Team made up with country names

[OwlsFan]

A friend of mine sent this on to me. I think it's an original but haven't czeched (pun intended):

Goal keeper: Petr Czech, Back 4: Gino Brazil, Ken Oman, Mike England, Ryan France (Blunts and England),
Midfield: Alan Brazil, Stephen Ireland, Matt Holland and Gary Wales (Scotland and Raith Rovers),
Forwards: Jason Scotland and Joe Jordan
Manager: Vanderlei Luxemburgo

He's also given me a team made up of birds' names (of the feathered variety) with the comment that "they're good in the air..." :) Anyone like to try that ?

[KrisLetang]

Would SI have shown up?

Bird names: Ian Thrush, Emu (Arsenal), Gareth Quail (Spurs), Manager...Louis Van Gull. That's the best i can do without cheating.

[DeLorean]

There's been a few Peacocks over the years I think, defender at Newcastle with the long hair and Gavin Peacock at Chelsea (striker I think). Might have even been a Peacock goalkeeper maybe?

Mark Robins comes to mind assuming that counts.

Norwich v Brighton is an all-birds clash too of course! :p

[pineapple stu]

Ryan and Derek Swan up front of course.

[OwlsFan]

GK Alan Starling (Luton and Northampton), Tony Woodcock (Forest), Derek Swan (Rovers, Bohs), Glen Crowe (Bohs), Arien Robben (Bayern), Richie Partridge (Wednesday), Bertie Peacock (Celtic), Kaka (Milan), Chris Eagles (Port Vale), Mick Martin (Newcastle), David Raven (Inverness), John Bird (Swansea), Jackie Wren (Hibs). Manager Bernd Storck (Hungary)
Mascot: Ozzie the Owl.
A team which would be good in the air!

Next up the fish team....

[pineapple stu]

Conor Sammon anyway

[ArFella]

Mark Fish and James Perch too, John scales maybe?

[pineapple stu]

Glen Roe-der?

[ArFella]

We all dream of a team of Gary Breams?

[OwlsFan]

Fish Team:

GK Paddy Roche (Bohs/Man U); Brendan Plaice (Shels), Mark Fish (Charlton), George Ray (Crewe Alex), John Scales (Wimbledon); Ian Herring (Swindon), Jamie Pollack (Middlesboro), Forrayah Bass (Bradford City), James Perch (QPR), Conor Sammon (Hearts), Steve Guppy (Celtic et alia).

Fishy Owner: Sepp Batter
Fishy Manager: Harry Redsnapper

[osarusan]

Materials FC

Jimmy Glass
Bill Waters
Billy Steel
Steve Stone
Gary Silk
Chris Wood
David Silva (bit of a stretch)
Ebbe Sand
Plastic Paddy

Still need a few more.

[OwlsFan]

Plastic Paddy is just an opportunist. He won't make it.

Zander Diamond (Mansfield Town), David Irons (Dunfermiline), Andy Cole (Man U), Ryan Woods (Brentford), Barney Rock :)

[OwlsFan]

Musical XI: Timo HOrn (Koln), John Scales (Liverpool), Andrea Coda (Udinese), Max Drum (TSV Buchbach), Valentin Viola (Racing Club), Alex Song (Barcelona), Colin Bell (Man City), Maxwell Cornet (Lyon), Graeme Sharp (Everton), Christ Bongo (FC Thun). Subs: Matt Piper (Sunderland), Solly March (Brighton),

[OwlsFan]

Floral XI:

I'll start with Tim Flowers (Soton and Eng).

[ArFella]

Danny Rose (Spurs) at RB

[pineapple stu]

Peter Cherrie (cherry blossoms) as sub keeper maybe
Trevor Cherry at CB

[DeLorean]

Dennis Viollet up front.

