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names of footballers that float through your head

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i have no idea what he even looks like but the word "Eskelinen" has been stuck in my brain all morning

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:23 (fifteen years ago)

I always liked the name Davor Suker

― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:26 (fifteen years ago)

Uzi Eskelinen

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

my perennial is Stefano Eranio fwiw

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

Shota Arveladze

― calumerio, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:43 (fifteen years ago)

Andoni Goikoetxea.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:45 (fifteen years ago)

taribo west - often when in distance of haribo.

― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:45 (fifteen years ago)

Ysrael Zuniga

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:46 (fifteen years ago)

ciriaco sforza

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:47 (fifteen years ago)

Enzo Scifo.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:49 (fifteen years ago)

Barrington Belgrave

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

giulio falcone from old skool serie a times - dont know who he played for or what he was like, just the name stayed floating on top of the primordial memory soup somehow

¯\(º_o)/¯

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

Bodo Illgner

― calumerio, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:56 (fifteen years ago)

joseba exteberria, when i see some berries

unedifying but sadly true

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:56 (fifteen years ago)

^^^that is a very good one, it's etxeberria tho

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:59 (fifteen years ago)

Stefano Eranio fwiw

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:41 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

horacio carbonari is my version of this, think it was cos he was nicknamed THE BAZOOKA iirc and was a gloriously-statted-but-invariably-disappointing £10m player in some ancient champ man edition

when i see some carbonara obv

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:00 (fifteen years ago)

xp duly noted

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:00 (fifteen years ago)

Marc Bridge-Wilkinson

lol omg carbonari

<3 Jim Smith's Derby County, Stefan Schnorr et al

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:01 (fifteen years ago)

they also had Malcolm Christie who briefly threatened to be quite good, and also Chris Riggott, who didn't...anyway they both wound up at Middlesbrough

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:02 (fifteen years ago)

Dominique Rocheteau

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:03 (fifteen years ago)

Jean jacques misse misse.

Leonel sanchez.

Karl heinz rummenige.

― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:09 (fifteen years ago)

Alvaro Recoba. Just sounds satisfying to say.

― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:09 (fifteen years ago)

Txiki begiristain.

― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:11 (fifteen years ago)

Crawford Baptie.

― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:12 (fifteen years ago)

igor stimac was the nuts too as i recall

oh and aljosa asanovic!!

derby memories are still bittersweet tho after gooner idiots houston & rioch had paulo wanchope (and his forgotten mate) down for a trial at loftus road on some cursed wednesday, sent him packing and then watched him score vs man utd on the saturday

remember so vividly listening to that and thinking "isn't that... the bloke we.... FUUUUUUU-"

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:12 (fifteen years ago)

NORDIN WOOTER

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:14 (fifteen years ago)

Jamie Clapham

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:14 (fifteen years ago)

Justin Edinburgh

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:14 (fifteen years ago)

Anton rogan.

― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:15 (fifteen years ago)

Hugo Portfirio

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

regi blinker is my nordin wooter version

sasa ilic has been known to cross my mind sometimes actually

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

aron winter

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

gifton noel-williams

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

Jose quitongo.

― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

My goalkeeper is and always has been Mark Crossley, with a side-order of Alec Chamberlain

Haha, Gifton! Didn't he play for Malaga for a bit, disastrously?

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:18 (fifteen years ago)

gigi lentini

― smoke on this^ one (cozen), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:20 (fifteen years ago)

carl muggleton

― smoke on this^ one (cozen), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:21 (fifteen years ago)

henrikh mhkitaryan

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:21 (fifteen years ago)

sokratis papastothopoulos

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:22 (fifteen years ago)

andy hinchcliffe

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:22 (fifteen years ago)

gifton noel-williams

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was this the 'on dis ting' guy?
no it couldn't be. even so, what was that dudes name?

― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

dariusz dziekanowski
dariusz wdowczyk

― smoke on this^ one (cozen), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

I have a feeling that Dedryck Boyata will be this for many of us in a few years

nakh I see yr andy hinchcliffe and raise you chris vinnicombe

on dis ting was ashley-paul robinson, late of dulwich hamlet

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

ha i searched ashley p a while back, think he was at croydon or bromley or somewhere

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)

Pat van den Hauwe

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)

ah. knew it was double barrel

― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)

dariusz kubicki

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)

In January 2010, he signed for Dulwich Hamlet. On Sunday 7th March it was confirmed that Ashley - Paul Robinson had left Dulwich Hamlet. Ashley currently plays for Dorking FC in the combined counties and FC pitts.

