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Football quiz: guards of honour

Niall McVeigh
·4 min read
<span>Photograph: Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images</span>
Photograph: Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images

  1. Chelsea v Manchester United was the fixture when English football's first guard of honour took place. In which year?

    1. 1905

    2. 1955

    3. 1995

    4. 2005

  2. Manchester City are set to applaud Liverpool on at the Etihad on Thursday. Which pundit said some visiting players weren't fit to lace Kevin De Bruyne's boots?

    1. Chris Sutton

    2. Robbie Savage

    3. Danny Murphy

    4. Mark Lawrenson

  3. Three of Manchester City's four Premier League titles have been won on the last day. Which team did not give them a guard of honour after they won the title early in 2017-18?

    1. Liverpool

    2. Manchester United

    3. Southampton

    4. West Ham

  4. Back in 2007, a much-changed Manchester United team was given a guard of honour at Stamford Bridge. Which of these players were in the United line-up?

    1. Chris Eagles

    2. Kieran Lee

    3. Dong Fangzhou

    4. All of the above

  5. 'I didn't like it at all. Not one bit. They were my friends and it was tough for them. It was tough for me' – which Premier League player said this after returning to his old club as a champion?

    1. Samir Nasri

    2. Eric Cantona

    3. N'Golo Kanté

    4. Robin van Persie

  6. Which Manchester United legend compared a guard of honour to 'your wife leaving you and being asked to hang the new bloke's clothes up in your old wardrobe'?

    1. Gary Neville

    2. Paul Scholes

    3. Roy Keane

    4. Sir Alex Ferguson

  7. In 2018, Real Madrid refused to give champions Barcelona a 'pasillo' at the Camp Nou, because Barça had failed to acknowledge which recent Real trophy win?

    1. Champions League

    2. Club World Cup

    3. Copa Del Rey

    4. Spanish Super Cup

  8. 'The Chelsea fans slaughtered me all game. It’s nice of them to turn up for once today.' Who was feeling bitter after forming a guard of honour at Stamford Bridge in 2015?

    1. Ryan Giggs

    2. Steven Gerrard

    3. Frank Lampard

    4. Luis Suárez

  9. In April 2015, Hibs manager Alan Stubbs told his players not to give Hearts a guard of honour at Tynecastle. What trophy had Hibs' bitter rivals won?

    1. The Scottish Cup

    2. The Scottish Championship

    3. The Festival Cup

    4. Nothing – but it's an Edinburgh derby tradition

  10. Claudio Ranieri made up for his Chelsea sacking when he brought fairytale champions Leicester City to the Bridge in 2016. What was the result of the game?

    1. Chelsea 1-1 Leicester

    2. Chelsea 5-0 Leicester

    3. Chelsea 0-2 Leicester

    4. Chelsea 4-3 Leicester

  11. Finally, which former Premier League winner received not one, but two guards of honour in 2017?

    1. Vincent Kompany

    2. John Terry

    3. Wayne Rooney

    4. Didier Drogba

Solutions

1:B - It was Sir Matt Busby's idea for United to tip their hat to champions Chelsea – before beating them 2-1 at Stamford Bridge., 2:C - 'De Bruyne is probably the best midfielder in the world and he's giving a guard of honour to players who can't even lace his boots,' Murphy told TalkSport. The former Liverpool player has since apologised., 3:C - The Saints manager and former City coach Mark Hughes insisted 'it wasn't a sign of disrespect'. City won 1-0 at St Mary's to pass the 100-point mark., 4:D - Ole Gunnar Solskjær was perhaps the most famous name in the United XI, who still earned a 0-0 draw. Chelsea got revenge by winning the FA Cup final a few days later., 5:D - The United striker was clapped onto the Emirates pitch by Arsenal's players in 2013, and roundly booed by the fans., 6:A - The former United full-back made the comparison on Twitter back in 2013., 7:B - In a spectacular show of pettiness, Zinedine Zidane noted that Barcelona had not offered his side a guard of honour after they had won the Club World Cup the previous December., 8:B - The Liverpool midfielder was repeatedly reminded of his costly slip against Chelsea at Anfield the previous season. José Mourinho insisted the fans' chants 'showed nothing other than respect'., 9:B - Hearts had won the title in March when Rangers beat Hibernian 2-0 in what was a pretty stacked second division., 10:A - Danny Drinkwater's late equaliser meant Chelsea finished the season in 10th place., 11:B - Terry's Chelsea were applauded on to the pitch by Sunderland before the game, then substituted in the 26th minute – with a personal guard of honour from his teammates.

Scores

  1. 8 and above.

    We applaud your knowledge!

  2. 0 and above.

    There'll be no guard of honour for you

  3. 4 and above.

    That's a decent effort