Amazing stat

There are currently more Premier League managers from Glasgow - Alex McLeish, Sir Alex Ferguson, David Moyes, Owen Coyle, Kenny Dalglish and Steve Kean - than from England - Ian Holloway, Alan Pardew, Steve Bruce and Harry Redknapp.

The last 20 golf majors:

2006 USPGA - T Woods
2007 Masters - Z Johnson
2007 US Open - A Cabrera
2007 Open - P Harrington
2007 USPGA - T Woods
2008 Masters - T Immelmann
2008 US Open - T Woods
2008 Open - P Harrington
2008 USPGA - P Harrington
2009 Masters - A Cabrera
2009 US Open - L Glover
2009 Open - S Cink
2009 USPGA - YE Yang
2010 Masters - P Mickelson
2010 US Open - G McDowell
2010 Open - L Oosthuizen
2010 USPGA - M Kaymer
2011 Masters - C Schwartzel
2011 US Open - R McIlroy
2011 Open - D Clarke

7 from the USA
3 from South Africa
2 from Argentina
1 from South Korea
1 from Germany
...
6 from the Emerald Isle of which the most recent two on the clock are from a smaller parish again - they are Ulstermen

Fuck me, the six counties are barely big enough to fit a golf course in...

3 wins 1 person from Ireland , 3 from the UK.

Blatant misinformation.

If you are going to start joining up Countries , you may as well reduce us all in these parts as 'Europeans' especially for golf which has such a team.

TBH , 3 from Northern Ireland is a far more impressive stat anyway.

Kit wrote:3 wins 1 person from Ireland , 3 from the UK.

Blatant misinformation.

If you are going to start joining up Countries , you may as well reduce us all in these parts as 'Europeans' especially for golf which has such a team.

TBH , 3 from Northern Ireland is a far more impressive stat anyway.

Golf in Ireland developmentally is actually united, Kit, and as such there are six winners through the "Irish" system. In those terms it's actually a more accurate statistic. However, it's like the Glasgow statistic above it - disproportionate when you consider the 6 counties alone. If you take out the USPGA, a tournament that is essentially for the US aside both in terms of entries and winners (the last three years is exceptional - the States had only failed to regain its title from an interloper once, in 1995, and there had been no European winner ever until Harrington, 2008) then Ireland rocks even more

To make the Northern Ireland statistic more impressive, AP McCoy is an Ulsterman and so is Richard Dunwoody. You therefore have to go back to 1992 for an English champion jockey and 1980 for an Irish one in a field that is dominated by English and Irish racing.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, currently touted for the Villa job although never having played for Villa nor been on the staff there...

Spoiler:

Kieron Dyer has thirteen caps for England from the bench.

The amazing element of this statistic is that for him to come on as a sub he was thought to be a solution?

For Chelsea fans:

John Terry's missed penalty in the Luzhniki means that:

- Chelsea could be clear second in terms of British winners of European trophies with 4. Manchester United would be one behind with 3. Instead they are joint third with (no, really) Spurs, while Manchester United are second with 4 because they can hit the fucking target from 12 yards.

- They would be joint second with Manchester United and Nottingham Forest in terms of European Cup wins only (2). They are instead, joint 4th alongside (no, really) Villa and (honestly, I'm not making this up) Celtic with one.

- Avram Grant could have won as many European Cups (one) as Sir Alex Ferguson and (no, really) Tony Barton.

- Terry's performance in last year's final at the Allianz was little better, his absence through suspension cementing victory although for some fucking reason he was done up as what is known as a "full kit wanker", including boots.

You have to admit, sides must quake when seeing Terry and finding out that he isn't playing.

The side in Europe with the highest UEFA coefficient is unsurprisingly, Barcelona. With a coefficient in excess of 155 over a 5 year period, they are ten points clear of Bayern Munich in second and a good 50 points clear of Porto in eighth. They have been top for four of the last five years (covering the five preceding years, so their position has been cemented over 9 years) with the exception being 2011, when it was Manchester United.

The amazing stat is that in those last 5 years, however, they have never been top ranked coefficient team in Europe for that year. It was these...
2013 Bayern Munich 34.528 (FCB 27.485, 4th)
2012 Real Madrid 36.171 (FCB 34.171, =2nd)
2011 Manchester United 36.671 (FCB 36.643, 2nd)
2010 Internazionale 34.086 (FCB 30.586, 3rd)
2009 Shakhtar Donetsk 29.325 (FCB 28.662, 2nd)

And the English side with the most 5 rolling year leads? Believe it or not, dirty fucking Leeds (66-70, 67-71, 68-72). Liverpool could only manage two and spectacularly, neither was the year they made it 3 European Cups in 5 years. The same applies to Germany, where although Bayern Munich won three European Cups on the spin, for five years out of six surrounding that, Borussia Monchengladbach were top dog, holding a German record that still stands now (Bayern have 3).

It would appear that Barcelona have the highest coefficient ever as well (2012, over 157) although the 56-60 Real Madrid side would beat them on conversion.

It's all here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_club_coefficient#Club_coefficient

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NotBert wrote:For Chelsea fans:

You have to admit, sides must quake when seeing Terry and finding out that he isn't playing.

Benfica fans asking for Terry to come on and win it for them

NotBert wrote:

NotBert wrote:For Chelsea fans:

You have to admit, sides must quake when seeing Terry and finding out that he isn't playing.

Benfica fans asking for Terry to come on and win it for them