[Football] Fun random facts

[RossyG]

Rugby players and fans think they’re it and better than their footballing equivalents but, ironically, rugby is actually just an elaborate excuse made up on the spot by a Victorian schoolboy when he was caught cheating at football.

 

[pasty]

If the current bottom three go on to complete this season at their current points per game average, we need only 1 more point to be mathematically safe.

 

[Get It Forward Stephens]

Liverpool have only had less shots than their opponents 3 times this season, Albion last week at Anfield, Aston Villa when they got humped 7-2, and the Albion at the Amex.

Fewer shots.

Shots is a countable noun.

Very few fun facts do not concern correct grammar.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Gekckos stick to ceilings because their feet are covered in hairs so fine and numerous that they create a molecular bond!
The average cumulus cloud weighs the equivalent of 20,000 elephants!
People that went to Eaton were chosen by God to rule Britain!

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

If you plant a bulb upside down it will still know which way is up and grow towards the surface.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Burnley is a shit hole

 

[RossyG]

People that went to Eaton were chosen by God to rule Britain!

What, Eaton Gardens in Hove?

 

[Juan Albion]

Arkansas is bordered by 6 other states - and you can travel south from Arkansas to all of them.

 

[Pevenseagull]

The actor who playes the valet parking guy in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' played drums on the first Sonic Youth record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edson

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Fewer shots.

Shots is a countable noun.

Very few fun facts do not concern correct grammar.

Fun fact , fewer and less used to be used interchangeably, but then some 18th century dullard decided that it would help them identify members of the in group if they adopted a convention where one was used for countable nouns and the other for uncountable. By the late 20th century normal people were again using the words interchangeably, but then the supermarkets use of less on signage alerted this fact to the sort of people who want to become parish councillors. Now how people use less is once again under attack from Daily Mail letters writers and other types who don't know the difference between actual grammar rules and pointless pedantry. I really wish there were less of these smug ******** around wasting peoples time.

 

[neilbard]

Richard Herring, Magnus Pike and Michael Fish?

Theodore Sturgeon and Jimmy Krankie.

 

[GT49er]

28,417,236 minutes ago I was watching my first Albion match.

(I've also lived for 2,273.200.838 seconds (and counting)).

 

[rbridd]

2 football related:

Football was NOT invented by Sky with the introduction of the Premier League in '92.

The current game of football does NOT revolve around M1ke Dean.

M1ke Dean alone is responsible for 7% of all red cards shown in the Premier League era.

 

[Coach_Carter_92]

Killer whales aren't actually whales, they are a species of dolphin

 

[Pinkie Brown]

The depositing of glass bottles into street recycling containers in banned in many areas of Germany between the hours of 12.00 to 14.00 Monday to Friday. It's so people having their lunch or taking a nap aren't disturbed by potential noise.

 

[Barrow Boy]

The ozone smells like Geraniums.

 

[Juan Albion]

Killer whales aren't actually whales, they are a species of dolphin

Fun random fact: dolphins ARE whales.

 

[pasty]

The depositing of glass bottles into street recycling containers in banned in many areas of Germany between the hours of 12.00 to 14.00 Monday to Friday. It's so people having their lunch or taking a nap aren't disturbed by potential noise.

I wish the collection of recycling was banned between certain hours. Every other Friday morning I get woken up between 6:15-6:30 by the noise of all the recycling boxes being collected and tipped into the lorry. Bloody ridiculous time of day to be doing it.

 

[drew]

Arkansas is bordered by 6 other states - and you can travel south from Arkansas to all of them.

How do you travel south to Oklahoma?

 

[Juan Albion]

How do you travel south to Oklahoma?

By going due south from somewhere like Siloam Springs, Arkansas.