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Most players have nicknames ie 'Scotty', 'Bite Your Legs' ,'The Cheif'', 'Jacki' etc but i think one of my fave City players nicknames was 'Wang' after John Kerr a bit mean but very funny

Anyone come up with more nicknames ive forgotten ?

How about one for our new rising star Omar Taylor-Clark .. 'The Sheriff' after the old actor Omar Sharif ?

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Without doubt one of my all time favourite football nickname was for Fitz Hall, known as "one size" ?

"Freezer" was a good one for Marc Goodfellow, for he's a jolly Goodfellow.

There are some good cricket ones too, there was a very inconsistent bowler that played for Yorkshire who's nickname as "daisy" because "some days he does, some day's he doesn't".

I always liked Phil Tufnells nickname "cat", not because he was a great fielder, but because he could sleep anywhere. :)

1 minute ago, Silvio Dante said:

Waits for Fitz Hall alarm in 5…4..3..2…

It took seconds ?

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City player from the 60s, Bobby Williams, was nicknamed Shadow. Most assumed that this was because of his playing style, but it wasn’t. When he was young he used to try and get a game of football with older boys who didn’t want to play with him. They couldn’t get rid of him and said he was like a shadow, so the name stuck. Much more interesting than the modern trend of just putting a Y on the end of a player’s name. 

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2 hours ago, pongo88 said:

City player from the 60s, Bobby Williams, was nicknamed Shadow. Most assumed that this was because of his playing style, but it wasn’t. When he was young he used to try and get a game of football with older boys who didn’t want to play with him. They couldn’t get rid of him and said he was like a shadow, so the name stuck. Much more interesting than the modern trend of just putting a Y on the end of a player’s name. 

Not a fan of our 11 then? Maxy, Tanney, Roby, Vyney, Pringy, Kaly, Matty, Joey, Scotty, Sykesy, Naky

Tommy Conway kinda breaks the system... Drat

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14 minutes ago, Coxy27 said:

Not a fan of our 11 then? Maxy, Tanney, Roby, Vyney, Pringy, Kaly, Matty, Joey, Scotty, Sykesy, Naky

Tommy Conway kinda breaks the system... Drat

 

If you're from up north, it usually an O at the end of the name. 

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3 hours ago, pongo88 said:

City player from the 60s, Bobby Williams, was nicknamed Shadow. Most assumed that this was because of his playing style, but it wasn’t. When he was young he used to try and get a game of football with older boys who didn’t want to play with him. They couldn’t get rid of him and said he was like a shadow, so the name stuck. Much more interesting than the modern trend of just putting a Y on the end of a player’s name. 

Yeh, Conwayy and O'Learyy would be pretty crap nicknames.

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Just now, Bazooka Joe said:

But Masseng and Atye wouldn't sound right without the O.

 

I think you're allowed to abbreviate the name and put an S on the end in such cases.  Massengs and Ats. 

That's according to the Northern Bloke's Bible of Acceptable Sportsman Names....

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7 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

Guy behind me in the Dolman thought Packs nickname was “****ing Hell” from the number of times he shouted it when MP was in possession

Someone I know hated Marlon Pack and slagged him off every game.  He then bumped into MP in a coffee shop and said he was a lovely bloke. Every game after that he praised him! Bizarre 

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14 minutes ago, iamalagerdrinker said:

 

Oh god.. Who's going to say it then

... and on a similar theme I remember that the players gave Scotty the nickname of Abdul for a short time when he came back for the new season with a deep sun tan.

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I remember taking a girl I worked with to a night game after we`d been up from Devon on a course in Bristol. Kevin Amankwah was playing and he cocked something up whereupon I shouted `FFS Manky, sort yourself out`. She was totally shocked thinking I`d called him a monkey until it was explained to her!

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8 hours ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

The England cricket team keep it simple:

Lamby

Beefy

Stewy

Cooky

Delhi*

Belly

Woakesy

Foakesy

Stokesy

Jimmy

Broady

Rooty

Freddie

Knotty

Closey

Steely

Greigy

Snowy

Goochie, 

Boycott.

 

*(Was there ever a "Dell"? Maybe Derek Pringle was "Del," and so "Delhi")

 

 

 

 

 

Re Delhi, I am intrigued.

Not Nasser Hussein, as he was born in Madras.

I reckon it was a friendly name for Michael Vaughan ?.

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On 29/03/2023 at 19:29, Lanterne Rouge said:

I remember taking a girl I worked with to a night game after we`d been up from Devon on a course in Bristol. Kevin Amankwah was playing and he cocked something up whereupon I shouted `FFS Manky, sort yourself out`. She was totally shocked thinking I`d called him a monkey until it was explained to her!

You old romantic you, what a date that was...

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