Be Excellent To Each Other

Complimenting our bad album cover thread I present a list of oddly named footballers. List your favourite!

http://www.midfielddynamo.com/players/p ... tnames.htm

Mine: Norman Conquest

Nwanku Kanu

Nacho Novo.

Shouldn't that be "Footballers' Silly Names?"

Yes.

And I guess I'll have to pick one for you:

Ars Bandeet

Gary Neville.

Gareth Barry.

David Peckham.

Wayne Moony.

Or his brother Neville Neville (although I've no idea if he is stupid. Probably)

FTFY.

Bongo Christ.

I like foreign goalkeeper just called:

"Quim"

I quite like quim too.

Nice article on this subject in The Scotsman.

Stefan Kuntz.

Danny Invicible. And Hulk.

Zinedine Zidane.

If we did American Football players names, the list would be endless. As a taster, I give you Mark Thrash, Chad Ochocinco, Tank Johnson and the all-time classic, Bum Phillips.

Mark Thrash is clearly an awesome name.

I've seen better

I always liked Lawyer Malloy and Peerless Price.

Also, Chad Ochocinco is cheating, as he changed his name to his shirt number.

My favourites are Didier Drogba which we always corrupt to Diddley Dogber, and Man U midfielder Nani which means what in Japanese.

Nani means "Panda" in Japanese?

A couple of Brazilians playing in America: Jazz and Bismarck.

That's according to SWOS back in the day.

Off topic, but related. I very much like the way the phrase 'Al Queda Leader' rolls around the mouth

I like that Dutch striker's name, Jan Vinegar of Heffalump or whatever it is.

(I know the right spelling, I just prefer mine)

(In The'' ''Muppe't's''' announcer voice:) "Drogba In Space..."

(Next week: "Drogba In The Corridor of Uncertainty.")

Marco Boogers and Nordin Wooter were names that made me chuckle. Not that they're particularly silly, mind, but they do stand out.

Dean Windass

Scott Minto. Sounds like a sweet from north of the border.

Stern John.

Not a footballer, but the runner who's surname is something like Ramalamalarina always makes me think of Apu.

Michael Ballack.

He follows (or followed) me on Twitter.

I'm going to call Kalmar that from now on.

Jimmy Bullard, Emanuel Adebayor, Wayne Rooney for starters...

Toulalan and Tshabalala are two of my favourite to say.

He played for Benfica during Greame Souness reign with lots of other crap british players. He's still one of the most fondly remembered, even if only because of his silly name.

And my favorite from the list is clearly Pedro Power.

Siphiwebe Tsabalala's manager is called Jazzman Mahlakgane.

I still like Exodus Geohagan.

And last night we were playing against Angle Rangle or however it is spelt.

"An-khell!" - Beautiful Gael Garcia Bernal, in La Mala Educacion.

This far into the thread and no mention of Uwe Fuchs? Pshaw.


Hell, should have been on ice hockey. Cal Clutterbuck, Happy Day but the guy I always wanted to sign for my team was Robin Big Snake. We'd have sold a million replica shirts.

True story for you. Happy Day had just joined his new team, was out on the ice before the General Manager had arrived to watch the team practice. The GM got there and was sat next to the boards. Day skated over and held out his hand, "Hello, sir, Happy Day", the GM shook it and said, "Sure is, son." and walked off to his seat.