Burj_Alba Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 Just see Robertson and Wijnaldum captaining their national teams and both Liverpool players, Cant remember this ever happening before. Please enlighten me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 It's bound to have happened a few times but a good trivia question . Would be interesting to hear who they are though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burj_Alba Posted June 2, 2021 Author Share Posted June 2, 2021 4 minutes ago, fringo said: It's bound to have happened a few times but a good trivia question . Would be interesting to hear who they are though. Thinking something like Croatia V Portugal with Ronaldo V Modric but did they ever play against each other? Must have happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartandon Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 3 hours ago, Burj_Alba said: Just see Robertson and Wijnaldum captaining their national teams and both Liverpool players, Cant remember this ever happening before. Please enlighten me. We could potentially see this happen again at the Euros. If Kane doesnt play for England, Henderson will be captain and that will mean both us and England will be captained by Liverpool players Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Scot Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 Id imagine it happens all the time. Captains for big countries tend to play for big clubs. Just thinking out loud. Barca had Messi & Suarez amd Puyol. Real had Ramos, Ronaldo, Modric. Before that Zidane, Beckham etc Even Liverpool right now have the Dutch, Scottish, Eygption captains and vice captains of England and Senegol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archiesdad Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 This must have happened many times in Scotland- England games in 70's and 80's Over to you @Toepoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 11 minutes ago, Archiesdad said: This must have happened many times in Scotland- England games in 70's and 80's Over to you @Toepoke I actually checked it last night 😁 Couldn't find a match, Bobby Moore at West Ham and Bryan Robson at Man Utd were England's captains for years, in between it shuffled about a bit. Dalglish and Keegan were both skippers in one game but obviously weren't at Liverpool at the same time. It might have happened in a Scotland v Wales game with Bremner and Yorath at Leeds, but I can't find in the records who the Welsh captains were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daviebee Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 1 minute ago, Toepoke said: I actually checked it last night 😁 Couldn't find a match, Bobby Moore at West Ham and Bryan Robson at Man Utd were England's captains for years, in between it shuffled about a bit. Dalglish and Keegan were both skippers in one game but obviously weren't at Liverpool at the same time. It might have happened in a Scotland v Wales game with Bremner and Yorath at Leeds, but I can't find in the records who the Welsh captains were. It actually happened in 2014. Rooney was captain of England and Broonie was ours. However, Darren Fletcher came on for Broonie and took the armband. A couple of years later Rooney and Fletcher led the teams out at Wembley but Fletch was at WBA by then. The only other time it nearly happened was 1999 with Hendry and Shearer, but Shearer had gone to Newcastle. Cracking trivia question. Another good one is where Scotland's captain and his club's captain were playing in the same game, sometimes on the same side, sometimes in opposition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 6 minutes ago, daviebee said: Another good one is where Scotland's captain and his club's captain were playing in the same game, sometimes on the same side, sometimes in opposition. Gough and Butcher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daviebee Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 19 minutes ago, Toepoke said: Gough and Butcher? You'd think so, but no. Happened 7 times to my knowledge with different players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burj_Alba Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 56 minutes ago, Archiesdad said: This must have happened many times in Scotland- England games in 70's and 80's Over to you @Toepoke That's what I thought when I wrote the original post, maybe Jack Charlton / Bremner or Souness/ Phil Thompson but they were never captains in the same match. will probably find out that something like Mane / salah captained Egypt and Senegal in a match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daviebee Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 51 minutes ago, Toepoke said: It might have happened in a Scotland v Wales game with Bremner and Yorath at Leeds, but I can't find in the records who the Welsh captains were. Did a wee bit of digging on this one and Wales were captained by Roberts and Hennessy in the games where Bremner was our captain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintsparky Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 There was a Leeds v Tottenham game in the early 1970's, when all 5 captains of the UK international teams played, before captaining their countries the following midweek - great trivia question. Scotland Bremner England Mullery Wales England (Mike) N Ireland Jennings Eire Giles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 3 hours ago, saintsparky said: There was a Leeds v Tottenham game in the early 1970's, when all 5 captains of the UK international teams played, before captaining their countries the following midweek - great trivia question. Scotland Bremner England Mullery Wales England (Mike) N Ireland Jennings Eire Giles You might need to reword it for the pedants amongst us. I include myself in that. Eire wasn't part of the UK in the 70s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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