Sporting nicknames

cafc999

Daren Anderton was called sick note as he was always injured

Covered End

9 goals went past Perry.

paulie8290

World Snooker top 16

1-"The Jester from Leicester" Mark Selby
2-Stuart "Ball-run" Bingham
3-"The thunder from down under" Neil Robertson
4-"Enter the dragon" Ding Junhui
5-"The Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan
6-"The Magician" Shaun Murphy
7-"The ace in the pack" Judd Trump
8-"The Hawk" Barry Hawkins
9-"Gentleman" Joe Perry
10-"The Walnut" Ricky Walden
11-"Full of Eastern Promise" Marco Fu
12-"The Pistol" Mark Allen
13-"The Wizard of Wishaw" John Higgins
14-"Welsh Potting machine" Mark Williams
15-"He's on Fire" Stephen Maguire
16-"The Milkman" Robert Milkins

a few other notable ones
"The Belgian Bullet" Luca Brecel
"The Captain" Ali Carter
"The Spaceman" Dominic Dale
"The Darling' of Dublin" Ken Doherty
"The Welsh Dragon" Matthew Stevens
"The Dentist" Rory Mcleod

and not going to forget the Late Great Paul Hunter(RIP Paul)- Beckham of the Baize

LawrieAbrahams

Duncan Disorderly (Ferguson)

9goalswentpastperry

Covered End said:

9 goals went past Perry.

Didn't they just.

Stig

Can't believe that we're 35 posts in and no-one has mentioned Spongefoot yet.

5_12_2004at1752

Neil Warnock...Colin

thai malaysia addick

Wizard of Dribble - Stanley Matthews
Donkey - Tony Adams
Psycho - Stuart Pearce

Keith Peacock was called The Wand in his playing days

Sonicstud85

Geezer that plays CB for my sunday team has earnt the name - "Ronseal"

ForeverAddickted

Derek "Killer" Hales
Simon "Spongefoot" Church

StubleyAddick

Alan McCormack - McOxo

Sonicstud85

Denis Ovens - "The Heat"

iainment

Lincsaddick said:

Matt Tees .. a k a Lino .. always on the floor (will the 'younger brigade' even get the reference to linoleum ?)

My mates and I referred to Danny McAlinden as Danny McAlyingdown.

Greenie

Captain White Shorts - Matt Holland.

iainment

johnnyhumphrey said:

Ex-cricketers--Aussie Mark Taylor aka Tubs and England opener John Crawley aka Creepy.

One of the Waugh brothers nickname was Tugga. Which made me laugh.

5_12_2004at1752

iainment said:

johnnyhumphrey said:

Ex-cricketers--Aussie Mark Taylor aka Tubs and England opener John Crawley aka Creepy.

One of the Waugh brothers nickname was Tugga. Which made me laugh.

Mark Waugh was called "Audi" after he got four ducks on the trot

LouisMend

Gary Doherty - G-Doh

guinnessaddick

wwaddickson said:

Gary Doherty - G-Doh

AFKA the ginger Pele.

ricky_otto

Cliff Thorburn - The Grinder.

SuedeAdidas

Coke Stevens

lolwray

iainment said:

Lincsaddick said:

Matt Tees .. a k a Lino .. always on the floor (will the 'younger brigade' even get the reference to linoleum ?)

My mates and I referred to Danny McAlinden as Danny McAlyingdown.

great ...he was called "dangerous" Danny ...exactly who he was dangerous toward was a bit of a mystery

iainment

lolwray said:

iainment said:

Lincsaddick said:

Matt Tees .. a k a Lino .. always on the floor (will the 'younger brigade' even get the reference to linoleum ?)

My mates and I referred to Danny McAlinden as Danny McAlyingdown.

great ...he was called "dangerous" Danny ...exactly who he was dangerous toward was a bit of a mystery

We called Jack Bodell Jake Boddle. I don't know why. And of course there was Joe Bugger.

cafcfan

David Lloyd aka Bumble.

SheffieldRed

Donkey and Shrek

Van Nistelrooy and Rooney

iainment

The G men - Gilzean and Greaves

cafcfan

Dennis Lillee - FOT

(F*cking Old Tart)

cafcfan

thai malaysia addick said:

Wizard of Dribble - Stanley Matthews
Donkey - Tony Adams
Psycho - Stuart Pearce

Keith Peacock was called The Wand in his playing days

Or Captain (as in Are you being served)

lolwray

iainment said:

The G men - Gilzean and Greaves

also adopted by the media for gower gatting and gooch

Covered End

cafcfan said:

David Lloyd aka Bumble.

I saw a programme on him this week. He was nicknamed Bumble, by his teammates, in the 70's, because there was a programme called Michael Bentine's potty time. Apparently there were "puppets" called bumblies, that had large noses and his teammates could see a similarity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJeIX8y3Go

LawrieAbrahams

paulie8290 said:

World Snooker top 16

1-"The Jester from Leicester" Mark Selby
2-Stuart "Ball-run" Bingham
3-"The thunder from down under" Neil Robertson
4-"Enter the dragon" Ding Junhui
5-"The Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan
6-"The Magician" Shaun Murphy
7-"The ace in the pack" Judd Trump
8-"The Hawk" Barry Hawkins
9-"Gentleman" Joe Perry
10-"The Walnut" Ricky Walden
11-"Full of Eastern Promise" Marco Fu
12-"The Pistol" Mark Allen
13-"The Wizard of Wishaw" John Higgins
14-"Welsh Potting machine" Mark Williams
15-"He's on Fire" Stephen Maguire
16-"The Milkman" Robert Milkins

a few other notable ones
"The Belgian Bullet" Luca Brecel
"The Captain" Ali Carter
"The Spaceman" Dominic Dale
"The Darling' of Dublin" Ken Doherty
"The Welsh Dragon" Matthew Stevens
"The Dentist" Rory Mcleod

and not going to forget the Late Great Paul Hunter(RIP Paul)- Beckham of the Baize

Steve "Interesting" Davis.