players nicknames

players nicknames

just idly farting around waiting for some work calls, when - as you do - i found myself deep in a football website

check this

>>The frowning Gennaro Gattuso has been called "Braveheart" since his adventure with Glasgow Rangers, but his demeanor has also earned him the nickname of "The Growler". <<

now I don't like the gattuso, and i reckon that the latter nickname is perfect

(not sure if it still means what it meant in the 70's)



any other favourite or quirky nicknames folks???

There used to be a Thistle player who we nicknamed 'The Judge', 'cos he spent so much time on the bench!

Plodder

I still like Big Bird for Halstead, but as i'm the only one i've ever heard use it , I guess he'll go down in history as the Colonel


for a while Stuart Pearson was known as "Onion Stu" and earnt the headline

"Onion Stu lands City in a pickle"

coz he got sent off for calling the linesman a "bloody onion"  (dissent was a bit more tightly enforced in those days)

Fitz Hall's nickname is the best, can you guess it?

One size.