Football Programmes Centre

Auchinleckian · Forum Moderator Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 4352

I've just sent a number of rugby items to a guy in the Borders, who lives at a place called Cockburnspath. How on earth did it get a name like that. Was it the medieval way to clear the snow????
On a similar note, I once saw Gresley Rovers put 5 past Littlehampton in the F.A.Vase semi final a number of years back. No doubt all the women round there go wagging their little fingers at their menfolk?

realred · Joined: 06 Nov 2009 Posts: 354 Location: Malpas Cheshire

I've sent stuff there as well.

whitetiger · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:07 pm Post subject:

Burnley had a winger in the eighties called Grewcock, which always made me chuckle.

Rocky · Joined: 15 Jun 2009 Posts: 1536

Boro played Bonn in a friendly 60/1 season and their left back was a fellow called Fishdick Shocked

Enough said.

lambie the leap · Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 381

whitetiger wrote:

Burnley had a winger in the eighties called Grewcock, which always made me chuckle.

The great Neil Grewcock - scored 1 of the goals that preserved our league status in 86/7. Good cricketer too, and posssibly the most taciturn man I've ever met.

BertD · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:31 pm Post subject:

How about Bedfordshire County League player Deep Banghard ?
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11-08-1976 Wycombe Wanderers v Wimbledon (Friendly)

Molineux Phil · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 823 Location: liverpool

I once worked with a couple of guys one was called Warrik Hunt tother Jonny Cockshead.

1980Cossie · Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 830

A player once guested for Halifax Town during the war years against Manchester United on the 10th March 1945 fixture and scored the winning goal in a 1-0 win, his name was William Ardon.

Molineux Phil · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 823 Location: liverpool

Did he not have a brother called ivor ?.

1980Cossie · Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 830

Molineux Phil wrote:

Did he not have a brother called ivor ?.

I'm not sure, but he did have a ''big head'' by all accounts in scoring the winning goal in his only ever match against Man Utd. Laughing

York · Joined: 07 Sep 2010 Posts: 43 Location: Acomb, York

My middle name is ballbaggot
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Tynie Topics · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 3570

I was watching ski jumping the other day and this guy looked rather handy;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Wank
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robbo · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 375 Location: NZ at the moment

I often wonder what the sticking point was in Argelico turning down a transfer to English football...

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Argélico Fucks (born September 4, 1974 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul), simply Argel, is a retired Brazilian footballer, who played as a central defender, and a current coach.

Molineux Phil · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 823 Location: liverpool

Also a quaint sounding name for one of the old amateur team in my area;
Garston Woodcuters.

James · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 485

If you drive down the A30 from Launceston to Bodmin in Cornwall on the left handside is a montain peak which is called Brown Willy
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tommy · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 180 Location: Planet Earth

Deportivo Wanka is a Peruvian football club, based in the city of Huancayo in the Peruvian Andes. It was founded in 1996 and is named after the Wankas people who formerly inhabited the area
The British slang word wanker "one who masturbates", sounds like Wanka when said with a (non-rhotic) British accent. The Sun quoted a club spokesman as saying that "It is very strange. Everyone in Britain seems to think we have a funny name”.

Auchinleckian · Forum Moderator Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 4352

Like the Wankdorf stadium, perchance?