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More football facts…

No English football club has the letter J in its name

Before Sir Alex Ferguson took over at Manchester United in 1986, Aston Villa
were more successful.

The spherical shape of a football is an optical illusion created by the pattern.
They are actually slightly oval

Pele was the first person to call football “the beautiful game.”

From the beginning of the 1893-1894 season a rule was introduced that a player
could not move from the club he was registered with to another club without his
club’s permission. Even if the player’s registration had expired they could keep
him tied down to them indefinitely. They did not need to pay him wages and nor
did they have to play him. He could not play until they let him leave. As time
went on, however, club’s realised they could get compensation from other clubs
for releasing players to them and hence the player transfer system was born.

Goodison Park, where Everton used to play, was the first purpose built stadium
in England. It was opened on the 24th August 1892, almost exactly 129 years
ago.

The weight of a regulation size football was set at 14 – 16 ounces in 1872

Harry Redknapp once asked a fan to play for West Ham in a pre-season friendly.
Fed up with a West Hammer fan, Steve Davies, moaning about Lee Chapman
during the friendly match against Oxford City in 1994, Harry told the fan to get
changed as he was going on the pitch instead. Davies actually scored.

One of Bobby Moore’s middle names was Chelsea – Robert Frederick Chelsea
Moore

AC Milan was founded as Milan Foot-ball and Cricket Club. In 1899 a Nottingham
native, Herbert Kilpin set up the club after moving to Italy a few years earlier.
He lead the team to its first three titles. He died in 1916.