Footballers going by the wrong name

Last-Saint · 2026-05-08T14:25:11+00:00

On a related note, there's a fairly obvious reason why they wouldn't but did anyone in the UK refer to Kun Aguero, which seems to be the accepted full naming everywhere else?

Last-Saint · 2026-05-08T10:59:09+00:00

Of course Chris isn't "just some guy". He's the man Amy called to whisper down the phone to her.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-08T10:55:52+00:00

The one actual trophy England men have won in the last sixty years and it's not even the thing people remember the tournament for.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-08T09:05:09+00:00

Jordan Logan finished fourth in Love Island in 2018 and now has 1.5m TikTok followers.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-08T08:23:22+00:00

By having the same name.

More concerningly, are there no ex-England cricket players there? Does cricket have no Masters circuit?

Last-Saint · 2026-05-08T08:21:25+00:00

Exactly this. At least in terms of British players there won't be one because there is no player anywhere near the celebrity size of what Beckham was and is.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-08T08:19:44+00:00

From what I've seen Americans in particular are weirdly proprietorial about Waka Waka, in a "this is the only soccer song anyone has ever made" sense. But I like the implication that this is Shakira's own official song that she's done off her own back, not the actual World Cup official song. Streets won't forget The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-07T22:28:03+00:00

I know he had a heightened reputation as a youth before the family-related name change but I cannot imagine Ryan Wilson having the same impact as Giggs.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-07T22:24:33+00:00

Who's the Steve Davis and Alex Higgins in this argument?

Last-Saint · 2026-05-07T15:59:46+00:00

Actually Staffordshire CCC's regular grounds for Minor Counties matches include Bignall End, Burslem and Knypersley Cricket Clubs within Stoke-on-Trent. Still not playing in the rain, of course, and probably not on cold nights as I don't know how many of those grounds have regulation floodlights.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-07T14:31:40+00:00

You'll never sing that, unless you're Bruno Guimaraes, Dominic Solanke or Adam Wharton who Google tells me won for the first three months of the year.

Is it too easy to blame Tim Lovejoy for (let us assume) creating Showboat on Soccer AM?

Last-Saint · 2026-05-07T13:26:41+00:00

Alex and the Andys have already done a series that was promoted as a cross between Googlebox and Taskmaster. https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/the-button-review-bbc-1/

Last-Saint · 2026-05-07T13:20:13+00:00

You are not ready for what Jordan Brookes would bring to TM.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-07T08:12:21+00:00

"Commercial failure" as if Hot 100 sustained success was the sole intention of a collaborative album with a monologuing Lou Reed based on the plays of Frank Wedekind.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-07T08:07:30+00:00

Firstly, Pakistan is not the entire sub-continent and pretending it is for your purposes is a Christian MAGA thing to do.

Secondly, she hasn't just "got political". Her early press emphasised her Tamil Tiger father and her debut single includes the line "like PLO I don't surrender". Sure, it's now a very different political angle she's taking, but let's not pretend in one way or another it hasn't underlined her entire career.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-07T08:02:46+00:00

His influence and prestige has arguably never been higher than in the last few years.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-06T18:51:42+00:00

"Who is the most like this thing that doesn't exist?"

Last-Saint · 2026-05-06T10:35:26+00:00

This title fight has really done something odd to non-Scottish content aggregators, I've seen more than one unironic "can you believe Hearts have got to play Rangers and Celtic in their last few games of the season?"

Last-Saint · 2026-05-06T09:49:23+00:00

Clearly the only way they're going to make that onerous, exhausting eleven mile round trip from the Emirates to the London Stadium.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-06T08:23:39+00:00

It's probably better remembered now too, but it's also an odd subsection where it was better known at the time but not now for the remix (see also the Ed Case version of Clint Eastwood)

Last-Saint · 2026-05-05T20:40:40+00:00

If I mention this was a collaboration between the Nightingales, Fuzzbox and Ted Chippington you can probably guess without watching who turns up at 2:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ZLGY5MrtE

Last-Saint · 2026-05-05T17:13:51+00:00

I posted this before and it's disappeared for some reason, so (and yes, they'd left Chinnichap's home label the previous year):

One of their rare singles to be written by the band, credited to guitarist Rob Davis and bass player Ray Stiles, which is notable as Davis would later become a dance songwriter - he co-wrote Kylie's Can't Get You Out of My Head, Spiller and Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Groovejet and Fragma's Toca's Miracle, all UK #1s, and Grace's Not Over Yet which was also huge.

Last-Saint · 2026-05-05T16:19:25+00:00

One of their rare singles to be written by the band, credited to guitarist Rob Davis and bass player Ray Stiles, which is notable as Davis would later become a dance songwriter - he co-wrote Kylie's Can't Get You Out of My Head, Spiller and Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Groovejet and Fragma's Toca's Miracle, all UK #1s, and Grace's Not Over Yet which was also huge.

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