Real Footballers Who Sound As If They Should Be In Roy of the Rovers

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There's quite a few shurely! Examples, please!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

for example, Gary Speed!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Emilyn Hughes. oh wait, he WAS in Roy of the Rovers.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tony Hadley. Gary Kemp.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Danny Invincible

Nicky Banger

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Darren Dobinson at AFC Wimbledon has the alliterative aspect that any good RotR names has (cf Roy race, charlie Carter, Rob Richards).

We also have Matt Martin in goal. Matt Everard's surname is evocative so he makes it too.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rageonline.co.uk/squad/SteveBasham.jpg

this is Oxford Utd's Steve Basham, who has bashed 7 of 'em in the back of the net so far this season.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the goalies were always chester the cat mitchell, or ginger smith, the cat.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

charlie 'the cat' carter, wasn't it?

did they sign rick stewart too?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Ian Rush - quite a correlation between being a Welsh international and having an appropriate name it seems.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I reckon Jermaine MacSporran could have lined up alongside Hot Shot Hamish

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Cov's new loan star Super Johnnie Jackson, classic 70's type footballing name

― Jim, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Rangers' duo Bob Malcolm and Maurice Ross sound typically representative of the 'hard men' that populated ROTR-story cenrtral defences. I mean, players called BOB ? In 2003 ? Imagine the 70s names coming back - Bob Fowler ! Or for that matter, Mickey Owen, Dave Beckham and er.. Bobby Pires ..

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Stern John

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Terry Henry.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Clarke Carlisle !
TV's "Brain of Football" turned alky. I sat opposite him on the Central Line once from White City to ealing - I couldn't believe he went on the tube still wearing his QPR training stuff. (mind you, I now realise he may have been banned from driving, which would account for him mixing it with the pooblik)

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Junior Bent

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

re Junior Bent: I'm glad Ipswich's Darren Bent wasn't playing when I was a schoolboy.

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (plays for PSV Eindhoven).

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

What's on the back of his shirt? vennegoor? hesselink? V-o-H?

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Quinton Fortune, of course.

And what about when ROTR tried to come to terms with the Ardiles and Villa phenomenon ? Melchester Rovers promptly signed Argentine striker Paco Diaz, as i recall. Evidently, any piecemeal, bog standard Johnny Foreigner name would suffice here - like, say, Fabrice Fernandes or Pablo Counago.

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Carlos Kickaball?

What was the hoolie called? Trevor something or other.

Happy days...

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Francesco Totti- overpaid, vain, beefcake I-tie striker. Dunno what he'd be in Roy of the ROvers, though.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't Charlton have (Jorge) Costa and (Jon) Fortune as centre backs a couple of seasons ago?

Junior Agogo is a great name too.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Charlton had a back four of Young Fish Costa Fortune that year.

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Bramble's Given Dyer Speed made me laugh once.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Shurely Shearer Cort Bramble Given Dyer Bellamy Speed

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "Dyer Bramble" says it all, regardless of any comedic links to drug/sex/roasting or whatever.

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Donachie Babb never actually happened, did it?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

No, but Lawrie Mcmenemy once said it in astonishment in a live Beeb commentary when Bazza Davies said "Donaghy back.".

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Cliff Hercules and Rocky Baptiste own much of this thread between them, I hope ?

― kieron, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Charlton had a back four of Young Fish Costa Fortune that year.

A couple of years back it was suggested that Celtic should sign David Weir so that their central defence would be Weir Tebily Scheidt.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Or Julian Dicks in Mr Advocaats reign (in the era of his hideously overpriced hairweave) so that the announcer at Parkhead could state "Dicks Tebily Balde".

Can someone stitch up my sides please?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ian WRIGHT/Joe ROYLE/Chris BURKE

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Ipswich Town goalkeeper Shane Supple.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Alan Ball wasn't mentioned here? For shame.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

Paul Heckingbottom
Tommy Widdrington
Jean-Claude Darcheville
Jamie Victory
Arthur Albiston
Bobby Bowry
Matt Derbyshire

― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

Robbie Raeside

― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Isaac Success
and particularly MAX POWER who sounds like he should have Hotshot, like Hamish.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 13:05 (six years ago)

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