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by **Ciggy** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:34 pm

zarababe wrote:This took place at White Hart Lane, of all places in 1945. Arsenal were playing Dynamo Moscow when a dense fog descended on the pitch. The referee refused to abandon the match because the visiting team had come all the way from Moscow.

The game swiftly reduced to a farce!
- One Arsenal player was sent off for fighting, but sneaked back on again in the fog.

-The Russians substituted a player, but never sent their player off. Indeed, there were strong suspicions, that throughout the game, the Russian side secretly increased from 11 players to 15!

The problem was that no-one could actually see enough to count them.

The final confusion happened when the Arsenal goalie became disorientated in the fog, ran into the goal post and knocked himself out. He was replaced by a member of the crowd.

Is this true

LMFAO

by **zarababe** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:43 am

It was 1991 during a derby game between Uruguay's two biggest teams: Penarol v Nacional. The incident involved a certain Dely Valdez and Penarol defender Goncalves. Valdez was Nacional's striker and he was known for wearing gold chains and other jewelry on the pitch. Both players were struggling as a corner kick was about to take place for Nacional, Goncalves ripped off one of Valdez's gold-chains and hid it in his sock. Nobody in the stadium saw it but the TV cameras caught the moment

... after the game Valdez and the police were waiting for Goncalvez outside the dressing rooms. Goncalvez was arrested but the charges were later dropped as he had returned the chain.

Why did he do it? Goncalvez reply is clear and simple:

"I don't know what I was thinking"

This derby became known simply as the "golden-chain derby"

by **skipper** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:50 pm

zarababe wrote:This took place at White Hart Lane, of all places in 1945. Arsenal were playing Dynamo Moscow when a dense fog descended on the pitch. The referee refused to abandon the match because the visiting team had come all the way from Moscow.

The game swiftly reduced to a farce!
- One Arsenal player was sent off for fighting, but sneaked back on again in the fog.

-The Russians substituted a player, but never sent their player off. Indeed, there were strong suspicions, that throughout the game, the Russian side secretly increased from 11 players to 15!

The problem was that no-one could actually see enough to count them.

The final confusion happened when the Arsenal goalie became disorientated in the fog, ran into the goal post and knocked himself out. He was replaced by a member of the crowd.

Are you serious? That's hilarious.

Who was the keeper that knocked himself out?

by **Reinas No.1 Fan** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:27 pm

Hey, that first fact.

What happened was the team who lost i think had a player sent off (or a goal allowed when it shouldn't of been) or some referee decision, anyway because of that they all sat down and let the other team keep scoring in protest. Well i suppose the made a good point, although they lost 3.

Thats a fact as well, i cant remeber were i heard it but i think i was on holiday. not important tho

by **zarababe** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:59 pm

For those who know nowt about the famous Liver Bird..

The Liverbird is a mythical creature of mixed origin (Cormorant and Eagle) said to date from the days of King John (13th century).

Today two such birds sit proudly on top of the Liver Building and are known as the Guardians of the Port of Liverpool, overlooking the River Mersey. Legend has it that should the birds ever fly away, then the City of Liverpool would cease to exist

by **zarababe** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:12 am

.. Joke..

A van driver used to amuse himself by running over every Gooner he would see strutting down the side of the road in their crappy red and white shirts.

He would swerve to hit them and there would be a loud "THUMP" and then he would swerve back on the road.

One day, as the driver was driving along, he saw a priest hitchhiking. He thought he would do a good turn and pulled the van over. He asked the Priest "where are you going, Father?"

"I'm going to say mass at St. Joseph's church, about 2 miles down the road" replied the priest.

"No problem Father. I'll give you a lift. Climb in!" The happy priest climbed into the passenger seat and the van continued down the road.

Suddenly the driver saw a Gooner walking down the road and instinctively swerved to hit him. But, just in time, he remembered the bloody priest, so at the last minute he swerved back to the road, narrowly missing the guy.

However even though he was certain he missed him, he still heard a loud "THUD." Not understanding where the noise came from, he glanced in his mirrors and when he didn't see anything he turned to the priest and said "I'm sorry Father, I almost hit that Gooner."

"That's okay," replied the priest. "I got the idiot with the door!"

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