S/D: Fat footballers

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In tribute of Mr De Lima's sensational achievement yesterday.

S: Alfredo Di Stefano, Mick Quinn
D: Tomas Brolin

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

And by Alfredo Di Stefano I of course mean "Ferenc Puskas". Great start.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just about to say, Di Stefano?!?!? But Puskas = CLASSIC

S: John Robertson
D: Frank Lampard

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

S: Kevin Bond, who starred in a largely lardy Exeter line-up which also included a fading Steve Moran and a not-very fit Ronnie Jepson. Actually, S all of the above.

Song of the year, that year: "2-4-6-8 overweight".

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.lfc4ever.de/1e6b9bc70.jpg
http://lfchistory.net/images/profiles/player_lee.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

D:Julian Dicks, Neil Ruddock (in the same team), also Andy Reid.

I can't think of any classics.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

S: Neil Ruddock
D: Paul Gascoigne

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

For the Celtic fans out there

S: Andy Ritchie; Stevie Fulton
D: Pat McCluskey

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

S: Nevill Southall
D: Maradona post-86

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

S: Mixu Paatelainen (aka The Fat Finn)
D: Bobby Moore (post-70)

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

S: John Hartson
D: Wayne Rooney, post-2010

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/sp/empics/2695838

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link

S: http://www.theharrywraggs.com/uploads/1031005539.jpg

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link

All fat footballers are classic. Especially Andy Reid and Nicky Barmby.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Fat footballers are almost as classic as bald footballers

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1495000/images/_1495046_1608neville_southall.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.teamtalk.com/Images/62796.jpg

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

fat footballers are only superceded by golfers who smoke

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Robbo!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/images/2005/01/26/john_robertson_body_150x258.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

He has one European Cup for each of his chins.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

What about fat footballers who smoke?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/images/2005/01/26/john_robertson_body_150x258.jpg

Beat me to it!!!!!!

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

D: Mark Yardley

Oh noes Earthquake early warning system failure!
http://www.peterheadfc.co.uk/images/action/0405/albion10.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:VDpTP8KDHjnYvM:http://www.modsuperstar.ca/images/maradonna.jpg

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

S:Javier Lozano
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Pastor_lozano.jpg/190px-Pastor_lozano.jpg

― Romolo Tobias (Romolo), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

s: well-travelled former australian international john markovski, of whom a commentator once claimed mid-game that "usually it takes two to tango, but it takes three to tango when you tango with him".

― NEUBROMANCER (haitch), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/chewie_louie/perry.jpg

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Get that rubbish off this football thread!

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

DJ goes with the old "grow a beard to hide the chins" tactic.

http://cards.littleoak.com.au/197475_bassetts_world_cup/20_derek_johnstone.JPG

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.dirtyarab.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Player%20a-z/Graphics/Miller%20C.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.sugerimos.com/contenido/uploads/tn1_19694a.JPG

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark Yardley:
http://www.peterheadfc.co.uk/images/action/0405/albion9.jpg

Adebayo Akinfenwa
http://www.bufc.drfox.org.uk/adebayo.jpg

Some kid:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5834/cf40scd5hi.jpg

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Bah.

Mark Yardley:

Adebayo Akinfenwa

Some kid:

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

it bears repeating:

amateurs.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but his job was to a fat bastard for about 2 minutes a week for 16 weeks. Not exactly leading the line is it?

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Barry Lavety! I'm surprised the world didn't spin off its axis in Paisley when himself and Mark Yardley were playing upfront together.

He seems to have avoided cameras in his really fat stage. As does my other candidate for this thread, Sebastian Rozenthal. Though to be fair, it must have been easy for him to put on weight when he was sitting on his arse doing nothing forever.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Lavety:
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/upload/021104slavety.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus, I'd forgotten all about Sebastian Rozenthal!

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Too be fair some of Lavety's extra curricular activities kept him slim for extended periods.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

All my other answers have already been taken. Damn you all for starting this thread before I got home from work.

