Footynotes
By Chris Kamara
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Players Bits and Pieces
David Seaman captained England in just one international
Footynote; The only England captain to wear a pony tail
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Dion Dublin broke his neck playing for Sheffield Wednesday in 1999
Footynote; Past Countdown fans may wish to know Sheffield Wednesday is the only football club made up of two nine letter words
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By the way, Manchester City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann who also broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup final was court martialled in 1945 after being captured by the Russians
Footynote; Other than that Bert led a quiet life
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Fernando Torres is a huge fan of Lord of the Rings
Footynote; He read the book once and then made a hobbit of it
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Scott Parker featured in a McDonalds ad when he was a kid
Footynote; We wonder if John Hartson and Jan Molby were standing in the queue?
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Peter Osgood slept with the FA Cup
Footynote; We don’t think the FA Cup was married though
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Ryan Giggs was the first footballer to be mentioned in The Simpsons
Footynote; Followed by Pele, Ronaldo and Beckham
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Emile Heskey’s middle name is Ivanhoe
Footynote; His mother must have had a knight to remember
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Frank Lampard went to public school
Footynote; He also went on loan to Swansea from West Ham so swings and roundabouts Frank
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Paul Ince’s full name is Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince
Footynote; Didn’t Emerson Carlyle play for Brazil?
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Eric Cantona played the part of a French Diplomat in the 1998 movie Elizabeth
Footynote; Is that the one where he drop-kicked Sir Francis Drake for winning at bowls Kammy?
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Alan Curbishley’s middle name is Llewellyn
Footynote; Good East End of London name
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When David Beckham joined Manchester United Ryan Giggs sold him a Ford Escort
Footynote; Hmm, Becks and an Escort rings a bell Kammy
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Ryan Giggs played for Manchester City before he played for Manchester United
Footynote; And England schoolboys before he played for Wales, a man of options
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Mark Hughes won four FA Cup Winner’s medals
Footynote; Kammy claims Sparky was the toughest player he ever marked. And when he says marked he means marked
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Mark Hughes’ actual name is Leslie
Footynote; So Mark was an order and not a name then?
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Owen Hargreaves was born in Calgary, played for England and had a residential qualification to play for Germany
Footynote; That’s what we used to call in the old days a gypsy
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Steven Gerrard once had a trial with Manchester United as did John Terry
Footynote; Did Manchester United miss the point of trials then?
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Andriy Shevchenko won a pair of Ian Rush’s boots when he was 14
Footynote; He didn’t take them to Chelsea with him
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Tommy Docherty once said of Dwight Yorke that if he became a top player then Docherty’s name was Mao Tse Tung
Footynote; Well, his name is an anagram of Red Ty Cho which translated into native American means Big Foot In Mouth
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Matthew Le Tissier once wrongly stated that Kanu of Portsmouth wore size 25 boots
Footynote; That really would have confirmed Kanu as a canoe
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Kevin Davies of Bolton Wanderers committed the most fouls in the 2006-07 Premiership season
Footynote; A striker in both senses of the word
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In 1986 David Beckham was the Manchester United mascot in a match against West Ham
Footynote; So who held his hand when he walked on the pitch? Or didn’t they do that then?
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Jose Mourinho was arrested for smuggling a dog into Britain in 2007
Footynote; Why do we keep thinking of hotel rooms here?
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George Best was rejected by Irish club Glentoran for being too small
Footynote; Surely not in the land of leprechauns?
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Jamie Redknapp began his career with Bournemouth
Footynote; And his dad Harry ended his playing career at the same place
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Jamie Redknapp and Frank Lampard are cousins
Footynote; Then they must never marry
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Sol Campbell’s actual name is Sulzeer
Footynote; But you won’t get away with it in Scrabble
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By the way, speaking of Scrabble, Albert Quixall was a record signing when he joined Manchester United from Sheffield Wednesday in 1958 for £45,000
Footynote; Kammy was part of the exchange deal
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French international and now football pundit Marcel Desailly was actually born in Ghana
Footynote; John Motson was born in Salford, Lancashire
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Andy Goram played both football and cricket for Scotland
Footynote; And he too was born