h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/6578823.stm

Everton (from): Turner, Hibbert, Yobo, Stubbs, Lescott, Naysmith, Arteta, Carsley, Neville, Osman, Fernandes, Beattie, McFadden, Wright, Van der Meyde, De Silva, Anderson, Valente, Vidarsson.

I'm concerned to see both De Silva and Anderson in the squad liost. Given that Anderson De Silva is only one person. He better not take up two places on the bench with this split personality the BBC seem to have credited him with.

Maybe the BBC think Everton did what I did on the Football Manager computer game Data Editor, and inadvertantly signed two Anderson De Silvas, the young midfielder Everton have actually signed and the unimpressive aging Botafogo centre-back I accidently signed. I also signed sixteen year old goalkeeper Manuel Fernandes instead of the 20-year-old midfielder.

Hmm...I look forward to Iain Turner in my Year 10 Single Science Set 4 turning out in goal this weekend, then.

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Hey, I'd be willing to see a fifteen year old schoolboy in goal for Everton if it kept Richard Wright off the pitch.

Well the keeper Everton had yesterday was brilliant. The way he caught the ball and threw it to O'Shea was an act of brilliance eclipsed only by Phill Neville's stunning strike to level things up.

Aye...I thought of this thread when he did that. Old 'safe hands' Wright doesn't look like such a bad option now, does he?

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On a similar vein, how sickening was Rooney kissing his Manyoo badge? It's bad enough when crap foreigners do it, but when a local home grown "fan" taunts his former support like that it's horriffic.

Wonder what the chances of him being charged with "inciting the crowd" are?

About as likely as him ever being sent off for foul and abusive language.

Turner may have dropped a major bollock for the goal, but he did also save us a few times, including forcing Rooney wide and making a good stop from Ronaldo. I doubt Wright would have been any better, being an arch cross-dropper of David JAmes proportions.

Its serial badge kissers like Savage who get up my nose.

Oy!

Sorry 6 - forgot about your alter-ego.

I hope Robbie Savage isn't a relation.

No, but even so - of all the footballers you could share a surname with, I have to end up with him...

I dunno "dou dou" "Shittu" "Shite" "Penas" "Seaman" all spring to mind as potentially worse. At least whilst you are still at school....

Don't forget our friend Argel the Brazilian who moved to Benfica.

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And Stefan Kuntz, of course.

Paul Dickov...

Darren/Marcus Bent...

Tugay...

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Why can't I be called Vennegoor of Hesselink though?

There must have been a tippng point in David Seaman's school career when the kids stopped laughing at his name for its naval connections and started laughing for that whole different reason.

You could always change your name by deed poll.



My kid brother signed up to be a reverened in that online church thingy that did the orunds a few years ago, and swears by saying Reverend when trying to book tables and stuff at weddings.

You want two surnames now?

You do realise that his surname is a mark of Dutch indecision as to which surname should take precedence at the time of a marriage between two of his ancestors: a Vennegor marrying a Hesselink.

The word 'of' in Dutch translates as 'or' in English.

So not any different to our double-barrelled names, then?

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