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Title: Sense of humour bypass?
Post by: PDX_Rover on June 07, 2013, 11:47:55 pm
In the questions for Paul Dickov thread, I made a joke to ask him if he would change his name to Paul Kickov.... this was removed. Why?  Seems a bit Draconian to me.

Thatcher's Bwitain... Thatcher's bloody Bwitain.
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Post by: Muttley on June 07, 2013, 11:53:00 pm
My question via Twitter was also ignored...guess we'll never know now if Paul has got a pony (or other variety of small horse).
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Post by: RobTheRover on June 08, 2013, 12:01:06 am
I'm sure once we get to know him a bit better there may be an opportunity to pose those questions to him.

Can you imagine what SOD's reaction would have been to being asked if he had a pony (or other variety of small horse)? 
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Post by: Viking Don on June 08, 2013, 12:02:05 am
My Wanchope Dickov post stood the test of time. Are we getting him? If only on the touchline?

TBF he's probably had it up to here about his name, what was that lad called? Sue?
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Post by: RobTheRover on June 08, 2013, 12:31:47 am
Shirley, wasnt it.
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Post by: newyankee on June 08, 2013, 01:38:04 am

 At least Kickov is better than it could have been. Think of an name ending in off or ov and you'll get my drift.
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Post by: PDX_Rover on June 08, 2013, 03:48:18 am
Ivor Bolokov would be worse... And painful methinks. Do any of the club's employees have one ball?
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Post by: not on facebook on June 08, 2013, 05:47:10 am
The russian pop derlivery man Who had a pop round
With heath and Smith

Ivordrop abottleoff
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Post by: CusworthRovers on June 08, 2013, 07:59:49 am
I remember him, he did a bit of illegal street fighting on the side. Went by the name of Yanka Bollockov
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Post by: PDX_Rover on June 08, 2013, 08:10:57 am
The Scottish American Russian, Yank McDickov?
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Post by: Al4475 on June 08, 2013, 08:31:32 am
I seem to remember being at Uni at Euro 96 (The Italians trained at our college and 5 of us first team players - altho I wasn't one of the lucky 5 drawn from the hat - had the pleasure of training with them) and trying to come up a team of players from those squads with names that pronounced wrongly (or rightly depending on which way you look at it) could be laughed at.

The Russians, Romanians and Bulgarians were all there that year I recall - so there was plenty of scope.

I can't remember all the players but here are a few:
David Seaman (England)
Johan de Kock and Phillipe Cocu (Holland)
Youri Djorkaeff (France)
Zlatko Yankov, Krassimir Balakov (Bulgaria)
Stefan Kuntz (Germany)
Nikola Jerkan (Croatia)

Reading weeks at Uni used to be such fun!  LOL
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Post by: IDM on June 08, 2013, 09:10:55 am
Germany had a Fuchs in their squad too.  Fuchs and Kuntz in the same team, you could hear the sense of panic in poor old BBC commentator Barry Davies' voice....

Also that tournament gave a great opportunity to ask your girlfriend if she preferred Seaman or Flowers....

as her favourite England goalkeeper of course...
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on June 08, 2013, 09:18:06 am
I used to know a Russian bloke who had bronchitis, Ivor Chestykoff.
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Post by: knockers on June 08, 2013, 09:37:20 am
I deal with a guy in Canada called Willie Wang and he works for Whistler Water!
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on June 08, 2013, 10:05:22 am
Pkayers' names eh?

One person you could never accuse of having a sense of humour by-pass was owd Bradders.

http://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=235986.msg286053#msg286053
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Post by: Crowle Rover on June 08, 2013, 10:09:45 am

Then of course there's the Russian lesbian...

Nora Kracov!
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on June 08, 2013, 10:23:01 am
Or the (genuine) Russian pornographer: Oliver Klozoff.
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Post by: Dutch Uncle on June 08, 2013, 10:40:48 am
I seem to remember being at Uni at Euro 96 (The Italians trained at our college and 5 of us first team players - altho I wasn't one of the lucky 5 drawn from the hat - had the pleasure of training with them) and trying to come up a team of players from those squads with names that pronounced wrongly (or rightly depending on which way you look at it) could be laughed at.

The Russians, Romanians and Bulgarians were all there that year I recall - so there was plenty of scope.

I can't remember all the players but here are a few:
David Seaman (England)
Johan de Kock and Phillipe Cocu (Holland)
Youri Djorkaeff (France)
Zlatko Yankov, Krassimir Balakov (Bulgaria)
Stefan Kuntz (Germany)
Nikola Jerkan (Croatia)

Reading weeks at Uni used to be such fun!  LOL

My favourite ever was the Colombian(?) Chiqui Arce from a World Cup around that era

Some years ago I remember a website collecting the funniest names in football, but can't remember what it was now, and I can't find it. I sent them the name of a club from a small Dutch village half-way between Maastricht and Aachen - the placename is Partij ('ij' is pronounced 'y') and the local team went by the brilliant name of 'Partij Boys'
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Post by: Pintolager on June 08, 2013, 10:47:09 am
There used to be an amateur footballer back in the late 1800's by the name of Segar b*****d, who was also a referee!!
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Post by: newyankee on June 08, 2013, 12:51:56 pm

 Back in the sixties, Port Vale had a winger called Arthur Longbottam, being a winger he heard the shouts from the crowd and took exception to what they were calling him. ( I am sure you can guess).

