I’ve been whiling away a few minutes trying to think of Walsall players who had nicknames (that were well known and/or often used e.g. by fans or the press). I couldn’t come up with many at all - it seems mostly we actually use their NAMES :astonished.
So I thought I’d turn it into a quiz about the few I did remember and invite other UTSers to identify the players associated with certain nicknames - and then add their own to the quiz list. (Of necessity, most of mine are “old”. Also, some are very easy, some less so - and some may be disputed by the cognoscenti. Moreover, some were, shall we say, rather less than PC. But never mind).
So, who were these?
Tumble
Gyppo
Bonehead
Cannonball (aka The Chest)
Banana Boot (aka Shovelfoot)
Sniffer
Ropes
Ned
Clayt the Great
Rambo
That’s all I can come up with.
How many can you name?
How many can you add (without answers - to see how knowledgeable UTSers are)?
That was quick - and pretty good, too.
Now we have see if we know who’s who.
Whacka Jimmy Walker
Killer Kyle Lightbourne?
Jeff Peron?
Bobbins Mark Robbins
Peado Gino Padula?
So did we give Allan Clarke his “Sniffer” nickname? I’ve never thought about it, but assumed it was a Leeds thing.
Oh, and Mini is another one, most fans used that rather than his given name.
There was a player we had on loan, he scored at Stockport I think on a tuesday night, we called him Tugboat, or sometimes we called him Townsend Thoresen, but I forget what his actual name was.
