Best sporting nicknames
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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.
