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My little boy is signed up for toddler football thing at weekends. I recently got an email from the organiser with the names of all the participants...the names are as follows:

Jayden
Corben
Mia
De Sousa
Roman
Samuel
Teddy
Ethan
Josh
Sam
Calum
Jack
Finley
Beau
Lori
Luci
Ioan
Reise
Oakley




Not a peter or john in sight.

broken britain

my old mans called roman.

 Not a Mohammed, Izrak, or Faizan in sight....not to mention a Dipak, Sanjay, or Parvinder.

 When will football reach out to the Asian community?

You've got Jack, which is short for John and Teddy is short for Edward.
Two Sams as well.

It's not quite "kings + queens and names from the bible", but it's not so far off.

That said, whoever named their child after a brand of sunglasses or the german word for travel needs a word in their ear.

Samuel/Sam, Jack and Luci are ok.

You have to assume that the parents of the other children don't really like them much. 'Oakley'  ::)

Isnt STFCLady a bit old to be doing a toddlers football course? ;)

Closed shop the Asian football team, all for one and one for all as long as you dont mix with other children from different creeds.

Sure that will bring a comment, que Talk Talk!

Jack is short for John? How does that work then? I've tried working it out with maths, but it's not adding up.

As in John F Kennedy was know as Jack by his family.

No comment.

I know this to be true, but like spacey, I can't quite get it.  Now, if it was short for Bob, well fair enough.

I think my calculator is broken.

Asians love their Cricket more than football.

Probably not. Try pressing the 'nickname' button, rather than the 'short for' button.

asian lads are mad on football.most of them just seperate themselves from the others and keep it to themselves.
take st josephs school for instance.they have asian only football matches there.
take a walk around the couty ground on a sunday.there will be asain lads having a kick about for sure.

What a swizz! I wasn't questioning it as a nickname.

More pertinently, John Charlton is generally known as Jack. I think Jack has now become a name in it's own right, and would appear as such on a birth certificate.

Yeah, always see a few some having a kick about outside the DRS.

However, I cant say I see many asians actually inside the County Ground.

Manning the turnstiles?

And what to you nickname your balls? ;)

Actually my old best mate was called Roman (quite a commonish name for Polish people I understand), he used to live in Tydeman Street in Gorse Hill.

Yeah....how do you account for someone like Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

Jean is clearly French for John and Jacques is clearly French for Jack...so does that make him Jean Jean Rousseau....does it fuck he was Jean-Jacques

Goan...you're having a laugh..

It isn't derived from French apparently.


http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/513387/nicknames_how_john_became_jack_and.html?cat=37 (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/513387/nicknames_how_john_became_jack_and.html?cat=37)

Reg didn't say it was derived from French.

Don't worry Reg, it made me chuckle :)

Jack is a mad name...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfR6d_VEuA

the chameleons <3

Leicester are the only club I can think of that have a reasonably sized asian fan base.

Blades and Leeds up here have a fair few asian fans but Leicester seem to have mad a bit of an effort to include that section of their local community.

Oh dear

I am sure that Reg doesn't give a shit either way :-p