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Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:23 pmby BlueinBosnia
I was thinking about this when I heard Reece Wabara's name the other day- it sounds more like a Rugby League player's name.
Guy Whittingham was one that always struck me as odd- sounded like someone from the Bullingdon Club, or a history teacher at a public school.
Any others?
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:39 pmby HBlock Cripple
Jo?
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:43 pmby ENIAM NAM
HBlock Cripple wrote:Jo?
Made me chuckle after a shit day. Thanks.
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:45 pmby Tokyo Blue
The Norwich team of the late 80s and early 90s had a few names that sounded more like Dickensian characters than footballers - Butterworth, Culverhouse, Ullathorne.
I just wanted to mention a random Lopez Ufarte so I can snigger quietly to myself.
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:54 pmby Alioune DVToure
Mikhail Khavelashvili - would have made a better Soviet-era despot.
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:55 pmby blues-clues
Andrei Arshavin
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:02 pmby DoomMerchant
John Mikel Obi always struck me as either an African despot or the head of the UN. Plus is it Obi Mikel or Mikel Obi? WTF. Sort it.
John Michael Nchekwube Obinna <--- his given name
Mikel John Obi <--- what he's allegedly referred to commonly like sitting around the house by his mates or his mother
John Mikel Obi/John Obi Mikel <--- what the average punter seems to call him
Don't ever get me started about what the fucl is printed on the back of his shirt cuz iirc it's even different....
Run a charity or get a weapons stash Johnny boy...sort it!
cheers
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:06 pmby Im_Spartacus
Jan Vennegor of Hesselink
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:10 pmby The Man In Blue
Im_Spartacus wrote:Jan Vennegor of Hesselink
innit, sounds like some feudal knight.
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:12 pmby DoomMerchant
Im_Spartacus wrote:Jan Vennegor of Hesselink
it's like he's a 16th century explorer or something.
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:16 pmby Alioune DVToure
DoomMerchant wrote:Im_Spartacus wrote:Jan Vennegor of Hesselink
it's like he's a 16th century explorer or something.
A decrepit Habsburg prince. The runt of the family with a merely honorific title.
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:22 pmby DoomMerchant
Alioune DVToure wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:Im_Spartacus wrote:Jan Vennegor of Hesselink
it's like he's a 16th century explorer or something.
A decrepit Habsburg prince. The runt of the family with a merely honorific title.
When you get all Treaty of Weshphalia on my ass, i just have to surrender dude... nice work.
cheers
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:36 pmby Dronny
Roy Cunt.....always struck me as sounding like a cunt?
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:44 pmby Alioune DVToure
Scotty Parker and Jack "The Lad" Wilshere sound very WWII RAF to me too now I think about it.
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:08 pmby Dipstick
Norbert Stiles, Perry Groves, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Quinton Fortune
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:18 pmby BlueinBosnia
Alioune DVToure wrote:Scotty Parker and Jack "The Lad" Wilshere sound very WWII RAF to me too now I think about it.
Haha! I thought exactly the same about Wilshire!
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:24 pmby Hazy2
Gary Neville.
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:27 pmby patrickblue
HBlock Cripple wrote:Jo?
My first thought.
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:49 pmby 9secondlegend
alan
tch blasphemy!
Re: Players whose names don't sound like footballers
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Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:55 pmby Blue in the face
"Sister of Fu" definately doesn't sound like a footballer.