Spurs the only team

[Secret Visage]

If your mate was called Dave Middlesbrough, you wouldn't call him Dave Boro.

No he'd be referred to as Smoggy Dave.

 

[Vauxie]

It was their official name for 20 years. Orient FC. Before that they were also Clapton Orient.

Clapton ha ha class

OP argument would be that Forest is part of club name. As is Orient. As is Palace. But he cant explain why Boro is associated with Middlesbrough just as much as Spurs is with Tottenham.

So have I won?

 

[TwasOnTheFifthOfMay]

Clapton ha ha class

So have I won?

Dunno, we're deep, deep into extra time and staring penalties in the face.

 

[AlpineExile]

How about Billingham Synthonia (who are known as the Synners as it so happens) for being the only English football club with a made up word as the second part of their name?

 

[TwasOnTheFifthOfMay]

How about Billingham Synthonia (who are known as the Synners as it so happens) for being the only English football club with a made up word as the second part of their name?

Wasn't it the plastic they used to make in their factory?

Edit: almost right - short for synthetic ammonia.

 

[Harbour Boy]

For some reason Jarrow get called South Shields, despite playing in jarrow.

 

[OnienRoll]

If your mate was called Dave Middlesbrough, you wouldn't call him Dave Boro.

Mutant Dave

 

[Edinburgh Black Cat]

Dave Wanderers

 

[AlpineExile]

Dave Wanderers

We always call him Stiv down the local.

 

[The Hesford Diet]

Charlton Athletic are referred to in commentary, written articles, and supporters as The Addicks. Though that might be a tribute to former player Ally Dick.

 

[Hair Flick]

Charlton Athletic are referred to in commentary, written articles, and supporters as The Addicks. Though that might be a tribute to former player Ally Dick.

In one of those spooky coincidences, the OP is also often referred to as A dick.

 

[dangermows]

If your mate was called Dave Middlesbrough, you wouldn't call him Dave Boro.

This

 

[Hbk69]

This

No, David Middlesbrough would be Dave Middlesbrough, not David Boro

 

[Hbk69]

In one of those spooky coincidences, the OP is also often referred to as A dick.

Reported

 

[dangermows]

No, David Middlesbrough would be Dave Middlesbrough, not David Boro

We just call him Boro.

 

[AlpineExile]

No, David Middlesbrough would be Dave Middlesbrough, not David Boro

So, Barack Obama ...

 

[Hair Flick]

Reported

Martin Tyler told me.

 

[ShieldsBlackCat2015]

To not be named after their real name in English football.

Tottenham's name comes from the name of a 14th-century man from Northumberland, Sir Harry Hotspur who featured in one of Shakespeare’s plays, Henry the Fourth. He was a soldier, and a very fierce fighter and his descendants owned land in the Tottenham Marshes which became Tottenham. So, the team from Tottenham adopted this name and became Tottenham Hotspur, which is shortened to ‘Spurs’.

You only had to explain.

 

[Oli Wagkz]

Wolves is their first real name like Dave instead of David. You certainly wouldn't say the real name of someone called David Hotspur is Spurs

Dave Hotspur

 

[Ambivalent Dave]

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