The most Dickensian-sounding footballers

edna krabappel

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Inspired by our very own Solomon March, who I fancy should really have been a stern faced lawyer in Great Expectations, who are the most Dickensian-sounding footballers please?

I'll throw in Mr Jacob Butterfield, who was almost certainly a kindly-faced but perennially poor grocer in a previous life, and Mr Nathaniel Knight-Percival (not sure what he'd be, but he'd be titled and loaded).

 

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El Sid

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That famous goalkeeper - Bob Catchit

 

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Albert Jarrett.

 

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El Sid said:

That famous goalkeeper - Bob Catchit

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Somewhat cheating though

 

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Apart from the old and curious Mr Edward Sheringham I have previously offered, I also proffer for your esteemed consideration Mr Donald Pickwick of Norwich City fame. I understand that there were some problems with his papers.

 

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edna krabappel said:

Somewhat cheating though

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Does Ebenezer Bloom count?

 

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Mr. Martin Hinshelwood - the local funeral director?

 

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Stern John was a presbyterian minister in a previous life shirley

 

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Jack Butland sounds like the local Blacksmiths apprentice. Of working class background but with the looks and charm to turn even the best bred ladies head.

 

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Joseph Fagan.

 

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Tom Cleverly, the Manors stable boy.

 

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Tom Huddlestone, the local mason.

 

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edna krabappel said:

Inspired by our very own Solomon March, who I fancy should really have been a stern faced lawyer in Great Expectations, who are the most Dickensian-sounding footballers please?

I'll throw in Mr Jacob Butterfield, who was almost certainly a kindly-faced but perenially poor grocer in a previous life, and Mr Nathaniel Knight-Percival (not sure what he'd be, but he'd be titled and loaded).

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Shurely King Solomon, man of 100 wives, predates Dickens by a few thousand years?

 

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I can't believe this has gone so far without Robert Snodgrass being mentioned

he's a poacher or something

 

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Wasn't William Edward Buckley a mill owner's son in Hard Times? Well he should have been.

 

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Tyrone Biggums said:

Tom Cleverly, the Manors stable boy.

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A good 'earted an' 'ard workin' but simple lad, no doubt.

 

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Pevenseagull said:

I can't believe this has gone so far without Robert Snodgrass being mentioned

he's a poacher or something

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Tremendous

We need more villainous sorts here.

 

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Gritty, hard as nails blacksmith Norbert Stiles?

 

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Frank Worthington the local innkeeper