. The 1980s pop group Visage were named after Giuseppe Visage, a 1910s Inter Milan defender.
2. According to ESPN, Football is the 17th best supported sport in USA, between deer hunting and monster truck pulling.
3. The penalty spot was invented as a cost-saving measure in the 1890s to replace the penalty line that was previously drawn entirely across the pitch.
4. Oranges became the halftime fruit of choice following the outbreak of Spanish flu in 1920 in a show of solidarity between English and Spanish players.
5. Andrew Innocull is the only known professional footballer to have all five vowels in his name, in the correct order, used only once.
6. The ball used in professional football has remained exactly the same size and shape for 120 years.
7. In a survey of Premier League football fans in 2006/7, seventeen per cent would rather not win the league title if it was the result of a rich benefactor "buying" the title. Three per cent would rather their team avoided the title under any circumstances.
8. Neil Armstrong originally wanted to take a football to the moon - but Nasa deemed it to be un-American.
9. Jeff Armitage was officially the Plymouth Argyle manager but after being asked to drive the team bus from Plymouth to Doncaster, due to the normal driver's illness, was given the amusing title of "coach". This title stuck and is now widely used.
10. Jim Frayne became the first test-tube footballer when coming on as a 17-year-old substitute for Halifax Town in 1997.
11. Worldwide there are 27 professional football clubs that take a Beatles song as their nickname - Villarreal in Spain being the most famous (the Yellow Submarines).
12. There were 39 children christened Aston, to parents of different Mr and Mrs Villas, in 2004/5 in the west Midlands area - and none in the rest of England and Wales.
13. Bolton Wanderers forward Wilberforce Montgomery was concussed after being hit by a pie thrown by a spectator during a friendly match in Wigan.
14. While the word "jejune" means dull or childish in English, it was adopted by French players around 1910 to replace "indirect free-kicks" as there was no direct French equivalent.
15. No fewer than 897 fans complained in writing to the FA about referees' decisions in the 2007/8 Premiership season. This was up 10% on 2006/7.
16. "Sporting" Lisbon got their name after its first captain refused to score from an incorrectly awarded penalty kick.
17. Ronaldo (the original one) has never won the Champions League medal, despite playing for five different clubs that have won the title.
18. Juventus chose to wear black and white striped kits after the club owner became impressed by those worn by Notts County.
19. In 1998 English referee Martin Sylvester sent himself off after punching a player during a game in the Andover and District Sunday League.
20. The Scottish Cup tie between Falkirk and Inverness Thistle in 1979 was postponed no fewer than 29 times because of bad weather.