Twelve minutes on the clock, 100 namesto guess - some appear more than once.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your mates.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every city to host a World Cup final? Little known fact: the penno was actually invented by a referee, Sir Joseph Penalty,back in 1888.After Sir Rupert Through-On-Goalwas hauled to the ground by Lord Geoffrey Centre-Half in a game between Oxford University and Preston North End, Sir Joseph saw fit to enact a penalty of some kind.The Victorian referee was famous within the sport for having a stride that was exactly one yard. He counted twelve steps back from the goal-line and awarded a direct free kick on goal, as punishment to the rowdy Oxford...
The coronavirus outbreak means times are bleak in the world of football at the moment.All major European leagues have been suspended until further notice, the highly-anticipated 2020 European Championships have been pushed back by a year, clubs are letting go members of staff and no-one really knows when the next professional kick-off will take place.Of course, this is not the first time that football has come to a standstill over a global crisis. As Europe and much of the rest of the world went to war between 1939 and 1945, the sport that everyone knew and loved came to a complete stop as players went off to war, communities were torn apart and cities came under threat from invasion.FFTtakes a...
10 minutes on the clock, 79 countriesto guess - some appear more than once, and remember to try countries that may not exist in the same form these days.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your mates.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name the line-ups that clinched the Premier League title between 1999 and 2019? Football has a weird relationship with the Olympics.The Olympic Games are famously a celebration of all kinds of sports, but for us football fans, we already have our big tournament, once every four years. So what does the Olympics offer football fans?Apart from a glimpse at some under-23 talents and the debate of how many Welshmen would get into the England team, not that much - especially...
Time-wasting has been covered – complained about – in this corner of the internet before. Then, it was a reaction to the weekend’s events and the many, many minutes lost to the combination of canny players and naïve officials.Essentially, it was little more than an artless moan.Now, with days, weeks and potentially months on our hands, it's time for solutions. Truthfully, the only proper response to time-wasting is some kind of macro revolution – the incorporation of a stop-start clock, for instance, or a new type of power for referees. True enough. But there are ways within the existing regulations to attack the problem. Marginalising the effect of time-wasting tactics could be as simple on being more strict in certain...
Five minutes on the clock, 21 citiesto guess - some appear more than once.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your mates.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name the Premier League top scorers from 2000 to 2009? The World Cup final transcends football.It's the one match every four years that the rest of the world switches on for, regardless of what language they speak or what shape ball they play with.As of 2018, there have been 21 finals. We're approaching the centenary year of the ol' Coup de Monde in 2030, but we'd like you to name the cities that have had the biggest hosting privilege in the sport.Lusail in Qatar will take 2022 - providing it's built. The MetLife Stadium in...