former Burnley chairman Bob Lord described coach Billy Dougall, who worked for the football club for 23 years, as the finest servant a club could have?
former Welsh international footballerWayne Jones was forced to retire at the age of 24 when it was discovered that he had a previously undiagnosed arthritic condition?
for the 10 Seasons Awards, almost 750,000 football fans from 184 countries voted, in a celebration of the first ten years of the English Premier League(trophy pictured)?
in 1945, footballerDoug McGibbon scored six goals in one match, one of which was timed at under five seconds from the second half kick-off?
in 1980, Eamonn Collins became the youngest player in a professional football match in England, when he played for Blackpool at the age of 14 years and 323 days?
in 1916, footballerBob Benson volunteered to replace an absent Arsenal team-mate just before a game, only to collapse and die during the match?
former professional footballerSpike Rawlings, winner of the 1976 edition of TV talent show Opportunity Knocks, began his entertainment career after being asked to provide the half-time entertainment during a game?
after playing for over twenty clubs and enjoying only mild success, former professional footballerFred Eyre made his name as a businessman, after dinner speaker, and author?
between 1970 and 1976, former Spanish-Argentine footballer and managerJuan Carlos Touriño was part of three Spanish league championships and two Spanish cup-winning squads?
with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside of Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in Austria's premier football division?
what is thought to have been the first ever properly floodlit association football match in the United Kingdom took place between two non-league teams, Ashton National and Hyde United, in December 1932?
the Birmingham Charity Cup, a Victorian football trophy, featured engravings of a football match and of "the poor and sick succoured by the heavenly spirit"?
no football team in Berlin was declared the winner of the Berlin Cup in 1969 because the penalty shootout was not yet introduced and the finalists were unable to schedule a re-match after a draw?
EnglishfootballerGlen Thomas came close to losing an eye in 1996 when he stumbled into a tree during a training session and was hit in the face by a branch?
footballerStephen Brackstone had an operation to remove his appendix after being taken to hospital following his substitution in a game for York City in December 2002?
footballerArthur Wood had a metal plate inserted in his forehead following an injury received in the First World War, and was never again able to head the ball?
footballerPeter Stringfellow suffered a dramatic decline in form, which ultimately ended his professional career, after being involved in a car crash in which a team-mate died?
footballerGraham Lewis was nearly prevented from making his début for Belper Town F.C. when the referee and assistant referee failed to spot his name on the team sheet?
Kerry-Ann Booth, the girlfriend of footballerGreg Young(pictured), did not see him on the losing side of a game for Halifax Town for the first four years of their relationship?
Scottish footballerJim Baxter once taunted opponents in an international match by playing keepie uppie during the game, and that he described his style as "treating the ball like a woman"?
John Percival, when headmaster of Rugby School, gained the nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their football shorts below the knee with elastic?
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