What is the story with your username on Foot.ie?

[the 12 th man]

I got mine shortly after the 1982 World Cup by some new found plastic mates on a trip to see Ireland v Spain in Dublin. They thought it highly amusing to name me after Roberto Lopez Ufarte (Oo - far - tay...who farted?..Geddit?.. ) of Real Sociedad and Spain fame.

thank your lucky stars it wasnt the dutch match or you might have been
a vollox

[lopez]

thank your lucky stars it wasnt the dutch match or you might have been
a vollox

Or Germany and be called Kuntz. No, being half Spanish was the clincher, so that's why this title. Lopez Ufarte was mentioned in Phill Ball's 'Morbo' playing ball on the beach in San Sebastian/Donostia. First time I heard him mentioned in years.

[eoinh]

remember last season someone put up the rovers v liberec line up and one of the liberecs' players names had his name blanked out?


i wonder what he was called? i think it was ******!

[tiktok]

sure we went through that with Nwankwo

[lopez]

remember last season someone put up the rovers v liberec line up and one of the liberecs' players names had his name blanked out? i wonder what he was called? i think it was ******!

Checked with google. It is ****** as in the golfer, Bernhardt ******.

[the 12 th man]

. No, being half Spanish was the clincher

i met a guy who worked in a factory in dublin and his surname was ballesteros.
his da is spanish.i thought he was winding me up but he had an obscure spanish football club shirt on him and said he gets wound up by everyone when they hear his name.is this you cos i like the sound of "lopez ballesteros"

[lopez]

i met a guy who worked in a factory in dublin and his surname was ballesteros. his da is spanish.i thought he was winding me up but he had an obscure spanish football club shirt on him and said he gets wound up by everyone when they hear his name.is this you cos i like the sound of "lopez ballesteros"

No father, tis not me. I'm was born in bondage and have always been exiled in Babylonia under King Nebuchadnezzar. And my old man's from Dublin originally.

A few weeks ago I was at work (on the tube here) and this manager came along with a school party of five-year-olds (trainee graffiti artists I thought). He got in with me and I noticed from his accent that he was from Cork. Like all good managers he also had his name badge and rank. Anyway, I looked at the name and it said 'Sean Lopez.' I nearly fell off the seat. I said that isn't a very Irish name and he laughed. Transpired he was from Kinsale and his father was German but with a Spanish father who came over to set up some sort of aircraft place where he met the bloke's mother. Strange but true!!

[the 12 th man]

[QUOTE=lopez]

A few weeks ago I was at work (on the tube here) and this manager came along with a school party of five-year-olds :/QUOTE]





just wondering lopez,like em,ahem,whos driving the train while your rapping with the locals???

[lopez]

just wondering lopez,like em,ahem,whos driving the train while your rapping with the locals???

It was just him in the cab with me - perfectly legal as he was a 'railway official' which,apologies, may not have been made clear earlier by me. The kids had to wait until I got to the end of the line (branch shuttle up in Cajun country Buckinghamshire) and the train was fully secured before they could come in, blow the whistle and basically attempt to cause general mayhem.

[Plastic Paddy]

The kids had to wait until I got to the end of the line (branch shuttle up in Cajun country Buckinghamshire) and the train was fully secured before they could come in, blow the whistle and basically attempt to cause general mayhem.

I'm sure the good burghers of Chesham loved that...

PP

[John83]

...He got in with me and I noticed from his accent that he was from Cork. Like all good managers he also had his name badge and rank. Anyway, I looked at the name and it said 'Sean Lopez.' I nearly fell off the seat. I said that isn't a very Irish name and he laughed. Transpired he was from Kinsale and his father was German but with a Spanish father who came over to set up some sort of aircraft place where he met the bloke's mother. Strange but true!!

One of the best young chessplayers in the country is one Alex Lopez from Cork. Has to be related - anything else would be taking the pi$$.

[lopez]

I'm sure the good burghers of Chesham loved that...

It was at Chalfont instead of Chesham - or Chechnya as we call it at work. Two names in the phone book type of gaff...and one is Patel.

One of the best young chessplayers in the country is one Alex Lopez from Cork. Has to be related - anything else would be taking the pi$$.

This is getting very eery now.

[sadloserkid]

One of the best young chessplayers in the country is one Alex Lopez from Cork.

That is true, I remember him utterly kicking my ass around the board a number of years back.

[Macy]

he gets wound up by everyone when they hear his name.

Everyone thinks it's so funny and they're the first to ever make a joke about it I'm sure...

[the 12 th man]

It was just him in the cab with me - perfectly legal

conversation goes something like this


lopez says:"dont let the bstards wear you down etc ..............."

official says:"yeah right,right,dont know for sure........................"

little kid tugging lopezs sleeve says :"eh mr lopez we didnt stop at the last 5 stops
you know,and you ve got about 200 people here going mad!!!!"

lopez:"jaysus ,wheres those brakes"

[lopez]

And your point,caller......? 3-2 to the Indjua,(v.the'auld sc*m')........

Listen my little fat, brown, friend (although I'm close to you in the brown stakes at the mo following my peaceful convalescence on the Costa de la luz): It's simple. There is one Indian takeaway in Chesham and the boss's brother runs a newsagent. Everyone else? Same surname! Just think Deliverance - or that film with Nicole Kidman and River Phoenix's brother (Caesar in Gladiator?) and the remark about hanging around trailer parks f*cking your cousins - and you'll get the picture.

[sylvo]

:"jaysus ,wheres those brakes"

Father the brake's on those metropolitan line train's that Lopez drive's are fine, in fact the brake's seem to be alway's in use, it's the fcuking accelarator that's missing.The metropolitan line could even be twined with the laus, after all hardly anyone has seen either in action yet.

[lopez]

Father the brake's on those metropolitan line train's that Lopez drive's are fine, in fact the brake's seem to be alway's in use, it's the fcuking accelarator that's missing.The metropolitan line could even be twined with the laus, after all hardly anyone has seen either in action yet.

The Metropolitan line has seen as much action over the past 15 years as John Holmes of 'Girls On Fire' fame.

[4tothefloor]

The Criminal Justice Bill in the UK outlawed gatherings where people danced to "repetitive beats" which were defined as 4/4. I guess you had to be there. And 4 to the floor does indeed come from Northern Soul and not from your namby pamby modern dance music.

KOH

Ya but 4tothefloor doesn't mean a rave, which is what you're on about. Is just a journalistic term that describes mainly the harder side of dance music, such as techno, trance and some types of house. That and a rave are two completely different things.

Regarding Northern Soul - don't know anything about it, so it means nothing to me. As far as i'm concerned 4tothefloor comes from dance music, if it does apply to Northern Soul as well, i'm sure its a very different type of 4\4!

Whats namby pamby btw??!

[the 12 th man]

this seems to be the time for resurrections of old threads.

anybody else feel like giving us the lowdown on where they got their foot.ie name from.
there are a few unexplained beauties out there