Bill Edgar's Fiendish Friday quiz

1. The English League Cup was introduced in the 1960-61 season. In which season was the Scottish League Cup first played?

A 1946-47
B 1960-61
C 1970-71.

2. Which club were top of the Premier League on Christmas Day, 1992?
A Ipswich Town
B Norwich City
C Aston Villa

3. Who were the first Scottish club to reach the final of a leading European competition?
A Hibernian
B Rangers
C Celtic

4. In which season did a player last score in every round of the FA Cup in which his club appeared?
A 1947-48
B 1952-53
C 1969-70.

5. Which club have fielded sets of brothers in two different FA Cup Finals?
A Manchester United
B Arsenal
C Newcastle United

6. Who were the first club to experience three successive relegations within the Football League?
A Northampton Town
B Bristol City
C Wolverhampton Wanderers

7. Which team’s 6-1 home win over Southampton in 2003 featured two hat-tricks?
A Manchester United
B Everton
C Arsenal

8. Who has recorded the longest stint in charge of a German top-flight team?
A Ottmar Hitzfeld
B Otto Rehhagel
C Felix Magath

9. How many successive foreign managers have Chelsea had, excluding caretakers?
A 4
B 6
C 8

10. How many European countries have won all of their World Cup qualifying matches so far?
A 3
B 2
C 1

Click below for the answers

1. A 1946-47.

2. B Norwich City.

3. B Rangers. They lost to Fiorentina in the first European Cup Winners’ Cup final in 1961.

4. C 1969-70: Peter Osgood, of Chelsea.

5. A Manchester United. Brian and Jimmy Greenhoff in 1977; Gary and Phil Neville in 1999.

6. B Bristol City, in 1980, 1981 and 1982. Wolves are the only other team to have suffered this fate, in 1984, 1985 and 1986.

7. C Arsenal. Robert Pires and Jermaine Pennant scored the hat-tricks.

8. B Otto Rehhagel. He coached Werder Bremen from 1981 to 1995.

9. B 6: Ruud Gullit, Gianluca Vialli, Claudio Ranieri, Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant and Luiz Felipe Scolari.

10. A 3. England, Spain and Holland.

Comments

[khriss]

Inter milan are the best their better than any team in the premier league arsenal,chelsea,man u,liverpool.Hat5 up^

LIVErpool must not try to think that the race for the english premier league title just over over christmas & new year programme but not very genuine real tiitle contenders in the next four half month left which end in montho f may.

[Stig Marstein]

Regarding question 5, United also fielded the Turnbull brothers in the 1909 Cup Final vs Bristol City