[TheBoss]

Martin Dahlin (Dahlia)...
Chris Lilygreen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lilygreen)
Bill Tulip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Tulip)

[OwlsFan]

Tim Flowers (Soton and Eng)
David Lilley (Kilmarnock)
Danny Rose (Spurs and Eng)
Peter Garland (Charlton)
Ron Flowers (Wolves and Eng)
Jap Stem (Man U and Holland) :)
Andy Wreath (Forest and Ire) :)
John Stalker (Darlington)
Dennis Viollet (Man U and Eng)
Brian Budd (Vancouver Whitecaps)
Alessio Viola (Reggina)

[OwlsFan]

Next up an Animal XI

Gary Snake (Leeds and Eng) :)

[ArFella]

Mark Bunn(y)
Razvan Rat
Jason Ewe-ll
Paul Lambert

[pineapple stu]

Gareth McOwl-ey?

[DeLorean]

Razvan Rat

I haven't heard of him but he reminded me of two others.

Joel Bats (former French goalkeeper)
Vasyl Rats (former USSR midfielder)

I always remember the Orbis World Cup '90 collection and there was a section with great World Cups goals. This was one of them and the headline read... 'Rats beats Bats'.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAbyO5Jl18o

[Eminence Grise]

Gordan Cowans
Steve Bull
Nicolas Anelka
and a 2 for the price of 1 with Lee Cattermole

(The purist in me reckons the only one in the spirit of the OP is Bull, since it's the only one that completely matches the name and the entity. Good game, though!)

[ArFella]

I haven't heard of him but he reminded me of two others.

Joel Bats (former French goalkeeper)
Vasyl Rats (former USSR midfielder)

I always remember the Orbis World Cup '90 collection and there was a section with great World Cups goals. This was one of them and the headline read... 'Rats beats Bats'.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAbyO5Jl18o

He played for West Ham for a season or 2 a couple of years ago.

[DeLorean]

He played for West Ham for a season or 2 a couple of years ago.

Now that you say it, think I might remember the name from Fantasy Football.

[pineapple stu]

Omer Catkic has a special place in Irish footballing memory; he was the Turkish keeper who came on at half-time in a 2003 friendly in Lansdowne Road, but only lasted 25 hilariously bad minutes before being subbed off again.

[Eminence Grise]

An '80s/'90s feel with
Ruel Fox
Shaun Goater
Warren Aspinall

And closer to home and today: Dane Massey

[OwlsFan]

Gary "Snake" (Leeds and Wales), Michel de Wolf (Marseilles and Belgium), Mark Fish (Charlton and SA), Led Badger (The Blunts), Ruel Fox (Spurs and Monserrat), Done Cowie (Hearts and Scotland), Shaun Goater(Man City and Bermuda), Steve Bull (Wolves and England), Didier Dogba (Chelsea and Diving), Adam LLama (Liverpool and Eng).

Next up the "Snigger XI".

Goalkeeper: David Semen,

[ArFella]

Christian Fuchs, Rod Fanni, Danny ****tu and Francisco Arce give you a decent defence.

[pineapple stu]

Julian Dicks in there too. Maybe Terry Phelan too? Stan Valckx for sure. Lots of rude defenders actually.

Ireland's forward pairing of Long Cox.

They can all play for Deportivo Wanka, of course.

Edit - Stefan Kuntz as well.

Brian Pinas.

Mike Trebilcock scored twice in the 1966 FA Cup Final; his name was too rude for the BBC, who pronounced it "Trebilco"

[Eminence Grise]

Gu Sang-bum togged out for South Korea in the '90 World Cup...
Segar Ba5tard played one game for England back in the 1800s...
It was a shame Olivier de C0ck never lined up with Davor Suker on a team sheet...

Home venue has to be the Wankdorf Stadium.

[pineapple stu]

Tee hee - just found this fella (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C4%B1l_Ko%C3%A7)!

Anil Koc... :p

[Eminence Grise]

I seem to remember an old Fantasy Football League where Skinner and Baddiel showed an Aston Villa programme from the 60s which featured a midfield trio of

Brown - Arce - Hole

which made me think of Scheidt (Rafael) who played (very, very badly) for Celtic.

I know we have David Seaman as No 1, but how about Quim as back-up?

BTW, Stu: FFL also did a gag about FIFA making international teams display a national characteristic on their jerseys. The camera cut to a picture of a German player with Kuntz emblazoned on his jersey...

[pineapple stu]

Funny, I was trying to google a Fantasy Football skit along the same lines, of rude sentences from the 1998 World Cup. I found my own post (http://foot.ie/threads/122745-People-with-appropriate-surnames?p=1219666&viewfull=1#post1219666) on here from a few years back, where I even got the sentence wrong!

