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UnusualNames of Footballers that stick in the memory
Bedford Jezzard, played for Fulham in the 50’s
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Jazzy Barnum Bob, Cardiff City player five or six years ago.
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Forbes Phillipson Masters.
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Mark de Mann and Stefan Kuntz come to mind
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Dean Greygoose, Wayne Wanklyn, john Dungworth, Steve Death, Ken Foggo.
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Andy Polycarpou. 7 appearances for City in 1982.
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The Lone Gunman
Andy Polycarpou. 7 appearances for City in 1982.
Nortie Nortey. Dover athletic legend
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Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
Forbes Phillipson Masters.
I remember him from an old sticker album.
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Undercoverinwurzelland
I remember him from an old sticker album.
Just looked him up. Full name Forbes Ernest Phillipson-Masters. What were his parents thinking?
Here he is. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/18106...-1/s-l1000.jpg
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MacAdder
Jazzy Barnum Bob, Cardiff City player five or six years ago.
Looks like he is currently at Dulwich Hamlet. A talented young lad who never quite made it here.
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A mate of mine at school was convinced there was a South Korean player called Chu Bum Suk at Mexico 86. Disappointingly there wasn't.
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Gerry Cakebread OBE
Worth a mention because of his unusual name and also because he was awarded an honour unrelated to football
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Cocu slides into Kuntz, as one commentator on a Netherlands/Germany game uttered.
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Aspas.
Still waiting for a commentator to add "nice trick if you can pull it off" after mentioning his name!
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A lot of mentions are just names that young lads would find slightly funny bacause they are a little bit rude.
Not really unusual in the sense I was imagining opening the thread.
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Celestine Babayaro.... just wonderful
Honourable mention to Rigobert Song
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dembethewarrior
A lot of mentions are just names that young lads would find slightly funny bacause they are a little bit rude.
Not really unusual in the sense I was imagining opening the thread.
Ok then, Edson Arantes do Nascimento.:hehe:
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Ok then, Edson Arantes do Nascimento.:hehe:
Good effort :hehe:
I remember English lads at work taking the piss out of welsh place names before so after that I'd start to notice the names of places we drive through up in England and I've got to be honest they lose this battle by a landslide they've got some ridiculously named Little villages etc. Curry Mallet and brown willy ring a bell down south and Barton in the beans up north as standout names I've come across.
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Danny Invincible, Dean/Josh Windass, Perry Ng.
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Roberto Ufarte once of Real Sociedad and Spain
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Jermaine McSporran. Dunno why, just makes me laugh.
Steve Death was my first thought when I read the thread, but someone took it!!
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Rummenigge - that would’nt be on the back of the shirt these days - too close for comfort.
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Jan Venegoor of Hesselink
Guylain Ndumbu Nsungu
Chicarito
Kaka
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Jan Venegoor of Hesselink
Guylain Ndumbu Nsungu
Chicarito
Kaka
Kaka obviously a nickname for Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite
Same for Chicarito, not really unusual as nicknames often are.
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As a kid I always wanted to change my name to that of an obscure Swedish footballer as his name sounded so 'cool': Kurt Axelsson.
And who remembers football commentators pronouncing Mike Trebilcock's name as Mike Trebilco in the sixties?
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Enoch Mort
Gerry Cakebread
Worth a mention because of his unusual name and also because he was awarded an honour unrelated to football
..jackie and paul cakebread used to be in my school..
2 unrelated Glasscock families..did they support Crystal Phallus?
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Gerry Cakebread OBE
Worth a mention because of his unusual name and also because he was awarded an honour unrelated to football
He was a colleague of mine here in Taunton (although I can't say I knew him well and only had a few passing conversations with him).
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Berndt Haas played for West Brom
(Burnt ass) it always sounded like on tele
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Jan Venegoor of Hesselink
Guylain Ndumbu Nsungu
Chicarito
Kaka
I always loved Jan V's name but never checked out it's derivation until now.
Apparently back in the 17th century two Dutch families, the Vennegoors and Hesselinks intermarried and because they both had the same social standing they kept both names from there on. The Dutch word for 'or' is 'of', so if we were to Anglicise his name it would be Jan Vennegoor or Hesselink.
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Surprised that nobody's mentioned Max Power.