The most Dickensian-sounding footballers

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Nyron Nosworthy surely has to be a dealer in potions, or a tailor selling slightly moth-eaten suits, doesn't he?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Nyron Nosworthy surely has to be a dealer in potions, or a tailor selling slightly moth-eaten suits, doesn't he?

Oooh, splendid! I fancy he might be an advocate of Mr Darwin's wild ideas about "evolution", and the possessor of a study containing a great many fine specimens of taxidermy.

 

[elwheelio]

Inigo Calderon, swashbuckling spaniard, noted lothario.

 

[Norman Potting]

Rohan Ince Esq. Purveyor of potions, some of which may work.

Jesse Lingard - Matriarch of the Lingard family.

Reverend Jonathan Crumplin - Bungling, dishevelled yet kindly parish priest.

Dean Wilkins - Reverend Crumplin's superior in the diocese, continually exasperated at his colleagues misguided efforts to do good.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I see our kindly but perennially poor grocer Mr Jacob Butterfield got the winner for Middlesbrough at Burnley today.

Didn't think much of the French villain Dorian Dervite in Charlton's colours though.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

A lot of the summer signings under Russell Slade fit the bill.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

A lot of the summer signings under Russell Slade fit the bill.

And perhaps Russell Slade himself. I see him as more the villainous sort, for some reason (only in the Dickensian sense).

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The charming Sir Wesley Foderingham was much admired amongst the young ladies of Broadstairs.

 

[sydney]

Genuine from me on both your last two posts on this thread.

i aim to amuse...

 

[sydney]

what about Andre Mariner , the one legged , syphillitic, hunch- backed , retired ,navy admiral who frequents the the ale houses down by the docks , frightening the wenches by exposing his patched eye socket and waving his stump after them.

 

[Icy Gull]

Nathan Jones, a Mill owner who despite being abandoned as a child became the diminutive leader of a gang of ruffian street urchins in the city of Cardiff and managed to attain this lofty position using his wits and a bit of luck.

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

Joseph Barton a former villain and rogue, now the acceptable face of of an orphanage run by another small time criminal Harold Redknapp

 

[Pavilionaire]

"I had the good fortune to visit the estate of Sir Leicester Dedlock and admire his grounds. The orange trees and clumps of olive exerted a most Spanish influence, which he attributed to his landscape gardener, the eminent Inigo Calderon."

 

[Fountainhead]

Wee Billy Davies - the weasel faced- petty sneak thief who frequents the area around Trelford Mills

 

[Pavilionaire]

"Since being mistreated by his former employers at Lillywhites, young shop attendant Master Lewis Holtby is now excelling himself at the Harrods emporium."

 

[sydney]

Joseph Barton a former villain and rogue, now the acceptable face of of an orphanage run by another small time criminal Harold Redknapp

been done...!

sorry Ben Done ,the rather unruly dentist and his inept assistant Gary Neville.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Legendary local swordsman and father of half the *******s in the Parish Mr John Terry.

 

[TSB]

William Davies. Local scrote.

 

[Stat Brother]

I've not been through the entire thread but if Royston Drenthe isn't an evil mill owner, I'll eat more gruel.

 

[Badger]

Timmy Sherwood, the little scamp, always getting into trouble with his silly pranks.