[Football] Players where you have to use their full name

[Guinness Boy]

Darwin Nunez

 

[Swansman]

Not really relevant but whenever i hear Wan-Bissaka I have to shout out Two-Bissaka! I'm thankful he doesn't play much nowadays....

Personally I can't avoid saying Obi-Wan Bissaka

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Trent. Just Trent.

Fontaine. Just Fontaine.

 

[Monkey Man]

Not quite the same thing but not only are Derby County rarely referred to as just Derby, it's also de rigeur to tag the manager's name in there too.

"Wayne Rooney's Derby County"

"Frank Lampard's Derby County"

On the FA Cup draw at the weekend it was even "Paul Warne's Derby County" when the ball came out.

 

[Nathan]

Izzy Brown

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Demba Ba

 

[rool]

One from rugby where the commentator, probably Bill McLaren, always said Joost Van Der Westhuizen.

 

[KNC]

Bruno f’in Fernandez

 

[Insel affe]

Clinton Wanker Morrison

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Shaun Wright-Phillips

 

[Whitley Bayster]

Adam the Llama otherwise he'd just be any old Llama

 

[Gwylan]

Der Kaiser always seems to be called Pascal Gross by commentators. It seems to be common with 2-syllable first names, followed by one syllable

 

[Fungus]

John Napier

 

[jackalbion]

Slightly unrelated but a friend of mine until recently thought two players for Newcastle and Leicester were called Joe Linton and Ian Nacho.

 

[Reagulls]

"world cup winner Alexis Mac Allister"

 

[Pavilionaire]

Shane Long. Tim Krul. And Edward Sheringham.

 

[hart's shirt]

Jan Vennegor of Hesselink

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Mornington-Crescent.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway

 

[zefarelly]

Silky Dave