So Karim Bagheri and Julio Arce - big hairy arse.

And on that note - Helloooooo!!!!!

[OwlsFan]

Mike Trebilcock scored twice in the 1966 FA Cup Final; his name was too rude for the BBC, who pronounced it "Trebilco"

Indeed he did and thank you for reminding me of that. My first football heart ache that I can remember.

David Semen (Arse and Eng), Ron Fanni (Marseilles), Peter Shirtlift (Sheff Wed), Burnt hASS (West Brom and Swiss), Rafael Scheidt (Celtic), Danny ****tu (QPR and Nigeria), Florian Dick (Kaiserlauten), Anal Koc (Eindhoven), Ralf Minge ( Dynamo Dresden and East Germany), Andre Muff (Grasshopper), Simon Cox (Ireland).

Subs: Nicky Butt, Brian Pinas,

Now: on to Body parts:

In Goal: Joe Harte (West ham and Eng)

[DeLorean]

Now: on to Body parts:

In Goal: Joe Harte (West ham and Eng)

There was also a goalkeeper called Jonathan Brain on the books at Newcastle at once stage. I see he played most of his career at Macclesfield since then though... so you're probably right to let your Hart rule your Brain on this one. :o

Joe's got some other competition for the number one spot... who could ever forget...

Silviu Lung (Romania) - I see from his Wiki page that he was involved in a car crash a couple of years where the driver of the other vehicle died. Poor fella.

Eoin Hand (Ireland) can slot in at centre back.

Lee Chin (Wexford Youths) - centre back

Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) - midfielder

Jake Livermore (West Brom) - midfielder

[pineapple stu]

Brian Pinas again. :)
Cha Bum Kun or something similar played in the 1986 World Cup for South Korea.
Carlton Palm-er
Chris Armstrong - I don't know if we need a rule on whether these ones are allowed; they're technically cheating, but then so was Livermore in the previous post, and many others beside.

[DeLorean]

I see your Brian Pinas, and raise you Paul Dickov :o

[DeLorean]

Yuri Zhirkov was probably worth a spot on the Dirty XI also for pronunciation purposes.

[Eminence Grise]

Jacki Dziekanowski deserved a shout-out too!

Body parts, howsabout -

Andy Legg
Carlton Palmer
Joe Kinnear (manager?)
Thaksin Shinawatra to own the team

[Closed Account 2]

Jacki Dziekanowski deserved a shout-out too!

Body parts, howsabout -

Andy Legg
Carlton Palmer
Joe Kinnear (manager?)
Thaksin Shinawatra to own the team

You could have Graeme Shinnie too and dare I suggested David Goodwillie ?

[Closed Account 2]

Materials FC

Jimmy Glass
Bill Waters
Billy Steel
Steve Stone
Gary Silk
Chris Wood
David Silva (bit of a stretch)
Ebbe Sand
Plastic Paddy

Still need a few more.

Granit(e) Xhaka

[OwlsFan]

Ok the Body Parts Team:

Joe Harte (Man City and Eng), SHINjin Kagawa (Dortmund), Leon LEGge (Cambridge Utd), James CHESTer (Villa and Wales), Harry Artery (Bournemouth and Ireland), Nicky Butt (Man U and Eng), Hands VaNECKen (Bruges), Juan Ankle (Villa and Arg), Brain McClair (Man U and Scot), Johan KNEESKINS (Holl).

Manager: Eoin Hand (Limerick and Ireland).

Next UP: FC TV Sleuth:

Goalkeeper Roy Ironside (Barnsley), .....

[TheBoss]

Gerry Taggart (Leicester City)

[DeLorean]

Ricky Holmes (Charlton) & Steve Watson (ex-Newcastle, Everton, etc.)

[Hitman]

Jimmy McNulty (Rochdale).

[Closed Account 2]

Sub Keeper: Roberto Colombo (Cagliari)
Defender: Liam Moorse (Reading)
Striker: Libor Kozjak (ex-Lazio and Aston Villa)

[pineapple stu]

Really having to resort to googling here, but here's Chris Marples (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Marples) (footballer and cricketer)