Micky Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 Currently in Germany working, but just phoned home to test the wife, (who I should point out wouldn't know a football from a rugby ball). Came staight out with MLT (divorce procedings would probably have been instigated had she not!!). She then named Kevin Keegan - pretty good for her. Next came that well know italian player that played for us for years (her words) - you know fellas - Francis Berlotti...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 Mine said Dominic Cork, Claus Lundekvam is the goalie, Lambert, Lallana and one of the Wright brothers (who Orville? I said) no Bradley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottie Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 My wife got Rory Delap, Wayne Bridge, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, James Beattie, MLT, Alan Shearer, Rickie Lambert, the brother who isn't Shaun Wright Phillips, that bloke who was on television yesterday and nicked stuff from a club, that bloke who was in hospital due to getting beaten up, that bald bloke who runs round a lot, Kevin Keegan and Goolies (think she meant Guly). At this point she started to guess and we gave up when she came up with Ally McCoist who played with MLT. Not a bad list given she is a Liverpool fan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 My girlfriend is an absolute 'saint' - converted mind. Apparently supported Liverpool when she was younger but in the past few years has been completely won over. She knows all of the players' names, can put most of them to faces and could probably run through most of our common chants as well. Spouts a lot less ****e about football than most on here actually Blimey I have one just like that at home, I would have got suspicious if you said she grew up in a house of Chelsea!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 Off topic but yesterday whilst watching the Swansea; Arsenal game, the missus asked me what the Swansea fans were singing? Upon answering with an "! don't know" she confidently replied that we sing that song!! I had to explain that we sing several songs to the same tune but very much doubted they were singing "you dirty Skate b@stards, we're coming for you!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SammyJ Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 Just asked my wife. She came up with; Kelvin Harris in goal, Adam Lamana, Morgan Spice, Dan Harris, Frazer Richards, Richard with the bald head and Ricky Lambert. Not bad!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 Which game FFS? You must have been holidaying in LA for well over a year for her to even find a name remotely resembling Papa Mango Maybe she's been stalking Papa Shango online? Golden thread btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 My missus comes with me to Saints games on occassion, (despite being a Norwich fan), so knows our players. Her favourite current player is Richard Chaplow, before that it was Michail Antonio. I'm assuming she likes them for their delightful attacking flair, rather than the way they look. I was proved wrong. I asked her when she came in, and for someone that watches our games, she did struggle. She got Kelvin Davis, but when I asked her who our back up keeper was, she just laughed and called him 'butterfingers'. (She was there at SMS vs Blackpool.) She listed Dan Harding as our right back (which is more accurate at present than she even realises) but couldn't name a left back or another right back. She got Jose Fonte but while she knew Hooiveld, she couldn't remember the name, and went for Ruddy Jaidi instead. In midfield she got Morgan Schneiderling, Richard Chaplow, Adam Lallana, Guly and Steve De Ridder (surprisingly), and up front she got Connolly, Lambert and Barnard. The one she got that I really didn't expect was Puncheon. All in all you could put a first team together of the players she knows, but the defence would be terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millbrooktonian Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 Fair play .I met my wife at work nine years ago,she had just started at my office ,it was the wayne bridge mug she had that first caught my eye,knew it was love when I visited her flat and discovered she had a cd of 76 cup final .She is well into footie . years ago took my daughter to her first game ,she thought super saint was one of our players ,a good call as probably better that than some of the s***e we had playing for us at the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamesaint Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 I asked. She didn't know any. On pressing she came up with MLT and "that tall, lanky one". I think she meant Peter Crouch - not Oscar Gobern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY Saint Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 My fiancee is a Texan (Dallas) and barely understands what's happening with football... still seems baffled there are no cheerleaders. However, she was able to name Rickie Lambert, confirm he was a striker and suggest he's been "sent off for three games." And Matthew Le Tissier. Not bad for a girl that has only attended the Walsall promotion party last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 I asked. She didn't know any. On pressing she came up with MLT and "that tall, lanky one". I think she meant Peter Crouch - not Oscar Gobern. Same for me - said "Matt Le Tissier and the lanky one...Crouch" I asked for anymore and got "Oh! Hoddle!