Interesting statistics in soccer

  1. In the season 2006/07 Shunsuke Nakamura scored or provided the assist for 40% of all Celtic’s league goals.
  2. Henrik Larsson holds the record for most goals scored in European competitions by a player with a club in Britain.

Shamrock Rovers have won 15 leagues & 24 Cups
Totti is Europes top scorer
For every European cup Liverpool have won an average of 7.8 people have died due to their fans rioting

Incorrect, he won the golden boot, he didnt score the most goals. He won the golden boot due to the weighted way in which it is worked out.

Correct Flano. I’d say Alfonso Alves at Herrenveen probably scored more for one anyway.

lets not be pedantic Flano
Im sure someone might have scored more in the LSL this year but it doesnt mean shit

The prince of Rome is for all intent & purposes Europes top scorer

If you wanted to be pedantic Flano you could point out the fact that Totti is not Europe’s top scorer, he merely scored the most goals (on the weighted basis) in the season 2006/7.

  1. Robbie Fowler scored 100 goals for Liverpool in 165 games.
  2. Liverpool have won 5 times as many European Cups as Celtic.

How are they interesting statistics? The Fowler one is mildly interesting but a touch disingenuos because it implies that’s the sum total of his goals and appearances for Liverpool when his actual record is 128 goals in 266 appearances.

The other won is not interesting or novel or surprising.

I don’t think the first one implies that.

The second one is just as interesting and novel and surprising as your Larsson trivia.

Interesting statistic number 3: Rock has shared a pint with his tfk teammates zero times on a Wednesday night after 9 games.

Interesting stat number 4: Rock wet the bed until he was 24. That’s four years older than Clarkey. What a loser!

  1. Of course that’s what it implies. It’s not his full record at all - you didn’t define it at all to say it was just part of his time at Liverpool. It’s like saying Robbie Fowler averaged a goal every 1.65 games for Liverpool. That was his average at one point. It wasn’t his actual average over his time at the club during either spell.

  2. The Larsson trivia is genuinely interesting. To think that he scored more goals in Europe than Van Nistelrooy at Manchester United or Hughes or Keegan or anyone. It says an awful lot about how great he was.

  3. Lame

  4. It was 23. There was one incident aged 24 but it was a one-off. Well a week-long spell of one-off mishaps.

  1. Fine.

  2. I could see how it would be interesting but you’ve mentioned it before once or twice.

  3. Wholeheartedly agree.

  4. Apologies for my misrepresentation.

  5. It took Ian Rush 166 games to score 100 goals for Liverpool. That’s one more than Robbie Fowler.

fingal raven wrote:

Shamrock Rovers have won 15 leagues & 24 Cups
Totti is Europes top scorer
For every European cup Liverpool have won an average of 7.8 people have died due to their fans rioting

For every League Rovers have won, an average of 100 stupid posts have been made by Raven.

Post edited by: gerrardno1, at: 2007/06/22 15:59

woah - gerradino1 - whats with the negativity - why so agressive on a friday afternoon?

cause i want to go to the pub , but stuck in work

still though -its a horrible way to sign off the week being mocked in front of my peers

gerrardno1 wrote:

fingal raven wrote:

[quote]Shamrock Rovers have won 15 leagues & 24 Cups
Totti is Europes top scorer
For every European cup Liverpool have won an average of 7.8 people have died due to their fans rioting

For every League Rovers have won, an average of 100 stupid posts have been made by Raven.[/quote]

http://www.msn101.com/content/Emoticons/pjrlaugh_61OD3G.png That is a classic. Karma for you gerrardno1.

classic is a bit over the top - mildly amusing at best

Any chance of a copy and paste Clarkey?

12,541 fans at Anfield to witness his 5 goals during his home debut in 1993 against Fulham in the Coca Cola Cup

therock67 wrote:

Any chance of a copy and paste Clarkey?

I’m sure you won’t find much interesting about them but here ya go. I like the myspace one. From liverpoolfc.tv:

As Robbie Fowler Week continues on Liverpoolfc.tv, we’ve chronicled the great man’s Anfield career in numbers.

11,000,000 pounds, the amount David O’Leary paid to bring Fowler to Elland Road in 2001

12,541 fans at Anfield to witness his 5 goals during his home debut in 1993 against Fulham in the Coca Cola Cup. Just 3 players had scored 5 in a single game for the Reds previously: Ian Rush, Andy McGuigan and John Evans

1,519 days away from the club between November 2001 and January 2006

712 friends on his unofficial myspace site, compared to 125 for Ian Rush and 20 for Michael Owen

369 appearances for Liverpool

273 seconds to score a hat-trick against George Graham’s Arsenal in 94/95

183 goals for Liverpool, putting him 5th in the club’s all-time scorers’ chart

165 games needed to score 100 goals one fewer than Ian Rush

129 consecutive games between March 1994 and September 1996

92 appearances for Man City, with 27 goals

36 goals in the 95/96 season, Fowler’s highest ever total

33 appearances for Leeds United, with 14 goals

29 League Cup goals for the Reds

26 caps for England, with 7 goals

23 appearances under Graeme Souness, the man who handed him his Reds debut

23 was the first shirt number Fowler wore at Liverpool

20 out of 26 penalties scored. One of those missed came in front of the North Bank at Highbury in 1997 when referee Gerald Ashby awarded a spot kick even though Fowler admitted David Seaman had not brought him down

18 years old when he made his Liverpool debut against Fulham

17 goals scored in the treble season 00/01

14 European goals for the Reds

14 goals against Aston Villa, Fowler’s favourite opponents

11 was the shirt number initially worn by Fowler on his return in 2006 until Djibril Cisse left on loan, vacating the number 9 shirt

10 hat-tricks for Liverpool, the same as Michael Owen. Only Gordon Hodgson (17), Ian Rush (16) and Roger Hunt (12) have scored more

9 is God’s number

8, or L8. Fowler is Toxteth’s most famous son

6 goals against Everton

5 trophies won with the Reds: 2 League Cups, 1 FA Cup, 1 UEFA Cup and 1 European Super Cup. Fowler was cup tied during the 2006 FA Cup run

5 fingers shown to United fans during the Manchester derby in 2005, a reminder of the number of European Cups won by his former club

3 minutes to score his first goal for England Under-21s on his debut versus San Marino

2 sendings off for Liverpool, both in 1997 against Everton and Bolton

2 PFA Young Player of the Year awards

1 Robbie Fowler