GREY MATTER

No using GPRS!

A match during the 1993-94 season. It was Andorinha (________’s first club)

versus Camacha, who at that time were one of the strongest teams on the islands of Madeira.

At half-time Andorinha was losing 2-0 and ________ was so distraught that he was sobbing like a child who's had his favourite toy confiscated.

In the second half he came onto the pitch and scored two goals, leading the team to a 3-2 win. He definitely did not like to lose. He wanted to win every time and when they lost he cried. That’s why he was given the nickname ―the Crybaby‖.

Q3. Originally, they played in pink shirts

with a black tie, but only because they had

been sent the wrong shirts by their

supplier. The father of one of the players

made the earliest shirts, but continual

washing faded the colour so much that in

1903 the club sought to replace them.

Since then have played in the famous

black and white striped shirts, with white

shorts, sometimes black shorts. ID this

club??

Q5. If Celtic FC and Rangers are together

called as the Old Firm, then Aberdeen

F.C. and Dundee United F.C. together

would be called _______

Q6. In the year 1994 X was at La Masia, the training ground of FC Barcelona watching the youngsters play. He saw a player playing and said ―This kid Y is going to retire me‖. But ultimately X and Y ended up playing together in the midfield. Then at 1999 in La Masia, X and Y were watching Z play. Impressed, X says to Y ― Now this kid is going to retire both of us‖

ID X,Y,Z

Q8. This man standing at 195 cm tall and

weighing 84 Kgs, rather unusually tall for

a top class footballer. He’s also a black

belt in Taekwondo. He has won every

single league championship he’s been a

part of since the year 2005 till date. Which

player are we talking about??

Q9. Name the three teams in the FIFA world

cup 2010 which only had all 23 players of

their squad playing in the in the leagues

of their home country.

Q 10. X started out as a player and

eventually switched to management.

After spells working as an assistant

manager and a youth team coach in the

early 1990s, he became an interpreter for

Sir Bobby Robson at FC Barcelona. After

that he got his big break and has gone on

to win lots and lots of trophies.

Diego Latorre Ariel Ortega Marcelo Gallardo Juan Román Riquelme Pablo Aimar Andrés D'Alessandro Javier Saviola Carlos Marinelli Carlos Tévez Lionel Messi Sergio Agüero Ezequiel Lavezzi Mauro Zárate

Q 14. A bust erected in his honour is

outside Athletic Bilbao’s San Mamés

Stadium. It is a tradition for teams visiting

the stadium for the first time pay homage

to him by leaving a bouquet of flowers at

its base. ID?

Q 15. Joan Gamper, a Swiss man was highly

regarded as a footballer and was club

captain at X (A football club). He then

went on to found a new club Y with his

friends taking the legendary Blaugrana

colours of his old club X. Both clubs till

date continue to use the same colours in

their kit.

ID X,Y.

Q 17. Legend has it that Pep Guardiola

drove through the night to meet him at his

home in Argentina and discuss coaching

tactics by watching his extensive football

video collection of several thousand

videos. They reportedly talked football

for over 11 hours. Guardiola has often

praised him as his master and him being

his pupil. Before taking on his side just

over a month ago he called him ―the best

coach on planet earth‖.

Q18. Something very unique happened

during the Germany V/S Ghana match in

the 2010 world cup. What??

Hints

This is a toy used to pacify crying babies in

Spain. The sound it makes gives it its name.

What is it’s significance to modern day

football?

The 1994 World Cup match between

Cameroon and Russia, which finished 6-1

in favour of Russia, is famous for 2

remarkable records that haven’t yet been

broken.

Roger Milla became the oldest player to

score at the WC at the age of 42.

What was the other record set on that

day?

1984–88: San Lorenzo

• Games 122, Goals 0 1988-91: Zaragoza

• Games 79, Goals 1 1991–2000, 2003-04: Vélez Sàrsfield

• Games 347, Goals 48 2000–02: Strasbourg

• Games 52, Goals 1 2002–2003: Peñarol:

• Games 14, Goals 4 Whose club record?

