Saturday, September 11, 2010

BELIEVE IT OR DONT

Daft fact of the week: - Chelsea hold the record for an aggregate score in European Competition having beaten Luxembourg side Jeunesse Hautcharage 21-0 on aggregate (8-0 and 13-0) in the 1971-72 Cup-Winners' Cup. An impressive result maybe, until you consider that Jeunesse were the Luxembourg equivalent of a pub side's second XI who somehow managed to win the Luxembourg Cup after a string of giant killing results. Against Chelsea, Jeunesse famously fielded a player with one arm and another who had spectacles thick enough to cause grass fires on dry pitches, an event that he sensibly prevented by keeping them stuck to his head with sellotape and a rubber band. To this day he remains the only player to have spent more on kit at WH Smith than at JJB.

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