54 pm

I have a feeling that one player, can't remember the name nor which side he played for (guess it was for Leicester) scored all four goals?

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:55 pm

caller wrote:I'll stay out of this one as I know the answer

Caller - knowing the answer is the whole point!

Post by **richard** » Tue May 21, 2013 9:32 pm

All own goals

Post by **caller** » Wed May 22, 2013 4:08 am

Okay, as others have said, it was Chris Nicholl of Aston Villa who scored all 4 goals!

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Football% ... 0143370007

Post by **caller** » Wed May 22, 2013 4:53 am

Okay, sticking with my club, which Country did Chelsea play twice in the run-up to a world-cup, winning one and losing one? Shouldn't be too hard to google (but not where I got it from).

Post by **caller** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:30 am

Hmm, no takers then, fair enough - too Chelsea perhaps? Well, lets try and finish it off, it was broadly speaking in the run up to the 1966 World Cup, so only 15 Countries to choose from! Okay, I'm feeling generous, it wasn't North Korea, so that's 14 left!

Post by **Zidane** » Thu May 23, 2013 9:57 am

Funnily enough,caller,I was thinking it must be prior to the 1966 World Cup held in England......but that was just a wild guess !
I reckoned it would be one of the teams based down south if they played against Chelsea.....from memory they were England,Uruguay,France and Switzerland ?
So I'll go for Uruguay.........

Post by **caller** » Thu May 23, 2013 6:24 pm

Not Uruguay, but as no-ones playing, I'll give the answer - it was West Germany.

But it was in 1965, hence the use of the word 'run-up'.

We beat them 1-0 in Duisberg and then lost 3-2 at Essen.

I believe that was the last defeat before losing in the final to England.

In total, Chelsea have played against 13 Countries, including Thailand!

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