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Best footballer's name 17:14 - Jun 21 with 11070 viewsdutch

I like the name Boy Kemper a lot, good song potential, but what is the best footballers name ever? I'm going for Jan Vennegoor of Heselink.
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Best footballer's name on 17:16 - Jun 21 with 7359 viewsaston_hoop

Still hopeful we'll add their compatriot Jizz Hornkamp to the team this summer

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Best footballer's name on 17:35 - Jun 21 with 7284 viewsNorthernr

Listen I watched Haiti the other night and their full back was called Martin Experience. You think you can beat that then good luck to you.

(Although there was a Danny Invincible once, who rather belied the name by playing for Swindon Town)
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Best footballer's name on 17:51 - Jun 21 with 7236 viewsBoston

We had this 'bright' spark.


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Best footballer's name on 18:05 - Jun 21 with 7196 viewsThird_Division_South

One Size
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Best footballer's name on 18:09 - Jun 21 with 7168 viewsWilkinswatercarrier

How about Norman Conquest who played for Australia back in the 1950s.

Beat that.

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Best footballer's name on 18:21 - Jun 21 with 7124 viewsSK_hoops

Norti Nortey.
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Best footballer's name on 18:40 - Jun 21 with 7080 viewsTwoHalves

Any excuse to mention Stefan Küntz, Ralf Minge and Jacob Wänker again (oh, if I don’t someone else will).

Meanwhile, ever since seeing their names in the programme for the home game against Chesterfield many years ago, I’ve been strangely drawn to the Spireites’ journeyman pair Muggleton and Blatherwick.

You couldn’t get more ‘northern’. Always fancied them as a sort of workingman’s club tribute act, performing the Millican and Nesbitt songbook, say, to sparse, midweek crowds.

I also have a soft spot for Ian Ormondroyd, who plied his trade as a professional footballer for a host of clubs on the northern circuit in the 80’s and 90’s. In my mind, I’ve always imagined ‘The Ormondroyds’ to be a particularly sinister, and frightening, enemy of Dr Who.
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Best footballer's name on 18:47 - Jun 21 with 7052 viewsBoston

Warboys always struck me as no nonsense football name. Alan Warboys, Bristol Rovers (and numerous others).

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Best footballer's name on 19:42 - Jun 21 with 6984 viewsR_from_afar

One of my favourites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

He has been known to be serenaded thus:

"His name is a shop, his name is a sho-o-op, Lenell John-Lewis, his name is a shop".

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

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Best footballer's name on 19:53 - Jun 21 with 6943 viewsizlingtonhoop

Kuntz
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Best footballer's name on 19:58 - Jun 21 with 6933 viewsstevec

Wayne Carlisle.

Was anyone there that night he came on as a substitute? Got to admire our fans, they are on it.

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Best footballer's name on 20:47 - Jun 21 with 6836 viewsPadulas_Shampoo

Ciro Immobile anyone?
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Best footballer's name on 21:47 - Jun 21 with 6747 viewsloftus77

Legendary Spanish forward Roberto Lopez Ufarte - 1982 World Cup I think.
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Best footballer's name on 21:57 - Jun 21 with 6736 viewsNushnool

Ecuador have a player at this World Cup called John Yeboah Zamora. What pedigree.
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Best footballer's name on 22:04 - Jun 21 with 6710 viewsSteiner

Former Brazillian player Argelico Fuchs is surely the winner - especially prior to "correcting" his name in 2020 (which I cannot post here). Eurosport definitely had fun with it back in the day...

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Best footballer's name on 22:25 - Jun 21 with 6658 viewsnumptydumpty

Having two players called Shittu and Dou Dou suggests a certain type of character to a team.

Belgian centre back, a few years back, played for Belgium and Anderlecht very aptly called Mark de Man.
[Post edited 21 Jun 22:27]

"Walking in a Mackie Wonderland"
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Best footballer's name on 22:28 - Jun 21 with 6649 viewsnumptydumpty

A very well known player of recent times would have required no need for instructions during a hydration break - Danny Drinkwater !!

"Walking in a Mackie Wonderland"
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Best footballer's name on 22:36 - Jun 21 with 6623 viewsTwoHalves

Double-barrelled footballing surnames are commonplace these days, but I well remember how quaint they seemed in the 60’s when I first started discovering the game through the pages of Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly.

The first ‘posh’ monicker I recall belonged to the Nottingham Forest forward Ian Storey-Moore, who, bearing in mind that my imagination had by now come under the influence of The Beano too, must surely move in the same circles as Lord Snooty and his Pals when not plying his trade at the City Ground.

There must have been some before - many since, of course - but, off the top of my head, I can’t bring any to mind.
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Best footballer's name on 22:48 - Jun 21 with 6614 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 22:25 - Jun 21 by numptydumpty

Having two players called Shittu and Dou Dou suggests a certain type of character to a team.

Belgian centre back, a few years back, played for Belgium and Anderlecht very aptly called Mark de Man.
[Post edited 21 Jun 22:27]


I’ve no idea whether David Goodwillie, currently representing Glasgow United in the West of Scotland League, is, like Mr de Man, aptly named, but his Wikipedia page does suggest that he has a child with a reality television star, model and pornographic actress. I suppose I’d better say ‘allegedly’.
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Best footballer's name on 23:28 - Jun 21 with 6580 viewsted_hendrix

Danger Fourpence.

Date of Birth
1975-11-25 (50 -yrs-old).

Defender.

Country of Birth
Zimbabwe.

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

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Best footballer's name on 01:18 - Jun 22 with 6528 viewsMatch82

Best footballer's name on 23:28 - Jun 21 by ted_hendrix

Danger Fourpence.

Date of Birth
1975-11-25 (50 -yrs-old).

Defender.

Country of Birth
Zimbabwe.


That might be a winner Ted, I like that one.

Collins John was always a favorite of mine, not so much because of his name itself but because he played at Fulham, where John Collins played. Tragically I think they just missed playing with another.

Also, Max Power. Because as a parent, that's one hell of a bet you're making.
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Best footballer's name on 08:43 - Jun 22 with 6376 viewsWokingR

My favourite has always been Puyol
He had every chance to to steer people towards pronouncing it Pu Yol but no, every single time I just heard Pooey Hole and sniggered like a kid.
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Best footballer's name on 09:30 - Jun 22 with 6308 viewsdutch

Best footballer's name on 22:25 - Jun 21 by numptydumpty

Having two players called Shittu and Dou Dou suggests a certain type of character to a team.

Belgian centre back, a few years back, played for Belgium and Anderlecht very aptly called Mark de Man.
[Post edited 21 Jun 22:27]


Shittu and Dou Dou and the rest were crap.
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Best footballer's name on 10:07 - Jun 22 with 6243 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 08:43 - Jun 22 by WokingR

My favourite has always been Puyol
He had every chance to to steer people towards pronouncing it Pu Yol but no, every single time I just heard Pooey Hole and sniggered like a kid.


‘Sniggering like a kid’. Should be practised at least once a day.
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Best footballer's name on 10:16 - Jun 22 with 6216 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

I used to work in the same circles as this guy on the regular.

I'm sure he played football at some point:

https://pace.coe.int/en/member
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