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unusual facts about strikers



1972 FA Cup Final

Their back four had no trouble in mastering the Arsenal attacks and negating the threat posed by strikers George and Radford.

1996–97 West Ham United F.C. season

Exciting young defender Rio Ferdinand broke into the side and so impressed that an international call-up appeared imminent, while newly-signed strikers Paul Kitson and John Hartson gave the attack the much-needed boost that Radiciou and Futre had failed to deliver.

2001–02 Luton Town F.C. season

Strikers Gary McSwegan and Steve Kabba were signed on one-month loans from Hearts and Crystal Palace respectively, to provide competition for places up front.

Akseli Pelvas

He has been one of the most effective strikers for Finland's youth teams, together with Lauri Dalla Valle.

Alan McInally

After the end of the season, despite the efforts of new manager Billy McNeil to persuade the club's main strikers to stay, all three left Celtic – Mo Johnston to Nantes in France, Brian McClair to Manchester United and McInally joined Aston Villa in the Second Division.

Albert G. Porter

Because he had supported the strikers in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, he was able to gain the endorsement of the Knights of Labor, who turned out a large labor vote in his favor.

Alexander Kanishchev

With Genadi Shitik and Yuri Popkov he formed one of the strongest midfield lines in the 1st Soviet league, and playing together with strikers like Evgenii Milevskii and Aleksandr Starkov in 1985 with Daugava won the first league title.

Alf Ramsey

Despite having more experienced strikers in his squad, Ramsey selected young Geoff Hurst as Greaves's replacement, once again seeing potential in the young West Ham forward.

Andrew Arnold Lambing

During the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, he was credited with calming some strikers intent on destroying a freight depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the city's rail yards.

Asbestos Strike

On March 5, Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau delivered a fiercely pro-union speech asking all Catholics to donate to help the strikers.

Bread and Roses Award

In a song - Bread and Roses - commemorating the event, the strikers supposedly struck "for bread, and for roses too."

Bread and Roses Heritage Festival

Ethan Snow of the UNITE HERE labor union expressed the continuity of the labor struggle by linking the Occupy Wall Street Movement's "99 percent" slogan to the 1912 strikers and to the plight of modern laborers in Lawrence: “One hundred years ago, workers took a stand against the greed of the 1%. Today we are faced with a similar situation in Lawrence, and we too will take up the fight for current day Bread & Roses.”

Calumet, Pennsylvania

During the Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike of 1894, Calumet was the site of a bitter confrontation between the strikers and the H. C. Frick Coke Company, which at that time was part-owner of Calumet Coke Company.

Carry On at Your Convenience

The strikers finally return to work, but it is only to attend the annual works outing, a coach trip to Brighton.

Charlie Hurley

In Ray Charnley and Ray Pointer, Blackpool and Burnley had strikers of the highest quality.

Eckhard Krautzun

It was only later with the Strikers (with stars such as Gerd Muller, Teofilo Cubillas, Ray Hudson and Branko Segota) where he loosened up and got his teams attacking and the Strikers had two very successful seasons getting to the semi-finals twice.

Emmanuel Rivière

Due to the departure of Gomis, injuries to strikers Ilan and Kevin Mirallas, and the late arrival of the Argentine Gonzalo Bergessio, Rivière started the 2009–10 season as the club's first choice striker.

Enoch Showunmi

Showunmi faced strong competition for his first team place at the start of the 2007–08 season, especially after fellow strikers Lee Trundle and Darren Byfield signed for the club, and Steve Brooker also being in contention after returning to fitness.

Fábio Trinidade da Silveira

Due to Randers FC's new strikers Marc Nygaard and Søren Berg, Fabinho found himself sidelined in the first two matches.

Goulburn Strikers FC

The Goulburn Strikers were founded in late 2001 to offer the Southern Tablelands' most talented players the opportunity to play at a higher level while representing their hometown.

The Goulburn Strikers Football Club is an Australian football (soccer) club based in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

With the Goulburn Strikers competing in the ACT competition football players of the Southern Tablelands now have a direct pathway to the top with the opportunity to realise their dream of becoming professional footballers without having to leave Goulburn.

Gre-No-Li

The denomination was colloquially used after these players composed a formidable trio of strikers while playing for the Swedish national team and Italian club AC Milan in the 1950s.

