Players/Managers Nick-Namesakes

[bongleblade]

Pre season boredom post alert

Got chatting to a mate and for fun we came up with some players and managers who could move to a club and it would be their namesake, for example:

• Graham Potter - Stoke
• Ole Gunnar Solsjaer - Arsenal

And IRL famous player/club match up:
- John De Wolf - Wolverhampton Wanderers

Can we think of any more?

 

[Bath Blade]

Arsene Wenger managing Arsenal would be one.

 

[Bath Blade]

Stefan Kuntz managing Leeds.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Andreas Ivanschitz - Wednesday

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

David Villa - Aston Villa

 

[Bert]

The German former player to Wednesday... Grunter Netzer.

 

[highgreeninjapan]

Mark Robins - Bristol
Donny van de Beek - Doncaster
Aaron Ramsdale - Derby
Roger Milla - Rotherham
Er, MC Hammer - West Ham

 

[BladesOnToast]

Donald Trump - Bristol Rovers

 

[Swannyblade]

John de Wolf played for Wolves…that’s perfect.
He also looked a bit like a wolfman

 

[Le Cynique]

Sylla Sow - Pigs

 

[Gin&Juice]

Bobo Balde - Sheffield United.
Alan Sunderland - Newcastle United
Sean Dundee - Dundee United

 

[Tickhill Blade]

Wolfgang Wolf managed Wolfsburg

 

[DifferentClass]

Paul Blades!

 

[DifferentClass]

Bobo Balde - Sheffield United.
Alan Sunderland - Newcastle United
Sean Dundee - Dundee United

Is Bobo Balde their new nickname for Bannan?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

There must be a Yank called Rusty Lake to manage at S6

 

[Tarqs]

Cyrille Regis -bognor Regis Town
Max Lowe - lowestoft town
Sean St ledger - the new saints

 

[bongleblade]

Bobo Balde - Sheffield United.

for the dyslexic among us

 

[SteveH]

James Forrest - Dog nonces

 

[Pintor75]

Imso de luded - owls

 

[Trigger Blade]

Pre season boredom post alert

Got chatting to a mate and for fun we came up with some players and managers who could move to a club and it would be their namesake, for example:

• Graham Potter - Stoke
• Ole Gunnar Solsjaer - Arsenal

And IRL famous player/club match up:
- John De Wolf - Wolverhampton Wanderers

Can we think of any more?

Truth is stranger than fiction because Graham Potter did in fact play for the clayheads in the 90s

 

[TJB.]

Dwight Yorke - York City

Graham Alexander - Crewe Alexandra

Shaun Derry - Derry City

Adam Johnson - St. Johnstone Women's U16's

 

[GodricBlade]

Er, MC Hammer - West Ham

You can’t touch this….

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Roberto Mancini at Man City

 

[bongleblade]

Adam Johnson - St. Johnstone Women's U16's

More like Nantes surely…

 

[Old Programme seller]

Shaun Miller - Rotherham

 

[Gimli]

Andre Marriner has probably reffed a Grimsby match.

Andy Griffin - Brentford (when they played at griffin park)
Andrew Impey - Lincoln

 

[true99blade]

 

[Sraboys]

Can I included our chairman in this 1 for a laugh Danger Fourpence he’s a kiglon bird fc player

 

[St Annington]

Trenton Wiggan - Wigan
Arturo Lupoli - Wolves/Wolfsburg

 

[DifferentClass]

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Thought Jeff Stelling was going to spaff when this happened!

How about ex-Liverpool man Mark Everton Walters?