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)

APR was at Bromley I think yeah, but dude can't hold down a place anywhere. I think he got fat

― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:26 (fifteen years ago)

how does someone who played championship football as a teenager end up playing for dorking

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:26 (fifteen years ago)

Ricardo Kip

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:28 (ten years ago)

bodo illgner

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 15:38 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

Aristide Bancé

― ShariVari, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:08 (seven years ago)

Joe Dodoo

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:41 (seven years ago)

Ross Jack

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:16 (seven years ago)

four weeks pass...

yossi benayoun
billy king

― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 25 April 2019 23:01 (seven years ago)

Marc-Antoine Fortuné

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 25 April 2019 23:20 (seven years ago)

Bruno Labbadia

― FernandoHierro, Friday, 26 April 2019 00:06 (seven years ago)

Jermaine McSporran

― calzino, Sunday, 28 April 2019 13:41 (seven years ago)

Ravel Morrison

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 13:50 (seven years ago)

... now playing in Sweden, with Östersunds FK, a team which seems to be full of English players.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 13:51 (seven years ago)

... ah, English manager.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 13:52 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

Ibrahim Ba.

― ShariVari, Monday, 12 August 2019 17:04 (seven years ago)

seven months pass...

Øyvind Leonhardsen
Mark Viduka

― gaudio, Thursday, 26 March 2020 04:28 (six years ago)

Ronnie Rosenthal
Theo Snelders

― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:23 (six years ago)

Fernando Redondo

― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:36 (six years ago)

four months pass...

Sinama Pongolle

― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:22 (six years ago)

Landry N'Guemo

― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 23:25 (six years ago)

four weeks pass...

Mateja Kezman

From striker to shaman. pic.twitter.com/16ykQbuWeO

— Serbian Football (@SerbianFooty) September 2, 2020

― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 11:34 (six years ago)

four months pass...

Kevin Oghenetega Tamaraebi Bakumo-Abraham

― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 January 2021 13:44 (five years ago)

Sammy Ameobi

― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 17:14 (five years ago)

Lubomir Moravcik

― new variant (onimo), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 17:36 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

Richarlison

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:40 (five years ago)

https://footballinprint.com/wp-content/uploads/tommy-caton-manchester-city.jpg

― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:48 (five years ago)

Micky Mellon is a great mid-table manager's name.

― Punk's Daft (onimo), Sunday, 7 March 2021 12:07 (five years ago)

Jaden Philogene-Bidace

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 7 March 2021 12:21 (five years ago)

Can't see how that one floats so much as hacks its way through the creepers of memory with a machete

― imago, Sunday, 7 March 2021 12:41 (five years ago)

I don't even know how to pronounce it tbh

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 7 March 2021 12:59 (five years ago)

two years pass...

RIP Chris Bart-Williams, absolutely one of this kind of player

― imago, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:06 (three years ago)

<3

― nxd, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:24 (three years ago)

eleven months pass...

French coach Raymond Domenech has branded Julien Faubert 'unspeakably stupid' for signing for West Ham.

^^only in the form of this exact sentence from 2007

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 16 July 2024 18:44 (two years ago)

I love that multiple posters mentioned the same player more than once itt

Bixente Lizarazu

― nashwan, Tuesday, 16 July 2024 19:02 (two years ago)

four weeks pass...

major league baseball, san diego padres edition:

Jurickson Profar

Isiah Kiner-Felefa

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 August 2024 07:41 (two years ago)

ffs baseball is everywhere on ILX.

― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 August 2024 08:05 (two years ago)

eight months pass...

https://thesoccerdispatch.substack.com/p/indian-super-league-drama-auckland

Jason ‘Cumdog’ Cummings

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 18:48 (one year ago)

Owen Archdeacon

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 April 2025 12:25 (one year ago)

two months pass...

Zabaleta

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 July 2025 17:07 (one year ago)

one month passes...

This guy got fired from St Louis, which led to me reading about his career, which is pretty epic and weird

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Pfannenstiel

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 26 August 2025 16:55 (one year ago)

Xp to Great Real Names perhaps

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 26 August 2025 16:56 (one year ago)

two months pass...

I am solemnly thinking of Gary Mabbutt today, because a rat has eaten part of my fridge

― Sgt. Biscuits, Saturday, 15 November 2025 17:00 (ten months ago)

six months pass...

Mexx Meerdink

― nashwan, Sunday, 24 May 2026 21:55 (four months ago)

one month passes...

schweinsteiger

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 July 2026 20:45 (two months ago)

Lamine Yamal is definitely a future one of these

― crisp, Monday, 6 July 2026 21:09 (two months ago)

Also Dani Olmo

― crisp, Monday, 6 July 2026 21:11 (two months ago)

breel embolo is like the cellar door of this, for me

― LocalGarda, Monday, 6 July 2026 21:12 (two months ago)

Ham-es Rodriguez also a shout

― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 7 July 2026 22:19 (two months ago)

Andreas Schjelderup definitely a future candidate for this thread

― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 11 July 2026 22:31 (two months ago)

Likewise Charles De Ketelaere.

― stanes on the knees and blood on the jumber (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 July 2026 22:32 (two months ago)

Barry Venison

― Angine de Postecogloutrine (NickB), Sunday, 12 July 2026 14:58 (two months ago)

Dodi Lukébakio

― nashwan, Sunday, 12 July 2026 16:00 (two months ago)


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