Mispronounced player names

[Yorkshire Blue]

obviously there's Anton Outl... Anton Otul.. Otlu.. er... Anton back in the 80s.

What other Southend players regularly or amusingly had their names butchered?

I remember us playing away in some Northern hell-hole (excuse the tautology) and Phil Gridelet's name being read out with a flourish as if he was some exotic French superstar rather than the superstar from Hendon that he actually was. I can't remember whether that was before or after that tabloid newspaper piece* that named him as one of Britain's most eligible bachelors.



*When I say tabloid, it might have actually been the Roots Hall Roar

 

[jaffa1]

It was a tabloid........the RHR called him a lot worse!

 

[Richard Hearn]

I also fondly remember the 80s "announcer" (I forget his name) and if ever an opposing player had an exotic foreign name like Sean or Seamus, he would pronounce it as written (SEEN and SEE-MUSS). I always looked forward to it. I would love to hear him have a go at some of today's monickers.

 

[Member]

You say Flahavan, I say Flahavan...

 

[Mad Cyril]

Francesco Caggiagao

 

[Crawliano]

Drewe Broughton.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I also fondly remember the 80s "announcer" (I forget his name) and if ever an opposing player had an exotic foreign name like Sean or Seamus, he would pronounce it as written (SEEN and SEE-MUSS). I always looked forward to it. I would love to hear him have a go at some of today's monickers.

To be fair Irish names are ridiculous, they bear no resemblance to the letters whatsoever. Although my struggle with them may be as a result of growing up in the 80s listening to the Roots Hall announcer....

 

[ChalkwellShrimper]

obviously there's Anton Outl... Anton Otul.. Otlu.. er... Anton back in the 80s.

What other Southend players regularly or amusingly had their names butchered?

I remember us playing away in some Northern hell-hole (excuse the tautology) and Phil Gridelet's name being read out with a flourish as if he was some exotic French superstar rather than the superstar from Hendon that he actually was. I can't remember whether that was before or after that tabloid newspaper piece* that named him as one of Britain's most eligible bachelors.



*When I say tabloid, it might have actually been the Roots Hall Roar

Now this gent could (can?) play a bit...BUT if you got his name wrong he got mad, very mad infact and he was always ready to give you a hand to let you know how his name should be pronounced Thump. Sacre bleu!

 

[Rob Noxious]

Chris You Funkin Cahnt Ramsey.

 

[RHB]

Dorian Dervite-Vaussoue, known as Dorian Dervite was only spoken of as Doris in my area of the West. And have you noticed that in the current squad Bwomono is often only referred to as Elvis? uh-huh-huh
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[southendkid]

I think everyone's learnt how to pronounce it by now but Fortune got his surname mispronounced a lot when he arrived here.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

To be fair Irish names are ridiculous, they bear no resemblance to the letters whatsoever. Although my struggle with them may be as a result of growing up in the 80s listening to the Roots Hall announcer....

English is hardly a phonetic language you know.Thump

 

[Bromley Blue]

Stephen McLaughlin has his name regularly spelt wrong on here. And yes I checked I’d spelt it right before posting this.

 

[FarmdogSUFC]

Not a player but I would often mispronounce Phil Brown's name as ****

 

[wildheart]

In all honesty Phil Gridelet's hair was the best I have seen on a footballer...what was the game he thumped a volley from 25 yards into the South Bank net? Circa 1993/4

 

[RobM]

Michael Knightly at Wimbledon.

 

[Firestorm]

I recall a Home programme against Scunthorpe many years ago where Scunny had a certain Kevin Geegan playing

 

[fbm]

I'm sure Damien Scannell was referred to as Slanner in a programme once...

But as for one player that it was frankly hilarious to hear the announcer have a go at - ladies and gentlemen, I give you Tamika Mkandawire.

 

[Southminster Shrimper]

Barratt. That used to wind me up. How could you get a club legend's name wrong???!!!:cry:

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

Just listen out for any name read out at home by that announcer we have. I'm sure that bloke could mispronounce 'John Smith'