The Very Hard FF247 Quiz #1
Okay Ladies, Gents and the Inbetweenies, it is our pleasure to offer you the first of an occasional series of quizzes to entertain you during the International breaks or when I’m bored and have nothing better to do. Usual format is for 10 questions ranging from the child’s play for folks like Elle and Init, to the bloody ridiculous to keep the likes of Ivan and Cookie awake at night!
Now here’s the thing, we need you to post your answers in the same order as the questions; we know it’s bleedin’ obvious but we’ve seen you handle Harry & Lloyd’s……..
Any questions that you have no idea about you can either leave blank or use italics for a wild guess. As we slowly get the correct answers I might start giving out some clues for the tricky ones, or maybe not.
Also, please, please DO NOT post answers that you have Googled, because that just ruins the fun for everybody else. Kindly don’t spoil it for the others, ok? There is a question that I am sure that is impossible to know or guess, so we’ll know. There is the odd bonus point available too. Don’t ask for clarifications, the questions are what they are so just go for it.
So for our first, of hopefully many quizzes, your topic is ENGLISH managers as in Nationality. Questions cover the birth of the FA up to the present day. Football really did exist prior to Sky TV and Jim White!
Eyes down, game on!
Q1. Who was the last English manager to win a European trophy, guess the year to give yourself a bonus point?
Q2. Easy one, who was the last English manager to win the top-flight league in England?
Q3. Who is the English manager that is generally accepted as ‘the father’ of the modern game? Which was the first club he managed for a bonus point?
Q4. Who is the most successful English manager in top-flight football in England?
Q5. Who is the longest current serving English manager in League football?
Q6. Who is the longest serving English manager ever in League football?
Q7. Who was the 1st English manager to win back-to-back FA Cups? Correctly name the team for a bonus point.
Q8. Who was the 1st English manager to win the FA Cup with different clubs?
Q9. Who is the English manager with the most FA Cup wins? Which club for a bonus point?
Q10. England has the most FA Cup winning managers with 51, but how many titles?
Q3 george Graham cup winners cup for arsenal. I’ll say 92
Wasn’t he scottish ?
Yup.
Graham is a Scot, BUT, Arsenal was the club that ??? became famous at… but NOT his 1st club.
Anyone watched the Spurs game? How was Kane playing. Is he worth bringing in if WCing? Spurs have decent fixtures ahead and i would like to have an explosive player in the team.
Thought he looked quite poor actually. He wasn’t holding the ball up well as he usually does, he was well marshalled though. Had one chance that I can think of and put a header over the bar. I’m not rushing to get him in just yet.
Hey Initt. Thanks mate. I’ve clicked the WC button. Never have I done it so early in the season. My team seemed in a very bad shape and may be by the end of the break TV would’ve fallen by 0.5-0.6m. That sums up Kane’s contribution nicely. Last year also, his returns were a bit intermittent for the whole first half. We might even see a sudden hattrick as well, given those fixtures. I believe Son returning should benefit him as well.
What’s your new team looking like Constantine!?
Not impressive at all Constantine. Not in full form yet.
First stab at this –
1. Bobby Robson. ‘95.
2. Howard Wilkinson
3. Brian Clough, Hartlepool
4. Bob Paisley
5. Sean Dyche
6. Dario Gradi
7. Charles Alcock
8. Herbert Chapman
9. Bob Paisley, Liverpool
10. 6
Are you seriously telling me that you knew #7? You googled that!
Namesake, easy one to remember.
OK Charlie, but how did you get it in the first place. 95% of people know him for the FA Cup, 4.9% know for his work in other sports. The remaining 0.1% know him as a Club Secretary, and only a handful of those know that for the 1st decade or so of Association Football, he would have been Admin, Accounting & picking the team. The term manager did not exist.
That was my security question.
So I’m truly intrigued, you’ve been a quiz master, or your pub team just won something, Motty on the Beeb??? I’m impressed but buggered if I know how you did it, name notwithstanding, lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Alcock
Does Init win a free t-shirt then?
Not sure if the hard questions were hard enough
Pass, I just knew it, must have come up somewhere previously and it just stuck with me, it’s a fairly unusual and sometimes cruel surname. Although I got away with it in school as, by quirk of fate, we had a Victoria Allcock in the same class. Note the subtle difference an extra ‘l’ makes….
I genuinely knew no.7 and can’t apologise for it. I’ve never been to a quiz where the quizmaster loses his sh1t and throws his chair at you just because you knew the answer though so that’s fairly unique
How’d I fare with the others?!
Hahahaha, does deed poll work for surnames?
Maybe not the quizmaster, but I think I’d have thrown a chair at you as a rival if you got that in a pub quiz 😉
You’d probably miss 😉
Yeah, true, you’re not that tall.
Lemme take a shot
1. Robson with barca
2. The leeds manager in 92 (as a utd fan i guess this cos it was prior to fergie’s reign)
3. Glenn Hoddle (Wild guess)
4. George Ramsay (Just to stick it to lpool fans when they talk of Bob Paisley)
5. Neil Warnock (Guess)
6. Will say same as 4, Ramsay (Wild Guess)
7. No idea (Surely not Ron Atkinson with utd?)
8. . . (Please let me google)
9. Ron Atkinson with Man Utd (Very wild guess and yes i know there are other teams in England)
10. Not sure i get the question, but if it means how many times has the FA trophy been won, since it is the oldest footy competition probably somewhere 1870s (WILD WILD GUESS) 2018-1878=140 titles
PS:
Take it easy on me
1- Bobby Robson 1997
2. Howard Wilkinson
3. Alfred Ramsay
4. Gareth Southgate
5. Paul Tisdale
6. Alex Ferguson
7. James Fielding-Blackburn Rovers
8. —-
9. Arsene Wenger
10. —–
Not saying mine are any better and you may well have got more correct but isn’t your no.5 a bit….. Scottish. And retired
As is 9 and he should retire
Phew, well spotted init. 5 and 6 should be swapped. Oh well, did in a rush 😆
You have editing rights….just saying. 😉
I know Mito, but the cat is already out of the bag 🙂
You can edit what Init said also. 😉
Swap it to 6 if you like but he’s still Scottish
Done. Thanks guys.
He can edit Wikipedia and make him English. 😉
Well, wrong is wrong. As I said, did in a rush :see-no:
I would answer, but I have literally no idea on any of these. Will have to wait on the NBA quiz. 😉
Ok, quick MLS question. Who scored a penalty and had two assists last night against Atlanta?
Alex Ferguson?
Donkey’s friend
Yep, that’s the one. Broken nose Shrek :smiling: