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Biffer wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 3:22 pm Wore a sleeveless t-shirt to play football once at school. Was called Tank for three years.

Better than wife beater I suppose.

Slick wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 3:37 pm

Biffer wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 3:22 pm Wore a sleeveless t-shirt to play football once at school. Was called Tank for three years.

Better than wife beater I suppose.

You got called Manbag for a while on here iirc
Possibly be me ;)

Biffer wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 3:22 pm Wore a sleeveless t-shirt to play football once at school. Was called Tank for three years.

Oh, that reminds me of a guy at my hometown club with a mop of blonde hair, always wore a bandana to training - Axel.

Tilly Orifice wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:22 am

Gumboot wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:40 pm Had a schoolmate with the surname Bates. Everyone called him Master.

I had a classmate with the surname Bates. One person called him Master Bates one time. Everybody laughed then resumed calling him by his first name.

Also had a Bates in our year. We called him master Bates all the time. He hated it.

Dropped a couple of easy lineout takes early in the season and that was it: from that day on and forever more, I would be known as 'Teflon'.

I love threads like this. My favourite nickname to date was for the footballer Fitz Hall, whose team mates called him One Size.

Yr Alban wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 1:11 pm I love threads like this. My favourite nickname to date was for the footballer Fitz Hall, whose team mates called him One Size.

Derek Asamoah was nicknamed "Flymo" by cobblers fans when manager Kevin Wilson explained to BBC Northampton that you pronounce his name "has-a-mower, like a flymo"