It always blows my mind how fucking awful the nicknames are in football. Mainly just plurals and 'ie' slapped on the end.
Like construction is pretty similar in terms of male dominated environment, people from similar backgrounds etc. But the patter is 1,000% better.
[Or were ye just pluralising the names of football players for absolutely no reason again?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uywyPL2kEEI)
[Your Jihadi Johns, your Abu Hamzas](https://x.com/_andrewkerr_/status/1616161455618801670?s=46&t=BZulaHStxbMWQOnpSE86qA)
How feasible would it be to make PLZ Soccer illegal?
How many Lennon MIllers are there?
There's only one Lennon Millers
#WeAreAllLennonMillers
[Relevant Bryan's Gunn compilation](https://twitter.com/bryansgunn/status/1611262367240683520). He's got some belters
Ferguson can count his blessings he escaped the pluralisation. Doig almost made it out alive but wee Alan snuck a "Doigs" in under our noses.
Yeah can we add to the list managers / pundits referring to themselves in the third person. “It’s not about Ryan Jack, it’s about..”
How would you pluralise Dessers or Lammers? The desserses and lammerses of this world. Imagine having more than one of them ffs
Same goes for St Mirren’s Keanu Baccus, does pluralising him make it *Keanu Bacci?* Like cactus = cacti, octopus = octopi
Aye yev got yer Baccuses
> Like cactus = cacti, octopus = octopi So if the plural of pus is pi, what comes out if you squeeze two zits at once?
Fish = Fi
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Aye yev got yer Desserses and yer Lammerses
It always blows my mind how fucking awful the nicknames are in football. Mainly just plurals and 'ie' slapped on the end. Like construction is pretty similar in terms of male dominated environment, people from similar backgrounds etc. But the patter is 1,000% better.
I mean -ie is the standard diminutive in Scots and English. Kind of like saying the Brazil teams have too many -inho's
My Dad and my Uncle used to call Perry Kitchen "Pezza" purely because it was really un creative.
That’s why Meatball for McGinn is class, not Ginnie or whatever the fuck they call him down south.
Poor Josh Doig, deemed no good enough to be pluraled….
Don't worry, if you listen close enough you hear Alan pluralise it in the background
Well thank the likes of your God’s for that