02 Quiz - Nok is waiting.

[owl sees all]

No dinner date for Nok last week. And she had her pieces all ready too.

From now, to the start of the EPL, I'll put up some weekly footy questions. And anyone getting them right; any week,, well, brush up on yer chess gambits. But no Googling now. Only if yer don't know the answers that is.

 

The three easy-peasee last week never got fully answered although a member got one right.

 

First the answers to Quiz 01.

 

1 - These two teams met each other, home and away, in the top flight. 19 goals in the two games. A 8-4 and a 3-4. Clue;;; both teams playing in the EPL this year. What clubs?

 

Answer was Manchester City and Leicester City. Citee won the fist match 4-3 at home. Foxes got their revenge in the return fixture; 8-4. The season 1957/58. And this was a special season for the Manchester club; first question for this week.

 

2 - What did Cameron Brannagan (ex-Liverpool) do in the game Gillingham v Oxford United on 20th January 2022. Result 2-7.
 
a/ Scored 2 own goals for Oxford, and two for Gills
b/ Scored 4 goals from 4 penalties ----- correct 
c/ Hat-trick in first 7 minutes
d/ Scored 6 goals; all in second half.

 

3- Alex Ferguson went to Man Utd in 1986, and suffered a loss in his first game as boss. What club beat his lads?

 

a/ Swindon Town
b/ Northampton Town
c/ Carlisle United
d/ Oxford United ----- correct 2-0 to Oxford.

 

Now to this weeks questions.

 

01 - What was special about the 1957/58 season for Manchester City? A little clue. Although finishing fifth in the league; they only scored 4 more goals than they let in.

 

02 -  Who was manager of Celtic when they won their 100th major competition?

 

a/ Jock Stein.
b/ Brendan Rodgers 
c/ Neil Lennon.
d/ Martin O'Neill. 

 

03 - What club has had most defeats in FA Cup finals?

 

a/ Everton
b/ Blackburn Rovers
c/ Huddersfield Town
b/ Aston Villa.

 

Easy ones this week.

 

Nok is waiting for a knight to make his move.

[ignore it]

Well this seems to have stirred up a hornet's nest.

[TheFishman1]

After reading the first half of a minute of it, I’m out TIT

[Maybole]

Very UK centred, football is played all over the world.