This term has been most famously associated with Wisła Płock in Poland, SK Brann in Norway, Karşıyaka SK in Turkey, FC Volendam in Holland, Bofoakwa Tano in Ghana, Arminia Bielefeld in Germany and Birmingham City in England owing to the fact that these clubs hold records that are bittersweet at best.

Term/record?

Q 24. Born on March 2, 1944 in Tunisia, Ali Bin Nasser’s World Cup

career spanned five matches including an appearance in a Round

of 16 match between Denmark and Spain.

However, about the incident that made him famous he claimed was

an adverse reaction to the treatment he was receiving for a latent

haemorrhoidal condition which caused his medium-distance

vision to suddenly become unfocused, causing him to miss the

infamous incident .

Which incident?

X: I'm cleaning the Champions League trophy with a

Tottenham shirt.

Y:Thanks for cleaning it up for me. I'm already

creating space in my cup cabinet.

X:We're gonna give you a football lesson in London.

Y: I met your defence in Milan, it didn't look good. It

was like cheese with holes in it.

X:I found a good goalkeeper on eBay. Shall I send you

the link?

Y:We don't need him, you won't come into our penalty

area

Football banter on twitter! Id X and Y.

Laid out for the race by Paul Nicholls, who also won the BGC

Partners Liverpool Hurdle with Big Buck's, What A Friend beat the

game Carruthers by three-and-a-quarter lengths. X, who shares

What A Friend with Jed Mason, said: "It's great to win any race, but

to win a big one is special. We'll aim for the Gold Cup next year

when he will be stronger and more mature.

"We had the opportunity to go for it this year, but Paul was right.

You could see what effect the hard race had on Imperial

Commander. It doesn't compensate for last night, but racing's a

great release. It gets me away from the grind of my job.― X?

Congo National football team

Nkana

Grazer

Al Ahly

Belgium national football team

Deportivo Toluca

Manchester United

That X is not accorded the respect he deserves comes as a shock to

many. But with X, somehow, it has always been thus. When he

starred for his country leading them to the FIFA Youth

Championship, a deserved Golden Ball award instead went to

Seydou Keita. His country's FA raised went so far as lodging an

official complaint with FIFA.

Years later, when X was among the top five nominations for the FIFA

World Player of the Year, the Daily Mail, inexplicably, ran an

infamous headline which read: "The best players of the world (and

X). Who is X?

This phenomenon has become increasingly rare following the formation of the

Premier League. To the best of my knowledge, only four instances have

occurred since 1992-93—Stuart Pearce (Nottingham Forest, 1993), Michael

Gray (Sunderland, 1999), David James (West Ham, 2004) and David Nugent

(Preston North End, 2007).

Previous, more famous examples include CB Fry (Southampton, 1901),

Johnny ―₤100-a-week‖ Haynes (Fulham, 1955), Brian Clough

(Middleborough, 1959), Peter Shilton (Leicester City, 1970), Peter Taylor

(Crystal Palace, 1976), Trevor Brooking (West Ham, 1978) and Mark Hateley

(Portsmouth, 1984).

What phenomenon?

Salvador Cabanas made a comeback to

professional football on 14th of April,

2012 when he played for 12 de Octubre

football club in the Paraguayan Third

Division.

What was so special? about this?

A Derby match in football is a game

between two teams based in the same

city, and therefore being arch rivals.

Name the clubs involved in the following

derbies:

Merseyside Derby

Old Firm Derby

Basque Derby

Derby della Madonnina

France vs Italy, July 9, 2006

Sampdoria vs Inter Milan, January 29,

2007

Nottingham Forest

Aston Villa

******

Manchester United

Liverpool

After a 3-1 loss to club Y in a friendly, the

players of club X persuaded their

manager to sign Z, one of the star

performers in that match.

Z was named after his father’s favorite

actor, who was also the President of the

US when Z was born.

ID X, Y and Z.

This is what Manchester United fans often

say:

Pele good, Maradona better, ______

______

Inter Milan vs. AC Milan, UCL semifinal,

2003

Australia vs Israel, Qualification playoff,

World Youth Championship, 1991

Bahamas vs British Virgin Islands, World

Cup 2010 qualifier

Also tell us why the application of the rule

is anomalous in the above cases.

