Championship TFF'ers

[The Southbank]

Woo Mr Bus Driver is here!

Driving down the A329(M) of course.

 

[Veggie Legs]

8 days later, I make it that we're missing a fan for three clubs. Fulham, Middlesbrough, and Wigan.

Derby, with 8 '1FFers' currently have the most fans. Wolves, Forest, and Ipswich follow with 4.

Sure we're still missing a fair few? Kevin immediately springs to mind, plus I'm sure there was a larger contingent of Wednesday fans? I just can't think of any of their names, bar Aero/WDTS.

Sage, Nuttall and OutandOutOwl are all missing Wednesday fans.
Haven't seen mansfieldwhite either, so Leeds are down a couple.

Don't remember any notable Fulham fans. There was a Boro fan who was a regular poster in the away attendances thread, doriva17 or something. For Wigan, there's Let's Hang On and the one who thought Wigan were better than everyone at everything, Tommy WAFC?

 

[Bobbin']

There was a Borolad who posted occasionally too?

 

[HertsWolf]

Sage, Nuttall and OutandOutOwl are all missing Wednesday fans.
Haven't seen mansfieldwhite either, so Leeds are down a couple.

Don't remember any notable Fulham fans. There was a Boro fan who was a regular poster in the away attendances thread, doriva17 or something. For Wigan, there's Let's Hang On and the one who thought Wigan were better than everyone at everything, Tommy WAFC?

He used to get really wound up if you dared to suggest Wigan weren't massive. He called me a WUM. To be fair, he was right.

He was pretty good at the Christmas quiz though.

Am I allowed to say the C word? Maybe not. He was pretty good at the midwinter traditional religious festival of indeterminate faith quiz.

 

[Madejski]

I'm sure Fulham fans haven't heard of the internet, you never see any of them on football forums.

 

[Muzzle]

Still haven't seen your list of bloody answers HertsWolf for the quiz

 

[TomPNE94]

I'm sure Fulham fans haven't heard of the internet, you never see any of them on football forums.

Nah, they just don't have any fans.

 

[This Charming Mike]

I'm sure Fulham fans haven't heard of the internet, you never see any of them on football forums.

There was Kit's Army on TFF, he was hilarious.

 

[TomPNE94]

There was Kit's Army on TFF, he was hilarious.

I'm pretty sure he was another poster just taking the piss haha

 

[This Charming Mike]

I'm pretty sure he was another poster just taking the piss haha

Ah really?! Who was it?

 

[TomPNE94]

Ah really?! Who was it?

I've no idea, I'm just guessing!

My money would be on HertsWolf though haha

 

[This Charming Mike]

I've no idea, I'm just guessing!

My money would be on HertsWolf though haha

I am ashamed that I have fallen for something like that.

Genuinely thought he was a real Fulham fan but a few sandwiches short of a picnic or something.

 

[TomPNE94]

I am ashamed that I have fallen for something like that.

Genuinely thought he was a real Fulham fan but a few sandwiches short of a picnic or something.

He very possibly was, I honestly don't know any sort of inside info haha.

Just didn't seem very genuine to me, plus Fulham don't have any fans so I was instantly suspicious.

 

[Bobbin']

Yeah he was a tool, definite WUM. Any player/manager mentioned, he claimed he would like to see them managing Fulham one day.

I thought he was just a bit of a nut job but when he said it about Lee Clark, he gave the game away.

 

[SeasideKurt]

I'm here we're still dying but it's getting more painful now.

 

[Haddock]

I have arrived my friend

 

[Lamby]

I am alive!

 

[Haddock]

We're ere we're there we're fcuking everywhere...

Behave this time mate

 

[HertsWolf]

I'm here we're still dying but it's getting more painful now.

For a moment there, I misread your nickname and thought you were Blackpool's owner. But then realised it was an 'r' not an 'n'.

 

[Frank]

Was !Dan on TFF, mighty Bees...

 

[HertsWolf]

Still haven't seen your list of bloody answers HertsWolf for the quiz

I will post it but I'm really busy right now.

