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?
Answer Sheet
1. Sir Bobby Robson with Barca in 1997 Cup Winners Cup, 2 pts there for some of you. The last English club/manager combo was Howard Kendall with Everton in 1985. Wasn’t that the last time that they won anything Init?
2. Howard Wilkinson of Leeds Utd is the answer. Famously sold King Cantona for a few bob to Fergie, the rest as they say is history.
3. You now have a clue with Arsenal.
4. Yup, it’s Bob. For most fans when considering who the most successful ever manager in English football history is, Sir Alex Ferguson will spring to mind first. That’s fair enough – he won 38 trophies in his time as manager of Manchester United, including 13 Premier League titles. However, Liverpool have had someone better – Bob Paisley. The amount of trophies won through the Liverpool legend’s nine-year tenure is ridiculous. 20 in nine seasons. Significantly, from 1976-1983, the Reds enjoyed a period where they would win either the first division title or European Cup (now known as the Champions League) every year. Seven years where Liverpool fans would enjoy the victory of one of the two most sought after trophies in football.
5. Jim Bentley, Morecambe FC Div2 7yrs & 100 odd days.
6. Dario Gradi has been associated for more than 30 years with Crewe Alexandra, with whom he is currently the director of football and also director of the Academy. Gradi had a 24-year first spell as manager of Crewe between 1983 and 2007. He stepped down from his managerial role in 2007, handing first-team responsibilities to Steve Holland, and became technical director. At that time, Gradi was the longest-serving manager of an English football league club. After two further spells as Crewe manager, he finally stepped down in November 2011 to focus on the club’s youth system.
7. Charles Alcock. The Wanderers
8. Herbert Chapman was the 1st manager to win the FA Cup with 2 clubs: Huddersfield Town and Arsenal.
9. John Nicholson is the English manager with most wins, 4 for Sheffield Utd
10. Nope. I suggest you dipsticks read the Q more carefully. We’re ranging from 6 to 140 ffs.
Q.10: 51
Nope, some managers won it more than once
It’s a lottery then. How many won it more than once?
Dunno, I just have the total, I can post the answer if you want?
Ok, wild guess is that 5 of those have won 2, 3 have one 3 and 1 has own 4, so, in plain English: 65
Near enough, it’s 68 titles between them.
Just out of fun, can we have a cricket quiz as well? I know it’s an FPL site, but still. Don’t bite me though.
I’ll have a look, I love cricket but I have nothing like the same knowledge as I do for footie. I’m doing the next footie quiz now, then I’ll look. Ask Init if it’s ok though.
Initt.. can we have one for cricket please? Pleeaaasseeee.(I’m sounding like my daughter, intentionally)
Why not write one, and submit it?
I loved cricket stats when I was younger. Could lose myself for hours in Wisden.
I’m sure if SZ wants to throw in some supplementary cricket ones that’d be just fine. Wouldn’t have a scooby myself because as much as I enjoy watching the Ashes I have zero knowledge of actual cricket history.
Kralin,I can prepare one yes, but i think my command over English is not “article ready” as many of the writers here do have. It’s better to let the professionals do their stuff.
Sounds like Kralin should be doing it really, just bowled him a googly there.
OK, I’ll have a look after we start the next footie quiz…no promises mind.
Next footie quiz will be ranked easy, not mid-difficult like the current one.
Cheers Initt and SZ. That’d be good
Constantine, ask Init to give you my email, we can do it together. I’d appreciate someone with knowledge coming on board.
Says constant, in word perfect English!
Raz always claims the same whenever I ask him to do stuff for us. He argues for days in perfect English that he can’t write in English……
I understand the hesitation to some extent. There are some words/expressions that we non-British can’t really get round to understand or use adequately. But yeah, as much as some of the community members want to make every post a piece of literature (looking at you Kralin!! :)) ) basic English should be enough to write a good and entertaining article.
I remember once I compared West Ham with failing an MOT test, and completely baffled half the people reading it.
I’ve tried to rein in the references to infamous British gyratory systems etc since then.
You should introduce us to some choice words and phrases from your first language, DMC. If a player really lets you down, how would you describe them?
Didn’t understand a word of that DMC
Well, aside from the most comum and very handy basic insults I could go:
“Perna de pau” (soft)
I’m not one to aggravate to much the ones from my team. We either just curse the failures or insult the referee and / or the opposition players/club (in this case only when we play vs Benfica or Porto). Other than that it’s all cool Vatican-esque environment around here (not).
Well, init, I’ll let you know that my spoken and written English has improved a lot in terms of using the right expressions / words since I started following the site a few years back! (I google translate all my posts of course)
Thank you, nice.
Cool vatican-esque
Sort of on the subject, I fence (the sport) a bit in my spare time and there has been talk in my club of doing a demonstration for some monks. They approached us (I swear this is true). However I’ve argued that we should only agree if they provide candle light and chant in the background. Maybe even bless us first.
That’s weird. Why would monks want to see a fence demonstration? What’s next, people fencing while holding themselves in the air with umbrellas?
Took a bit and even now I hate editing in the background. Expressions are hard to deal with at times. Find myself googling a lot when someone says something I have never heard or just posting a screenshot on our chat and asking if it’s right. That and learning all the different spellings that are a letter different. Can be hard at times in just going from English…to well, English.
It’s all part of some endearingly weird perception of community engagement I think. More like some light entertainment for them.
