I have heard this before somewhere and I think it was in the late 1880/90s. I can't remember the teams name and it is only in this question that I'd ever heard of them. I refuse to 'Google' it but it is something like Durwin.
It was Manchester City but in the 50s. The highest scoring season ever in the top flight, 1957-58 saw three teams scoring 100 or more and two teams conceding 100 or more. City's combined total of 104+100=204 is the highest ever and Leicester in the same season had a combined total of 203. I may be wrong, but I believe the offside rule was changed after that season because of some of the amazing scores. This was the final table: http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/division-one-old/1957-1958
I got the decade wrong but on the assumption it's up to me, here we go. I used to like reading books by the author of Officer Factory, Night of the Generals & the Gunner Asche stories. Who was he?
Not him nines, but it looks like the right nationality. Have now checked & please remove the e from the end of Asch!
Just to bounce the thread, Sven Hassel. It's not him, I know. I used to love his books as a 13 year old, glanced at one a few weeks ago and its tripe (or perhaps just badly translated).
In case of any interest the authors initials are HHK & The Night of the Generals was made into a film starring Peter O'Toole. Possibly his most famous book was the 20th July (no prices for guessing the subject of this book!) & all titles I have quoted are for the British editions & may have had other titles in the original German.
OK. Firstly happy Christmas to everyone - apart from giving us 3 points next sunday that is ! A long question this. A group of students at Harvard University were asking the question 'Why did the chicken cross the road`, and thought about how famous people, alive and dead, and some fictional, could have answered this - they came up with many answers - here are 10 of them. Can you identify the supposed personalities. 1. Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends on your frame of reference. 2. To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. 3. It was a historical inevitability. 4. It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees. 5. This chicken's not for turning. 6. This is not the question. 7. So priketh hem nature in hir corages. 8. So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom amongst them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue ? In such a manner is the chicken's dominion maintained. 9. The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. 10. We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us.
1 Einstein 2 Captain Kirk 6 Shakespeare 9 Steve Jobs 10 George W Bush (9 & 10 search engine assisted, so probably wrong)
Steve Jobs plagiarised it then. Which sport would you associate with renaissance artist and thug Caraveggio?