 

[HertsWolf]

OK....for those that played it, here is the Christmas Quiz with answers. I don't have time to pretty it up and some questions are out of order (long story) but it seems people want to see it.
In the original I added a little more context to the answers. The answers in brackets below were intended to jog my memory really.
I also can't remember who answered each one correctly. Let me know if you want more information. There's obviously typos but I can't be arsed to correct them. As I said, too busy.

Because I lost the list of who had won, the first prize of a Maserati will be null and void and I'll have to take it back to the dealer. The second prize of a Carlisle United season ticket and the third prize of Carlisle United will also, sadly, be returned to the bank.
I am not prepared to discuss the answers to question 9 because I wished I had never fucking asked it.

I think questions in bold text weren't answered.

1. What town links Molineux, home of Wolves, and Wayne and Coleen Rooney? (Croxteth, Earl of Sefton was Molyneux family after whom the ground was named. Croxteth was where Rooney’s met)
2. The centerspot of which club’s ground is by the deli counter in a Sainsbury’s? (Scunthorpe’s former ground, the Old Show Ground)
3. Who links Hibs, Barnet, Millwall, Leeds, Reading, Blackpool and Plymouth? (Graham Stack)
4. Which club has men that shout in Latin? (Gillingham, motto Domus clamantium)
5. Who was locked out of the ground in December 2010? (Mansfield Town)
6. Which town’s football club is eclipsed by the local mass football phenomenom, and what is that game called? (Workington, Uppies and Downies)
7. 2nd October 1935. What still stands? (Record League attendance, Chelsea v Arsenal)
8. First match ever, who lost 8-0? (Burnley)
9. Which is the biggest town or city outside the SouthEast without a League team? (Dudley, 311,000 people)
10. What have the following clubs in common Crawley Town (Gatwick), Brentford (Heathrow), Manchester United (Manchester), Stevenage (Stansted) (Closest league clubs to four busiest English airports)
11. Who links Leeds United and Pantomime (Hilton Crowther, early chairman of Leeds United married Mona Vivian, famous pantomime artist)
12. Badged as 262. Which club? (Swindon Town, 2-6-2 railway engine on the badge)
13. Ninth = Championship; Second = Premiership; Third = Premiership; Thirteenth = League One; Nineteenth = League Two. What is Sixth, Seventh and Eighth? (Championship, Championship, League One..Sheffield, Teeside, Bristol. Highest club by metropolitan area)
14. Evans, Brown, Mills,….. Next? (Darrell Clarke; Rotherham, Southend, Gateshead, Bristol; ground size)
15. Only two clubs in the top 5 divisions in England have none of the letters of the word “manic” in their name. Which two? (Bury, Southport)
16. Two players older than the club. Which club? (Stevenage: Day and Beasant)
17. What do Notts County, West Brom, Wolves and Barnsley have in common? (All won FA Cup from Second Division)
18. Who, how, when and for whom saved the day at the last gasp, eight minutes after coming on as a substitute? (Brighton, 3rd May 1997. Scored equalizer against Hereford so stayed up in Football League)
19. Which manager picked a fan from the crowd to play when he ran out of subs? (Harry Redknapp in pre-season friendly against Oxford Utd, 1994)
20. Which former Premiership player adds up to 5,1,500,1,100? (Nemanja Vidic – Roman numerals)
