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Spent much of the day faffing around with young Potting's iPod and on the phone to Apple. The guy I ended up speaking with, and who actually sorted things out for me was named Jens Lehmann (and I have an e-mail from him to prove it).
 










Oct 2, 2008
500
Listened to a radio phone in once in which people were invited to ring in if they knew people whose names sounded like a footballers name. There was a Joan Terry , a Fran Lampard and several others. The one that cracked me up was one guy who rang in and claimed his auntie was called Jane Venegoor of Hesselink.
 




Worthingite

Sexy Pete... :D
Sep 16, 2011
4,966
Chesterfield
Oddly my given name on my birth certificate is Peter Clarke (although I use a different surname), but I bear no resemblance to the Huddersfield player. That said he's one of the very few opposition player's I'd like to get a photo with this season for obvious reasons!!!
 


GoldWithFalmer

Seaweed! Seaweed!
Apr 24, 2011
12,687
SouthCoast
I know Darren Freeman but that don't count-

However a few of my mates were at a restaurant in Guildford years ago for a birthday party and we had all had a few-
As the evening progressed in came a current footballer of the time and his date/partner for the evening-

Well most of us had not noticed him,except for birthday boy who at this stage was b laddered beyond belief-

Anyway he stood up on his chair (how we did not get thrown out i don't know) and shouted at the top of his voice(Richard Shaw,it's Richard Shaw) and annoyingly to the point of embarrassment just repeated the same words,for about 5 minutes and pointing in the poor blokes general direction...still he was a Palace or ex Palace player then so perhaps fair do's...
 


Goldstone Rapper

Rediffusion PlayerofYear
Jan 19, 2009
14,865
BN3 7DE




StonehamPark

#Brighton-Nil
Oct 30, 2010
10,133
BC, Canada
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I have a cousin called Andy Hinchcliffe, who is nothing to do with the footballer who played for Manchester City, Everton, Sheffield Wednesday and England between 1986 and 2002. Or even the commentator on Sky.
 


W.C.

New member
Oct 31, 2011
4,927
I have the same name (spelt differently) as an ex footballer that gets said in full by the commentator on that intro video that gets played at the amex.

I was pleased anyway.
 
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kevo

Well-known member
Mar 8, 2008
9,805
I went to school with someone called Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink.
 


Pondicherry

Well-known member
May 25, 2007
1,084
Horsham
I have the same name as an ex albion player, golfer and cricketer. Funny how they all popped up at around the same time.
 


happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
8,176
Eastbourne
I have the same name as an ex albion player, golfer and cricketer. Funny how they all popped up at around the same time.

You're not the same Ian Mellor-Woosnam-Botham that I went to school with ? Probably not, very common name..
 




BHAFC_Pandapops

Citation Needed
Feb 16, 2011
2,844
I did know of a Terry 'Dick' Johnson-Todger
 


John Byrnes Mullet

Global Circumnavigator
Oct 4, 2004
1,301
Brighton
A guy in the finance department were I work is
called Paul Wood. Before I met him his name kept popping
up in emails and was hoping it was the ex-Albion star but when I
finally met him sadly was not the former lightning quick winger.
 




beardy gull

Well-known member
Jul 18, 2003
4,125
Portslade
Oddly my given name on my birth certificate is Peter Clarke (although I use a different surname), but I bear no resemblance to the Huddersfield player. That said he's one of the very few opposition player's I'd like to get a photo with this season for obvious reasons!!!

Damn my common name. Just how many Peter Clarke's are there out there?
 






Twizzle

New member
Aug 12, 2010
1,240
There were quite a few Pratts at my school, and in some of the places I have worked.
I don't know if they are related to John Pratt, ex of Spurs in the early 70's
There's been a couple of f-ucking c-unts too so they are surely now refereeing, or playing for CHrystal Palace
 


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