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The highest ever attendance at the King Power Stadium was for a pre-season friendly. Spanish giants Real Madrid visited in July 2011, with 32,188 spectators in attendance.
After World War I, Leicester Fosse, as they were originally named, ceased trading due to financial difficulties. The club was reformed as ‘Leicester City Football Club’ following the borough’s recent city status. In their entire history, Leicester City have spent just one season outside of the top two tiers in England. They spent the 2008/09 season in League 1, winning the title in the process. Leicester City hold the joint record for most second-tier title triumphs. The Foxes have won the First Division six times and the Championship once, meaning they are level with Manchester City on seven. |
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In the time it took scientists to discover it, let it be a planet for 76 years, take away its planet status, say it might be a planet again, then change their minds, Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun.
Due to it taking 248.09 Earth years for Pluto to circle the sun, we won’t see it complete an orbit until March 23, 2178. . https://www.livescience.com/33390-pluto-first-complete-orbit.html |
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Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
Germanophobia- Fear of Germany or German culture. |
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Chelsea, along with Arsenal, were the first clubs to play with numbered shirts. The Blues wore them during their game against Swansea City in August 1928.
The record number of points accumulated by a team is 95. Chelsea achieved this when they won the Premier League in 2004/05. Chelsea hold the record for the longest streak of unbeaten matches at home in the English top-flight. Their run of unbeaten games stretched to 86 matches between March 2004 and October 2008 Chelsea became the first British side to field an entirely foreign starting line-up in a Premier League match – against Southampton in December 1999. |
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Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking. |
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The club was formed in 1882 when boys from Hotspur Cricket Club formed Hotspur FC so that they could play a sport during the winter. The name was changed to Tottenham Hotspur in 1884 to avoid any confusion with another club, London Hotspur.
The club’s old home stadium, White Hart Lane, was originally a disused nursery. The landlord realised the increased revenues he could enjoy if Spurs played their matches behind his pub and the club moved in. On the very day that Spurs lost their place to Arsenal in the First Division, the club’s pet parrot collapsed and died. The parrot had been a gift from a ship’s captain as the team returned from a 1908 tour of Argentina and Uruguay. Some say the phrase ‘as sick as a parrot’ originated from here. The 10,000th Premier League goal was scored by Tottenham Hotspur’s Les Ferdinand in a 4-0 win against Fulham in December 2001. |
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Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
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Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
Cometophobia- Fear of comets. |
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Sheffield United were formed in 1889 at the Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield (now the site of the Crucible Theatre), as a way of keeping the Sheffield United Cricket Club occupied during the winter close season.
Bramall Lane is widely regarded as the oldest ground anywhere in the world, first used in a game between Hallam and Sheffield Club in 1862. As well as neighbours Sheffield Wednesday, United fans also have a fierce rivalry with Nottingham Forest, attributed to the miners’ strike of the 1980s, when workers of the Nottingham pit refused to join the strike. United have a range of songs sung by the fans, the most notable being their unofficial anthem ‘The Greasy Chip Butty’ song. |
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Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.
Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft. |
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The club started as Newton Heath L&YR F.C. in 1878. All of the team worked at Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway depot at Newton Heath. After nearly closing in 1902, John Henry Davies took over and changed the club's name to Manchester United F.C... Manchester United made Matt Busby their manager after the Second World War. Matt Busby used the youth team to get new players, and this was very successful.
One of the most interesting facts that many of the United facts won’t know. Is that after the plane crash of United team in 1958. When more than half of the team died and there is no star player left in the club than as a helping hand la Liga teams and arsenal offered their star players to bring back the club on its feet. Under Alex Ferguson, United have never finished lower than 3rd positions in the league. |
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Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airborne noxious substances.
Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed. |
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Three friends from the local congregation were asked, “When you’re in your casket, and friends and congregation members are mourning over you, what would you like them to say?”
Artie said, “I would like them to say I was a wonderful husband, a fine spiritual leader, and a great family man.” Eugene commented, “I would like them to say I was a wonderful teacher and servant of God who made a huge difference in people’s lives.” Al said, “I’d like them to say, ‘Look, he’s moving!' |
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Wolves
The club, not to be confused by the at that time already existing Wanderers FC, was founded in 1877 and it was one of the original included teams when Football League was founded in 1888. The strongest period was probably in the late 1950s and 1960 when the club won the league twice (1958 and 1959) and also the FA Cup in 1960 In the all-time table since the league's inception in 1888, Wolves sit in the all-time top four, behind only Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal in terms of league position. Wolves were the first club to score to 7000 League goals - Wolves achieved this when Seol Ki-Hyeon scored in the 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace on 10 December 2006. The highest transfer fee the club received was £6 million - from Coventry City for Robbie Keane in August 1999. |
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Peccatophobia- Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music. |
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Everton have remained in the top division since 1954, and were founding members of the Premier League in 1992.
