Non - Footballers with animal nicknames

[SlowDownDerek]

Attillo Lombardo is a two pointer - known as the ostrich in Italy and the bald eagle in England.

 

[RichGo]

Garrincha = Little bird

Real name: Manuel Francisco dos Santos (but he always played under the nickname of Garrincha).

 

[simonhpieman]

Adam the LLama?

Me and my brother used to call the French number 18 Youri DonkeyJeff

 

[Hoof_It]

David Armstrong - Bald Eagle

 

[table]

Nat Lofthouse - the Lion of Vienna.

 

[table]

Andy Hessentaler - Pug ugly little Runt : )

 

[table]

Neil Warnock - Weasel faced Cock : )

 

[adam0102]

Steven Gerraardvark

 

[SlowDownDerek]

Phillip Cuckoo

 

[canadiancherry]

Javier Hernandez - Chicharito (little Pea) . . . OK, it's a vegetable, which is kind of even funnier

 

[RobTrent]

Good stuff SDD, two nicknames for one player.

Some of you are just being silly ;-) But they're still good.

 

[Kenya Cherrie]

Colin Bell.... Nijinsky, racehorse

 

[Ken Baileys Ghost]

Being topical here.

Eddie 'The Goat' Howe.

Greatest Of All Time

 

[wingsnwheels]

Not an animal but how about Dover's Nortei Nortey for an unusual name?

 

[SlowDownDerek]

Not an animal but how about Dover's Nortei Nortey for an unusual name?

Very nortey - I've heard that Eezer Goode.

 

[afcdibby]

John Smeulders - The Bear

 

[fritter]

Rhino.

 

[adam0102]

Phillip Cuckoo

Efan Ecuckoo?

 

[yesyescherry]

luis suarez - the beaver

 

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John "Budgie" Burridge.