What the fuck is wrong with Brazilian footballers?

Adriano
Ronaldo
Ronaldinho
Robinho
Fred
Eduardo
Roberto Carlos
Luis Fabiano
Gilberto
Alan
Ricardinho

Translated, they are Adrian, Ronald, Ronnie, Robbie, Fred, Edward, Robert Charles, Louis Fabian, Gilbert, Alan and Little Richard.

I can't decide if they read like a chess club or a line-up of tribute acts on a tour of Eastern Europe with Little Richard as the headliner they all bounce off...

Oh, and Garrincha went by "Little Bird" as well. It's like calling a machine gun the Gatling Nancy

Just seen that there's a Danny at Zenit and quite spectacularly, Alan, previously mentioned, is at Salzburg with the marvellously plonkerish Rodnei

Going elsewhere in the world, I have previously referred to Bob Matthews not getting a look in but go to Italy, you become Roberto Di Matteo.

This week, it had never occurred to me until I was reading 50 Teams That Mattered (David Hartrick)[Tone, get on it, a tidy read]. Alfredo Di Stefano is Alf Stephenson. The Blond Arrow, Alf Stephenson? Fuck me, have they revived the Hotspur or the Eagle?

Oscar and Bernard, Maxwell too and a Victor? Fucking hell, did they pick their squad in the Garrick Club?

NotBert wrote: The Blond Arrow, Alf Stephenson?  Fuck me, have they revived the Hotspur or the Eagle?

   

Fred was substituted by Jo the other night.

I'm assuming Fred was on 3-11 while Jo was on nights and there's no overtime available at the minute in the corned beef factory? (Could I think of a Brazilian manufacturing industry? Yes, the fucking stereotype. And then thought of another one while typing)

NotBert wrote:Fred was substituted by Jo the other night.

I'm assuming Fred was on 3-11 while Jo was on nights and there's no overtime available at the minute in the corned beef factory?  (Could I think of a Brazilian manufacturing industry?  Yes, the fucking stereotype.  And then thought of another one while typing)