United players famous for other things

[LardSardine]

Andy Taylor, full back and Duran Duran guitarist.

 

[JohnDenver]

You can't just google a random United player's name and see who else you come up with.

I didn't. I used Wikipedia.

And there's no bugger else in the list with a genuinely famous namesake...

 

[Darren]

Andy Taylor, full back and Duran Duran guitarist.

That's a good one except we already have a left back and I decree Bernard Shaw to be more famous than Andy Taylor.

 

[Railway Blade]

Mark Todd - diminutive midfielder and New Zealand equestrian star

 

[Darren]

2 John Pemberton, inventor of Coca Cola and quick full back.

Go on, we will have him.

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Mark Todd - diminutive midfielder and New Zealand equestrian star

Good one. Also ex Labour MP for South Derbyshire

 

[Railway Blade]

Phil starbuck, slow crap forward and international coffee chain

 

[thevoot]

Mark Yeates/Yates - underwhelming winger, and guitarist for Terrorvision
Ian Hamilton - underwhelming midfielder, and first British Army officer to undergo a sex change. Now known as Jan Hamilton

 

[TheSwollengland]

Terry Garbett ,quite possibly the ugliest midfielder to play for the Blade and a roofer in Birmingham

 

[Darren]

Terry Garbett ,quite possibly the ugliest midfielder to play for the Blade and a roofer in Birmingham

Was he really that ugly?

http://www.doingthe92.com/display_player_cards.asp?step=60&ID=1&pid=22412

We must have had uglier players. Time for an ugly XI?

That site is actually quite interesting - turns out Wednesday were last seasons biggest under acheivers in terms of how much worse they did than their average league position - mind you, we were not far off as the 11th worse under acheiever

http://www.doingthe92.co.uk/stats/stats_league_average_diff.asp?Step=184&ID=1

 

[Guesty]

Surely Colin Morris is the ugliest midfielder to ever play for the Blades?

 

[Slugger]

Andy Gorum ex-Blades and Rangers keeper and Andy Gorum ex-Blades and Rangers keeper

 

[bendylegs]

stephen quinn is ugly, munchkin

 

[Selly]

Andy Gorum ex-Blades and Rangers keeper and Andy Gorum ex-Blades and Rangers keeper

Bravo sir, bravo...

:lol: :rofl: :lol:

 

[Conroy]

Paul Rogers (brother of Ted and Buck) - Blonde spikey hair midfielder and Paul Rodgers famous singer chappy

 

[metty]

How about Barry Butlin 70's striker and the 1st TV DIY Guru

 

[Bert]

How about Barry Butlin 70's striker and the 1st TV DIY Guru

Or then again not....... http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/adults/bucknell/bucknell.htm

 

[Hodgyman]

How about Barry Butlin 70's striker and the 1st TV DIY Guru

Was the bungling DIY expert Barry Bucknall?

 

[metty]

Thanks for that Bert, the mind plays tricks at our age

 

[blade too long]

Ted Hemseley , famous cricketer with Worcester, had a village named after him in north yorkshire

Micheal Doyle , midfielder , and famous on the ramblas in barcelona for being a live statue


noted for moving as fast in both environments

Patrick Suffo , former lightening quick forward , also famous for leading a group of women to get the right to vote, the Suffo regettes

Chris Morgan , Hard nosed defender and distiller of Jamaican rum

 

[Ashtonsmashton]

kamme famous fo sky sports commter and soccer am kammydoit

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kamme famous fo sky sports commter and soccer am kammydoit

11. Stiker

 

[broomhillblade]

Arthur Bottom - centre forward and character from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

 

[sitwell]

David Ford ,well known sheffield plumbers merchants.

 

[mokoflynn]

Robert Evans left winger for no. 11 (FA Cup winner 1915) and film producer on Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather.

 

[The Who Blade]

Richard Wright - Over the hill goalkeeper and founding member and keyboardist with Pink Floyd.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Paul Williams - Songwriter (Evergreen, Rainy days and Mondays, We've only just begun)

Paul Williams - Lumbering lump of a forward.

 

[blade too long]

Geoff Salmon , inside forward (Attacking midfielder) went to the states where they call it a rusher, and as Salmon Rusher wrote a derogatory book about the Koran, grew a beard and went into hiding
Len Badger best full back never to play for england , muchg loved they even set up a Badger Trust for him

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

David Barnes - ex-Bath Rugby Union player

David Barnes - Welterweight boxer

David Barnes - Left-back

 

[sothall blade]

nyron nosworthy solid defender and former player of the season for sunderland..........bad impersonation for the blades

 

[boo radley]

Paul Wood - Attacking midfielder and Warrington Wolves rugby league player.

 

[Iceblade]

Michael Brown, "the legend" and Michael Brown, Scottish historian
Frank Barlow also British historian