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Scunthorpe United are the only football team in the world to both never play in the top flight of their league and have one of their players nominated for the Ballon D'Or thanks to their keeper Ken jones baffingly getting one vote for the best player in Europe in 1959 following their 18th place finish in the second flight. It was so surprising a nomination that the french magazine initially assumed that the vote was cast for Cliff Jones of tottenham instead.

It wasn't. No one really knows why.
 
Scunthorpe United are the only football team in the world to both never play in the top flight of their league and have one of their players nominated for the Ballon D'Or thanks to their keeper Ken jones baffingly getting one vote for the best player in Europe in 1959 following their 18th place finish in the second flight. It was so surprising a nomination that the french magazine initially assumed that the vote was cast for Cliff Jones of tottenham instead.

It wasn't. No one really knows why.

I've been Southampton but I've never been to Scunthorpe.
 
Scunthorpe United are the only football team in the world to both never play in the top flight of their league and have one of their players nominated for the Ballon D'Or thanks to their keeper Ken jones baffingly getting one vote for the best player in Europe in 1959 following their 18th place finish in the second flight. It was so surprising a nomination that the french magazine initially assumed that the vote was cast for Cliff Jones of tottenham instead.

It wasn't. No one really knows why.

Criminally under-rated keeper him mate.
 
The northern irish player Derek Spence recieved no caps at all during his year at Olympaikos despite being a mainstay of their squad during the rest of his career (he was capped 29 times in total).

When he asked the reason for this it turned out the Irish FA had sent telegrams notifying him of his inclusion in the squad to AEK Athens and had been baffled and upset that he failed to respond to them.
 
Ian Botham played for Scunthorpe.

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