Best/worst misspelling or mispronounciation of a players name

Barnsley or otherwise.

There was a phase where one of the presenters refused to give airtime to anyone who criticised Atdhe Nuhiu, if they couldn't correctly pronounce his name. He was giving lessons to Mark the Pitsmoor Owl, who would repeatedly refer to him as Nayooee.

But my favourite was when I worked in a bookies. A punter wanted to back an ex Barnsley player to score first in a game against Barnsley. I asked him to repeat the name several times as I hadn't heard of the player in question, despite having had a season ticket for several years. Bastelle, Bastelle, BASTELLE, he repeated, more and more angrily.

Who do you think he was referring to? This was around 2012.

 

Sir Bobby?

 

Misread it and didn't see ex-player!

No idea.

 

Hulme

 

Kayode Odejaye, Kadey Odji, some just called him Oddjob as they either couldn’t or wouldn’t prounounce it properly

 

My dad, and plenty others always Pronounced Paul Futcher as Future

 

I think in a past life Paul Futcher was known as Paulo Futre.

 

In the match day programme at Blackpool years ago they had 2 of our players down as Ronnie Glavia and Mike Leicester.
I suppose it was quite easy to get Mikes name wrong but the King of football unforgivable.

 

It wasn’t uncommon to go into one of those small shops in the backstreets of Blackpool and buy a cheap stick of rock with Balackpool written all the way through it.

 

It was Ricardo Vaz Te. It was the match where he was lining up for West Ham, a couple of months after we'd sold him to them.

 

Vaz Té?

 

Takes some getting to that, VazTe to Bastelle

 

It was indeed!

 

Not mispronounced as such but in the late 90s Blackburn had Paul Dickov and Hassan Sukur up front and I chuckled like a good un when they use to wax lyrical about the 'Sukur / Dickov' partnership.

 

Ah Hakan Sukur, a name I haven't heard for a while.

I've just had a look at his Wikipedia page, and it seems he's been busy since the end of his football career:


In February 2016, Şükür was charged with insulting president Erdoğan on Twitter.[44] In August, a warrant was issued for his arrest as he was charged with being a member of the Gülen movement, designated as a terrorist organization in Turkey.[45]

Şükür fled Turkey in November 2017, taking up self-exile in San Francisco, California and planning to become a restaurateur in Palo Alto.[46][47] He left this job because "strange people kept coming into the bar".[48]

In January 2020, Şükür told Germany's Welt am Sonntag that he was working as an Uber driver and selling books in the United States. He also said that his houses, businesses and bank accounts in Turkey had been seized by the government.[49][48]

 

This isn't football related, but my wife used to think the ex-F1 German racing driver Timo Glock was Irish lol

Tim O'Glock lol

 

I often see a poster refer to 'Sibbock', dont get it

 

The period where Keith Hill insisted on calling his full back Machiavelli took some beating!

 

That could be due to autocorrect. If they spelt it wrong once and it stored it in their dictionary. For some reason if I write on it changes it to in because I once told it I didn't mean on I meant in so now it does it every time

 

I don't think people called him odd-job because they couldn't say odejayi, it was just a play on words and a bit of an insult towards him