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Top 25 football nicknames of all time

From the Galloping Major to the Romford Pele, Pies celebrates some of the best nicknames in football:

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THE GALLOPING MAJOR - FERENC PUSKAS Played for Budapest Honved, the Hungarian army's club, in which he attained the rank of major.

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Posted in Featured, Top 10s & lists | 10 Comments »

By Ollie Irish on November 10th, 2009 in Featured, Top 10s & lists. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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10 Responses to “Top 25 football nicknames of all time”

  1. Adam says:
    November 10, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    Got to give some recognition for “One Size” Fitz Hall! A fine list of footballing nicknames, Ollie.

  2. Ollie says:
    November 10, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    Cheers dude

  3. Dave says:
    November 10, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Surely Justin “Musselburgh” Edinburgh has got to be in there! Why? Because Musselburgh is Just In Edinburgh!

  4. Matt says:
    November 10, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    Kiki “Chris” Musampa = Christmas Hamper
    Festive too… nice list!

  5. Joe says:
    November 10, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    What, no Neil ‘Colin’ Warnock? ‘Tin-tin’ Van Persie? Julio “The Gardener” Cruz?

  6. kritter says:
    November 10, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    der kaiser aber nicht DER BOMBER??? Gert Müller!

  7. closEe says:
    November 20, 2009 at 4:57 am

    umm i like da wai dt this moment is true ! ehe

  8. Kev says:
    December 18, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Hermann Hreidarsson aka The Storm

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    January 14, 2010 at 11:01 am

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  10. Mark says:
    October 28, 2010 at 11:27 am

    Lionel Messi – “La Pulga” (The Flea). Keeps coming back to irritate you even after you give it a good few whacks.

    But my my, that England jersey on Donkey sure is a classic.

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