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Football Facts That Sound FAKE But Are Actually TRUE

by talkSPORT

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Published 13 Mar 2015

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@fullygraciousedits82389 years ago Obvious that torres started in goal, hes always been good at keeping the ball out of the net 532
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@m.a68999 years ago The one about Zlatan doesn't sound fake at all.... 218
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@yeetyeet54988 years ago Iceland just won't stop ruining English football 52
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@MajesticClangers9 years ago Djimi Traore played 120 minutes in a winning effort in a Champions League Final against an AC Milan team consisting of Pirlo, Kaka, Maldini, Crespo, Seedorf, Gattuso, Shevchenko, Nesta, Cafu, Stam and Dida. 30
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@davey1ize9 years ago How to start a youtube argument.
Step 1: Comment on how a youtube argument starts
Step 2: Wait 25
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@Daniel-vw9ns9 years ago Ronaldo left some hair so his son would tell him apart from other bald players? why didn't he just leave all his hair 19
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@jeepercreepermc9789 years ago I have to point out a problem. "In 1979 Scottish Cup matches between Falkirk and Inverness Caledonian Thistle were postponed due to bad weather", The Caley Jags weren't formed until 1994 3
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@davey1ize9 years ago Torres should have stayed as a goalkeeper because he knows how to keep the ball away from the net. 47
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@fadhilideche28319 years ago What the hell Blackburn? Zidane and Lewandowski? They passed up two world class attackers? 2
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@Hammerhook129 years ago I've never heard of Mark Hughes playing two games in a day.. But I've heard of Søren Lerby playing two games the 13. november 1985, where he played a world cup qualification match for Denmark against Ireland during the afternoon and then in the evening played for his club Bayern Munich against VLF Bochum. ... 1
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@laithg84319 years ago holy..... I used to live in Sweden when I was a kid and there was a kid named Zlatan who used to steal bikes!
imagine if HE IS ZLATAN IBRAHOMOVIC!!
p.s we didn't know his last name so it might or might not be him ... 12
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@northberwick87739 years ago The 1979 Scottish cup tie between Falkirk and Inverness CT may have been postponed 29 times because of bad weather but it could also have been because one of the clubs wasn't formed until 1994.
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@benreid13348 years ago dundee united lol they're mid table on the scottish 2nd teir now 3
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@olinolan49486 years ago it’s a moment of glory 1
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@tezmt19 years ago Liverpool were once the best team in the world and so were England. 18
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@joseph43299 years ago Ha Dundee, like the Dundee awards in The Office 😂 1
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@farhandoarmando80016 years ago Zlatan doesn't steal bicycles, Bicycles steals Zlatan.
(Doesn't make any sense).
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@kabru43445 years ago TV?Why didn't he just buy his son a ticket?😂 1
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@johnaeaeae9 years ago The one about Ronaldo's hair is fake. The true story is that: after the vs. England game at WC02, he had a little injury in his right leg. So, he did this bizarre hair for the brazilian people don't talk about the injury, but just about the hair ... 1
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@pow_17 years ago Zlatan stole bicycles when he was young how is that not believable 😂
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@FozzQuaker5 years ago The scottish cup tie postponed 29 times involved Inverness Thistle not Inverness Thistle, not Inverness CT who were formed in the mid 90's
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@zee26398 years ago the lewandowski fact is good but its almost saying that if mahrez didnt go leicester - became a star at a big club and then we would be going crazy saying leicester almost signed mahrez.
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@curiousspectator72959 years ago For some reason I would totally have believed that Ibrahimovic stole bikes.
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@gerjerry999 years ago These facts are actually really interesting
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@colinaudette2918 years ago arthur Conan Doyle didn't play for Portsmouth, but an amateur team in Portsmouth
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@jakeallwood2489 years ago The Reading mascot, Kingsley, has the record of being the most red carded mascot ever and Reading once got 106 points in a season
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@sandeepsv95437 years ago zlatan stole bicycle in his childhood. I knew it 1
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@tonyquigley65436 years ago The Juventus thing is wrong also. Juventus used those colors, in honor of Notts County being the first ever registered professional football tea to exist.
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@aidanriley9837 years ago Roary the lion is Middlesbroughs mascot aswell
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@angelh83839 years ago and thats why he keeps the ball out of the net
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@ACBlackJ0ck6 years ago How could Inverness CT play a match in 1979 when they weren't a team until 1994? :/ They were two separate teams at the time!
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@amypage31899 years ago On the Song one I would assume that means his father was a busy man?
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@XqCv1787 years ago prevent the guy from space travelling.............. DuH!! 1
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@zionb32297 years ago Ronaldinho in his prime was definitely the best player on any roster
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@wazza1009 years ago If by "started his career" you mean until he was 7-years-old, then yeah, that Torres one is true. 1
