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"Is the Vicente Calderón the closest in the world to a river or other body of water?" wondered Stefan Agren last week.

Knowledge Inbox groaning at the seams after the flood response last week. We 've separated and sifted through a transparent pools of stagnant pools:

Closest to a fjord: Aker Stadium, Molde. "Built on a man-made pier, jutting out into the Molde Fjord," notes Christian Holum

Closest to a firth: Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Caledonian Stadium takes this one by a mile. Well, probably several miles actually.

Closest to a glacial river: "This is the home stadium of Icelandic third division side Skallagrímur from the town of Borgarnes," writes Agust Hauksson. "The body of water you see is the glacial river Hvita. The distance from the playing surface to the river is probably no more than 15 metres."

Closest to the channel (or multiple channels): Stadio Pierluigi Penzo, home of Venezia. A bonkers ground in a bonkers city.

Closest to the moat: . You can see the most circling the keep.

Most misleading stadium name based on watery location:Estadio Gigante de Arroyito (Giant of the Little Stream Stadium). Little Stream? Looks more like a massive river to us. And indeed it is â€" it's the Paraná River, the second longest in South America (behind the Amazon). Thanks to Jon Allison for that one.

Most spectacular: Petrovsky Stadium, St Petersburg. "The Petrovsky Stadiumsits on an island in the Lesser Neva (\\ 'Malaya Neva River ") River, surrounded on three sides by water," writes Paul O' Connor. "fans to reach the stadium crossing the footbridge. This creates a very strong effect with the stadium rises from the river, as some giant stadium shape of a ship ."

Laziest builders:Citrus Bowl , Orlando. "The Citrus Bowl (used for the 1994 World Cup and 1996 Olympic football tournament), has decided to forego a stand at one end and instead has opted for a lake," notes Ian Cade.

And the best of the rest:

Australiasia

Blue Tonge Stadium, House of Central Coast Mariners. "As you can see in the photographs they Didn" is not even enough space to create a stand \\ ", Said Michael Behl

Westpac Trust Stadium, home of Wellington Pheonix

Docklands Stadium, home of Melbourne Victory

Scandinavia

Studenternas Idrottsplats in Uppsala, Sweden, home to IK Sirius in the Swedish third division

Klokkerhagen in Mo i Rana, Norway. " As you can see, the pitch just fits on one of the bends of the Revelen river," writes Morten Josefson. "So any shot that missed the target, on either side, had a pretty good chance of ending up in the water. We even used the river as a way of wasting time when we were trying to close off tight games."

Britain

Hillsborough, home of Sheffield Wednesday, is encircled by the River Don

City Ground, Nottingham Forest, has the Trent lapping nearby

Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield Town

Stadium of Light , Sunderland

Gayfield Park, Arbroath, is the British ground closest to the sea

Craven Cottage, Fulham

Sincil Bank, Lincoln

Ewood Park, Blackburn

Rest of the world

Tolka Park, Shelbourne

PPL Park, House of Philadelphia Union MLS

Richmond Park, St Patrick's

Stade Marcen Saupin , Nantes. "Back in the early '80s while on holiday in France we attended a couple of games at Nantes' old stadium," writes Brendan Mackinney. "This was right next to the Loire and I'm pretty certain we sat at the back of a stand that projected out over the river. I remember discussing with my family that this design could be used at our home town club, Nottingham Forest, to build a larger stand next to the river Trent." The Marcen-Saupin did indeed loiter in the banks of the Loire. Nantes, however, left in 1984.

DJIMI TRAORÉ: RECORD BREAKER?

\\ "When Liverpool won the Champions League in 2005, they were certain Malian international Jimmy Traore's detachment," wrote Edward Creek last week. "At the time of the final Mali were ranked at a lowly 61. Which player comes from the lowest ranked international team at the time of them winning a Champions League winners medal?"

The much maligned Mr Traoré doesn't even make the top 10. McDonald Mariga of Inter and Kenya has a winner's medal from last years final, though he never made it off the bench. Nor did Lithuania's Edgaras Jankauskas when winning the cup with Porto in 2004. Zvonimir Boban is the Champions League winner from the lowest ranked national side to have started in the final, though the caveat is that Croatia was little more than three years old when Milan won the title in 1994.

1) McDonald Mariga 2009-10

Inter and Kenya (world ranking 113) (unused sub)

2) Edgaras Jankauskas 2003-04

Porto and Lithuania (108) (unused sub)

3) Zvonimir Boban 1993-94

Milan and Croatia (102)

4) Eidur Gudjohnsen 2008-09

Barcelona and Iceland 94 (unused sub)

5) Kakha Kaladze 2006-07 Milan and Georgia (92)

6) Kakha Kaladze 2002-03

Milan and Georgia (84)

7) Ryan Giggs 1998-99

Man Utd and Wales (82)

8) Elvir Baljic 1999-2000

Real Madrid and Bosnia & Herzegovina (76) (unused sub)

9) Hasan Salihamidzic 2000-01

Bayern Munich and Bosnia & Herzegovina (72)

10) Dwight Yorke 1998-1999

Manchester United and Trinidad & Tobago (71)

But how Mariga and Boban 'S claim to the crown are weakened Massimo Bonini. "Bonini won the European Cup in 1985 with Juventus," says Dara Higgins, "and played for the national team of San Marino, rejecting the opportunity to play in Italy to be for the smallest countries in Europe, which in time, weren 't recognized by FIFA. "

Married BLISS

"Have a husband and wife ever been sent off in the same match?" wonders Steve Turner.

Indeed they have. Back in December 1999 Bristol Rovers were taking on Oxford United in the South-west Women's Combination league. Midway through the match an Oxford player appeared to handle the ball, but the referee was unmoved. A lived Mandy Gornicki-Bond furiously protested, and was promptly shown a red card, despiter her insistence that her remarks had not been directed at the official.

Decision infuriated manager Rovers, who just happened to be Mandy 'husband Bill. Angered by injustice, he stepped on the field to confront the official. Bill, a policeman and one class of judges, later claimed that he was not abusive, but he too was sent to the stands.

KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE

\\ "As far as the Italian side Hellas Verona, the words of Hellas Greece. Was the team originally founded by the Greeks?" " Lazaros Spiropoulous asked back in 2005.

You're on the right lines, Lazaros. "In 1903, a group of students from the 'Maffei' grammar school in Verona founded a football club," explains Robert Blyth, a senior researcher at the Universita' di Lecce. "They were aided by some of their teachers, notably the teacher of Greek, one Professor Corrubulo, who suggested the name 'Hellas' for the team." For more information on Verona - and a cracking read, besides - check out Tim Park's excellent A Season With Verona.

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