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynameisthehulk Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesfp1 Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 I asked for 5 - I got 'Lambo' 'Guly' 'Chaplin' 'Lallana' and then a real struggle for 'England' (possibly going for hammond?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colehillsaint Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 my mrs got 6 plus "someone called hoos-i-velt" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clapham Saint Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Mine came up with: "I've no idea... hang on, Matt Le Tissier... um... Ryan Giggs?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Mines a Liverpool fan due to a family connection with a Liverpool legend, but I think she could name more Saints players than Liverpool. It helps of course that shes with me and that she often works for the Saints Founation. She would get Cork, Fox, Davis, Martin and Seaborne as shes worked with them. She'd also get Fonte as she knows his new wife. That would be it I think. She does get confused with the rules sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 mrs hamster's feeble attempt: Cole? A really obvious one but I can't remember 'is bloody name! Matt LeTiss. Did David Ginola play for 'em? Brian Giggs? That Katherine's brother who our ****** (daughter) went to school with, the Irish one? They lived in that house up near 'ill Lane randabowt? Got it, something Kenna. I have clearly been being ignored any humoured for the last 24 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawillwill Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 If they don't particuarly like football, or support Saints, why should they know the names of any players? I don't really get the joke if I'm honest. I doubt any of them expect you to know the names of the characters from Desperate Housewives (or whatever else they might be interested in) Also, why are so many people on this thread making up answers their wives and/or girlfriends have said? I find it strange that so many of the women you guys know, seem to be able to recall the first few letters of players' names and then get the rest of it horribly wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Mullet Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 My missus reckons Lua Lua plays for us. Bit odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 "There's that one, Chandler is it? Chamb'lin or something the young guy? I think this one's right but I'm not sure if it's Saints...But Angello? OH GERRARD! One....Sounds a bit like Samosa?" "Lallana?" "YEAH! The guy that lived next door to you, (By this she means Mark Blake). The one with bright coloured shoes too, can't remember his name" This was what I got... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLove Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 My wife when asked she said. Her (Me) Bart Man (Bart), Jesus (No longer with us), "well it's hard but if you say some I'll recognise the name". Oh dear it seems she pays as much attention to me and football as I do to her talking about shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilf Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 I ... expect you to know the names of the characters from Desperate Housewives ... Brie, Chardonnay, the blonde one with big honkers, the one with dark hair who had a son who turned out to be gay and married Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks, the latino couple who have the one-off marriage... Will that do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 If they don't particuarly like football, or support Saints, why should they know the names of any players? I don't really get the joke if I'm honest. I doubt any of them expect you to know the names of the characters from Desperate Housewives (or whatever else they might be interested in) Also, why are so many people on this thread making up answers their wives and/or girlfriends have said? I find it strange that so many of the women you guys know, seem to be able to recall the first few letters of players' names and then get the rest of it horribly wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 "There's that one, Chandler is it? Chamb'lin or something the young guy? I think this one's right but I'm not sure if it's Saints...But Angello? OH GERRARD! One....Sounds a bit like Samosa?" "Lallana?" "YEAH! The guy that lived next door to you, (By this she means Mark Blake). The one with bright coloured shoes too, can't remember his name" This was what I got... Samosa :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modern matron Posted 18 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 18 January, 2012 If they don't particuarly like football, or support Saints, why should they know the names of any players? I don't really get the joke if I'm honest. I doubt any of them expect you to know the names of the characters from Desperate Housewives (or whatever else they might be interested in) Also, why are so many people on this thread making up answers their wives and/or girlfriends have said? I find it strange that so many of the women you guys know, seem to be able to recall the first few letters of players' names and then get the rest of it horribly wrong. I started the thread and my wife's answers are not made up. She really tried to remember....