Most misspelled football player names in history? (excluding Eastern Europe)

[Fortitude]

- Maradona - by far the most misspelled name I've ever seen (Maradonna). Seen more than his actual name.

- Schmeichel - take your pick of misspellings for this one.

Beat that!

 

[Yagami]

Cleverley spelt as Cleverly

 

[Unlikely lad]

Solksjaer

 

[Damien]

Eriksen. It isn't even that bloody hard to spell.

Unless you're looking at them as a squad, competing on multiple fronts over a gruelling season, that comparison doesn't work. We can switch out more players than they can whilst maintaining a certain standard, there's no way they can do the same.

Alderweireld, Wanayama, Ericksen, Alli and Kane make up their proper spine and none of them can afford to be missing or have an off day. We've not got the same reliance on core players to come out the other end with a result, even if what we do to acquire those pts isn't the prettiest (as attested to in the absence of Pogba.)

They've the first xi, but they don't have a better squad. They are ill-equipped to go deep in the CL whilst battling in the league - one will invariably derail the other even if they try to focus on both campaigns at once.

Sissoko has come on for Ericksen

Kane would improve any team and I certainly think they are weaker without him but I wouldn't call them toothless. Thought they did okay today at times and cut us open towards the end. Alli really should have buried that chance. What will be interesting though is when Madrid come calling next summer and Barca sign Erikkson. Then I think Poch is up sh*ts creek without a paddle

 

[Americano]

Here's one that's easy to forget: Well-beck.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

Let me see now, names I have to copy and paste from Google....

I've always rated Papastathopoulos.

 

[Raw]

Maybe not the most, but we still get people typing Lingaard or Lindgard or whatever because we used to have Lindegaard at the club

 

[peridigm]

Mickytareian

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

Oh, and Mkhitaryan ain't no cakewalk.

EDIT beaten to it.

 

[King Eric 7]

Anders Lindegaard, continuously confused with Lingard.

 

[Damien]

Maybe not the most, but we still get people typing Lingaard or Lindgard or whatever because we used to have Lindegaard at the club

Yeah that one I can kinda understand.

 

[Wiltord02]

Patrick Vieira. Loads of people miss the second I.

 

[Randall Flagg]

Never seen maradona as one. But still to this day I can never spell Big Pete’s surname and rarely attempt it

 

[BarstoolProphet]

If you see Poland as an Eastern European country then Schmeichel should be excluded from your list

 

[Damien]

Mickytareian

Oh, and Mkhitaryan ain't no cakewalk.

EDIT beaten to it.

Title does say excluding Eastern Europe.

 

[Fortitude]

Eriksen. It isn't even that bloody hard to spell.

I have to be honest, I've never even thought to check the spelling of his name. I've probably called him Ericksen more times than his actual name. Guilty as charged!

 

[Sigma]

Any player from Poland.

e.g.

Jakub Błaszczykowski

 

[Fortitude]

Patrick Vieira. Loads of people miss the second I.

Great call! That's an excellent one.

 

[Peyroteo]

Renato Sanchez
Raphael Guerrero

 

[oneniltothearsenal]

Title does say excluding Eastern Europe.

Armenia is not Eastern Europe

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

Title does say excluding Eastern Europe.

I'm sure he edited that, the sneaky dog.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

Armenia is not Eastern Europe

Oh, I mean this.

 

[Fortitude]

If you see Poland as an Eastern European country then Schmeichel should be excluded from your list

See, I learned something new today - had no idea his name was Polish!

Thank ya kindly.

 

[Kostur]

You guys call Poland Eastern Europe again and I swear I'll feck you up.

 

[Damien]

Armenia is not Eastern Europe

It depends. Some would say they're in Europe, some would say they're in Asia but I assume when Fortitude made the thread, Mkhitaryan wasn't a name he had in mind.

I'll ask the resident Armenian for his thoughts @Slevs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cvenzmgylg1t/armenia

BBC:

Armenia country profile

Provides an overview of Armenia, including key events and facts about this eastern European country

 

[R.N7]

Özil and Lindelöf, people keep forgetting the ”ö”.

 

[oneniltothearsenal]

It depends. Some would say they're in Europe, some would say they're in Asia but I assume when Fortitude made the thread, Mkhitaryan wasn't a name he had in mind.

I'll ask the resident Armenian for his thoughts @Slevs

Geographically Armenia is in the Caucasuses.

Of course if you go by UEFA then Israel is also a European country.

 

[SLBenfica1904]

Every portuguese surname that has a similar surname in Spain, like Renato Sanchez instead of Renato Sanches, Patrick Viera instead of Patrick Vieira.

 

[Macern]

Maybe not the most, but we still get people typing Lingaard or Lindgard or whatever because we used to have Lindegaard at the club

This! It used to annoy me so much earlier, luckily it's not occurring very often nowadays

 

[Macern]

Bailey

 

[The Stain]

A lot of people on this forum seem to think we have someone named Bailey playing for us.

 

[The Stain]

Bailey

meh

 

[Jev]

Özil and Lindelöf, people keep forgetting the ”ö”.

Yeah, any German with an ü or an ö in their name would probably be the boring but correct answer.

 

[Chipper]

Ruud used to get called Rudd a lot.

 

[Lord SInister]

Patrick Vieira. Loads of people miss the second I.

I always feck up his name.
actually I fcuk up spelling often

 

[Red Devil 26]

Wesley Sneijder was often spelt Schneider.

 

[spwd]

Gabby Agbongalor

 

[Damien]

Özil and Lindelöf, people keep forgetting the ”ö”.

While you're technically correct, I think that is just a matter of laziness/not all keyboards being easy to use umlauts. I know how to spell both but just use a regular 'o', or, on occasion 'oe'

 

[spwd]

While you're technically correct, I think that is just a matter of laziness/not all keyboards being easy to use umlauts. I know how to spell both but just use a regular 'o', or, on occasion 'oe'

Same here, I don’t think i have that o to post on ios?

 

[Chipper]

Özil and Lindelöf, people keep forgetting the ”ö”.

A big part of it is having no idea how to type it other than copying/pasting then deciding that it's too much hassle.

Edit: Same with anyone with an "é". Just had to go to Pelé's Wiki for that.