X wore the number 3 jersey at club Y.

X’s father also played for Y.

Together, father and son have won 7

UEFA Champions League trophies for Y.

In honor of X, club Y retired the no. 3

jersey.

However, if either of X’s sons were to

make it to the first team of Y, they would

be given the 3 jersey.

Answers

Ricardo Kaka, Mario Balotelli and Thierry

Henry

A match during the 1993-94 season. It was Andorinha (________’s first club)

versus Camacha, who at that time were one of the strongest teams on the islands of Madeira.

At half-time Andorinha was losing 2-0 and ________ was so distraught that he was sobbing like a child who's had his favourite toy confiscated.

In the second half he came onto the pitch and scored two goals, leading the team to a 3-2 win. He definitely did not like to lose. He wanted to win every time and when they lost he cried. That’s why he was given the nickname ―the Crybaby‖.

Q3. Originally, they played in pink shirts

with a black tie, but only because they had

been sent the wrong shirts by their

supplier. The father of one of the players

made the earliest shirts, but continual

washing faded the colour so much that in

1903 the club sought to replace them.

Since then have played in the famous

black and white striped shirts, with white

shorts, sometimes black shorts. ID this

club??

All of them were/are player managers of

their teams.

Kenny Dalglish (in the 80’s Liverpool),

Roberto Carlos (Anzhi Makhachkala) and

very recently Nicola Anelka (Shanghai

Shenzua)

Q5. If Celtic FC and Rangers are together

called as the Old Firm, then Aberdeen

F.C. and Dundee United F.C. together

would be called _______

The New Firm

Q6. In the year 1994 X was at La Masia, the training ground of FC Barcelona watching the youngsters play. He saw a player playing and said ―This kid Y is going to retire me‖. But ultimately X and Y ended up playing together in the midfield. Then at 1999 in La Masia, X and Y were watching Z play. Impressed, X says to Y ― Now this kid is going to retire both of us‖

ID X,Y,Z

X – Pep Guardiola

Y- Xavi Hernandez

Z- Andres Iniesta

Dino Zoff (1982) and Iker Casillas (2010)

are the only two goalkeepers to have led

their nations to world cup glory.

Q8. This man standing at 195 cm tall and

weighing 84 Kgs, rather unusually tall for

a top class footballer. He’s also a black

belt in Taekwondo. He has won every

single league championship he’s been a

part of since the year 2005 till date. Which

player are we talking about??

Q9. Name the three teams in the FIFA world

cup 2010 which only had all 23 players of

their squad playing in the in the leagues

of their home country.

England, Germany and Italy

Q 10. X started out as a player and

eventually switched to management.

After spells working as an assistant

manager and a youth team coach in the

early 1990s, he became an interpreter for

Sir Bobby Robson at FC Barcelona. After

that he got his big break and has gone on

to win lots and lots of trophies.

All are EPL club nicknames.Baggies (West

Brom), Toffees (Everton), Canaries

(Norwich) and Potters (Stoke)

Diego Latorre Ariel Ortega Marcelo Gallardo Juan Román Riquelme Pablo Aimar Andrés D'Alessandro Javier Saviola Carlos Marinelli Carlos Tévez Lionel Messi Sergio Agüero Ezequiel Lavezzi Mauro Zárate

One club legends. Men who started and

ended their carrer at one club. Gary

Neville (Man United), Paolo Maldini and

Franco Baresi (AC Milan), Tony Adams

(Arsenal)

Q 14. A bust erected in his honour is

outside Athletic Bilbao’s San Mamés

Stadium. It is a tradition for teams visiting

the stadium for the first time pay homage

to him by leaving a bouquet of flowers at

its base. ID?

Rafael Moreno Aranzadi better known as

Pichichi. Pichichi ,the award given to the

top scores of La Liga is named in his

honour.

Q 15. Joan Gamper, a Swiss man was highly

regarded as a footballer and was club

captain at X (A football club). He then

went on to found a new club Y with his

friends taking the legendary Blaugrana

colours of his old club X. Both clubs till

date continue to use the same colours in

their kit.

