Best sporting nicknames

sparky

@Yeahtheboys said in Best sporting nicknames:

Beast

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Guzzler

Pine Tree

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Bus

Mini bus

Maori Jesus

Honey Badger

Paekakariki express

1 Beast (Tendai Mtwawarrrira: South Africa))
2. Uncle Fester (Keith Wood: Ireland)
3 Fun Bus (Jason Leonard: England)
4 Nobody (John Eales: Australia)
5 Pinetree (Colin Meads: New Zealand)`
6. Sea Bass (Sebastian Chabal: France)
7. Ice Man (Michael Jones: New Zealand)
8. Cue Ball (John Mitchell: New Zealand)
9. Meg (Justin Marshall: New Zealand)
10. Beaver (Stephen Donald: New Zealand)
11. The Bus (Julian Savea: New Zealand)
12 36 (Billy Twelvetrees: England)
13. Bum Face (Will Carling: England)
14 The Chiropractor (Brian Lima: Samoa)
15 Paekakariki Express (Christian Cullen: New Zealand)

Yeahtheboys

I forgot beaver. Honey Badger has to make the team

MiketheSnow

Allan Bateman, centre for Wales & British Lions in union, centre for Wales and GB in league
'The Clamp'

MiketheSnow

G.O.A.T.

sparky

Former Liverpool FC Captain, Emlyn "Crazy Horse" Hughes, was outspoken and wasn't always popular with his own team mates. Tommy "The Tank" Smith the ex Liverpool full back is an after dinner speaker. He tells a story that in one game against Chelsea, Ron 'Chopper' Harris tackled Emlyn Hughes and caught him in the chest with his studs. While Emlyn Hughes was being treated, several Liverpool players sidled up to Ron Harris and shook his hand.

Bill Shankley and his staff in the Liverpool Boot Room gave Emlyn Hughes the nickname "Thrush". Hughes thought it was because he had a high voice. In fact, it was because several of the staff at Liverpool thought he was an irritating c**t.

Bones

@sparky thrush?

sparky

@Bones Yep, corrected. How to **** up an anecdote with a spelling mistake.

Wally

There was an Aussie rugby player who’s nickname was mangrove. Because he was an indiscriminating rooting system.

scribe

Wasn't ex-Wallaby flanker Mark Chisolm's nickname 'Covered in'?

sparky

A Football team "Nickname" XI

The Black Spider (Lev Yashin: Dynamo Moscow and USSR
Psycho (Stuart Pearce: Notts Forest and England)
The Kaiser (Franz Beckenbauer: Bayern Munich and Germany)
Bites Ye Legs (Norman Hunter: Leeds and England)
Chopper (Ron Harris: Chelsea)
The Butcher of Bilbao (Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga: Athletic Bilbao and Spain)
The Fifth Beatle (George Best: Man Utd and Northern Ireland)
The Architect (Andrea Pirlo: AC Milan and Italy)
The Baby Faced-Assassin (Ole Gunnar Solskjær: Man Utd and Norway)
Zizou (Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid and France)
The Divine Ponytail (Roberto Baggio: Juventus and Italy)

MN5

Can't go past Tugga and Afghanistan for the Waughs.

Also loved it when Mark got four ducks in a row and got called Audi.

sparky

Cricket Nickname XI

Lord Brocket (Andrew Strauss: England)
Swampy (Geoff March: Australia)
Punter (Ricky Ponting: Australia)
Afghanistan (Mark Waugh: Australia)
Hogan (Martin Crowe: New Zealand)
Beefy (Ian Botham: England)
Churchy (Adam Gilchrist: Australia)
Paddles (Richard Hadlee: New Zealand)
Big Bird (Joel Garner:West Indies)
Whispering Death (Michael Holding: West Indies)
White Lightning (Allan Donld: South Arica)

Higgins

@sparky said in Best sporting nicknames:

Cricket Nickname XI

Lord Brocket (Andrew Strauss: England)

Swampy (Geoff March: Australia)

Punter (Ricky Ponting: Australia)

Afghanistan (Mark Waugh: Australia)

Hogan (Martin Crowe: New Zealand)

Beefy (Ian Botham: England)

Churchy (Adam Gilchrist: Australia)

Paddles (Richard Hadlee: New Zealand)

Big Bird (Joel Garner:West Indies)

Whispering Death (Michael Holding: West Indies)

White Lighting (Allan Donld: South Arica)

Shakes (John Wright: New Zealand)?

Chris B.

@MN5 said in Best sporting nicknames:

Also loved it when Mark got four ducks in a row and got called Audi.

Further back, Greg Chappell went through a bad patch and briefly got christened "Chappello".

canefan

@Chris-B said in Best sporting nicknames:

@MN5 said in Best sporting nicknames:

Also loved it when Mark got four ducks in a row and got called Audi.

Further back, Greg Chappell went through a bad patch and briefly got christened "Chappello".

I just thought it was a variation of his brother's nickname. Ian Chappell was Chappelli

Chris B.

@canefan said in Best sporting nicknames:

@Chris-B said in Best sporting nicknames:

@MN5 said in Best sporting nicknames:

Also loved it when Mark got four ducks in a row and got called Audi.

Further back, Greg Chappell went through a bad patch and briefly got christened "Chappello".

I just thought it was a variation of his brother's nickname. Ian Chappell was Chappelli

Those both come from the scorecard:

Chappell, I

Chappell 0

Chester Draws

@sparky said in Best sporting nicknames:

4 Nobody (John Eales: Australia)

He was never called that. It was one of those "nicknames" that people thought were cool, but actually are quite try hard. Nobody (heh) gives a fellow player a nickname that implies he's actually perfect. They call them "Tugga" or "Beaver" or "Goldenballs".

Cullen was called the Paekakariki Express, but that's an epithet (like Alfred "the Great") not a nickname. Who calls their mate "Paekakariki Express"?

canefan

Suitcase

MN5

@Chester-Draws said in Best sporting nicknames:

@sparky said in Best sporting nicknames:

4 Nobody (John Eales: Australia)

He was never called that. It was one of those "nicknames" that people thought were cool, but actually are quite try hard. Nobody (heh) gives a fellow player a nickname that implies he's actually perfect. They call them "Tugga" or "Beaver" or "Goldenballs".

Cullen was called the Paekakariki Express, but that's an epithet (like Alfred "the Great") not a nickname. Who calls their mate "Paekakariki Express"?

Christian Cullen was called beer bottle, empty from the neck up.

Yeahtheboys

I also forgot Gorgodzilla (Mamuka Gorgodze)

The Silver Fern

Best sporting nicknames