A bit of fun - Guess the Spurs Players from the Silly Nicknames

[rez9000]

Where's Treacle?

You're Treacle, honeybun.

 

[juste5boys]

The Lion Joe Hart?
Michael Caine Alfie?

 

[Who’s our next manager?]

So, a little while ago, I did a spoof post in which I made up a couple of silly nicknames to represent some of our players as part of a pseudo-noir narrative, in the style of Jose 'The Portuguese' Mourinho or David 'Gallic' Ginola, but with some of our current players.

Since then, a couple of other silly nicknames have occurred to me and for some reason I hear myself using the nicknames instead of the player's real name when I watch us play! So, I thought I'd try and come up with silly nicknames for all of the players listed on the OS' First Team webpage (including the ones on loan) and make a game of it.

Below are the nicknames I've come up with for the players listed under the First Team page on the official site (including the ones on loan). Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to try and work out which nickname belongs to which player. Some of them are obvious, some of them more obscure. They're in alphabetical order of nickname, not squad number order, before anyone tries to get cute.

If anyone gets them all right, they get a winner rating and can have a stab themselves if they'd like to. I'll confirm the correct ones every so often by editing this post, so it doesn't go on forever. Anyway, have fun!

MODS: Apologies if this works better in another part of the site. No issues with it being moved.

• 50 Yard
• Beer City
• The Belly - Tanguy "The Belly" Ndombele. Because he had fitness issues and also because of the last two syllables of his name. @juste5boys the first to guess right.
• Cheekbones
• Chemical
• Dearie
• The Fake Geordie
• The Filth
• Forest
• Goldie
• Hit ‘n’ Run
• Interesting
• The Invisible Man - Gedson "The Invisible Man" Fernandes. Because where is he? Can anyone see him? Does he even exist? @spurs mental the first to guess right.
• Irish
• Landing
• The Last Belgian - Toby "The Last Belgian" Alderweireld. Obviously, he's the last of our Belgian contingent, hence the last Belgian. @stevespurs the first to guess right.
• The Lion
• Manbun - Gareth "Manbun" Bale. I mean, come on Gareth. @spurs mental the first to guess correctly
• Michael Caine
• The Moose - Moussa "The Moose" Sissoko. Because it sounds similar to his first name and mooses (moose? meece?) are pretty big units, etc. @spurs mental the first to guess right.
• Peanut Butter
• Perfectly-Acceptable
• Petal
• Red Ken
• Resume
• Shithouse - Eric "Shithouse" Lamela. We know the reason why.... and we love him for it. @Tucker the first to guess right.
• Smiley - Heung-Min "Smiley" Son. Again, very obviously as he is the smiliest of smilers. @stevespurs the first to guess right.
• Strip
• Sugar
• Twoo
• The Viking - Pierre-Emile "The Viking" Hjobjerg. Because he's, well, Danish and he's tough and uncompromising, like the Vikings had a reputation for. @stevespurs the first to guess right.
• Victor
• Yorkie

Michael Caine will be hard because not a lot of fans know that.

 

[rez9000]

The Lion Joe Hart?
Michael Caine Alfie?

I was worried that Alfie Whiteman would be too obscure, so I'm happy to confirm that that one is correct. Joe isn't the Lion, though.

 

[Jgplk1]

50 yards would be Winks after Thursday's goal?

 

[rez9000]

50 yards would be Winks after Thursday's goal?

Indeed!

 

[Dashy]

Chemical = Dele. Chemical Ali was the Iraq propaganda bloke from the 2nd Iraq war.

 

[stevespurs]

Petal - Rose

hmm can’t make my mind up if Interesting or Perfectly Acceptable is Davies....

I’m glad Hit n Run wasnt Hugo. I thought it was pretty dark.

 

[Gedi]

The Lion is Kane. He posted that image of a pack of lions when we were chasing Leicester in the league and also he’s the top Lion for the national team.

 

[spurs mental]

Beer City: Lucas Moura , because beer city is in Grand Rapids and Lucas is rapid.

The Fake Geordie: Rose after his stint there last season?

Goldie: Kane. Goldie looking Chain/Kane

Accepting that these are all a reach on my part

 

[CarrickSpurgus]

Fake Geordie : GAZZAniga

 

[floydiohead]

Terrier - Lucas

 

[werty]

Cheekbones = Lloris?

 

[rez9000]

Chemical = Dele. Chemical Ali was the Iraq propaganda bloke from the 2nd Iraq war.

Petal - Rose

hmm can’t make my mind up if Interesting or Perfectly Acceptable is Davies....

I’m glad Hit n Run wasnt Hugo. I thought it was pretty dark.

The Lion is Kane. He posted that image of a pack of lions when we were chasing Leicester in the league and also he’s the top Lion for the national team.

Beer City: Lucas Moura , because beer city is in Grand Rapids and Lucas is rapid.

The Fake Geordie: Rose after his stint there last season?

Goldie: Kane. Goldie looking Chain/Kane

Accepting that these are all a reach on my part

Fake Geordie : GAZZAniga

Cheekbones = Lloris?

Chemical is indeed Dele. Because of the propaganda bloke but also because he's (or was) a little bit volatile. Well done, @Dashyid although @juste5boys got it earlier (I just didn't confirm it, because I'm being a bastard!).

The one I'm very happy about is @CarrickSpurgus getting Paolo Gazzaniga. He is indeed The Fake Geordie, for the very reason you said! Pleased someone got that one.

Petal is indeed Danny Rose... for the obvious reasons.

Beer City is unfortunately not Lucas Moura. It is, once more as @juste5boys guessed, young Stevie Bergwijn. Berg being city and beer being an alcoholic drink as is 'wine/wijn'.

Kane is neither Goldie, nor the Lion.

Cheekbones isn't Hugo, but I will say this @werty - you're thinking the right way...

 

[McFlash]

I'm sticking with Chemical being Dele and the Belly being Ndombele and Yorkie being Danny Rose
Goldie lo Celso?

Chemical Allí, from one of the gulf wars.

Edit. Must remember to read the entire thread before chopping in!

 

[McFlash]

Victor Hugo? Lloris?
The Yorkie? Clarke?

 

[rez9000]

Victor Hugo? Lloris?
The Yorkie? Clarke?

Oh, he's on fire! Right on both counts!

 

[McFlash]

Forest = Lucas, for his ability to just run but not much else?

 

[rez9000]

Forest = Lucas, for his ability to just run but not much else?

And then he fumbles it!

 

[McFlash]

Ooh, could the Lion be Parrott, cos he's currently at Millwall?