(xpost, cheers!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Google image search refusing to confirm that Ronald Koeman should be here :(

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Fatt Le Tissier

http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/javaImages/a4/39/0,,10341~2832804,00.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Shame on all you Panini-collecting dudes who forgot the majestic chin-wobbling shame of Mr Nuno Valente...

http://tudotemumprincipio.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/188693_MEDIUMSQUARE.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE THINNER THAN ME YOU INSENSITIVE BASTARDS

(except Nuno Valente)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

What on earth happened to Nuno Baloono for that photo? On the pitch he seems like another fellow entirely.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark, have you put on weight since I last saw you? There's no way you're fatter than Mixu Paatelainen.

http://golf.sportal.com/Images/153/MixuPaatelainen.jpg

x-post, I have no idea, but it makes me laugh so much.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Fatty Foulkes:

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Wot no Mick Quinn? (there must be worse photos than this)

http://www.premierleague.com/en/images/Former_Player/mickquinn373.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

REFRIDGERATOR PERRY
LOL@SOCCER

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.somaliroots.com/pictures/maradona.jpg

― S- (sgh), Thursday, 29 June 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Can we do a fat Premiership footballers XI? Andy Reid, Neville Southall, Jan Molby, Razor Ruddock, Jan Aage Fjortoft, Frank Lampard, it'd be a cracking team.

-- Matt DC, Friday, 19 October 2007 13:58 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Put Shaun Wright-Phillips' mum in the Fatteys XI as well.

-- Matt DC, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:06 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

― Matt DC, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/KevinMouse.jpg/561px-KevinMouse.jpg

― NickB, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/05/04/nboris04.jpg

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 19 October 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Roly Poly Paddy Kenny:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/football_heaven/picture_galleries/norwich_blades/kenny_330.jpg

― caek, Friday, 19 October 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.gatifoto.hu/english/pages/Gati_Gy_Puskas_Ocsi_W.jpg

― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Friday, 19 October 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Wait, there's a whole thread for this? I thought Gazza was the obv answer.

― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

RIP Ronnie

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 14 February 2008 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.thefa.com/NR/rdonlyres/0DE0FE0D-D2F8-4474-8839-210B477726C6/0/Leeds_PaulRobinson.jpg

I've been convinced that Robinson's been a secret fatty for years.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 14 February 2008 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Defoe: But why is he so fat, we have to carry him off the pitch at the end of games?
Ghaly: He put pies. In here.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00092/tom_huddlestone_jerm_92349a.jpg

― Tom D., Thursday, 14 February 2008 12:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Good old Two Ton Tom. I love him so.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 February 2008 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Tom Huddlestone has the whitest name for a black guy ever.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 14 February 2008 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link

That photo = Ghaly warns Defoe to avoid embarrassing himself in the tabloids by reminding him of Leslie Grantham

― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 14 February 2008 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Tom Huddlestone has the whitest name for a black guy ever.

Giles Barnes? Maybe it's a Derby thing.

― The Boyler, Thursday, 14 February 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/7244228.stm

― blueski, Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link

"Are Spurs a big club?"

― Tom D., Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Countdown to comedy posts about how Spurs can lose excess baggage ("sell Paul Robinson, lol") in 5...4...3....

― ailsa, Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link

the backpage headline in the Star this morning was 'Weight Hart Lane'

― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 14 February 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Hart Attack

― blueski, Thursday, 14 February 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Cockfasters.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 February 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link

so confusing that nobody was really making "lol tottenHAM HOTPOT" jokes before alvarez was like "Yeah i made them lose a combined 50kg and we've got 50kg to go"? like, the jokes aren't funny when they've alreadyl ost a bunch of the weight.

although i find it hilarious that the hardest thing for huddlestone was cutting ketchup form his eating-chicken ritual.

― Will M., Thursday, 14 February 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/8MVsY.jpg

former brazil midfielder daniel carvalho

― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:52 (twelve years ago) link

he is 29 so i guess he could always play for brazil again

― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:57 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/7cwuK.jpg

― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link

six months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/08CGBzu.jpg

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Sunday, 5 May 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/5iVeHce.jpg

― r|t|c, Sunday, 5 May 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.gatifoto.hu/english/pages/Gati_Gy_Puskas_Ocsi_W.jpg

when's this Puskas photo from?

― ohmigud (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 5 May 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link

I mind being at the last game at Celtic Park before the bulldozers came in in the early 90s, and there was a kickabout between the Lisbon Lions and some version of the Man Utd 68 team. Bobby Murdoch bore more than a passing resemblance to that photo, and lasted approx 10 seconds (I don't think he even moved!) before being subbed off.

― ailsa, Sunday, 5 May 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd_RgwXPVuA

― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 6 September 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link

103kg is about as accurate as yakubu being 82kg

― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 6 September 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link

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