21. Which manager managed seven clubs but was only sacked from one of them? (Martin O’Neill)
22. A player from which club received a birthday card during a World Cup match? (Gianfranco Zola, red card in match against Nigeria on 28th birthday)
23. Who is the only football player to have got one in every one and in both of them and in an international as well? (Robbie Earnshaw….hattricks all 4 divisions, both cups and international)
24. Which club has had the same sponsor since 1982? (PSV Philips)
25. Which player was contractually banned from becoming an astronaut while at the club. (Stefan Schwarz, Sunderland)
26. Which three stadiums in England really are dumps? Or were…. (Madjeski, Sixfields, Roots Hall)
27. Which manager oversaw 12 goals for , one against, for two different clubs against the same club in 2009-10? (Paul Lambert. Norwich and Colchester, 7-1 and 5-0)
28. Which team is planning to move to the afterlife, taking only 12,000 fans with them? (Carlisle Utd Blue Yonder Project)
29. How many British clubs are mentioned in the Bible? (Nine: QoS, Hearts, Wolves, Palace, Spurs, Bury, Forest, Arsenal, Reading)
30. Which is the only club to have won the Family Club of the Year two years running? (Wycombe)
31. The fans of which club considered their main rivals to be a club in non-league, four full divisions below them, despite not playing them for more than 40 years? (Wigan…Chorley)
32. Who finished with 476 and where? (Jaaskalainen at Bolton Wanderers)
33. Which Championship player has won a cap for a nation that doesn’t technically exist? (Riera of Wigan for Catalonia in Dec 2013)
34. What links the Rhins, Rutherglen, the Co-Op, West Lothian and Spurs? And it’s not Steve! (The name Calderwood)
35. Which Wolves-supporting British international footballer was briefly loaned to the current Linksfield Lawn Bowling Club in Johannesburg? (George Best)
36. Which club will shortly move from a ground they don’t play at to a ground outside where they are from? (West Ham – Boleyn Ground to Olympic Stadium)
37. Why is Scott Carson the odd one out of 72? (One of the 72 players Aston Villa have provided for England; other 71 were contracted toVilla, Carson was on loan from Liverpool)
38. Who had nothing on their shirts because of crap lawyers? (WBA, 93-94 after sponsors, lawyers Coucher & Shawshut down)
39. Which two footballers connect Karnataka and the Shropshire union? (The two Ashley Westwoods)
40. Red, dark blue, yellow, more yellow, white, light blue. Should be on a piece of glass, really. (Palace home and away strip colours)
41. Who was desperate to get away from Denmark and where did he end up next? (Scott Dann, on loan from Walsall to Danish club Koge BK , then Redditch)
42. What did Bradford earn with Womack? (Division Two Title in 1920-21 for Bham City)
43. Where you can watch a watery clown play (Broadfield Stadium)
44. Santa calls an ecofriendly Christmas (Ho hoe ho..Plymouth Argyle)
45 Who went from Epping to Wembley for the first time? (Hoddesdon Town, first FA Vase)
46. Punters stick together? (Cambridge United)
47. Swindon. Sheffield Wednesday. Kidderminster. West Brom. Crystal Palace. Notts County. Which is the odd one out? (Kiddie. All have birds as nicknames, but only Kiddie have it in their name)
48. Hey! No smut! (Anagram of Colchester Manager Tony Humes)
49. Chase them from Turf Moor, Oakwell and Tromode Park to the Macron. to (Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke, Peter Kennaugh…Olympic Gold medallists)