I doubt the hit you’ve illustrated would be allowed. There was some controversy a while ago when someone made a hit whilst practically doing the splits. And that was on the piste.
I was being ironic DMC, I doubt anyone would spot that you’re weren’t actually English if they didn’t know otherwise. You should take pride in the fact that you regularly contribute articles to a website that isn’t even in your native language. And you rarely require any editing. #kudos
Yeah I got that! Just took the chance to indirectly thank everyone (not just the article writers, but everyone who posts) for their involuntary contribution to said improvement. Sometimes I have meetings or more often phonecalls or just simple emails in English and I realize I’m using expressions that I would possible not if it weren’t for the site (the expression “[insert at will] sucks monkeyballs” springs to mind!
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I’m sure if I read English literature or the newspapers the contribution would also be there but yeah I don’t so there’s FF247 contributing to worldwide English literacy!! :))
Thx for your kind words mate. It’s great to have such feedback.
A quick couple of easy(ish) questions off the top of my head, inspired by the legend Alastair Cook who as you will all know announced his retirement from international cricket earlier today. I will be lucky enough to be at the Oval on Friday to bid him farewell. Cook has scored a LOT of runs but (here’s the doosra) these questions are about another high scoring batsman:
a) Brian Lara scored 375 against which team to claim the record for the highest score in a Test innings?
b) Who took the record off Lara? Bonus point for who the opponents were.
c) Lara reclaimed the record and it still stands to this day. How many runs? Bonus point for who the opponents were.
d) Lara also holds the record for highest score in first class cricket – 501 for Warwickshire against which team?
a England
b Hayden v England
c 400 or 401 v England
d Minor counties team? I dunno.
I just googled d, so I’m saying nowt. I didn’t check the others. I just went with Lara following Clive Lloyd’s captaincy mantra. ‘Thrash England and the rest looks after itself’.
When d) was unfolding – and if memory serves it wasn’t long after the 375 – he was dropped early on by the (Durham?) wicket keeper.
The 375 was interesting in that Robin Smith scored 175 in that game I think, and there was another ton ending in 5 as well, possibly. Cricket is full of symmetry, not least in the constant changing over. It’s a shame not many can now watch test cricket.
Good work guys. Answers in full:
a) England
b) Michael Hayden (bonus point for Zimbabwe)
(c) 400 (bonus point for England)
(d) Durham
Thought on Schurrle people?
I have a few people ahead of him as I ponder getting a cheap 4th mid. Namely:
Neves, Fraser, Gray maybe and from Fulham wouldn’t you fancy Seri slightly more?
In terms of Fulham my thinking hasn’t extended beyond Mitrovic yet.
Fulham’s fixtures are ok but not mouth-watering.
Loving his potential and I’d have bought him this week ahead of Moura only for his fixtures looking pants for the next 4 or so. He may yet throw that back in my face, he began to yesterday. His stats are really good whenever he actually plays, which always helps. And of course he is now so I’d expect they will continue.
Cheers chaps looking at differentials to moura
One more… Pereyra?
Same answer really. Fixtures are poor.
Yep I’m more into Pereyra, but fixtures are an issue… Watford are doing well though at the minute!
I fancy Fraser now though, cheaper and great fixtures, seems to be nailed, has played all minutes so far!
Looks good but already eyeing Mitro and seems like two Fulham is overkill… And there are better mids in that price range imo whereas Mitro I feel is the best pick in the 6-7m strikers…
Cheers Zed
Zorro, 5, Bentley ?
3, Chapman ?
Yes, answer’s above.
Hey Zorro likeing your quiz, but unfortunately my knowledge of old English footie is lacking.
Would love to see a World Cup one tho,
With all the various nations on here, plus plenty of trivia to play with, I think you’ll have a really good quiz everyone can relate to.
(And maybe answer too….lol)
I’m making a list of the countries that we all come for the next quiz, itwill be ranked ‘easy’.
*come from for the*
You can add Australia. VanDan is from there.
They’re number one on the list Ivan, wear your specs mate
There are a few from Christmas Island I believe
Yeah DMC, trying to top a countries league. Mito ‘played’ for The Vatican a few years back… As if they’d let him in the door!!!
Ehehe
Should I hold on to my 2FTs until nearer to GW5 transfer deadline? I’m worried about price rises.
I keep on thinking about transfers I can do now pre-price rises
I’ve got an itchy trigger finger
Yes. International (and other) injuries could cause havoc otherwise.
Cheers Kralin. How’s your team doing? What are your transfer plans?
Will get back to you in the morning. Remind me if I forget.
The team’s doing fine, thanks. 180k, which is very high for me at this stage of the season. Had a poor week, below the average, but very chilled about that.
Looking at Alonso and Davis Silva, but nothing set in stone yet.
Nice one Kralin. 180k is a good platform to jump off from. I did Davies—>Alonso a couple of weeks ago and it’s paid off massively.
I like the second one better but I’d just wait, two weeks of international fixtures means there could be injuries all around!!
Cheers Zed I’ll hold on for now. I think you’re right it is the sensible move. Strangely I’m now hoping that there are injuries, just so I can feel justified in my decision to do nothing!
Activated my Wildcard for the past GW. Got 44 points. Mkhi and Walcott let me down with being benched and getting injured. Also I started Ryan over McCarthy. Only red arrows, dropped to 755K
No worries, it’s still early in the season! You can easily claw your way up to a great rank! 10k is very doable for everyone yet!! Hope you’ll have a great WC and start getting those green arrows!!