Any stats in football that whenever you read you still get impressed by? Or struggle to comprehend how it even happened? MOTD posed the question a few days ago and interesting to see what crops up.
Some for me:
Messi scoring 91 goals in a calendar year. Wtf. Like just sit back and think how mad that is.
Chelsea only conceding 15 goals in the 04-05 PL season.
Chelsea going 86 PL matches undefeated at home.
Lahm never got sent off in his career. For a defender who played as many games as he did, I think that’s mighty impressive. Like not even a little mistake leaving a trailing leg?
Henry scoring 24 goals and assisting 20 in a single Premier League season, 02/03. It’ll take a special season to beat that PL assists record, and it won’t be a striker that does it.
Bit random but..I’ve never got my head around Kevin Phillips scoring 30 league goals and winning the European golden shoe for Sunderland in the 99/00 season. Scoring 30 goals in a PL season is a great achievement and hard to do. List of players that manage it are some of the best and most talented goalscorers and strikers in league history..and then there’s Kevin Phillips lol.
Don’t get me wrong, Kevin Phillips was a half-decent poacher, high Championship, lower PL level in the same way that..DJ Campbell was. I genuinely find it baffling how the stars aligned for him to reach 30 PL goals for a promoted team that finished 7th! He never ever managed those numbers again in his subsequent PL seasons. Impressive.
Stats in Football That Still Impress You
posted on 7/4/20
From Franny Lee's wiki page..
Francis Henry Lee CBE also known as Franny Lee, is a former professional footballer. ... Lee's name is often cited in debates about diving in football; referees' chief Keith Hackett described him as a player who "had a reputation of falling down ...
posted on 7/4/20
In fact....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W49Ljx3VMc
after he knobbled George
posted on 7/4/20
Still can't quite get my head round (even though I was there for one of the games) that Chelsea once beat a team from Luxembourg called Jeunesse Hautcharage in a two legged European tie 21-0. Apparently it's a record and I guess it won't now be beaten in European competition.
It's an even more odd story when find out a bit more about the team that they played against. A village football team featuring four brothers, a one-armed striker, a bespectacled midfielder, two players over the age of 40 and a 15-year-old on the bench, who had enjoyed a fantastic run to a cup final, win it against the odds and earn a dream European tie against the competition holders.
posted on 7/4/20
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posted on 7/4/20
True dat
posted on 8/4/20
comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 3 hours, 27 minutes ago
Still can't quite get my head round (even though I was there for one of the games) that Chelsea once beat a team from Luxembourg called Jeunesse Hautcharage in a two legged European tie 21-0. Apparently it's a record and I guess it won't now be beaten in European competition.
It's an even more odd story when find out a bit more about the team that they played against. A village football team featuring four brothers, a one-armed striker, a bespectacled midfielder, two players over the age of 40 and a 15-year-old on the bench, who had enjoyed a fantastic run to a cup final, win it against the odds and earn a dream European tie against the competition holders.
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If a team like that was playing today I reckon West Ham would send a couple of scouts to run the rule over them.
posted on 8/4/20
comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 3 hours, 32 minutes ago
Still can't quite get my head round (even though I was there for one of the games) that Chelsea once beat a team from Luxembourg called Jeunesse Hautcharage in a two legged European tie 21-0. Apparently it's a record and I guess it won't now be beaten in European competition.
It's an even more odd story when find out a bit more about the team that they played against. A village football team featuring four brothers, a one-armed striker, a bespectacled midfielder, two players over the age of 40 and a 15-year-old on the bench, who had enjoyed a fantastic run to a cup final, win it against the odds and earn a dream European tie against the competition holders.
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How the feck did that rabble win a cup final Luxembourg footy may have been crap but feck me, surely they had some sides that were semi professional.
posted on 8/4/20
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posted on 28/4/20
In 08/09 season, when most nostalgia merchants say PL football would have been at its peak, Anelka won golden boot with just 19 goals, only 5 players got above 15 goals, and the ‘6th’ highest scorers only had 12 goals
posted on 1/5/20
Since 1982, at least one Bayern Munich player has been in one of the World Cup final starting XIs