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@bigmango34197 years ago is true Ronaldinho scored all 23 goals to 0 so That's when he signed for psg a few years after beacuse he played like a legend
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@nathanmaswanganyi34009 years ago What about the Zidane and Tim Sherwood deal
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@ElaborateTiger9 years ago May sound fake but I personally know the son of former Real Madrid goalkeeper and world cup winner Bodo Ilgner. He was in the year bellow me in school.
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@minionbuster73649 years ago That Mignolet smile was weird .......... 1
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@apostrophefivefivethree60636 years ago The Dundee Utd got W4D0L0 against Barca is true, but the thing is: why is Barcelona a powerhouse while Celtic (not Dundee) is Scotland's No.1 club (and won UEFA Champions' Club Cup)
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@adamoc919 years ago Alex Song's mums fanny must be in a right sorry state ... 4
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@htekaeps9 years ago I dunno how come I believe the Barcelona-Dundee fact more than that of Alex Song
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@dylantoapicklegaming126 years ago Lord bender first gained media attention when as adema won 149-0 he scored every goal😀
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@simonekkoutny77967 years ago Zlatan played for 6 clubs that won the ucl but he never won it. why is there R9 1
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@tonyquigley65436 years ago "Ronaldo got his hair like that so his son could see him from other bald players". So what, he grew that part fro a bald head? If he cut his hair to look like that, he obviously wasn't bald... ffs
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@trollboy78929 years ago the falkirk vs inverness ct on is false because inverness ct wasn't formed until 1994 it always used to be inverness caley and thistle until they joined in 1994
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@benreid13348 years ago inverness were formed in 1994 they were formed by inverness thistle and inverness caledonian who were 2 teams that voted to merge and became the same team they started off in the bottom league and they are now in the top league ...
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@jakehiggins23149 years ago The "fact" about the Inverness vs Falkirk game being postponed 29 times in 1979 is untrue, Inverness were only formed in 1994...
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@kevinramirez97208 years ago Actually, it's Inverness Thistle, not Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Bit of a slip up there. 2
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@ANTICULT10007 years ago Zlatan used bicycle... bicycle kick all the time.
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@Vekkxd7 years ago Inverness Caley Thistle weren't formed yet in 1979...
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@quyanh15489 years ago wait a minute ... Arthur Conan Doyle is a goal keeper ... shit !
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@santijunior64828 years ago About Barcelona and Dundee that isn't true because i checked and it said Barcelona never even played Dundee before
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@ab-qw4ic7 years ago Sounds fake but my best friend grandmother is Zidane's father cousin. 1
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@Cossi099 years ago Fucking 23 goals? If he stayed on track this guy could've been a fucking God. 1
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@Mosi1009 years ago Didn't fenómeno start off as goalie too?
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@rossgillespie58069 years ago Inverness CT were formed in 1996, so that fact is fake. 5
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@marcoulifc66647 years ago I have three toes on my left foot too. 1
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@KeefeL9 years ago Arthur Conan Doyle (the author) didn't play for the modern day Portsmouth...
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@danyb4208 years ago The brazilian Ronaldo won a Champions League at AC Milan in 2007. He joined AC Milan in the January Transfers of 2007.
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@Pleighboi_Yuri229 years ago If only one of those 5 languages mignolet spoke was goal keeping
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@DFCMAD779 years ago Dundee United got beat by Barcelona 5-1 in 2008... 1
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@alexteoli33789 years ago For some reason the Ibrahimovic one isn't that hard to believe...
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@hbkrock4ever9 years ago to sounds like eruption by van halen
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@Dave2801epic9 years ago Alex song has 27 siblings really?
And figeroa has 3 toes on one foot
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@LS62729 years ago Ibrahimovic stole bikes because a bike that he loved so much got stolen so he stole others bikes and once he stole a bike that belonged to his football couch
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@jodymackay25458 years ago Inverness CT wasn't even alive in 1979...
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@tonyquigley65436 years ago Alex song having 27 siblings, is why Africa is a starving Nation. No education = No money, and not being able to understand the simple fact that, if you can't feed yourselves due to having no money, you probably aren't going to be able to feed, cloth and educated 28 children, or am i wrong here? ...
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@DhanialRizkyWiraPutra9 years ago I'm surprised of that Lewandowski fact. is that true? 1
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@samihossain40868 years ago how zlatan is it was no surprise to me
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@codyrichardson68919 years ago Pullout game weak
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@bongstring94308 years ago I have 46 siblings...nothing unnatural!
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@iliasartzanidis55719 years ago I knew the Ronaldo Torres and lewandowski fact
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@eatmildew20629 years ago hehehehehhhe
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@ilyasyasin27167 years ago false ! Its not true the real reason is because he was injured and everyone was saying that he maybe not ready for the world cup that he was at 60% so he done that haircut for people to stop talking about his injury . ...