Unfortunate Sporting Names

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Pontypool very briefly (1 or 2 games) had a 10/12 pairing of Mills and Boon! :lol:
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Biathlon: Fanny Horn

    Well, sounds kind of risque to me.
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  • Spender45
    Spender45 Posts: 78
    Celtic had Olivier Teliby and Rafael Scheidt , I always wanted them to sign Daved Weir. The back three would have been


    Weir, Teliby, Scheidt
  • renard
    renard Posts: 51
    At the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh in 2008, representing the Seychelles was

    Gaylord Silly.
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    renard wrote:
    At the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh in 2008, representing the Seychelles was

    Gaylord Silly.

    when doing research to see if this frankly absurd madeup sounding name was true (which it is! :lol: ) I found this :-

    It seems that Gaylord is not the only Seychellian athlete with an amusing name.

    Giovanny Fanny competed in the 400m hurdles at the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona. He came 6th in heat. It seems he is now a coach
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    35 posts and no-one has mentioned David Seaman yet.
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  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    iainment wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Also, there was the great bit of commentary 'the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey' :lol:

    John Arlott, I believe... He also came out with "Richards take a wild slash outside the off stump. That'll clear the pigeons"

    No it was Jonners and Aggers

    It was Don Mosey, in c 1976 I believe, which was before Agnew was a player let alone a commentator. B.J. used to tell the story, and allowed his name to become attached to it.

    Jonners also used to tell of the early golf commentator who ascribed a certain player's success to the fact that 'his wife kisses his balls before every round'. The commentator's mistake (and that which got him the sack) was to add 'Oh, his golf balls I mean!'
  • renard
    renard Posts: 51
    Also, representing West Germany in the High Jump and winning Gold at the 1972 and 1984 Olympics:

    Ulrike Mayfahrt
  • jp1985
    jp1985 Posts: 434
    Splottboy wrote:
    Just hope one day there's a player called Ewan Kerr...

    Knew a guy called Elvis Parsley - real name - was Tae Kwon Do/Gung Fu dude.
    Saw him one day on TV in a Pro boxing match, but he lost.

    Sure theres a Skier called Fanny Schmelling, or something really close to it.

    Fanny Chmelar

    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Chmelar
  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    While thinking about cricket, can I just mention former New Zealand medium pace bowler Bob Cunis, about whom it was said that 'his bowling, like his name, is neither one thing nor the other'!
  • berliner
    berliner Posts: 340
    Former England Assistant manager Tord Grip used to manage Young Boys in Berne , Switzerland. Thats a combination.
    He was too old to play with them.
  • Rich9
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    berliner wrote:
    Former England Assistant manager Tord Grip used to manage Young Boys in Berne , Switzerland. Thats a combination.
    He was too old to play with them.

    So, have I got this right: Tord Grip went to the Wankdorf to watch young boys?
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Skiing seems to be full of silly names, like Wank who the OP mentioned. Whilst not being unfortunate Peakabo Street always made me laugh.

    There was a list someone put up earlier, I'd just like to say that Pull Dickoff (Or Paul Dickov as he really is) hasn't played for West Ham.
  • LingfieldXC
    LingfieldXC Posts: 134
    while not of sporting fame we did have a chineese boy at school, i'm not sure if i'm spelling it correctly but you get the idea.

    Kok Yin Chieq

    The chineese names are ones to watch. There was a Yu Suk Ho in the olympics.
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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    hammerite wrote:
    Skiing seems to be full of silly names, like Wank who the OP mentioned. Whilst not being unfortunate Peakabo Street always made me laugh.

    There was a list someone put up earlier, I'd just like to say that Pull Dickoff (Or Paul Dickov as he really is) hasn't played for West Ham.


    Agreed.

    When I read it I was reminded of the classic Harry Redknapp interview...

    Reporter - "Were you going to pull di Canio off at half time?"

    'H' - "No, he got an orange just like everyone else!" :lol:
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  • salsarider79
    salsarider79 Posts: 828
    LangerDan wrote:
    35 posts and no-one has mentioned David Seaman yet.

    Sky Sports had this as a headline a few years ago:

    "Keegan fills Schmeichels gap with Seaman"

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    p.s. Can someone get the piccy thing to work? :evil:
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  • seemunkee
    seemunkee Posts: 206
    Dick Pound. Maybe not a competitor but certainly influential in sport
  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    One of the most unfortunate (in the real sense of the word) names for a sporting team must be the great Dick, Kerr Ladies football team from between the wars (formed as a factory team for Dick, Kerr & Co in Preston). God they must have been bored with hearing that joke, but they became so successful that the FA banned women's football.

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