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Frank MCevennie?
Frank McAvennie is the answer.
Made three substitute appearances for Aston Villa in the 1992/93 Premier League and played the entire game for Cliftonville against Ballymena United in the semi-final of the TNT Gold Cup on October 27th, 1992.
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I googled the villa squad and cross referenced from memory/guessing who would have been at the 86 world cup. Could never understand how kubiki couldnt get a game at villa. A fine full back
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What 3 players have more than 400 premier league appearances but never called up to their national team?
Bro?
Weāve been here.
Sylvain Distin never played for France Iād imagine? Surprisingly he has over 400 appearances.
Mark Noble an obvious one. He could have declared for us.
Heās watching the podcast
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Mark Noble & Kevin Nolan?
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Cc @endakenny
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Sorry. Just saw the podcast. I didnāt read up.
Mea culpa
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Name the last team to finish second in the second tier of English football and not get promoted.
Swindon?
Itās good but itās not right.
Reading in 1995
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Correct. That was a smashing play off final, as quite a few of that general time were. Reading were 2-0 up with about a quarter of an hour left. I donāt believe either of the Reading joint-player-managers Jimmy Quinn or Mick Gooding ever got to play an English top division game in senior careers which must have each spanned the bones of two decades.
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I just knew they were stopped from going up in 1990, thought they might have come second.
That was in the days when English football clubs could actually get punished for financial jiggery pokery.
Swindonās offences seem oh so quaint when you compare them to current offenders.
Their biggest mistake was to be a small provincial club which didnāt have access to the fortune of a petro-state regime and thus a crack team of lawyers and QCs who could command the GDP of mid size countries in fees.
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They beat Sunderland in play off final. Alan McLoughlin scored the second biggest goal of his career