Showing posts with label Anderlecht. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anderlecht. Show all posts

Thursday, August 01, 2013

DO YOU KNOW THE LAST SCOTSMAN TO FINISH THE SEASON ENGLISH TOP FLIGHT HIGHEST GOALSCORER?

 

Steve Archibald
with 20 goals for Tottenham Hotspur in the 1980/1981 was the last Scotsman to finish the season as English top flight highest goalscorer which is the old English Division One now the English Premier League.


After winning the Scottish Division One now the Scottish Premier League (SPL) title in 1980, he had a four-year spell with London club Spurs, where he won the English FA Cup winners medals in 1981 and 1982 and the UEFA Cup in 1984, where he scored his penalty in the final as Spurs overcame Anderlecht in a shootout. He also scored for Spurs in their defeat by Liverpool FC in the 1982 English Football League Cup final.

He was a member of the Scottish national team at the Espana 1982 and Mexico 1986 FIFA World Cups.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

DO YOU KNOW THE PLAYER NICKNAMED ''CASQUE D'OR'' FOR HIS PENCHANT FOR SCORING LAST MINUTE HEADERS?

Antoine Kombouaré earned the nickname of "Casque d'Or", which means "Golden Helmet" in French because of his penchant for netting tie-deciding headers. He displayed this in in the 1992/1993 season for Paris Saint-Germain FC's UEFA Cup campaign against Real Madrid CF of Spain in the quarter final where he headed a dying seconds goal to secure a 4-1 victory. Kombouaré had already scored a decisive goal in similar circumstances against RSC Anderlecht in the previous round.