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Post by kevkj on Apr 10, 2008 14:39:55 GMT
What are, Notts County and Preston North End allowed to do that no other team can do?
Anybody know i dont.
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Post by stokiematt on Apr 10, 2008 14:40:25 GMT
whats soccer ???
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Post by kevkj on Apr 10, 2008 14:42:28 GMT
Your right Matt ive spent a month in the states now lok at me.  |
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Post by deka69 on Apr 10, 2008 14:43:26 GMT
Is it, if they choose to, wear their home kit away from home?
Thought Notts County were allowed to do that, not sure about Preston.
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Post by wardrobe monster on Apr 10, 2008 14:45:20 GMT
Somewhere at the very darkest part of my brain that I dont like to visit very often is telling me that its got something to do with corner flags or something like that. They are allowed to put something on their corner flags. Its something really obscure like that.
Either that or Im barking mad.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2008 14:48:19 GMT
That’s it, they are allowed put the pirate’s “skull and bones” picture on there corner flags.
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Post by Matthews dad on Apr 10, 2008 14:49:46 GMT
This has got the makings of a classic thread.
Call themselves Notts county/PNE.
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Post by clan2 on Apr 10, 2008 14:52:42 GMT
deka 69 is sort of right..
Q: Which two teams do not have to wear their change strips at an away game, but can instead insist that the home team change theirs?
A: Preston North End (because they were the first Football League champions) and Reading (because they play in the Royal County of Berkshire)
The only problem with this question is that it is UTTER RUBBISH! Is there anyone out there who is really so stupid as to think that there would be FA rules relating to the above. And why Preston North End anyway? Why not The Wanderers, who were the first winners of the FA Cup? Surely that would be a more likely rule? And what exactly does "playing in the Royal County" have to do with anything? Name one reason why occupying the same county as a group of German parasites should have anything to do with the colour shirts that a football side might wear.
There is a theory that this particularly stupid question goes back to Reading's away trip to Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1992/93 season. That year, the Reading marketing people introduced the new first team kit of blue and white hoops, to general acclaim. However, they were also exceptionally stupid (no change there!) and created a reserve strip of yellow and blue hoops. When we played away to a side with blue in their shirts, and so had to wear our change strip, quite a few referees took one look at the Reading away shirts and said that the game couldn't possibly take place like that.
Normally, this meant that Reading had to wear the home side's away shirt - this happened at Wigan Athletic and Huddersfield Town, for example. At Brighton, for whatever reason, it was the home side who changed into their away shirt. Reading played in the blue and white hoops, and it appears that the legend of the question was born.
Quite where Preston North End came into it, I have no idea.
There is a version of the answer which included Notts County on the basis that they were the oldest League club and founder members. Clearly, though, this is still rubbish
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2008 14:54:56 GMT
I still stand by my “skull and bones” answer.
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Post by wardrobe monster on Apr 10, 2008 14:56:11 GMT
Clan....thats far too sensible, mine is a much better answer.
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Post by wardrobe monster on Apr 10, 2008 14:57:33 GMT
I agree with whydelilah......its also the case that are also allowed to have the logo "Hello Sailor" on the tunnel as the teams come out.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2008 15:01:04 GMT
The way I see it if they can make a stupid question up then we are allowed to make stupid answers up.
Q) What can Macclesfield Town and Tranmere Rovers claim to do which no other club can?
A) Eat banana’s at half-time, all other teams must have oranges.
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Post by Sammz on Apr 10, 2008 15:03:22 GMT
Is it that they are both allowed to play with a tortoise instead of a regulation soccer ball?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2008 15:04:22 GMT
Football sammz, not soccer ball. That’s the first and last warning……
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Post by deka69 on Apr 10, 2008 15:05:27 GMT
deka 69 is sort of right.. WOO!-HOO! Do I win something!? Is there anyone out there who is really so stupid as to think that there would be FA rules relating to the above D'oh!  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2008 15:07:58 GMT
You win a free pen. Just send me a cheque for 50 quid and I will ship you the free pen absolutely free (even free postage) free free free. Congrats, you are a winner…..and it’s all free.
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Post by deka69 on Apr 10, 2008 15:12:30 GMT
Fool! You have to leave your address!  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2008 15:17:39 GMT
Ahhhh, never mind…..almost worked  ;D |
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Post by dexter97 on Apr 10, 2008 16:06:17 GMT
I agree with whydelilah......its also the case that are also allowed to have the logo "Hello Sailor" on the tunnel as the teams come out. You're thinking of Brighton, surely? ;D |
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Post by Miniman on Apr 10, 2008 19:30:23 GMT
What are Stoke allowed to do which NO other team in the country can?
Take the head of Conference sides mascots head
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Post by Orbs on Apr 10, 2008 21:31:45 GMT
I know that Notts County gave Juventus a set of shirts years ago and that is why the Italian Giants play in black and white stripes.
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Post by stokelad on Apr 10, 2008 22:00:48 GMT
???
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Post by clan2 on Apr 10, 2008 22:31:36 GMT
As we are on the subject of kits here is another bit of trivia......
Arsenal did not play in red and white at all. A short while after Arsenal's foundation in 1886, the club was without a kit just before they had to play an important match. Former Nottingham Forest players Fred Beasley and Morris Bates asked their previous club for equipment, and thus Arsenal started out their time as a football club sporting a redcurrant shirt with white shorts
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Post by prong on Apr 11, 2008 0:12:02 GMT
Well, I'm sure you don't need informing that Don Revie is responsible for the Leeds Whites, attempting as he did to copy the imposing strip of Real Madrid for a match against I'm From Barcelona in around about 1964. The Barcelona match might even be a myth, not sure about that one.
Previously it was blue and gold/amber/yellow all the way. And, he also had some sort of thing against birds as mascots, and so the club badge owl (taken from the City crest) was scrapped too.
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