 Anyway it upset him so much that he changed his name by deed poll to FRED Longbottom.
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Post by: BobG on June 08, 2013, 11:11:21 pm
Sometime in the early 80's I guess, the Prime Minister of Indonesia had a name to die for....

And this is true. I promise.

He went by the name of Mr Lee Bum Suk.

Cheers

BobG
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on June 08, 2013, 11:33:11 pm
Bob, Bob, Bob.

We've had this discussion before mate. It's an urban myth. Indonesia never had a PM by that name. It's a story made up by people who want to paint Asians as backward and unsophisticated. It never happened.



























































Mind, South Korea's Foreign Minister in the 1980s WAS called Lee Bum Suk.
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Post by: BobG on June 09, 2013, 12:45:03 am
Oh sod it. I got it wrong. And i didn't check. Slapped wrist. Thanks for putting it straight.

Bob
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Post by: RobTheRover on June 09, 2013, 12:48:34 am
Bum-Suk Oh is a current South Korean footballer.
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on June 09, 2013, 12:55:32 am
Sheffield United had someone called Dave 'Kitson' playing for them. Beat that!
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Post by: Drover on June 09, 2013, 01:06:51 am
I seem to remember being at Uni at Euro 96 (The Italians trained at our college and 5 of us first team players - altho I wasn't one of the lucky 5 drawn from the hat - had the pleasure of training with them) and trying to come up a team of players from those squads with names that pronounced wrongly (or rightly depending on which way you look at it) could be laughed at.

The Russians, Romanians and Bulgarians were all there that year I recall - so there was plenty of scope.

I can't remember all the players but here are a few:
David Seaman (England)
Johan de Kock and Phillipe Cocu (Holland)
Youri Djorkaeff (France)
Zlatko Yankov, Krassimir Balakov (Bulgaria)
Stefan Kuntz (Germany)
Nikola Jerkan (Croatia)

Reading weeks at Uni used to be such fun!  LOL

My favourite ever was the Colombian(?) Chiqui Arce from a World Cup around that era

Some years ago I remember a website collecting the funniest names in football, but can't remember what it was now, and I can't find it. I sent them the name of a club from a small Dutch village half-way between Maastricht and Aachen - the placename is Partij ('ij' is pronounced 'y') and the local team went by the brilliant name of 'Partij Boys'



What about Michael Ballack! It would be a honest manager who admits to Dropping a Ballack,no?
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Post by: PDX_Rover on June 09, 2013, 05:15:29 am
There is a Chinese restaurant in Amsterdam call Fook Hing. Seriously.
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Post by: roversdude on June 09, 2013, 06:34:26 am
Used to be a tv programme with producer (?) Mary Fuk yoo too, always had a chuckle at the credits
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Post by: Filo on June 09, 2013, 10:14:04 am
There`s a bloke used to live in Fishlake years ago called Cliff Edge
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Post by: BobG on June 09, 2013, 11:02:32 am
My Mum taught a little lad who's name was Wayne Scales.

Poor sod.

BobG
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Post by: RobTheRover on June 09, 2013, 11:04:50 am
Many years ago there was a lady who worked at DMBC called Ann Zoff
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Post by: Sheepskin Stu on June 09, 2013, 11:09:30 am
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Post by: RobTheRover on June 09, 2013, 11:13:12 am
He's the chairman at Koc holding, you say?
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Post by: Wild Rover on June 09, 2013, 11:42:55 am
There`s a bloke used to live in Fishlake years ago called Cliff Edge
Never heard of him, and i lived there ( or had family there ) from 1951 to 2003.

However.... There was a guy called Dyer ( Kieth i think ) who always answered phone Dyer 'ere.
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Post by: Dutch Uncle on June 09, 2013, 12:32:57 pm
There is a Chinese restaurant in Amsterdam call Fook Hing. Seriously.

There is also a pub/distillery (with an outlet just round the corner form me in Leidschendam) by the name of Wijnand Fockink ('ij' = 'y' again)
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Post by: newyankee on June 09, 2013, 04:10:52 pm

 Anyone remember Test Match special, England v West Indies when the commentator said that "the Bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey" ?

 There was also one with Neil Harvey, (Australia)," Harvey's at leg slip, legs wide open, waiting for a tickle".
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Post by: RoversAlias on June 09, 2013, 05:20:02 pm

 Anyone remember Test Match special, England v West Indies when the commentator said that "the Bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey" ?

I've got a book with that title, based on the famous utterance, that's full of funny things commentators have said in sports.

Whilst we're at it - Rod Fanni. The brilliantly named French international footballer.