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Name the only player to win the premier league with two different teams.

Winner gets absolutely bugger all.

N.B. I really, really don't like these kinds of questions - the ones that make it seem that anything before 1992/93 is invalid.

David May

No - he left Blackburn at the end of 93/94 - the year before they won the title.

Ashley Cole.

That would be my guess also

Although I could be thinking of FA Cup with two different teams.

Not Cole - he's not won it with Chelsea.

Henning Berg?

I was getting confused was it henning berg (sp)

Henning Berg indeed is correct.

Will be able to add Anelka and Cole at the end of the season.

11 players who have won the Champions League but not the Premier League

The entire liverpool team from 2005 :)

sorry, current premier league players...

Gerrard & Carragher

thats the 2 obvious ones!!

Belletti.

Pepe Reina.

3.

I've changed the question, its not 10 - there are 11.

Sam has 3

Jamie Carragher
Steven Gerrard
Juliano Belletti

Bosingwa.

Deco.

Jamie Carragher
Steven Gerrard
Juliano Belletti
Jose Bosingwa

And Reina?

Nope signed the following season.

Shevchenko

And what about Deco?

Benni McCarthy.

Roque Santa Cruz

all right apart from Shevchenko who doesnt play in the premiership

From a complete Premier League ignoramus-Michael Ballack?

Oh yeah, dur!

runner up twice in both the CL and the PL

Michel Salgado.

Silvinho then

both right

2 more to go..

I think John Carew might have won Champs league

nope, runner up in 01.

Traore then

Which Premier League club does he currently play for Adje :)

Birmingham,Everton?I dunno ;D

Sam posted that ages ago


Monaco

Who we got so far then? Put the list up dave

Deco
Sylvinho
Jamie Carragher
Steven Gerrard
Benni McCarthy
Jose Bosingwa
Michel Salgado
Juliano Belletti
Roque Santa Cruz

Owen Hargreaves

won the league a whole 6 months ago with Manchester United.

oh yeah haha

Steve Finnan-gotta be!

Correct.

One more to go, heres a clue. He described the feeling of picking up the medal as 'fraud'

Just a Premier Leauge winner the 4 times.

#sneaky deletion adje!

Yeah-oops  :-[   I meant to say Jonathan Greening

Correct.

Unused Sub for the final in 99. Didnt play a single seconds of Champions League football that season.

Right.

a XI of past and/or current Premiership players with the most assits in a 4-4-2 formation. So, keeper with the most assits, then 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and 2 strikers.


GK: Paul Robinson (16)

DF: Gary Neville (76)
DF:
DF: Ian Harte (54)
DF: Graeme Le Saux (72)

MF:
MF: David Beckham (152)
MF: Frank Lampard (145)
MF: Ryan Giggs (246)

ST: Dennis Bergkamp (147)
ST: Thierry Henry (144)

Paul Robinson?

Brad Friedel in net?

good start, the goal keeper with the most assits is indeed Paul Robinson with 16.

Ashley Cole.

nope, no Ashley Cole

Giggs

Gary Neville?

Emile Heskey must feature?

Wayne Bridge?

my first post updated.

Heskey and Bridge....no!

Beckham.

Henry?
Zola?

Sheringham? Andrew Cole?

only one current premiership player left to name, all the rest have moved on...

Paul Scholes? Frank Lampard?

Eric Cantona

Lampard being the last current prem player, which means there is actually no place for such brilliant footballers like Peter Crouch, Bobby Zamora, Richard Garcia and Steven Gerrard

Mark Hughes

Christiano Ronaldo?

Alan Shearer or Les Ferdinand?

Matt Le Tissier?

Phil Masinga?

Gary Speed

Ruud Van Nistlerooy?
Arjen Robben?

Kanchelskis(RM)?

Lee Dixon?

Pires, Ljungberg, Pat Viera. Bergkamp?

John Arne Riise

McManaman

Ian Harte

Nigel Winterburn?

I don't even know what the question is but just for the craic I'll say

Denis Irwin.

Carragher?

Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Steve Bruce, Sol Campbell

I think Dave has fallen asleep.

Which Swindon player had the longest name?

Surname or full name?

Don't mind.

For when Dave comes back... Graeme Le Saux, Tony Adams, Roy Keane

Lee Dixon?

Dion Dublin for when he played centre half

20 letters:
HOULDSWORTH, Frederick
goalkeeper
debut 5 September 1934 (LGE)
Bristol Rovers (Home)
last game 30 March 1935 (LGE)
Exeter City (Home)
Apps/goals: 35 - 

I think you're not using Swindon-town-fc.co.uk well enough.

2 to go...

Raise me then

Teddy Long.

Silly of me.

HOULDSWORTH Frederick is pretty long though. I wonder if he is the longest.

Gary Kelly
Rob Lee

He is - I couldn't face any more work today so wasted 15 mins ploughing through the whole list. Next longest was the slightly more familiar Stefani Miglioranzi.

One day when I'm even more bored I'm going to do a best names 11 - there are some corkers in there: George Mountain, Podger Oakley, Sidney Swinden...

Jean-Francois Lescinel is longer and I just guessed that.

Good call - same length in fact, 20 letters.

21 characters

Do full names count?  

Herbert Henry Saxon Bertie Cordey Lyon
http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Person.asp?PersonID=LYONBERT

I think the answer was Teddy Long mind.

Including "-"?!

Respect - What's the shortest then?

Yes, why should the hyphen be excluded?

Um, because it's not a letter, it's punctuation.

But it does add to the length of the name. Even if you only count it as 1/5th of a letter.

Except you don't count it as any fraction of a letter. If you really want to argue it makes the name longer, then it's by about 2mm, depending on font-size.

Using a fixed width font it's the same width at any of the letters. It should at least count for something.

2mm on standard size forum post fonts is probably more than a fifth, closer to a third or a half on most letters, even longer than some.

Who said anything about letters? We're talking about length. Maybe we should do number of syllables.

Some syllables are longer than others too, might have to do some wikipedia research on different types.

You're right, look:

Herbert Henry Saxon Bertie Cordey Lyon

very short

Simon Cox

very long.

You're geniuses. I'm so hidebound by traditional counting methods. I bow to your lateral thinking skills.

If you can't take the comparison of the lengths of football player's names seriously then maybe you shouldn't take part in the discussion?

I'll leave you clever types to it, but I thought you'd be interested to see that you're right about some syllables - and specifically vowels - being longer than others. So that in linguistics the English vowel sounds oo, ah, er, or and ee are known as long vowels, indicated in phonetic notation by a colon after their symbol, whereas those in tit, tat, tut, tot, soot, the and net are short. The vowel sounds in ay, oi, oh and I are different again - they're diphthongs. Consonants don't having varying phonetic length. And I think that covers it.

Monty Python hit on the same idea when they talked about woody vs tinny words.

So if you can find a footballer with a maximum combination of long vowels and diphthongs and plenty of syllables, he's your man. Clue: I'd look to see if we've had any Madagascan or Sri Lankan players first.

Sweet dreams.

Well if you've got all this linguistics knowledge to actually be of help on this important issue why were you fucking about changing the font size of Simon Cox? Quite frankly I find your attitude to be a bit childish.

 ;D