Some Amazing Facts about Football
Posted on February 28, 2008 Filed Under Extra Football
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- The penalty kick was introduced to the game in 1891, having been proposed by William Crum of
3. The original FA Cup was stolen from a Birmingham shop in 1895. It was never returned.
4. The only person to have played both World Cup Football and World Cup cricket is Viv Richards - Antigua at football and West Indies at cricket.
5. Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has a beer named after him in his native Ivory Coast.
6. The most common surname of World Cup players is Gonzalez or Gonzales.
7. Hollywood Oscar Winner Tom Hanks is a great fan of Aston Villa.
8. Ozzy Osbourne is an Aston Villa fan.
9. Thierry Henry is the only player to score 100 Premiership goals at Arsenal’s Highbury ground.
10. The fastest goal from kick-off in the World Cup was scored by Turkey’s Hakan Sukur, 11 seconds into the match against South Korea in 2002.
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