Shrimpsvoices

...is currently Cowperthwaite? although you don't get to see it very often. Maybe it is to save money on the lettering as most of our players have short names

There was a player last night that must have kept the printers busy and had actually asked to simply have "David" instead but without any luck


Double barreled names should'nt really count but how on earth would they have coped with "Edson Arantes do Nascimento"?

In the Saudi Arabian league all the players are called Mohammed, or Ahmed, or Ali, or a mixture of the three.
Then they go to Mecca, and when they come back they add Haji or El Haj to their name. Then when they feel like it they drop all their names in a hat and change the order round. You can't get confused by their birthdays though, as they're all 1 January
My youngest lad works for the UK Visa bods, and is a Risk Assessment Officer in Riyadh. he has great fun!

Just imagine if we DID sign Mark Bridge-Wilkinson ........ !!

Zurab Khizanishvili
adriano rigoglioso
Jakub Blaszczykowski

And my personal favourite......

Oleg Blagonadezdins of Latvia.

Listening to the pundits (commentators had usually spent all morning practising) trying to get their mouths round that, then giving up and then calling him 'the big number 6' - was a highlight of the Euro 2004 tournament for me.

http://www.darlington-fc.net/page/NewsD ... 37,00.html

i do remember this guy up at darlington and both myself and quinny could only call him the liechtenstein keeper
for me totally unpronouncable....

Przemyslaw Kazimierczak

a fantastic scrabble winning name

Going off at a bit of a tangent, I remember this guy scoring for Gemany in a World Cup.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Kuntz

Think it was Motty who then proceeded to say, "and the German's have scored! Kuntz !!!"

Seasider9601 wrote:Going off at a bit of a tangent, I remember this guy scoring for Gemany in a World Cup.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Kuntz

Think it was Motty who then proceeded to say, "and the German's have scored! Kuntz !!!"

Famously wore number 11 in Euro 96. 11 Kuntz.

The Fury wrote:Famously wore number 11 in Euro 96. 11 Kuntz.

...and in World Cup 2010 England had 11 .....