Funny Football Stories (All True) [17 Sep @ 10:13pm]

STRANGE BUT TRUE

TACTICAL ERROR?
A certain, non league, Scottish team, going by the name of Cumbernauld, once took the great Kenny Dalglish on loan from Celtic in 1969. For a few brief months this team had a player who would go on to be one of the worlds most feared strikers. And where did Cumbernauld play him?
In goal of course!!!

BRIEFCASE AIDS IN GOAL!
Here is one of the most famous stories in Uruguayan foot balling history. I wouldn't blame you if you had never heard of it though as it was from quite a while back in 1930.
A Nacional player had hit the ball just wide of the right post and out of play. The ball then bounced back onto the field to another waiting Nacional player who calmly placed it into the back of the net. The referee who was standing a way off allowed the goal as he thought the ball had just bounced back off the post.
And how did the ball bounce back onto the pitch? Well a briefcase, left by one of the games camera men, was next to the post and is what the ball rebounded back into play with!!!

CUNNING BACKPASS?
Now here's a story you may have heard of. It happened during a game between Liverpool FC and Southampton, in 1987.
The game was going Liverpool's way and so they decided to calm it down a little by passing the ball around the defence. In his wisdom, Ronnie Whealan decided to pass the ball back to Bruce Grobbelar in goal, but instead of a simple pass Ronnie goes and lobs Brucey from 60 yards!!!

LOST IN THE MIST!
A couple of years ago there was a story in the paper about a Cambridgeshire league match that was played one winter in typically poor conditions. After about ten minutes the fog came down so thickly that visibility was reduced to about half the length of the pitch and so the referee decided to abandon the match.
It was only after the players had been enjoying the warmth of the changing rooms for twenty minutes that one of the players noticed that their goalkeeper hadn't joined them.
When they went out to look for him they found him still, faithfully, guarding his goal, oblivious to the fact that the match had been abandoned.
Apparently he thought that his team had been playing particularly well and had managed to keep the ball in the opponents half of the pitch.

TRUMPET GETS PLAYER BANNED!
Not very long ago Birmingham City were playing Chester in a league match and were 3-0 up. With a few minutes to go their captain, Liam Daish, headed home a fourth.
In the following celebrations some Birmingham fans threw a toy trumpet onto the pitch. Daish picked up this trumpet and, to the amusement of the Birmingham fans, started playing it.
The ref was not as amused and booked him for it which led to a three match ban!!!

DEFENDING THE WRONG GOAL!
This story concerns a match played between December 1993 and February 1994 between Barbados and Grenada in a cup competition.
Barbados needed to win the game by two clear goals to progress to the next round. Now the trouble was caused by a strange rule which stated that in the event of a game going into penalty kicks, the winner would be awarded a two goal victory. Understand? Doesn't matter if you don't. You'll soon get the gist of it.
With five minutes to go, Barbados were leading 2-1 and going out of the tournament. When they realized they had no chance of scoring past Grenada's mass defence they turned around and deliberately scored an own goal to tie the game and send the teams into a penalty shoot out.
Grenada, themselves not being stupid, realized what was going on attempted to score an own goal too putting Barbados back on top and sending them out of the competition.
However, the Barbados players started defending their opposition's goal to prevent them doing this. During the games last five minutes the fans were treated to the incredible sight of a team defending their opponent's goal preventing them from scoring in the back of their own net!!!
Eventually the game did go to penalties which Barbados won much to the anger of Grenada and all their fans!!!

FUNNY FOOTBALLERS QUOTES

'I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country'. Ian Rush

'I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona'. Mark Draper

'Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?' Shaun Newton

'Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win'. Vinny Jones
'I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock'. Barry Venison

'My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7'. David Beckham

'I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet'. David Beckham

'I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league'. Mark Viduka

'I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right'. Lee Hendrie

'Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had'. David Beckham

'If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day'. Neville Southall

'Germany are a very difficult team to play...they had 11 internationals out there today'. Steve Lomas