Favourite nicknames for footballers

Alex Wright

Amos on the wing

Addickted2TheReds

The new “gnome” stuff for Williams is quite funny.

Addick Addict

Dave "Lurch" Shipperley for his resemblance to The Adams Family character

NorthheathAddick

Darren “Sicknote” Anderton 

McBobbin

Colin for Neil Warnock

lordromford

Justin Edinburgh was called Musselburgh. 

Which is quite a clever one. 

se7oaks

The Hermannator 

SoundAsa£

Babian Farthez.

thai malaysia addick

John Charles - Gentle Giant
Ashley Cole - Cashley Cole
David Beckham - Golden Balls
Norman Bites Yer Legs Hunter 

but my favourites are:

One Size Fitz Hall
Duncan Disorderly 
Marc Freezer Jolly Goodfellow

Scoham

The Wardrobe - Papa Bouba Diop

thickandthin63

Golden Vision Alex Young great old Everton player
Harmer the Charmer Tommy Harmer
The Ghost John White

Karim_myBagheri

Monkey Boy - Gareth Bale 

shine166

Lego head - lescott 
Fat Frank- Lampard 

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Missit Blissett

CAFCOlly

Anyone got any idea why people used to shout "Shirley" to Darren Ambrose? 

Ormiston_Addick

Andoni Goikoetxea – The Butcher of Bilbao. 

Ormiston_Addick

Ferenc Puskas – The Galloping Major

Ormiston_Addick

Richard Wright – Richard Wrong

Karim_myBagheri

Rodger Johnson - Wanker 

MrOneLung

Garrincha

Briston_Addick

Karim_myBagheri said:

Rodger Johnson - Wanker 

F*** off!

kielyskickingboots

Ally McCoist at Rangers in the early 90s got nicknamed 'The Judge' because he spent so much time on the bench.

SheffieldRed

Hibs legendary forward line - The Famous Five
Alan Morton - Wembley wizard
Gary Sprake - Careless hands

paulbaconsarnie

Paul Linger - Cloughie
Shola Ameobe - Carl Cort (not strictly a nickname but Bobby Robson used to call him it).

Big William

The late Craig Norris always referred to Terry Venables in his El Tel days as "El Veg".