nevillew
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« Reply #15 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 14:00:24 » |
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Throstles.
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Paolo Di Canio, it's Paolo Di Canio
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Red Frog
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« Reply #16 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 14:01:32 » |
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Tout ce que je sais de plus sūr ą propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois. - Albert Camus
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« Reply #17 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 15:20:34 » |
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quot;Molten memories splashing down
upon the rooves of Swindon Town"
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« Reply #18 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 15:22:16 » |
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Woking - Cardinals, though I don't know whether that was bird or Catholicism related.
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« Reply #19 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 18:35:36 » |
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Got to say Robins is a totally naff nickname - really wuss sounding
Maybe but in the bird world they are mean mother fuckers actually. |
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« Reply #20 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 18:36:49 » |
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #21 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 18:40:57 » |
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Walsall, although nicknamed The Saddlers....were originally named Walsall known as Walsall Town Swifts, which is why they have a picture of a swift on their club badge...
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sonicyouth
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« Reply #22 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 18:46:07 » |
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Nicknames of clubs seem to either reflect local industry or are birds. I can understand why clubs use local industry as nicknames but what did the bird thing derive from?
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« Reply #23 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 18:47:38 » |
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Nicknames of clubs seem to either reflect local industry or are birds. I can understand why clubs use local industry as nicknames but what did the bird thing derive from?
Maybe that area has shit loads of those types of birds? |
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« Reply #24 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 18:52:23 » |
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Maybe that area has shit loads of those types of birds?
Yes, South Norwood Council has hell cleaning up the eagle shit. |
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Tout ce que je sais de plus sūr ą propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois. - Albert Camus
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ibelieveinmrreeves
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« Reply #25 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 18:58:26 » |
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Yes, South Norwood Council has hell cleaning up the eagle shit.
A full 3 minutes after reading this, it's still making me laugh. |
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Even men with steel hearts love to see a dog on the pitch.
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« Reply #26 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 19:01:01 » |
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When one robin fights another they would normally fight to the death  I once accidentally caught a robin in a mouse trap, I was heartbroken for days  |
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Red Frog
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« Reply #27 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 19:02:03 » |
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And why do dozens of teams wear red, but only three, within a fifty mile radius of each other, all call themselves Robins? I suggest we leave the name to Brizzle, call ourselves Spartans (viz other threads re origin) and leave Cheltenham to find something else evoking redness. Cheltenham Nosebleed would be quite appropriate.
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sonicyouth
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« Reply #28 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 19:04:27 » |
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Robins are fucking cool. But it is a shit nickname.
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« Reply #29 on: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 19:04:37 » |
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Nicknames of clubs seem to either reflect local industry or are birds. I can understand why clubs use local industry as nicknames but what did the bird thing derive from?
Palace copied the Eagles nickname from Benfica as part of a re-branding exercise, for no reason other than they thought it was cooler. Were the Glaziers before that. |
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