Dixie Dean scored a record 60 league goals in the 1927/28 season. Dean’s 60 goals were finished off with a hat-trick on the last day of the season against Arsenal. Everton were the first club to issue a matchday programme at home fixtures. The club was founded in 1878, as St Domingo’s FC so that people from the parish of St Domingo’s Methodist Church Everton could play sport year round. A year later, the club was renamed Everton, as people outside the parish wished to participate. While they have won the FA Cup on five occasions, Everton hold the record for the most losses in a final, having been beaten eight times. |
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Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Counterphobia- The preference by a phobic for fearful situations. |
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Old Trafford holds the record for the lowest attendance of all time. Only 13 people watched Stockport v Leicester.
The only United player to score a hat trick on his League debut was someone called Charlie Sagar. United's best-ever start to a league campaign was under Ron Atkinson. With 10 wins in a row in 1986. That year Liverpool won their double. We're used to seeing footage of David Beckham's long-range goals. But his first League goal for United, against Aston Villa, mystified both the commentator and the Villa Keeper, Mark Bosnich. They all thought it was a deflected goal, while it was just Beckham's trademark bending shot. Leeds United's then boss, Howard Wilkinson, had an eye on Dennis Irwin and wanted to poach him from Manchester United. During the ensuing phone call with Ferguson, he didn't get his wish. But he did end up selling Eric Cantona to United for 1 million pounds. |
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Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease. |
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A small branch of Germany’s government is still dedicated to hunting Nazis.
Since 1958, employees of the Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes have been reviewing WWII paperwork to identify Nazis. They track down about 30 per year but will soon shut their doors because the remaining suspects are either dead or in their 90s. . https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/31/the-last-nazi-hunters |
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If you’re creative, you might actually perceive the world differently.
In a study that showed people a red dot in one eye and a green dot in the other, those who had traits associated with creativity merged the dots and saw a two-coloured image. The remaining participants saw two individual dots, suggesting that the creative people, who were more ‘open to experience’, processed visual stimuli in a unique way. . https://www.thecut.com/2017/04/people-with-this-trait-literally-see-the-world-differently.html |
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Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
Cibophobia- Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia) |
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When Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon in 1980, David Bowie was the next target on his hit list.
Bowie, who was starring on Broadway at the time, said “Chapman had a front-row ticket to ‘The Elephant Man’ the next night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front row for that show, too. So… there were three empty seats in the front row. I can’t tell you how difficult that was… I almost didn’t make it through the performance.” . https://www.inthestudio.net/redbeards-blog/john-lennon-assassin-had-hitlist-david-bowie-2/ |
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There’s no such thing as a ‘sugar high.’
Research shows no evidence that sugar makes kids extra hyper- we’re just so conditioned to think it does that we often perceive ‘changes’ in a child’s behaviour when we think they’ve eaten too much sugar, even if they haven’t actually had any at all. . http://www.yalescientific.org/2010/09/mythbusters-does-sugar-really-make-children-hyper/ |
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Cyberphobia- Fear of computers or working on a computer.
Porphyrophobia- Fear of the colour purple. |
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Arsenal are the only team still in existence that has never been relegated. They have been in the top flight of English football since the 1919/20 campaign.
Arsenal’s game against Sheffield United on 22nd January 1927 at Highbury was the first-ever English league match to be broadcast on the radio. Ten years later, a game between Arsenal’s first team and their reserves was the first-ever football match to be televised live, on 16th September 1937. Arsene Wenger, the current Arsenal boss, was the first foreign manager to lift the Premier League title when the Gunners won it in 1997/98. They are given the name Arsenal, and the nickname ‘The Gunners’ because they were formed by a group of cannon makers at the Woolwich Arsenal in 1886 |
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Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things.
Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear of heaven. |
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Burnley’s 30-match unbeaten run in 1921 stood as the longest stretch without a defeat in league history until Arsenal bettered it during the 2004/05 campaign.
