Scotland has some wonderful club names, I always particularly liked Third Lanark, though Vale of Leithen and Queen of the South are enviable handles as well, as far as players I have a fondness for Christian Karembeu based mainly on his name.
Scotland has some wonderful club names, I always particularly liked Third Lanark, though Vale of Leithen and Queen of the South are enviable handles as well, as far as players I have a fondness for Christian Karembeu based mainly on his name.
The Juniors have (or have had) a few as well - Carnoustie Panmure, Ormiston Primrose, Stonehouse Violet.
Going with the now discredited alliteration vibe, I liked Larry Lloyd at Liverpool (and later Lucas Leiva). Also Bob Booker at Brentford. And Martyn Margetson at Manchester City.
We used to play Drink While You Think as students. Footballers was our favourite category, as as a double letter reversed the game direction (I'm explaining this really badly, but the game isn't the point here, so just bear with me) we all became well versed in alliterative footballers
Alun Armstrong (send it back with Andy Ansah)
Bobby Barnes (who I've just discovered isn't called Bobby at all, but David Oswald Barnes. Who knew?)
Chris Casper (send it back with Colin Calderwood)
David Dunn (send it back with Damien Duff)
Gary Gillespie
Jermain Jenas (send it back with Joey Jones) (send it back again with Julian Joachim)
Kevin Kilbane (send it back with Kevin Keegan)
Larry Lloyd
Mike Marsh
Paul Parker
Ricardo Rocha
Steve Staunton (send it back with Steve Stone)
Tommy Taylor
William Williams
There were loads more, but it's been twenty odd years. We used to revise this shit, you know? Did fuck all work revising my uni stuff, but spent hours learning footballers with alliterative names so I didn't have to lose drinking games.
Some players with poetic names (poetic to me anyway)... Hristo Stoichkov, Claude Makalele, Eddie Van Boxtel, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Dean Windass, Jan Vanegoor of Hesselink, Max Morlock, Lajos Tichy, Andoni Zubizaretta, Enzo Schifo, Kaka, Quini
And clubs Heart of Midlothian, Finn Harps, Neuchatel Xamax, Zimbru Chisinau, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Plymouth Argyle, Harland and Wolff Welders, Crusaders, Connahs Quay Nomads, Ujpest Dosza, Besiktas, Galatasaray, Crystal Palace (I won't go to South America where all clubs sound impossibly glamorous)
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