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Paul Gascoigne was arrested and sectioned under the mental health Act in Newcastle. It is just another sad story in what is becoming a series of mishaps for the ex-England international.
Barnsley manager Simon Davey claimed that he got inspiration from his side amazing victory over Liverpool at Anfield on a pigeon doing its business on his head. Nice!
Young boys of Switzerland play their home games at the Wankdorrf stadium. (You really could not make up this kind of stuff).
Ronaldinho once scored all 23 goals for his youth team when his side beat the opposition 23-0. He was 13 years old at the time. (I am not sure why the game was not stopped when he scored the 1st 10 goals of the game).
Pele scored an astonishing 589 goals in only 605 matches for Santos. In 1 season in 1958 he netted an amazing 66 goals in 44 games.
Speaking of Pele, the so called king of football was involved in an astonishing episode in 1967 where it was reported that the 2 groups in the civil war in Nigeria agreed to participate, to have a truce for 48 hours to see him play in Lagos.
Gerd Muller scored 68 goals in 62 games for the Federal Republic of Germany. He once scored 40 goals in 38 league games of the 1971-72 season and was a huge 18 goals more than second best scorer in the best position, Klaus Fischer.
Marco Van bats scored an amazing 128 goals in only 133 games for Ajax.
Tommy Docherty was sacked as manager of Manchester United to sleep withphysiotherapist's wife.
Before his move to Barcelona, Luis Figo was unlawful agreements with Parma and Juventus contract is signed.
Robbie Fowler signed for Manchester City from Leeds United with the understanding that Leeds United would still pay him a salary. (Nice little earner if you can get up, why did not request a loan to Manchester City, Leeds, had left, but they always have to order him a salary. Partly that went into administration a few yearslater).
France most capped player Lilian Thuram, who has 137 appearances with 2 goals. The surprising thing is that his 2 goals came in 1 game and was winning the 1998 World Cup semi-final against Croatia, where France came from behind to win 2-1.
He played 145 league games for Juventus has scored 1 goal in another 2-1 win against rivals AC Milan.
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