ID X,Y.

The Gazza. Paul Gascoigne

Q 17. Legend has it that Pep Guardiola

drove through the night to meet him at his

home in Argentina and discuss coaching

tactics by watching his extensive football

video collection of several thousand

videos. They reportedly talked football

for over 11 hours. Guardiola has often

praised him as his master and him being

his pupil. Before taking on his side just

over a month ago he called him ―the best

coach on planet earth‖.

Q18. Something very unique happened

during the Germany V/S Ghana match in

the 2010 world cup. What??

Hints

This is a toy used to pacify crying babies in

Spain. The sound it makes gives it its name.

What is it’s significance to modern day

football?

The sound they make is ―tiki taka‖, used to

describe the Spanish style of play.

Players who moved directly from

Real Mardrid to Barcelona or

vice versa.

The 1994 World Cup match between

Cameroon and Russia, which finished 6-1

in favour of Russia, is famous for 2

remarkable records that haven’t yet been

broken.

Roger Milla became the oldest player to

score at the WC at the age of 42.

What was the other record set on that

day?

Oleg Salenko of Russia scored 5 goals in

that game, which still is the maximum

number of goals scored in a WC match.

1984–88: San Lorenzo

• Games 122, Goals 0 1988-91: Zaragoza

• Games 79, Goals 1 1991–2000, 2003-04: Vélez Sàrsfield

• Games 347, Goals 48 2000–02: Strasbourg

• Games 52, Goals 1 2002–2003: Peñarol:

• Games 14, Goals 4 Whose club record?

Jose Luis Chilavert

This term has been most famously associated with Wisła Płock in Poland, SK Brann in Norway, Karşıyaka SK in Turkey, FC Volendam in Holland, Bofoakwa Tano in Ghana, Arminia Bielefeld in Germany and Birmingham City in England owing to the fact that these clubs hold records that are bittersweet at best.

Term/record?

Yoyo clubs. They keep getting promoted

and relegated from their football

divisions.

Q 24. Born on March 2, 1944 in Tunisia, Ali Bin Nasser’s World Cup

career spanned five matches including an appearance in a Round

of 16 match between Denmark and Spain.

However, about the incident that made him famous he claimed was

an adverse reaction to the treatment he was receiving for a latent

haemorrhoidal condition which caused his medium-distance

vision to suddenly become unfocused, causing him to miss the

infamous incident .

Which incident?

Ali Bin Nasser was the referee that didn’t

see the ―Hand of God‖ goal from Diego

Maradona against England in the 1986

WC.

X: I'm cleaning the Champions League trophy with a

Tottenham shirt.

Y:Thanks for cleaning it up for me. I'm already

creating space in my cup cabinet.

X:We're gonna give you a football lesson in London.

Y: I met your defence in Milan, it didn't look good. It

was like cheese with holes in it.

X:I found a good goalkeeper on eBay. Shall I send you

the link?

Y:We don't need him, you won't come into our penalty

area

Football banter on twitter! Id X and Y.

X- Wesley Sneijder

Y- Rafael Van der Vaart

Laid out for the race by Paul Nicholls, who also won the BGC

Partners Liverpool Hurdle with Big Buck's, What A Friend beat the

game Carruthers by three-and-a-quarter lengths. X, who shares

What A Friend with Jed Mason, said: "It's great to win any race, but

to win a big one is special. We'll aim for the Gold Cup next year

when he will be stronger and more mature.

"We had the opportunity to go for it this year, but Paul was right.

You could see what effect the hard race had on Imperial

Commander. It doesn't compensate for last night, but racing's a

great release. It gets me away from the grind of my job.― X?

Sir Alex Ferguson

Congo National football team

Nkana

Grazer

Al Ahly

Belgium national football team

Deportivo Toluca

Manchester United

All these teams are nicknamed the Red

Devils.

That X is not accorded the respect he deserves comes as a shock to

many. But with X, somehow, it has always been thus. When he

starred for his country leading them to the FIFA Youth

Championship, a deserved Golden Ball award instead went to

Seydou Keita. His country's FA raised went so far as lodging an

official complaint with FIFA.

