Best sporting nicknames
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Former Liverpool FC Captain, Emlyn "Crazy Horse" Hughes, was outspoken and wasn't always popular with his own team mates. Tommy "The Tank" Smith the ex Liverpool full back is an after dinner speaker. He tells a story that in one game against Chelsea, Ron 'Chopper' Harris tackled Emlyn Hughes and caught him in the chest with his studs. While Emlyn Hughes was being treated, several Liverpool players sidled up to Ron Harris and shook his hand.
Bill Shankley and his staff in the Liverpool Boot Room gave Emlyn Hughes the nickname "Thrush". Hughes thought it was because he had a high voice. In fact, it was because several of the staff at Liverpool thought he was an irritating c**t.
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A Football team "Nickname" XI
- The Black Spider (Lev Yashin: Dynamo Moscow and USSR
- Psycho (Stuart Pearce: Notts Forest and England)
- The Kaiser (Franz Beckenbauer: Bayern Munich and Germany)
- Bites Ye Legs (Norman Hunter: Leeds and England)
- Chopper (Ron Harris: Chelsea)
- The Butcher of Bilbao (Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga: Athletic Bilbao and Spain)
- The Fifth Beatle (George Best: Man Utd and Northern Ireland)
- The Architect (Andrea Pirlo: AC Milan and Italy)
- The Baby Faced-Assassin (Ole Gunnar Solskjær: Man Utd and Norway)
- Zizou (Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid and France)
- The Divine Ponytail (Roberto Baggio: Juventus and Italy)
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Cricket Nickname XI
- Lord Brocket (Andrew Strauss: England)
- Swampy (Geoff March: Australia)
- Punter (Ricky Ponting: Australia)
- Afghanistan (Mark Waugh: Australia)
- Hogan (Martin Crowe: New Zealand)
- Beefy (Ian Botham: England)
- Churchy (Adam Gilchrist: Australia)
- Paddles (Richard Hadlee: New Zealand)
- Big Bird (Joel Garner:West Indies)
- Whispering Death (Michael Holding: West Indies)
- White Lightning (Allan Donld: South Arica)
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@sparky said in Best sporting nicknames:
Cricket Nickname XI
- Lord Brocket (Andrew Strauss: England)
- Swampy (Geoff March: Australia)
- Punter (Ricky Ponting: Australia)
- Afghanistan (Mark Waugh: Australia)
- Hogan (Martin Crowe: New Zealand)
- Beefy (Ian Botham: England)
- Churchy (Adam Gilchrist: Australia)
- Paddles (Richard Hadlee: New Zealand)
- Big Bird (Joel Garner:West Indies)
- Whispering Death (Michael Holding: West Indies)
- White Lighting (Allan Donld: South Arica)
- Shakes (John Wright: New Zealand)?
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@Chris-B said in Best sporting nicknames:
@MN5 said in Best sporting nicknames:
Also loved it when Mark got four ducks in a row and got called Audi.
Further back, Greg Chappell went through a bad patch and briefly got christened "Chappello".
I just thought it was a variation of his brother's nickname. Ian Chappell was Chappelli
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@canefan said in Best sporting nicknames:
@Chris-B said in Best sporting nicknames:
@MN5 said in Best sporting nicknames:
Also loved it when Mark got four ducks in a row and got called Audi.
Further back, Greg Chappell went through a bad patch and briefly got christened "Chappello".
I just thought it was a variation of his brother's nickname. Ian Chappell was Chappelli
Those both come from the scorecard:
Chappell, I
Chappell 0
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@sparky said in Best sporting nicknames:
4 Nobody (John Eales: Australia)
He was never called that. It was one of those "nicknames" that people thought were cool, but actually are quite try hard. Nobody (heh) gives a fellow player a nickname that implies he's actually perfect. They call them "Tugga" or "Beaver" or "Goldenballs".
Cullen was called the Paekakariki Express, but that's an epithet (like Alfred "the Great") not a nickname. Who calls their mate "Paekakariki Express"?
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@Chester-Draws said in Best sporting nicknames:
@sparky said in Best sporting nicknames:
4 Nobody (John Eales: Australia)
He was never called that. It was one of those "nicknames" that people thought were cool, but actually are quite try hard. Nobody (heh) gives a fellow player a nickname that implies he's actually perfect. They call them "Tugga" or "Beaver" or "Goldenballs".
Cullen was called the Paekakariki Express, but that's an epithet (like Alfred "the Great") not a nickname. Who calls their mate "Paekakariki Express"?
Christian Cullen was called beer bottle, empty from the neck up.
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I also forgot Gorgodzilla (Mamuka Gorgodze)
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Best nicknames go to the NFL. There are so many that you can make a roster out of them.
QB: 'Big Dick' Nick Foles
RB: 'Beastmode' Marshawn Lynch
FB: 'The Face Cleaver' Leonard Weaver
WR: Andre 'Bad Moon' Rison
WR: Michael 'Hee Hee' Jackson
TE: 'Black Unicorn' Martellus Bennett
OL: 'Concrete Charlie' Chuck BednarikDE: Arthur 'Don't Cross Da' Moats
DL: Will 'The Fridge' Perry
LB: Sean 'General' Lee
CB: 'Honeybadger' Tyrann Mathieu
S: 'The Assassin' Jack TatumKicker: Greg 'The Leg' Zuerlein
Punter: Tom 'Two Point' Tupa
Kick returner: 'The Human Joystick' Dante Hall -
@Chester-Draws said in Best sporting nicknames:
@sparky said in Best sporting nicknames:
4 Nobody (John Eales: Australia)
He was never called that. It was one of those "nicknames" that people thought were cool, but actually are quite try hard. Nobody (heh) gives a fellow player a nickname that implies he's actually perfect. They call them "Tugga" or "Beaver" or "Goldenballs".
Cullen was called the Paekakariki Express, but that's an epithet (like Alfred "the Great") not a nickname. Who calls their mate "Paekakariki Express"?
Yeah. We know. But still funny.
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Yeah, there are nicknames given by team mates, nicknames given by fans and nicknames given by journalists or commentators (which can be more like epithets; I doubt anyone in the Old Trafford dressing room called George Best "the Fifth Beatle").
The very best nicknames e.g. Pinetree/Iceman/Whispering Death end up being used by all three groups.
