Worst names on the back of your shirt.....

[Nashik Blade]

I thought I might lighten the mood after that shower on Saturday. Pleased we've picked up 1 CB, please Lord let's have another one.
Signing a new player got me thinking back to 1993-94 season. The year that names started appearing on the backs of the players shirts. I'm 3 years and 2 and half weeks younger than my sister. Why does this matter? because she got FLO on the back of her shirt for her birthday 2 weeks before I could get it done! I didn't want the same as her so I plucked for Wirmola........ 8 games later he left for Malmo!
My shirt was a source of embarrassment for me (11 year old)
Worst decision ever for a name on the back of a shirt? Has anyone managed to have less games to wear theirs to?

 

[maidmarion]

My daughter had Fjortoft in the back of her shirt....he left two weeks later...

 

[Grecian2000]

I thought I might lighten the mood after that shower on Saturday. Pleased we've picked up 1 CB, please Lord let's have another one.
Signing a new player got me thinking back to 1993-94 season. The year that names started appearing on the backs of the players shirts. I'm 3 years and 2 and half weeks younger than my sister. Why does this matter? because she got FLO on the back of her shirt for her birthday 2 weeks before I could get it done! I didn't want the same as her so I plucked for Wirmola........ 8 games later he left for Malmo!
My shirt was a source of embarrassment for me (11 year old)
Worst decision ever for a name on the back of a shirt? Has anyone managed to have less games to wear theirs to?

Really? I'd have Wirmola on my shirt every day of the week compared to the clown your sister got lumbered with.

 

[pommpey]

My missus bought me the much coveted and never used 1993-94 blue/green/purple third away strip with my surname (WOODS) on the back.

She said, "I was going to put a '1' on the back"

Yep. That would have gone stright in the fucking bin love.

pommpey

 

[Trigger Blade]

Really? I'd have Wirmola on my shirt every day of the week compared to the clown your sister got lumbered with.

I think Jonas would still be good enough to play CB in this team. I've said it more than once, but his debut against John Fashanu was the most impressive I can remember. I was disappointed he left so soon after that.

 

[Wards]

Why did he leave? He was pretty good as far as I can remember?!

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Curran was pre-namesonthebacksofshirts, I know. Just wonder if anyone WOULD have if it had have been possible back then?

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

Why did he leave? He was pretty good as far as I can remember?!

I remember always rating Paul Casey in Porterfield's Div4 promotion team. Never put a foot wrong for me, comfortable on the ball, good tackler... played for a while, then disappeared to non-league.... Great judge of talent, I am.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Nosworthy - he was two-footed, but not on the right legs

 

[TarquinDelouche]

My parents bought me a shirt with Watson (our family name) on for my 18th birthday. It didn't make it any easier for me to tell them that I had just got back from the registry office changing my name to Tarquin Delouche.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I thought I might lighten the mood after that shower on Saturday. Pleased we've picked up 1 CB, please Lord let's have another one.
Signing a new player got me thinking back to 1993-94 season. The year that names started appearing on the backs of the players shirts. I'm 3 years and 2 and half weeks younger than my sister. Why does this matter? because she got FLO on the back of her shirt for her birthday 2 weeks before I could get it done! I didn't want the same as her so I plucked for Wirmola........ 8 games later he left for Malmo!
My shirt was a source of embarrassment for me (11 year old)
Worst decision ever for a name on the back of a shirt? Has anyone managed to have less games to wear theirs to?

No, but going back years and years pre-names on shirts, pre-shirts, in fact pre-most shit that's now in the club shop, I wandered into the old club shop with newly acquired money and decided I wanted the mode du moment which was the silk scarf. Purchased said item left the shop with it knotted around the neck de rigueur, thinking I looked the bollocks. The scarf has Sheffield United printed one side and Furphy's Aces printed on t'other. When I got in, The Star was delivered and the back page headline was 'Furphy sacked!'

 

[billyblademan]

Because I hate my Dad, I bought him an away shirt with Porter on a couple years back.

Because my Dad hates me, he bought me an away shirt with Doyle on last season.

 

[Jehovah]

I usually end up having to take mine off before entering grounds as they are funny about the name on the back "The cunting blades"

 

[AlanWrightsShinyHead]

I started going to The Lane in 98/99 and immediately developed an obsession with Dean Saunders after he scored in my first game.

My mum bought be a home shirt with his name on the back for my birthday, but he was sold a couple of days after she bought it. She still gave me the shirt on my birthday, along with the lime green away one with just a no.9 and no name.

 

[mattbianco1]

I've got "Vampire" and No. 25 on the back of this seasons GK shirt

 

[Geordie Blade]

I've said it more than once, but his debut against John Fashanu was the most impressive I can remember.

I remember him being interviewed on Radio Sheffield after the game. The interviewer (Simon Clarke, or am I completely imagining that name?) said "you did very well against John Fashanu; he's a very big boy". Wirmola replied: "Yes, well I am a pretty big boy too".