Years later, when X was among the top five nominations for the FIFA

World Player of the Year, the Daily Mail, inexplicably, ran an

infamous headline which read: "The best players of the world (and

X). Who is X?

Xavi

This phenomenon has become increasingly rare following the formation of the

Premier League. To the best of my knowledge, only four instances have

occurred since 1992-93—Stuart Pearce (Nottingham Forest, 1993), Michael

Gray (Sunderland, 1999), David James (West Ham, 2004) and David Nugent

(Preston North End, 2007).

Previous, more famous examples include CB Fry (Southampton, 1901),

Johnny ―₤100-a-week‖ Haynes (Fulham, 1955), Brian Clough

(Middleborough, 1959), Peter Shilton (Leicester City, 1970), Peter Taylor

(Crystal Palace, 1976), Trevor Brooking (West Ham, 1978) and Mark Hateley

(Portsmouth, 1984).

What phenomenon?

Getting called up to the England national

squad while still being in the second

division of English football.

Note that Jens Lehmann had in his socks

during the WC quarterfinal penalty

shootout against Argentina.

This note had instructions on where the

Argentinian players preferred to hit their

penalties.

The crossed out players had already been

substituted.

The two footballs used for the first ever

WC final in 1930. One football chosen by

Uruguay wa used in the first half while

the second chosen by argentina wa used

for the second half.

A young Sir Alex Ferguson

Ryan Giggs keeps a bottle of champagne

for every championship that he has won.

He now has a lot more than the ones seen

in the picture!

Salvador Cabanas made a comeback to

professional football on 14th of April,

2012 when he played for 12 de Octubre

football club in the Paraguayan Third

Division.

What was so special? about this?

Salvador cabanas was shot in the head a

year ago and has made his comeback

from that injury.

A Derby match in football is a game

between two teams based in the same

city, and therefore being arch rivals.

Name the clubs involved in the following

derbies:

Merseyside Derby

Old Firm Derby

Basque Derby

Derby della Madonnina

Everton and Liverpool

Celtic FC and Rangers

Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao

Inter Milan and AC Milan

All have been losing finalists in the FIFA

WC and have never won it.

France vs Italy, July 9, 2006

Sampdoria vs Inter Milan, January 29,

2007

Materazzi got headbutted in both games!

Weird coincidence! All of these died a day

after Aaron ramsey scored a goal for

Arsenal.

Nottingham Forest

Aston Villa

******

Manchester United

Liverpool

Celtic FC

These are the only British clubs to have

won the European cup

Website showing the time since Arsenal

FC last won a trophy

After a 3-1 loss to club Y in a friendly, the

players of club X persuaded their

manager to sign Z, one of the star

performers in that match.

Z was named after his father’s favorite

actor, who was also the President of the

US when Z was born.

ID X, Y and Z.

X-Sporting Lisbon

Y-Manchester united

Z-Cristino Ronaldo

Ian Botham

This is what Manchester United fans often

say:

Pele good, Maradona better, ______

______

George Best

Inter Milan vs. AC Milan, UCL semifinal,

2003

Australia vs Israel, Qualification playoff,

World Youth Championship, 1991

Bahamas vs British Virgin Islands, World

Cup 2010 qualifier

Also tell us why the application of the rule

is anomalous in the above cases.

Away goals rule.

The anomaly is that both the two legs of the

tie were played in one stadium itself.

X wore the number 3 jersey at club Y.

X’s father also played for Y.

Together, father and son have won 7

UEFA Champions League trophies for Y.

In honor of X, club Y retired the no. 3

jersey.

However, if either of X’s sons were to

make it to the first team of Y, they would

be given the 3 jersey.

X- Paolo Maldini

Y-AC Milan

Papa Boupa Diop, Phillip Lahm and

Siphiwe Tshabalala were the scorers of

the first goals in the previous three WC’s

There are 12 people in this picture!

The guy on the left (standing) is a

prankster named Karl Power, who

pretended to be a United player and

walked on to the pitch!

Watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfg-

5l_z7yc for sheer disbelief!