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Best footballer's name 17:14 - Jun 21 with 11071 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 10:19 - Jun 22 with 2417 viewsOrthodox_Hoop

Jakob W anker.

My personal fav is Bongo Christ though.
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Best footballer's name on 10:37 - Jun 22 with 2344 viewsSpaceman_P

Paul Dickov was a name i won't forget hope he was alright.
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Best footballer's name on 11:16 - Jun 22 with 2284 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 10:19 - Jun 22 by Orthodox_Hoop

Jakob W anker.

My personal fav is Bongo Christ though.


You’d hope, for his own sake, that Herr W anker has been advised not to take up refereeing upon his eventual retirement as a professional footballer.
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Best footballer's name on 22:03 - Jun 22 with 2180 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 18:47 - Jun 21 by Boston

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


Named as Sheffield Wednesday No 9 on daveB’s ‘Rare QPR Footage’ post. Spooky.
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Best footballer's name on 23:00 - Jun 22 with 2137 viewsJevlar

Mr favourite will forever be former Anderlecht defender Mark De Man.

Seriously
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Best footballer's name on 08:06 - Jun 23 with 2068 viewsR_from_afar

Best footballer's name on 22:36 - Jun 21 by TwoHalves

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.


"Double-barrelled footballing surnames are commonplace these days".

My favourite is Troy Archibald-Henville. Fabulous name .

"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 08:14 - Jun 23 with 2055 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 10:16 - Jun 22 by BazzaInTheLoft

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


You’ve got to wonder what his parents were thinking.
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Best footballer's name on 08:19 - Jun 23 with 2049 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 08:06 - Jun 23 by R_from_afar

"Double-barrelled footballing surnames are commonplace these days".

My favourite is Troy Archibald-Henville. Fabulous name .


I don’t care whether he’s real or not. It’s a magnificent name!

Edit: I’m tempted now to spend the rest of the day trawling the internet for public school team lists to try and better that (that’s assuming any of them play football, of course, more likely to be ‘rugger’). Told you I’m retired now.
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Best footballer's name on 08:57 - Jun 23 with 2017 viewsdutch

Best footballer's name on 08:06 - Jun 23 by R_from_afar

"Double-barrelled footballing surnames are commonplace these days".

My favourite is Troy Archibald-Henville. Fabulous name .


Surely he plays for Fulham.
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Best footballer's name on 09:00 - Jun 23 with 2012 viewsdutch

Unfortunately I don't think he ever played professional football, but American senator Randy Baumgardner has a corker of a moniker.
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Best footballer's name on 09:05 - Jun 23 with 2002 views100percent

Best footballer's name on 08:06 - Jun 23 by R_from_afar

"Double-barrelled footballing surnames are commonplace these days".

My favourite is Troy Archibald-Henville. Fabulous name .


He is my friend's son!
Was signed for Spurs and never quite made the grade - spent time at Exeter...
Father is a dyed in the wool West ham boy!
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Best footballer's name on 16:37 - Jun 23 with 1885 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Nesta Guinness-Walker.

Named after three absolute legends.

Aleesandro Nesta.
Alec Guinness, his Grandad, and
Clive Walker.
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"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Poll: Player of the Year (so far)

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Best footballer's name on 17:23 - Jun 23 with 1838 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 16:37 - Jun 23 by BrianMcCarthy

Nesta Guinness-Walker.

Named after three absolute legends.

Aleesandro Nesta.
Alec Guinness, his Grandad, and
Clive Walker.
[Post edited 23 Jun 16:37]


Named after beer and crisps. My kinda guy.
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Best footballer's name on 17:39 - Jun 23 with 1803 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

Footballers that sound like buildings:

Grant Hall
Nathan Abbey
Tony Towers
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Best footballer's name on 17:53 - Jun 23 with 1789 viewsW4Hoop

Ever since I first heard of the Leicester midfielder Ndidi I hoped his first name might be "Yes". It isn't.
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Best footballer's name on 18:27 - Jun 23 with 1770 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Best footballer's name on 17:53 - Jun 23 by W4Hoop

Ever since I first heard of the Leicester midfielder Ndidi I hoped his first name might be "Yes". It isn't.


Took me a second.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Poll: Player of the Year (so far)

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Best footballer's name on 18:51 - Jun 23 with 1726 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 17:53 - Jun 23 by W4Hoop

Ever since I first heard of the Leicester midfielder Ndidi I hoped his first name might be "Yes". It isn't.


You’re not alone, W4. Every time a commentator mentions his name I respond with, ‘Yes, Ndidi’. It’s automatic now.

Had a similar thing with Clarence Seedorf many years ago when I used to watch games with my Leeds mate and his daughter, who would have been about 5 at the time (she’s having her own sprog this Christmas which is a sobering thought).

Anyway, the commentator would say ‘Seedorf’, which me and my mate would deliberately misinterpret as an instruction to literally say ‘Dorf’, which we would then do.

For some reason, daughter found this hilarious and collapsed, paralysed with laughter, in a heap every time this happened.
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Best footballer's name on 19:46 - Jun 23 with 1667 viewsSpen

Whenever I watch Spain or Barca play on the telly I always hear the schoolboy phrase ‘Ya Mum’ when Lamine Yamal’s name is mentioned.
You won’t be able to unhear it now.
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Best footballer's name on 22:07 - Jun 23 with 1611 viewsaston_hoop

Best footballer's name on 19:46 - Jun 23 by Spen

Whenever I watch Spain or Barca play on the telly I always hear the schoolboy phrase ‘Ya Mum’ when Lamine Yamal’s name is mentioned.
You won’t be able to unhear it now.


YES. I've been doing this every time I see him

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Best footballer's name on 09:38 - Jun 24 with 1495 viewsfrancisbowles

Best footballer's name on 09:30 - Jun 22 by dutch

Shittu and Dou Dou and the rest were crap.


Back in the day, I was staying in Sao Paulo and the only internet access I had was a device in the local McDonalds. When I searched for Rangers news, the page loaded with the names Shittu and Doudou blacked out.
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Best footballer's name on 14:53 - Jun 25 with 1296 viewsMyke

Best footballer's name on 22:48 - Jun 21 by TwoHalves

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’.


I guess Smallbone would be the antidote to Goodwillie. The most apt name must be George Best.
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Best footballer's name on 15:08 - Jun 25 with 1262 viewsloftboy

Wayne Wànklyn played for Reading, his dad Eddie was my first football manager for Bracknell Boys Club circa 1977,Wayne used to help out at training sometimes.

Had to change the A to get past the swear filter!

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Best footballer's name on 16:10 - Jun 25 with 1242 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 19:53 - Jun 21 by izlingtonhoop

Kuntz


Good lad.
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Best footballer's name on 16:21 - Jun 25 with 1232 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 19:46 - Jun 23 by Spen

Whenever I watch Spain or Barca play on the telly I always hear the schoolboy phrase ‘Ya Mum’ when Lamine Yamal’s name is mentioned.
You won’t be able to unhear it now.


I’m currently trying not to hear, ‘Cherki Cherki Cheep Cheep’ every time Manchester City’s French attacking midfield player crops up in the conversation.
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Best footballer's name on 16:28 - Jun 25 with 1223 viewsTwoHalves

Best footballer's name on 14:53 - Jun 25 by Myke

I guess Smallbone would be the antidote to Goodwillie. The most apt name must be George Best.


I still haven’t given up hope that a player will one day emerge, maybe in the German Bundesliga, called George Wurst.
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