Redtucks Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 It occurred to me the other day how there seems to be a proliferation of footballers with double barrelled names these days. Off the top of my head I can think of: Ainsley Maitland-Niles James Ward-Prowse Nathaniel Mendez-Laing Trent Alexander-Arnold Ruben Loftus-Cheek Dominic Calvert-Lewin Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and now even Bobby Decordova-Reid!!! I’m sure there are probably more. I know that we have had Forbes Phillipson-Masters and Jay Emanuel -Thomas, but when I started watching City, many of the players had simple one syllable names. Gibson, Ford, Briggs, Parr, Connor, Low, Derrick, Bush, Clarke, Atyeo, Peters The longest was three syllables ….…Atyeo!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted June 19, 2019 Admin Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 A rise in divorce numbers ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastside Moonwalker Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 A lot of my friends mrs' are doing this, a few explanations were that they didn't want to take the last name of the man so they just double barrelled it, one mate I have has a kid whos surname is very unfortunate and way too long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 To increase revenue on shirt printing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColeCiderRed Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 33 minutes ago, Slacker said: To increase revenue on shirt printing? Celtic did alright out of Vennegoor of Hesselink! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 The complication comes when these young men and women marry partners also with double-barrelled names, who wish to adopt their partner's names whilst retaining their own! When I started working in the infancy of the computing industry, the surname field on the payroll file was a maximum of 48 characters. It wouldn't be enough today! Then again, the gender field was limited to either 'M' or 'F' - Facebook allow some 71+ different gender types! Clearly, back then we had no vision! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 1 hour ago, phantom said: A rise in divorce numbers ? More than likely unmarried parents having kids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 Players also tend to change their names. I’m sure that Jennison Myrie-Williams was just Jennison Williams when he started playing for City. Then Bobby Reid became Bobby Cordova-Reid when he left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 2 hours ago, RedDave said: More than likely unmarried parents having kids Think this is the reason yes. Years ago, well when I was at school, if you had a double barrelled name you were considered posh, it was the joining of two families with either money or status, or both. Now it’s the couple wanting to give both their names to the child it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtucks Posted June 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 2 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said: The complication comes when these young men and women marry partners also with double-barrelled names, who wish to adopt their partner's names whilst retaining their own! Just thought that if two of the posters on here were to marry, we would have Colby-Tit-Hunt-Hertz! Or would they shorten it to Hunt-Colby or Tit-Hertz!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonPark Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 A lot of young couples now have to decide between getting married or getting a house. Many kids are therefore having both names rather than just one, and that’s let alone if they are married and the women doesn’t want to give up her maiden name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 16 minutes ago, Redtucks said: Just thought that if two of the posters on here were to marry, we would have Colby-Tit-Hunt-Hertz! Or would they shorten it to Hunt-Colby or Tit-Hertz!!!! Let's hope that none of these footballers hyphenate the Christian/given names of their children. The poor kids would never be able to fit a "Tommy-Lee Oxlade-Chamberlain" or a "Ellie-May Loftus-Cheek" signature on the back of their Gold MasterCards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 Forbes Phillipson-Masters. With such a posh name I'm surprised he never played for Peterborough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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