Names your Dad called Boro Players.....

[alanmoodysdog]

My dad went to the Boro from 66 to 86 and had many nicknames for boro players .... He called Willie Maddren a Thoroughbreed and (sorry erimus ) Big John a carthourse, Mc Ilmoyle a gazelle .....

 

[chickenrunner]

Couldn't type what my dad called Billy Gates, Rob would run out of asterisks. :giggle:

 

[alanmoodysdog]

Couldn't type what my dad called Billy Gates, Rob would run out of asterisks. :giggle:

my dad called him pinocchio.... I asked him once why, is it because hes got a big nose? No he said hes wooden.....

 

[chickenrunner]

My dad reckoned he was a 'penalty waiting to happen' but that's not how he phrased it.

Edit: ............ and that was in the days when you actually had to commit a foul to give away a penalty.

 

[Norfolkred1]

Billy ashtray
Fatty Foggon

Tut tut Dad

 

[A]

Not my dad, but my grandad just couldn't say Juninho properly, he pronounced it Juheeno

 

[Foggysfplandiet3]

Slightly off topic but I remember Jack Charlton was on ITV’s World Cup 1974 experts panel and he could never pronounce the name Johan Cruyff, he always called him John Cruff

 

[Laughing]

Not my dad, but my grandad just couldn't say Juninho properly, he pronounced it Juheeno

My dad has a problem with Juninho, pronounced sort of like Gerneeno

Oh and he used to always refer to Hamilton Ricard, as "The Black Pudding". I always rated Ricard to be fair and it used to cause arguments

 

[A]

and it really bugged me when perennial tosspot Merson went through a phase on Sky calling Willian "Will I An". Did he think he was being witty?

 

[Borobarmy]

I only ever once took me mam to see the Boro and that was away at Blackburn crimbo mid 90s and it was bloody freezing . It was when Shearer got Derek Whyte sent off and he gesticulated to the Boro fans .
Even now my mam who’s 89 will comment when MOTD is on and he’s summarising and she says “ I hate that toe rag “ I’m dead proud of her

 

[chickenrunner]

Billy ashtray
Fatty Foggon

Tut tut Dad

Better than the 'Flying Pig'. :giggle:

 

[Laughing]

My middle daughter, when discussing the boro players, didn't believe the names I wa sgiving her, when I said Ugo Ehiogu (RIP), she replied, now I know you are lying!

 

[Erimus74]

My dad went to the Boro from 66 to 86 and had many nicknames for boro players .... He called Willie Maddren a Thoroughbreed and (sorry erimus ) Big John a carthourse, Mc Ilmoyle a gazelle .....

No problem, I can't recall my dad having nicknames for players though

He did tell me a story when he was at the barbers, about his mid 30's & in the backroom were a group of Boro players playing in a card school

 

[STAFFORDA4]

Old Big ‘ead.........Cloughie

Or Big ‘eaded Bxgger

 

[guisborough_rob]

I recall my dad and our next door neighbour calling David Mills ‘Daffy’, presumably short for daffodil. I never really understood it as he always seemed to be a hardworking player, and not a flower at all.

 

[Coluka]

Juniniyo
Frank Kwadrew
Alan Bostik
Fatty Foggon
Ugo Eggnog

 

[Michael_Vronsky]

Big John a 'carthorse'? Surely not. Hickton was superb.

 

[autism_awareness]

Not my dad, but my grandad just couldn't say Juninho properly, he pronounced it Juheeno

Like every other person on Teesside. A pet peeve of mine lol.

 

[the_dormouse]

My late father in law always pronounced Yakubu as Yak-a- boo

 

[fella]

Not my dad, but my grandad just couldn't say Juninho properly, he pronounced it Juheenoa friends

Not my dad again, but a friend's dad called him Euginho. He just thought that was his name.