Burnley moved into Turf Moor in 1883. Only their local rivals Preston North End have occupied the same ground for longer than the Clarets. At the end of the 1897/98 season, Burnley and Stoke City played out a play-off match that became known as ‘The Match without a shot at goal’, with both sides needing a point for respective reasons. The game ended 0-0 and the league immediately withdrew the Test Match system in favour of automatic relegation and promotion. Burnley’s first major honour came in 1914 when they beat Liverpool in the last final to be played at Crystal Palace. The cup final was historic in that King George V became the first reigning monarch to present the cup to the winning captain. Burnley’s 1956 FA Cup fourth-round tie against Chelsea is one of the longest in history. The pair twice drew 1-1, then 0-0, then 2-2, before a 2-0 Chelsea win in the fifth game finally settled it. |
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Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Xerophobia- Fear of dryness. |
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Newcastle United’s official club photographer in 1908, Gladstone Adams, on his way home from their FA Cup final, came up with the idea of windscreen wipers. Adams was driving home in the snow when he realised what a good idea it would be to have a device that cleaned your windscreen as you drove. Adams’ invention was patented in 1911 but was never manufactured.
Known for their black and white stripes, Newcastle United once played in red and white – the colour now worn by their arch-rivals, Sunderland. Newcastle United took part in the first-ever Football League match to be played under floodlights when they faced Portsmouth at Fratton Park in February 1956. During the early years of St James’ Park, there was a drop of 18 feet from the north to the south goal, while local butchers were still able to graze their animals on the pitch before being led to slaughter. In 1993/94, Newcastle claimed the record of the highest finish in the table by a promoted club, when they finished third in the Premier League. The only other club to have equalled this is Nottingham Forest (1994/95). |
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Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
Hypsiphobia- Fear of height. |
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Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, and American Horror Story all have characters that were based on serial killer Ed Gein, who was so devastated by his mother’s death that he began to make a ‘woman suit’ so he could “become her and literally crawl into her skin.”
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There’s a tiny little island in the Philippines called Vulcan Point.
It sits in the middle of Main Crater Lake, which is located on Volcano Island, which is in the middle of Lake Taal, which is on the main Philippine island of Luzon - making it an island within a lake, within an island, within a lake, within an island. . https://twentytwowords.com/vulcan-point-is-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island-if-you-didnt-follow-that-check-this-out/ |
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Misophobia or Mysophobia- Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
Potamophobia- Fear of rivers or running water. |
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Dunno if anyone has already posted this
The dot on top of an i or j is called a tittle The ejit called woodmanchester who regularly posts on the greyhound forum is called a titanorl |
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St Mary’s takes its name from the city of Southampton’s ‘mother church’, a ten-minute stroll away, where the club was founded in 1885, as St Mary’s Church of England Young Men’s Association Football Club.
By 1888, when they won their first trophy (the Hampshire FA Junior Cup) they had become St Mary’s FC and were widely known as ‘the Saints’. By 1894, when they joined the newly-created Southern League, the Saints were uncontestably the most successful and best-supported club in Hampshire. The new, geographically wider competition necessitated a new name: Southampton St Mary’s FC. They became Southampton in 1887, having won the first of their six Southern League championships. The Saints were outstandingly successful over the following decade. They dominated the Southern League, and reached four FA Cup semi-finals and two finals, having eliminated Football League clubs on 16 occasions – 11 of those were Division One outfits. Thereafter, the fortunes of the Saints and the Southern League began to slide. |
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Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
Russophobia- Fear of Russians. |
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In Norway, people use the word ‘texas’ as slang for ‘crazy.’
It doesn’t refer to a person, but rather a chaotic atmosphere or state of mind- so saying a party ‘was totally crazy!’ in Norwegian would be ‘det var helt texas!,’ which literally means ‘it was totally texas!’ . https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/yall-norwegians-use-the-word-texas-as-slang-to-mean-crazy/ |
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When you’re thinking to yourself by silently talking or arguing in your head, it’s actually accompanied by tiny muscular movements in your larynx.
So any time you’re mentally talking to yourself, your body is also physically talking a little bit without your knowing it. . https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/21/science-little-voice-head-hearing-voices-inner-speech |
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Crystal Palace actually used to play their home games within the grounds of The Crystal Palace, which also hosted FA Cup finals until 1914
Because of their original home ground, the club’s went under the nicknames of the Glaziers and the Crystals before they became commonly known as the Eagles in the early 1970s. Palace’s first home shirts were claret and blue. E.F. Goodman was the club’s first secretary-manager and, as a former Aston Villa employee, brought some Villa shirts down with him to kit out his new club. Crystal Palace are the only team in Premier League history to have been relegated after finishing fourth bottom. This happened at the end of the 1994/95 season when the number of teams competing in the division was cut from 22 to 20. Geographically it may come as a surprise, but Palace’s most heated rivalry is with Championship side Brighton and Hove Albion, the origins of which can be traced back to the 1940s |