1) Alex Song has 27 siblings – 17 sisters and 10 brothers.
2) Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet speaks 5 languages and has a degree in politics.
3) Dundee United have played and beaten Barcelona 4 times in professional fixtures, giving them a 100% win record.
4) Former Manchester United player Alan Smith scored vs Sheffield United in a League One fixture in April 2012. His previous goal in all competitions was against AS Roma in the Champions League in a 7-1 win for Manchester United.
5) There is only one team out of the 4 divisions in England and the 4 divisions in Scotland that have a ‘j’ in their name. It’s Saint Johnstone.
6) Ronaldo (the Brazilian) has never won the Champions League despite playing for 5 teams that did. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has also never won the Champions League.
7) Manuel Neuer stars in the German version of the 2013 Disney/Pixar film’ Monsters University’. He provides the voice for the character Frank McCay.
8) Former Liverpool man Charlie Adam is younger than Cristiano Ronaldo.
9) The first English team to win a European trophy is West Auckland Town FC. They won the Sir Thomas Lipton trophy, one of football’s first European competitions, twice in 1909 and 1911.
10) Only one country has had two cities with two teams reach the semi finals of the European Cup/Champions League.
Scotland – Dundee (with Dundee in 1963 and Dundee United in 1984) and Glasgow (with Celtic in 1967, 1970, 1972 & 1974 and Rangers in 1960).
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