names of footballers that float through your head

ya i came down on her after like the wrath of god

ruel fox

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 15:00 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this was the first name I thought of when I saw this thread

also Bobby Mimms for when I see something about the rapper Mims, which admittedly hasn't been too often of late

I like how the foreignness of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink sneaks up on you.

90 Minutes magazine used to do these proto-The most interesting pieces of soccerball trivia you know (that are 100% false) factoid boxouts and one of them was something like "commentators are required by FA guidelines to refer to Ruel Fox by his full name at all times"

tony yeboah

remember leeds?

how do commentators treat danny fox?

"commentators are required by FA guidelines to refer to Ruel Fox by his full name at all times"

my best friend and I have this meme about Tony Hibbert. It's so true...

well otherwise they might just be saying 'hib' to bert

Pavel Srnicek

how do commentators treat danny fox?

Hopefully with contempt

on a similar note, I watched a St Johnstone game on the telly once when everyone was referred to by their surname except for Chris Miller (which they ran into one word ChrisMiller, which had the annoying side effect of me having Bohemian Rhapsody stuck in my head for the rest of the day)

Chris Millar has won all three SFL championships, only the SPL to go for the full set.

Davie Dodds, elephant man

(I'm not 100% sure I've got that name right - my Scottish housemate in university used to sing that to the Banana Splits tune, presumably about an ugly Scottish footballer)

Yeah, that's the chap.

"commentators are required by FA guidelines to refer to Ruel Fox by his full name at all times"

These guys are the best. Current heroes include Leighton Baines, Charlie Adam, and (rather uninspiringly) Scott Parker.

tony dorigo

Soony Saad

Doug Rougvie

paul gascoigne

darlington nagbe

hakan balta

is that a person idk

Giuseppe 'Bepe' Signore

nigel winterburn
mel sterland

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=283491/index.html

Anthony Ampaipitakwong

once i learned how to pronounce his last name, YES

japhet n'doram

Mehdi Mahdavikia

Asian Cup has introduced me to India's Climax Lawrence.

Siggi Jonsson

Ernest Nungaray

sacir hot

Sufyan Ghazghazi

Nandor Hidegkuti

Shabazz Baidoo

Toumani Diagouraga

enzo scifo

both linked with Celtic today, prompting a wave of horrible pronunciations around the office

Abdoulaye Meite
Abdoulaye Faye

theo snelders

Sieb Dijkstra

janco tiano

I was wrong about the spelling in my first post. Of course it's "Jaaskelainen". I had never seen it spelled out before yesterday.

you will have enjoyed fulham's dismantling of bolton last night

Vasiliy Rats

darragh yes indeed!

pippo inzaghi, why do you haunt me

segundo castillo

such a beautiful name. taught to me by pro ev.

a friend and i have a running joke where every time one of us sees a transfer rumour about him we email it to each other with a subject like "second castle for mark hughes???"

"hughes ponders on second castle swoop"

etc

don't even know if castillo is castle but i really want this guy to be called second castle.

Gary Breen