[Archived] The Americanisation Of Soccer (that`s Football To You & Me)

[cletus]

American sport is full of teams with wierd & wonderful names .... (LA Raiders, San Fransisco 49ers, Detroit redwings etc...)

all very colourful indeed. Some sports have 'latched on' (copied) this side of the pond too, like rugby league & county cricket adding fancy tags to their names (Leeds Rhinos, bradford Bulls, Lancashire Lightning etc...)

So just for a bit of closed season fun, what would you change British football clubs to ....if you could 'americanise' them??

Be as funny, cruel or original as you wish. Just make sure it sounds good being said in a really bad american accent & try to incorporate something the club is 'known' for.

for starters, what about....

The Liverpool 5 stars

The Arsenal Frenchers

The Manchester 58ers (ouch!)

The North London Newcastles - (spurs)

Leeds Minus 15ers

.....surely you can do better?

[Grabbi Graeme]

The Burnley knuckle draggers

[Mc Love]

They tried over here with Rugby Union....like Munster stags and Leinster Lions and we were having none of it!!

Blackburn Bruisers

[RibbleValleyRover]

I've seen us called Blackeye Rovers in the media a lot over the past few years.

[they_think_its_all_rover]

Yeah, Rugby League clubs all did it when the Super League started... but some of the newer teams arn't adding the names... like London Broncos became Harlequins RL.

Here in Hull, Hull FC became Hull Sharks at the start of Super League, but went back to the traditional Hull FC.

though those names do add something some of the time, like I think it works well with Catalans Dragons.

What about the Pro Evo names? ...some of those are ok... some are REALLY badly thought out though. I have a really bad feeling their going call Hull City, 'Humberside'

Probably going off the Southern based media who don't know whats going on North of Watford... some papers still say Humberside, even though it was only a council boundary not a county boundary and was only about for a few decades and has been abolished for over 12 years.

I think Rovers name on Pro Evo could be a bit more inspired... maybe something like Lancs Rover Blues or soemthing?

[they_think_its_all_rover]

Oh and...

Manchester former club of DAVID BECKHAM United (just for the Yanks)

&

(we all hate) Leeds Scum United

[philipl]

Is that Manchester Broncos web site still going and is the author still 12 and a half years old?

[chocky]

The Burnley Sister Sh@ggers...

[jny]

Burnley SNW (scourge of the north west)

[BlueMonday]

Blackburn Pariahs.

Burnley Hilltrolls

Horwich Wanderers

City Steelers

[cletus]

Is that Manchester Broncos web site still going and is the author still 12 and a half years old?

Manchester Buccaneers.....

Blackburn....northern prison side. I like it!

[cletus]

Horwich Hoofers (bolton)

Big City Chiefs (birmingham)

[Tim Southampton Rover]

MK Dons

[rebelmswar]

World-wide Wagon Jumpers United (No need to add name)

[Ronin]

Lancashire United

[Howard Gayle RulesOK]

This is one low rent thread

[mode_m]

Blackburn Steelers

[Sandiway Blue]

Blackburn Raiders.

Also Boston stranglers?

[Rover Down Under]

Closet Cottagers (Fulham)

Delusional Dynamos (Big Club)

The Imported (Arsenal)

Mean Money Making Machine (Man U)

Hillsborough Crushers (Liverpool - oooh)

Toffee Nosed Tykes (Everton)

Bargain Bin Barcodes (Nuke)

Oil Slick Kickers (Chelsea)

Hells Bells (Portsmouth)

Crooked Thighs (Man City - Thighs = Thais)

Tighty Kykies (Spurs)

Petulant Piers (Wigan)

Stratospheric Booters (Bolton)

Thorny Thumpers (Rovers)

[James No. 7]

Manchester Universe

Bolton Reebok

Blackburn Mills

And a couple from Australia:

Sydney Harbor

Queensland Sunshine

[Gareth]

Leigh Genesis

Official site

[Darth Paul]

Birmingham City 69ers

[Billy Castell]

Tottenham Bog Roll (after all the crap about them that's on paper)

Birmingham Twitchers (like Bill Oddie, they're associated with many varieties of tits)

[RoversFanUSA]

Way to blow it F.C. (Arse)

Beckham F.C. (LA Galaxy)

F.C. Mabye (F.C. Twenty, after McClaren takes over )

Bigger then we are F.C. (Big club)

[cletus]

Bradford Flames (ouch!)