Why don't British players have great nicknames

[stripeyshark]

I can think of a few nicknames for Marlon King

She said no Marlon...

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

And we now why he was called that as well

I'm sorry, could you care to explain?

Brighton dressing room, Newcastle, 1979.

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

Obviously hanging to the left

 

[topbanana36]

Doug Rougvie = Evil

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Some more.....Slim Jim ( Jim Baxter ) The King ( Denis Law and Jeff Astle ) Sniffer (Allan Clarke ) The Black Pearl ( can never remember whether that was Eusebio or Pele ) The Vulture ( Butra etc ) Reggie ( Ian Goodwin ) Little Bird ( Garrincha ) Bomber ( Tony Brown ) Sick-note ( I'll leave that to you ) Stroller ( George Graham ) Flash ( Clive Walker ) The Belfast Boy ( George Best )The Cat ( Peter Bonetti ) The Flying Pig ( Tommy Lawrence ) Crazy Horse ( Emlyn Hughes ) etc etc etc.

Most of these are not recent......are recent players lazier in thought....they can't be bothered to think up anything clever.

 

[half time scores]

Some more.....Slim Jim ( Jim Baxter ) The King ( Denis Law and Jeff Astle ) Sniffer (Allan Clarke ) The Black Pearl ( can never remember whether that was Eusebio or Pele ) The Vulture ( Butra etc ) Reggie ( Ian Goodwin ) Little Bird ( Garrincha ) Bomber ( Tony Brown ) Sick-note ( I'll leave that to you ) Stroller ( George Graham ) Flash ( Clive Walker ) The Belfast Boy ( George Best )The Cat ( Peter Bonetti ) The Flying Pig ( Tommy Lawrence ) Crazy Horse ( Emlyn Hughes ) etc etc etc.

Most of these are not recent......are recent players lazier in thought....they can't be bothered to think up anything clever.

Norman 'Bites Your Legs' Hunter.

 

[Big_Unit]

"Bu bu but. It should be standard. Everyone else just calls him Spanish Dave."

Yep, the spotty teenaged herbert behind me in the East Upper calls him this, very loudly, 47 times a game. Presumably this is to indicate to everyone within a 20-row radius how amusing this nickname is. I'm going to fill him in soon.