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Rob Crossan. Football Extreme
Contents
FOREWORD BY CHRIS ‘KAMMY’ KAMARA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
EXTREME FA CUP
How Blyth Spartans had the most extreme Cup run of any non-league side in modern times
DID YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME GOALS
How Manchester City got into double figures – without the help of Arab backers
DID YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME GOALS II
How Stirling Albion scored more goals in one professional British game than anyone else in the 20th century
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME OLD AGE
How the vainest of chairmen and the most desperate of managers got themselves into the record books. DID YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME CUP REPLAY
How Oxford City and Alvechurch took over ten hours to resolve a cup tie
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME ABSENTEEISM
How Scotland thought they’d won the easiest international match of all time
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME GOALSCORING
Why scoring a hat-trick really isn’t anything much to shout about if you’re a Luton Town fan
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME CULTURE SHOCK
How the world’s most secretive regime ended up in Middlesbrough
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME DOWNFALL
How a Scottish village side went from part-time nobodies to Europe and back again within six years
EXTREMELY STRANGE STANDS
Why Southampton made it possible to watch football from inside a chocolate box
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME GREAT ESCAPE
How an on-loan goalkeeper from Swindon kept England’s most northerly team in the league
EXTREME CUP SHOCK SCOTLAND
Why Celtic fans will always have a soft spot for a club that isn’t even based in Scotland
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREMELY BAD SEASON
How Derby County became a record-breaking type of terrible – but yet still managed to take four points from Newcastle
EXTREME FOULS
The most extreme challenges in the game – more suited to gangsterism than football pitches
DID YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREMELY BAD TRANSFERS
What a little way a lot of money can go if you buy players like these…
EXTREMELY SHORT ENGLAND CAREERS
Peter Ward, Jimmy Barrett and Stephen Warnock’s England careers – all 22 minutes of it
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREMELY BAD PREDICTIONS
‘And you can quote me on that…’ How great footballers often have a dodgy relationship with the crystal ball
EXTREME GOBBLEDYGOOK
When the brain and the mouth have a major falling-out…
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME GREEDINESS
The Chelsea player who simply refused to leave – even though he wasn’t given a squad number
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME MATCH FIXING
At the end of the day, it’s eleven men against eleven men. Unless you’re counting the people who have fixed the result beforehand…
EXTREMELY USELESS CUP COMPETITION
And you thought the FA Cup had lost its glamour…
EXTREMELY LONG WAIT
Why we’re still waiting to find out the winners of a British cup competition after 23 years
EXTREME ENGLAND THRASHING
The day Hungary tore England apart in their heaviest ever defeat. And it’s not as if they hadn’t had prior warning…
DID YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREMELY BAD MISSES
‘And Smith must score…’ plus many other extremely catastrophic gaffes in front of goal
EXTREMELY BAD GOALKEEPING
Moments when that pesky football infamously just wouldn’t do what it was told
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME EXPULSION
The sad tales of clubs whose affairs were so extremely rotten that they had to abandon the season halfway through
EXTREMELY BRIEF MANAGERIAL CAREERS
How Torquay United hired a new manager – and then fired him again after ten minutes
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME BAD LUCK
When fortune took a short, but highly damaging, holiday for some football clubs
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME MIS-MATCH
How Exeter City gave the Brazilian national team a run for their money…
EXTREME SMALLNESS
The most extremely tiny places in the UK to watch senior level football
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREMELY BAD MATCHES
0-0 draws are one thing, but how about a goalless snooze-fest where neither team had a single shot?
EXTREME SEXISM
Can men beat women at football – even with one arm tied behind their backs?
EXTREME REFEREEING
Don’t slag off the referee next time he makes a mistake. At least he didn’t score for the opposition…
DID YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREME MAGNANIMITY
How a Premiership team offered to replay a game they won – despite doing nothing wrong
EXTREMELY SMALL LEAGUE
The tiny British island where every team has a 50% chance of winning the league
EXTREME GOALS BY INANIMATE OBJECTS
If you ever have the moronic urge to throw something onto the pitch, please read this first…
EXTREME CUP SHOCK ENGLAND
How Altrincham became the very last side to travel to a top-flight club and knock them out
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREMELY LARGE CROWDS
How nearly 300,000 people turned up at the same ground in the space of a week for just two games
EXTREMELY COLD WEATHER
How the elements have conspired to wreck British football over the decades
DID YOU KNOW?
EXTREMELY BAD FOOTBALL SONGS
EXTREME FATNESS
The tubbiest footballers ever seen
EXTREME PERSONAL FAVOURITE
The author’s most extreme footballing moment
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