Great Depression in Canada

Some notable ones include a coal miners strike that resulted in the Estevan Riot in Estevan, Saskatchewan that left three strikers dead by RCMP bullets in 1931, a waterfront strike in Vancouver that culminated with the "Battle of Ballantyne Pier" in 1935, and numerous unemployed demonstrations up to and including the On-to-Ottawa Trek that left one Regina police constable and one protester dead in the "Regina Riot."

Harlan County War

The Dreiser Committee did, however, discover the labor folk singer Aunt Molly Jackson and her younger half-brother Jim Garland, putting them on a tour of 38 states to raise funds for the strikers.

Hinzert concentration camp

Following the 1942 Luxembourgish general strike directed against the German occupier and a new directive that enrolled the Luxembourgish youth into the Wehrmacht, 20 strikers were arrested by the Gestapo, sentenced to death and shot between September 2 and 5, 1942.

Innocencio of Mary Immaculate

On Friday October 5, 1934, a group of strikers forced their way into the Lasallian school in Turón, where Father Innocencio was exercising his priestly ministry.

It's Going to Happen!

It's Going to Happen! was performed on Top of the Pops on 5 May 1981, the day one of the hunger strikers, Bobby Sands, died.

Jake Jervis

In the absence through injury of strikers Cameron Jerome, Marlon King and Nikola Žigić, Jervis was named in the 20-man squad for Birmingham's Europa League match against Nacional in Madeira in August.

Jonathan Bornstein

Bornstein attended Los Alamitos High School, where he played soccer for all four years, and played club soccer for Irvine Strikers coached by Don Ebert.

March for Equality and Against Racism

In 1983, the Socialist Prime Minister of France Pierre Mauroy, the Minister of the Interior Gaston Defferre, and the Minister of Labour Jean Auroux said about the strikers of the CGT's syndicate from the factory of Renault-Billancourt, that they are mainly "immigrants workers", and accused them of being manipulated by "integrists".

Memphis Sanitation Strike

Mayor Loeb and others feared rioting, which had already begun in Washington, D.C. Federal officials, including Attorney General Ramsey Clark, urged Loeb to make concessions to the strikers in order to avoid violence.

Mick Byrne

After two seasons in which he scored 11 goals in 56 league games, he came back to Rovers for the clubs first season in the RDS but left in January 1991 after 5 goals in 20 appearances for Sligo Rovers as the club had an abundance of strikers.

Neville Roach

In November 2005 he joined struggling League Two side Oxford United on loan, returning to Eastleigh in February 2006 after Oxford had signed two new strikers (Yemi Odubade and Tim Sills).

Northern Foods

In 2010 strikers at the group's Green Isle Foods pizza plant in Naas, Ireland, indicated that they were commencing a hunger strike and promoting a boycott of Green Isle Foods brand products, Goodfellas Pizza and other Northern Foods products.

Republican plot

Notable Republican plots include those at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin and Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, where the hunger-strikers Bobby Sands and Joe McDonnell are buried, and which was the site of an attack on a Republican funeral in 1988 by a loyalist paramilitary, Michael Stone.

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union

In contrast, South Carolina governor Robert McNair responded by threatening the strikers with prison time and then placed the city under curfew.

Ricardo Weslei de Campelo

Melbourne's signing of Ricardinho came at a time when the club was short of strikers, having sold Danny Allsopp and with Archie Thompson sidelined with a long term injury.

Sands McSwiney

Sands McSwineys were founded in 1986, being named using an amalgam of the names of hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Terence MacSwiney.

Shi Yang

Yang used his status as a lawyer to support strikers by factory workers and rickshaw drivers, and participated in many different workers' movements in Wuhan, often as a leader.

Shpëtim Moçka

Moçka played well to keep a clean sheet against prolific strikers such as Sebino Plaku and Pero Pejic which helped his team win the game away from home 1-0 against a strong Dinamo side.

Tom Mann

In 1912 he was convicted under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797 of publishing an article in The Syndicalist, as an 'Open Letter to British Soldiers', urging them to refuse to shoot at strikers (later reprinted as a leaflet, Don't Shoot); his prison sentence was quashed after public pressure.

UEFA Euro 1984

Having eliminated 1982 World Cup third-place finisher Poland and a strong USSR side was a label of quality for a talented young "golden generation" around midfielder Fernando Chalana or strikers Diamantino and Rui Jordão.

United Mine Workers

the Morewood massacre - April 3, 1891, in Morewood, Pennsylvania, where a crowd of mostly immigrant strikers were fired on by deputized members of the 10th Regiment of the National Guard.

United States v. Kaiser

Union and non-union strikers were provided limited financial assistance by a union.


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