Your sporting Mandela effect

[Nalis]

I was convinced Keith Andrews played for Birmingham until I checked Wikipedia and double checked transfermarkt.

[bovril]

Was quite surprised to read David Pleat has recently "returned home after a worrying fall" considering I was sure he'd croaked it about 10 years ago. 

[Guest]

One that comes up very often on here is people being convinced that in 14/15 it was Top who sacked Pearson and then the subsequent reversal of that call was down to Vichai, rather than the opposite which is what actually (allegedly) happened

[-sodapop]

Could have sworn we were a well ran club

[Sampson]

12 hours ago, bovril said:

Was quite surprised to read David Pleat has recently "returned home after a worrying fall" considering I was sure he'd croaked it about 10 years ago. 

I had a similar thing with Alan Ball recently too. Could’ve sworn 100% he died about a decade ago, I can even remember the headlines about the youngest of England 66 winning side dying. Only to google him and find he’s very much still alive.

Edited 17 February by Sampson

[bovril]

6 minutes ago, Sampson said:

I had a similar thing with Alan Ball recently too. Could’ve sworn 100% he died about a decade ago, I can even remember the headlines about the youngest of England 66 winning side dying. Only to google him and find he’s very much still alive.

He's not

[Libertine]

Alan Ball is most definitely deceased.

 

Did you accidentally click on the predicted search for Alan Brazil perhaps? 

[bovril]

The 'Alan Ball Effect' - when you think someone's dead and they are in fact dead

[Sampson]

Haha: I can only assume it was dodgy Google AI results before I just checked Wikipedia.  Apparently he died about 20 years ago as well, feck me

[Stuntman_Mike]

28 minutes ago, Sampson said:

I had a similar thing with Alan Ball recently too. Could’ve sworn 100% he died about a decade ago, I can even remember the headlines about the youngest of England 66 winning side dying. Only to google him and find he’s very much still alive.

I remember City fans singing his name at Barnsley away the game after he didn't die 

[Nalis]

In my mind, Michael Schumacher was never at Mercedes and in our great escape season we beat Newcastle five nil to send them down

[bovril]

1 hour ago, Nalis said:

In my mind, Michael Schumacher was never at Mercedes and in our great escape season we beat Newcastle five nil to send them down

The Mandela Effect isn't just 'having a bad memory'

[Stuntman_Mike]

City were a mid sized club in the midlands.

[coolhandfox]

16 hours ago, bovril said:

Was quite surprised to read David Pleat has recently "returned home after a worrying fall" considering I was sure he'd croaked it about 10 years ago. 

Wait, Pleat alive? I was sure he was dead. 

[Boethius]

Pleaty put the Kjetil on

[SystonFox]

4 hours ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

I remember City fans singing his name at Barnsley away the game after he didn't die 

i, oddly, remember this too. did we win 1-0 through either a Hume or Fryatt goal?

 

"win it for Ball-y" was sung in the concourse..... no idea why as he had zero affiliation to our club?

 

also "Alan Ball Alan Ball Alan Ballll" to the "here we go here we go here we goooo" chant?

[Stuntman_Mike]

3 minutes ago, SystonFox said:

i, oddly, remember this too. did we win 1-0 through either a Hume or Fryatt goal?

 

"win it for Ball-y" was sung in the concourse..... no idea why as he had zero affiliation to our club?

 

also "Alan Ball Alan Ball Alan Ballll" to the "here we go here we go here we goooo" chant?

I guess purely for being an England World Cup winner.

 

Barnsley 0-1 Leicester

This will be a featured match on Saturday's Score - 1430 BST on BBCi and bbc.co.uk/score Neil Austin's 49th-minute own-goal handed Leicester victory but Barnsley celebrated Championship safety after Ipswich's late equaliser against Leeds. Barnsley-born defender Austin attempted to clear Matty Fryatt's lob off the line but succeeded only in heading the ball into his own net. Austin's unfortunate intervention was enough to settle a tense contest. Sean Newton almost made it 2-0 but in the end both sides were happy after the news came through from Leeds.

[Vacamion]

 

Did you mean Bobby Ball  ?

[Corky]

16 hours ago, Guest said:

One that comes up very often on here is people being convinced that in 14/15 it was Top who sacked Pearson and then the subsequent reversal of that call was down to Vichai, rather than the opposite which is what actually (allegedly) happened

That Aiyawatt knows what he is doing.

[bovril]

2 minutes ago, Corky said:

That Aiyawatt knows what he is doing.

"keep Pearson, we promote" 

[ramboacdc]

I couldn't think of one that wasn't just my bad memory, and I didn't have any England World Cup winners left on my oujia board, so I googled sporting Mandella Effects. 

So many people seem to believe Younes Kabul played for QPR when he didn't.

 

 

But then again I have never met anyone who believed Mandella died in prison. He was rather famous once he got released. Not like he fecked off into obscurity is it?

 

[Nalis]

Kaboul is so QPR of that era so I can see that one.

 

I guess the line blurs between bad memory and misremembering

 

Away from sport, for years I thought Axl Rose was dead

 

 

[Wymsey]

Thought Michael Schumacher died not long after his skiing incident, but is still alive (although hasn't been publicly seen since then, after a quick Google).

Edited 19 February by Wymsey

[Voll Blau]

In my mind, Hamburg's home kits are always all blue with white and black trim. I guess it's because that's what their crest looks like?

[Stadt]

2 hours ago, Voll Blau said:

In my mind, Hamburg's home kits are always all blue with white and black trim. I guess it's because that's what their crest looks like?

It is a bit odd they have red on their kits come to think of it. Germany is probably top for badge-kit colour disparities