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

My Daughter had Beattie, Sharp, Kenny, and Ward over 3-4 seasons. She stopped wanting names on the back after that and considered it a bad omen. Proven out that she was considering Evans next.
If I'd recognised her supernatural ability to see those named on her shirt moved on, there's a fair few I would have gladly bought for her if I could have picked the name.

 

[SwissBlade]

'Cock womble 14' was the worst name I had on a shirt. We never even signed him despite the rumours.

 

[blade too long]

but this one takes the biscuit

 

[Kian_barlow00]

Got Febian brandy on my 13-14 shirt, left a week later

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Got Febian brandy on my 13-14 shirt, left a week later

Would you mind buying a Neill Collins shirt?

 

[maxtheblade]

I thought I might lighten the mood after that shower on Saturday. Pleased we've picked up 1 CB, please Lord let's have another one.
Signing a new player got me thinking back to 1993-94 season. The year that names started appearing on the backs of the players shirts. I'm 3 years and 2 and half weeks younger than my sister. Why does this matter? because she got FLO on the back of her shirt for her birthday 2 weeks before I could get it done! I didn't want the same as her so I plucked for Wirmola........ 8 games later he left for Malmo!
My shirt was a source of embarrassment for me (11 year old)
Worst decision ever for a name on the back of a shirt? Has anyone managed to have less games to wear theirs to?

An old school pal whose allegiances lie on the wrong side of the city saw Paul Warhurst sign his new contract and got his name and number on one of their god-awful Puma shirts. He left within a week. Unlucky pal. Said school pal is a prominent Labour MP now.

 

[Billyblade]

Anyone on here sit in the middle of the Kop about row Z and had Ten Heuvel put on the back of his shirt?
Come on, own up

 

[South London Blade]

Does anyone remember the crazy bastard with 'wiessmuller' on the back of his shirt who sat on the kop? He'd stand up and do the tarzan cry during quiet moments of the games in the mid 90s

Or was I just drinking too much back then?

 

[Jon Bon]

I started going to The Lane in 98/99 and immediately developed an obsession with Dean Saunders after he scored in my first game.

Will the restraining order still be in place for this Saturday?

 

[Sean Thornton]

Silk s

No, but going back years and years pre-names on shirts, pre-shirts, in fact pre-most shit that's now in the club shop, I wandered into the old club shop with newly acquired money and decided I wanted the mode du moment which was the silk scarf. Purchased said item left the shop with it knotted around the neck de rigueur, thinking I looked the bollocks. The scarf has Sheffield United printed one side and Furphy's Aces printed on t'other. When I got in, The Star was delivered and the back page headline was 'Furphy sacked!'

No sympathy. Silk scarves were worn around the wrist not like a cravat. Deary deary me. It's Bramall Lane not Brideshead revisited!!!

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

I thought I might lighten the mood after that shower on Saturday. Pleased we've picked up 1 CB, please Lord let's have another one.
Signing a new player got me thinking back to 1993-94 season. The year that names started appearing on the backs of the players shirts. I'm 3 years and 2 and half weeks younger than my sister. Why does this matter? because she got FLO on the back of her shirt for her birthday 2 weeks before I could get it done! I didn't want the same as her so I plucked for Wirmola........ 8 games later he left for Malmo!
My shirt was a source of embarrassment for me (11 year old)
Worst decision ever for a name on the back of a shirt? Has anyone managed to have less games to wear theirs to?

Reight player, a shirt you can wear with pride unlike I suppose some of the embarrassing names I suspect you are fishing for.


Give mi right arm for a Wirmola these days.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Silk s



No sympathy. Silk scarves were worn around the wrist not like a cravat. Deary deary me. It's Bramall Lane not Brideshead revisited!!!

That was so 1974.........It was now worn knotted loosely around the neck, more tie than cravat. Elton was getting it

 

[Punk Blade]

I used to get a cheap Juventus shirt every summer on holiday in the mid 90s, so it started with the likes of Baggio and Ravanelli leaving. I turned my hand to Blades players getting Deane 10 on my home shirt and Fjortoft 9 on my away shirt at the start of 97-98.

The worst choice I made was Smith 19. I didn't even like the shirt, it's not a very interesting name, he wasn't that good (just scored a few goals early that season) and then buggered off to Huddersfield. I think after that I just stuck with my own name and my favourite #15.

Edit - remembered some others, notably Kabba who was barely ever fit after I got his name on my shirt. I spent a long time weighing up the embarrassment of having Thirlwell on my shirt versus getting rid of him.

 

[Bert]

Does anyone remember the crazy bastard with 'wiessmuller' on the back of his shirt who sat on the kop? He'd stand up and do the tarzan cry during quiet moments of the games in the mid 90s

Or was I just drinking too much back then?

Bert's memory also recalls him, he was sat in front of Bert on that fateful day at Chelsea when we were relegated with the last kick of the game in 1994.