FOOTBALL QUIZ

Tuesday 15th June 2007 @ The Providence

Round One – The Premiership 2006/7

1. Who scored the goal that sent Derby into the Premiership via the play-offs?

2. Which player finished the season top scorer in the Championship with 23 goals?

3. Who became the first player to score more than three goals in a League Cup tie for Arsenal this season?

4. Who were Chelsea playing in October when both their goalkeepers were hospitalised?

5. Traces of the Polonium-210 that killed former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko were found at which football ground that he had visited before his death late last year??

6. Man United's defence of the FA Cup came to an abrupt end though when a goal from which Southend player knocked them out this season?

7. Which Liverpool player was declared bankrupt by the courts earlier this year?

8. Which defender scored the 15 000th goal of the Premiership in December?

9. Against which goalkeeper did Paul Robinson score from an over hit free kick this season?

10. Who was Blackburn’s club captain for the past season?

11. How did Wolves supporter Jacqui Oatley cause controversy in the football world in April?

12. Which country’s Olympic team got involved in a mass brawl with QPR players during a friendly in February?

13. Which two players joined a select group this season; being relegated with four different clubs?

14. Which Fulham midfielder won a carp fishing competition whilst on a season-long recovery from a knee injury?

15. Not a good year to support a team beginning with “B”: which three teams didn’t manage to avoid the drop?


Round Two – Talent Scouting

Who Are The British And Foreign Players Who Could Make Appearances In The Premiership Next Season...?

Round Three – A Variety

Whistle Happy…Questions About Those Loveable Referees
1. Which referee was sent sprawling by Paolo Di Canio in 1998?

2. Who refereed the Centenary FA Cup Final between Spurs and Manchester City?

3. Who was the first female referee to officiate in a professional game?

4. Which referee sent off David Beckham in the match between England and Argentina at the 1998 World Cup?

5. What was the unfortunate name of the referee at the 1878 FA Cup Final?


Football Nicknames...Who Would Be Playing If....?.
6. The Lions Played Against The Tigers?

7. The Pirates Vs The Mariners?

8. The Quakers Vs The Shakers?

9. The Royals Vs The Clarets?

10. The Trotters Vs The Rams?


Spot the much-travelled player...From A Chronological List Of Their Clubs...?
11. Everton, West Ham, Aston Villa, Everton, Portsmouth, Ipswich (loan), Sheffield United, Wigan?

12. Millwall, Wimbledon, Spurs, Leicester, Man City, Charlton?

13. Strasbourg, Everton, Lens, Leeds, Roma, Inter Milan?

14. Neuchatel Xamax, SV Hamburg, Blackburn, Liverpool, Celtic, Wigan, Blackburn?

15. Doncaster Rovers, Sheffield United, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Benfica, Middlesboro’, Leicester, West Ham, Leeds, Sunderland, Perth Glory, Sheffield United?




Round Four – Who’s The Missing Player?

Round Five – Quickfire Questions

1. Who was the first footballer to score 100 goals in England’s Premiership?

2. Roy Carroll plays international football for which country?

3. Which Premiership stadium has the lowest capacity?

4. Whose penalty miss put England out of the 1998 World Cup?

5. Name Middlesboro’s ground before their move to the Riverside?

6. In which city do Boca Juniors play their home matches?

7. Who was the first foreign manger of a top-flight English side?

8. Of the starting line up of the Wimbledon team which beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup Final, which was the only international?

9. Which club plays at the Stadio Da Luz?

10. Which former captain of the England team has the middle names Emerson, Carlyle?

11. How many goals did Gary Lineker score for England?

12. In 1985 which club reached a Wembley Final and were relegated in the same year?

13. In July 1998, who became the UK’s first £2m player?

14. Who was the first Dutchman to play in a FA Cup Final?

15. Which Spanish club was managed by Ron Atkinson?

16. Who defeated Arsenal in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final?

17. Who hit the shot that was saved by René Higuita at Wembley, which has since become known as the “Scorpion Save”?

18. Who is the only footballer whilst captaining England to be sent off?

19. Which striker came on as a late substitute for Gary Lineker when England lost to Sweden in the 1992 Euro Championship?

20. Which premiership club is the only one permitted to display its club crest on its corner flags?

21. Who resigned as the manager of the Welsh national team after just one game in charge in 1994?

22. In August 1992, who became the first foreign player to score a hat-trick in the Premiership?

23. Which Conference side play their home games at Nene Park?

24. Which Czech bounced from Old Trafford to Benfica in 1997?

25. Who was Chelsea’s Russian goalkeeper of the mid-90’s?

26. In 2004 which football manager coined the phrase ''Bouncebackability'' – the ability to bounce back?

27. Which football club plays at the Brittania Stadium?

28. Who scored England’s first goal under the reigns of both Kevin Keegan and Sven Goran Erikson?

29. Which football first was achieved in a league game between Millwall and Fulham in June 1974?

30. Who is the only player to have scored in two World Cup Finals for two different countries?