 

[HertsWolf]

50. Fly fishing in Yorkshire? You’ll need a rail pass then. (Doncaster Rovers)
51. The senate and people of South Africa? Err. Not quite. (SPQR QPR)
52. Sounds like a bright guy could get you over the river. (Watford)
53. Laid to rest (Bury)
54. Pride of F1? Or a mixed up Mars bar in the shire. (Derby County)
55. Together we’ll compost the woman’s gammon! (Rotherham United)
56. 1904 or 2000? (Grecians Exeter City)
57. Accessories for walking around (Bolton Wanderers)
58. Drawn sharply and brightly-coloured tooth replaced (Daggers)
59. Pressed on North End? Duh! Other way round. (Southend)
60. No idea. Sounds like they could own Man U. (Glazers Palace)
61. Who requested a transfer because he was scared witless of the landings at the local airport. (Tiago Pererira)
62. Railway on the pier, bandstand by the entrance. (Stranraer)
63. Bowled flat out but we see there’s no Emergency Room (York City)
64. “See you next Tuesday!” “Oh, Why?” “Because we’re off to get fresh strong wine!” (Newport County)
65. North of the Canadian oil. And south. (Hibernians)
66. Collectively N 0.78084? (Ayr United)
67. Which team scored an own goal to win a game? (Barbados in 1994 in Caribbean Cup to get extra time to get golden goal)
68. Which city is not in a city? (Brechin City)
69. When were the world champions not the World Champions? (In the early editions of O Mundo, the Brazilian newspaper on 16th July 1950, Brazil were crowned world champions. Only Uruguay spoilt the party by beating them)
70. What connects Wigan’s Don Cowie with Mary Poppins. (In 2007-8, when with ICT, Cowie scored against Celtic, resulting in the memorable headline “Super Cowie Goes Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious”)
71. Which club was banned in China despite not being legally available there? (Al of them …Football Manager 2005)
72. Which British football team is the most supported team in Xinjiang, Autonomous Peoples’ Republic , China’s westernmost province? (Stockport County)
73: Indelicate slur (Carlisle United)
74. Which team’s main stand was completely built, only to discover that the stairs had not been built and it wasn’t possible to get into it. (Stenhousemuir)
75 Whose former ground was named after a flowering weed. (Swansea, Vetch Field)
76. Two Golden Arrows and they started playing on farmland. (Torquay Utd)
77. Club sits above Britain’s largest undeveloped coalfield (Oxford United)
78. He was a gifted player but gave up football for a career as an artist, where he became an internationally-renowned portrait painter and has jointly produced paintings with one of the most famous British painters of the last 100 years. Who is he? (Harold Riley)
79. Filth recedes? (Chesterfield)
80. No motley kindness (Milton Keynes Dons)
81. Concealing tyrants (Accrington Stanley)
82. QPR, Accrington Stanley, Rotherham? Which two teams are missing from this list? (Fleetwood and Eastleigh – smallest grounds in each division)
83. Walsall, Aston Villa, West Brom, Birmingham City, Leicester City, even Burton Albion. But not quite Wolves. Nor Oxford United. What are they? (Grounds closer to Coventry’s Ricoh Arena than Sixfields)
84. Who started off by inviting anyone who reckoned they were good enough to come along for a trial? (AFC Wimbledon, 2002)
85. Who got their first League point against Barnet? (Morecambe)
86. Wigan 1 – 4 Bristol Rovers, Chesterfield 2 – 3 Plymouth. Whas was unusual about these two games? (The socres were the number of players sent off for each team)
87. What have Colchester United and Yeovil Town got in common (Both have reached 5th Round of FA Cup as non-league teams)
88. Which club connects the southernmost point of Banks Island in Canada, a bridge and a couple of lions? (Sunderland crest The Penshaw Monument, named after John Lampton, a Canadian Governor General)
89 Which club is believed to be named after a cargo ship and its owners? (Orient)
90 The suporters of which British league club is referred to, by its neighbours as a kind of cartilaginous fish? (Skates, Pompey)
91 Who turned 100 and 100 and 175 for the third into more than 16,000 and they all saw gold?(Huddersfield: £100 and £175 season tickets for the third tier got over 16,000 STHs)
92 Whose first win was 3-1 at Rochdale? (Yeovil)
93. Who plays in a river? (Dover Athletic who play in River, Kent)
94. Battle badge on a verdant hill, but not half as Golders Green? (Barnet. Badge)
95. Who was surprisingly in chains in 2002? (Hartlepool’s team mascot was elected mayor)
96. Which clubs in the top four divisions have won a domestic cup in another country? (Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol City, Shrewsbury Town, Crewe Alexandra, Tranmere Rovers) [One point for naming all the clubs]
97. Which club changed their club colours for just one season – and which season - to suit a sponsor? (Macclesfield, 1975-76)
98. Who were the cherries for one season but it was a disaster, and when? (Manchester United, 1934)
99. Which footballer was reputed by the suporters of his club to be a monster with hands bigger than a digger’s? (Albert Iremonger, Notts County)
100. Which English League team plays on a former barracks parade ground? (Yeovil)
7. Beached Town (Cowdenbeath)

 

[Rammy]

74. Which team’s main stand was completely built, only to discover that the stairs had not been built and it wasn’t possible to get into it. (Stenhousemuir)

That's amazing!

 

[Muzzle]

Cheers buddy

 

[markpvfc]

Thanks for that, some great questions amongst that lot.

 

[Nuttall]

I've completely stumbled across this by chance, stroke of luck, hello again everyone!!

 

[Saddlerrad]

Welcome back! I thought I'd spoken to a Wednesday fan on twitter that was you, but it wasn't! How did you find us?

 

[Nuttall]

I have spoke to you on twitter before a while back but not recently, i just searched the football forum to try and find another one after tff closed down and it happened to be this one

 

[JimmyD]

Wolves fan here