Random footballers from years gone by that you remember for no reason...

[Chipper]

Steve Potts
Steve Chettle
Sasa Ilic (the ex-charlton ' keeper, there's another player with the same name)
Sasa Curcic

 

[GMok]

Lazar Markovic

 

[tenpoless]

Morten Gamst Pedersen

 

[ThinkTank@Cafe]

Emil Mpenza
Ousmane Dabo
Shaun Goater (scored against us in 3:1 City win)
Brett Emerton
Keisuke Honda
Gustavo Poyet
Maniche

 

[Rossa]

Morten Gamst Pedersen

Random, irrelevant?

Decent Norwegian international who arguably had the greatest dive for a penalty, ever!

 

[Andy_Cole]

Abel Xavier

 

[Arlo]

Stern John
Lucas Radebe
Izzy Muzzet

 

[adexkola]

Mario Melchiot

 

[JimiboyX]

Duncan Jupp

 

[tenpoless]

Random, irrelevant?

Decent Norwegian international who arguably had the greatest dive for a penalty, ever!

Neymar would be proud if he saw that clip.

 

[Bole Top]

Kuzmanovic (Fiorentina)
Javi Moreno

 

[antohan]

Dean Windass

Very aptly surnamed. Stocky chap who had a facial expression like he was passing wind.

Thought I was done but….

Christ on a bike, some of these names.

Admirable resilience.

I gave up on post two describing two-times CL winner Cristian Panucci as "a cheap 1m player on CM 00".

It's clear way too many just listed "random players" they only knew through a PC game.

Izzy Muzzet

Muzzy Izzet

 

[Juicy Juiced]

Hungarian keeper who was always wearing grey trainers. Gabor Kiraly

 

[maurinho]

Aaron Hughes, mostly because some version of no licenses PES had his name as Arc Hugo.

James Beattie
Robert Snodgrass
Dado Prso
Christian Wilhelmsson
Sabri Sarioglu
Yehven Konoplyanka
Rio Mavuba
Massimo Oddo
Amauri
Wayne Routledge

 

[Chairman Steve]

Stan Lazaridis

Mainly because Peter Brackley used to pronounce his surname so eloquently on old Premier League highlights

 

[Alex99]

Izzy Muzzet

Muzzy Izzet - world cup semi-finalist

 

[golden_blunder]

Michael Hughes
Tony Dorigo
Ian Dowie
Ian Bishop
Paul Walsh
Keith Curle
Gary Albert
Rob Jones
Anders Limpar
Gary Walsh
Afonso Alves
Dalian Atkinson
Jurgen Klinsmann

 

[golden_blunder]

Jeremy Goss
Giuliano Maiorana

 

[Rauður Djöfull]

Ed De Goye

 

[tenpoless]

Zoran Tosic (next Ronaldo according to me mate)

 

[GlasgowCeltic]

Frank Quedrue

 

[ExoduS]

So what is this thread about ?! Remembering some bench warmer in Slovakian third division ?!

 

[Malkovich]

Kevin Kuranyi

 

[Mercurial]

Trifon Ivanov,
Enrgized his NT to a 4th place in WC'94. Earned the respect and the shirt of Cantona in their faceoff in UCL.
Drove his tanks on his farm for passtime.
Died way too young RiP.

 

[Rozay]

Newcastle had some guy called Chris Williamson a few years ago I think. Totally irrelevant, but within his own circles, probably by far the most relevant person anyone knows. Totally forgettable chap, who people probably wonder why he lives in a mansion everyday.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Boudewijn Zenden.
Christian Wilhelmsson.
Kim Kallstrom.

 

[arthurka]

Anthony Yeboah
Matt Holland
Robert Enke
Steve Bull

 

[Arlo]

Muzzy Izzet

Muzzy Izzet - world cup semi-finalist

Obviously, I was thinking of his erm.... sister?

 

[Anustart89]

Obviously, I was thinking of his erm.... sister?

That would be Fuzzy Mizzet

 

[simonhch]

Admirable resilience.

I gave up on post two describing two-times CL winner Cristian Panucci as "a cheap 1m player on CM 00".

It's clear way too many just listed "random players" they only knew through a PC game.

Well put. Maybe a bit of an age thing going on here too, because some of the names are world class players, and one can only imagine the only exposure they had to them was at the tail end of their careers or, as you say, through earlier editions of Championship Manager.

 

[Arlo]

That would be Fuzzy Mizzet

All was well in my head as I typed that out

Aaron Mokoena
Shaun Bartlett
Mark Fish

 

[Oranges038]

Steve Finnan

Robbie Blake

Shabani Nonda

 

[Baneofthegame]

Reggie Blinker.

 

[Forest Red]

A few from my team from years gone by:
Colin Cooper
Archie Gemmill
Steve Hodge
Nigel Clough
Gary Crosby

 

[horsechoker]

Tugay

 

[dazjoe]

Jody Morris.
Chris Fairclough & Chris Whyte
Gus Cesear
Rod Thomas
Bruce Dyer
Matt Jansen

 

[Jeppers7]

Matt Jansen. Took him out of my fantasy football team and the same day he scored a hattrick…Saw him in a bar in Manchester the same night ! and explained it to him. He asked me who I replaced him with and when I told him who (can’t remember who) he said ‘fair enough’

was a really nice guy.

 

[OL29]

Shefki Kuqi
Steed Malbranque
Talal El Karkouri
Henrik Pedersen

 

[P-Ro]

A few off the top of my head.

Igor Belanov
Emilio Butragueno
Fabio Grosso
Gabriel Batistuta
Lee Hughes

 

[fps]

Michael Hughes
Tony Dorigo
Ian Dowie
Ian Bishop
Paul Walsh
Keith Curle
Gary Albert
Rob Jones
Anders Limpar
Gary Walsh
Afonso Alves
Dalian Atkinson
Jurgen Klinsmann

One of these is not like the others.