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 I have just asked my wife and she replied"None" and wandered off. To be fair she doesn't watch any football but she did watch England in WC in Italy when Gassa cried. Of course it probably doesn't help that I dragged her on a tour of St. Marys in 2010 and she was a tad bored :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Mikie Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 It is 0730 in the morning, so please forgive my wife, but this is the response I got! "I know there is one called Goolie (Guly, she thinks that's funny), then isn't there Calamity James in goal, or does he play for England? (Big, big sorry for that one!). There is one called Llama (Lallana), there is that young one that keeps getting in fights (not to sure on that one?). Oh then there is the bold one that keeps getting in fights (think she means Chaplow, but not sure about the fights). Yes! There is Rickie something .... Gervais, no thats not it, is it!" Then as I started to right this she shouted through "No its Rickie Lambert not Gervais!" So in some small way she is redeemed! By the way she hates football in general! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 I am so F****** tempted to get Papa Mango on th back of a shirt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Reigned Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 On a slight tangent, Dave Merrington likes to call Aaron Martin 'Alvin' Martin. Plus my mate's dad used to say Marion 'Farars' and Claus 'Ludvekam'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 On a slight tangent, Dave Merrington likes to call Aaron Martin 'Alvin' Martin. Plus my mate's dad used to say Marion 'Farars' and Claus 'Ludvekam'. Merrington has always been crap with names. "Goooolie" "Pruuuuton" Ni-amy" "Cam-are-a" I'm sure theres more down the last few years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 On a slight tangent, Dave Merrington likes to call Aaron Martin 'Alvin' Martin. Plus my mate's dad used to say Marion 'Farars' and Claus 'Ludvekam'. Doesn'r Dave also call Guly - Julie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smith Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 What a great thread! Asked my wife, she amazed me she knew any, but immediately named 2! Matt le Tiss (agiven of course) & Robert Dyas! I lmao! She was convinced, as I laughed, he signed for Arsenal or Chelsea or one of those big teams! I suggested she meant Nathan Dyer, and yes, he went to one of the big 4, Swansea! That was it for my wife. My Mum and Dad popped round this evening, asked my mum the same question, she's 64 to give it some gravitus, she named Keegan Channon Ball MacMenamy & Draper (I think she was talking Draper Tools) ! Then, she started thinking and thought of Beattie and that tall skinny one, you know, the Bean Pole! But also got Clarke (as in Colin), amazed! My missus then jumped in with Gerrard! there's no helping my wife, but my mum impressed me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaver girl Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 jawillwill Don't expect a proper reply from this particular lot ...... as far as they are concerned you gotta have a d*** to enjoy football... 1950s throwbacks, more like 1900s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybeal Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 Mine likes the 2 Dan's - Dan Hardon and Dan F*cks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 jawillwill Don't expect a proper reply from this particular lot ...... as far as they are concerned you gotta have a d*** to enjoy football... 1950s throwbacks, more like 1900s More interestingly, are there any saints females out there who's fella has no interest in saints or football? Ask them the same question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 jawillwill Don't expect a proper reply from this particular lot ...... as far as they are concerned you gotta have a d*** to enjoy football... 1950s throwbacks, more like 1900s More interestingly, are there any saints females out there who's fella has no interest in saints or football? Ask them the same question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceandfriendly Posted 6 February, 2012 Share Posted 6 February, 2012 lol spoke to my dear mother last night on Skype, and according to her we've just signed a Japanese player called "Jimmy Tandoori" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 6 February, 2012 Share Posted 6 February, 2012 Mrs. Munster knows (and admires) MLT from the times she was willing to watch a Saints on TV with me a decade or so ago. She also remembers "Van Damme" (as she referred to Jeff Kenna) and "Duck face" (as she referred to Dowie) from that era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 6 February, 2012 Share Posted 6 February, 2012 On a slight tangent, Dave Merrington likes to call Aaron Martin 'Alvin' Martin. Plus my mate's dad used to say Marion 'Farars' and Claus 'Ludvekam'. Marian Pahars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 6 February, 2012 Share Posted 6 February, 2012 Some on here think our manager is Nigel Atkins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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