Nicknames

Sorry if some of these have already been mentioned.

Fobba
Marigold
Pinpoint (tbf this could’ve been just our small group of friends)
Mr Tanfastic
I’m still

You’re still what? :thinking:

That was a nickname (among some fans) for one of our ex players.

Michael Standing?

Correct.

Two Yard Ted - Roy Mc Donough. His team mates at WFC cruelly said he was deadly from 2 yards out!

To bring in a non-Walsall one, Fitz Hall’s nickname was the brilliant, " One Size."

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When I was a kid, a ‘Fobba’ was the next size up from a standard marble.

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Another non-Walsall one - I can only ever think of Neil Warnock as “Colin”. :laughing:

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Had a couple of flashbacks to the same era.

I’m sure Wayne Evans was known as “Duncan”, have no idea why.

And before he became Killer, Lighbourne was unkindly referred to as Lighthouse due to his perceived lack of mobility.

No one has identified Concrete Boots yet - and I’ve forgotten who it was :roll_eyes: But I remember him scoring at Cardiff (when we won 1 - 0 ?). Who the heck was it?

A nice easy 1 .asbo

I’ve always been pretty sure that Duncan is Evo’s actual first name. His Wiki has him listed as “Wayne Duncan Evans”, so perhaps not, but there was a poster of him in the programme once that had “Duncan Wayne Evans” listed in his Bio. Could’ve been either a misprint or an inside joke, mind.

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Thanks for that.

I’d always assumed it was a nickname rather than part of his actual name. Thought he had a penchant for doughnuts “Dunkin/Duncan”. But obviously not.

Keith Bertschin

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Correct!

If I remember correctly, there was some speculation whether or not he was gay - which may have led to the nickname … or it could just have been that most people thought he was a big girl’s blouse! Whatever, he used to get dog’s abuse from quite a lot of fans at the time but then one game away at Mansfield (was it the same one as the famous downpour? And us in an open end! :cloud_with_lightning_and_rain: :umbrella:) he put in a great performance that won a lot of people round and he was (mostly) much better treated by them afterwards.

He had quite a strange run and his hands used to hang loose

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Yes, a bit like that world class striker Stirling from Citeh.
World class my ar$e, stop sniggering at the back.

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I know we never called him The Reverand but for Peter Hart it would have been appropriate . He was good at crossing…
Taken from The Guardian .
The former Walsall and Huddersfield midfielder Peter Hart became the Reverend Peter Hart following his retirement from the game. “Whatever I do I like to do it wholeheartedly and to the best of my ability,” he said in 2009. “I chose to enter the church, although that only became the case later in my career when I became a Christian at Walsall and started attending a local church before I sensed God’s call to ordination.”

I remember him, i used to give him some stick, didn’t he play in an FA cup game at Telford? i think i remember seeing Marky Reece outside on crutches?