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chaplaingrabthar wrote:Rushden & Diamonds

I'm going to piss my self with laughter when my mate reads this as he is from that area. It is an arse name.

Anyone know why Hartlepool united are nicknamed 'the Monkey-hangers'?

In the 18th century a french frigate was sunk off the north sea coast. The survivors were washed up on the beach and taken prisoner by the locals of Hartlepool.
They hung all the survivors for spying.....including the ships mascot who happened to be a chimpanzee......

You really have to love northerners....

sebster wrote:In the Indian Premier League (cricket) there's a team called Mumbai Indians. It's like being the Sydney Australians or the New York Americans.

Or the Texas Texans, or the Canadian Canadians?

Bash the Bosh wrote:

chaplaingrabthar wrote:Rushden & Diamonds

I'm going to piss my self with laughter when my mate reads this as he is from that area. It is an arse name.

Arse team as well. And currently 5 places below my team in the conference.

I went to a school were the team was called "The Fighting Quakers"

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Bash the Bosh wrote:

chaplaingrabthar wrote:Rushden & Diamonds

I'm going to piss my self with laughter when my mate reads this as he is from that area. It is an arse name.

Arse team as well. And currently 5 places below my team in the conference.

The Conference, the true champions league. Its an absolute dog-fight to get promoted of the there. I much prefer the Championship side of football (Championship,League one & 2,Conference) to the Premiership.

Clthomps wrote:I went to a school were the team was called "The Fighting Quakers"

Thats like having 'The Blood-thirsty Pacifists' or 'The Hell-Raising Neighbourhood Watch'

Sandman wrote:

Huffy wrote:
as an owner of chickens. . . or more specifically in gamecocks, roosters they are incredible mean and nasty. . . . .they tend to cut you up really bad, and big they are big birds(one knocked down my 5'8 brother)

Still not the first creature you think of when you want a big, tough combatant. Hmm... who'd win? A Viking or a Chicken? A Tiger or a Chicken? A Titan or a Chicken?

nah I get it it just annoyed me that's all, its better than Irish though

Bash the Bosh wrote:

chaplaingrabthar wrote:Rushden & Diamonds

I'm going to piss my self with laughter when my mate reads this as he is from that area. It is an arse name.

Anyone know why Hartlepool united are nicknamed 'the Monkey-hangers'?

In the 18th century a french frigate was sunk off the north sea coast. The survivors were washed up on the beach and taken prisoner by the locals of Hartlepool.
They hung all the survivors for spying.....including the ships mascot who happened to be a chimpanzee......

You really have to love northerners....

Unfortunately it's a myth, that originally started with a Scottish folksong about a ship being sunk and the locals only able to claim salvage if there were no survivors, leading them to hang the only survivor - a monkey. It worked its way south from there, resulting in the now infamous story of northernors hanging the monkey mascot as they thought that's what a Frenchman must look like.


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Kid_Kyoto wrote:Or the Texas Texans, or the Canadian Canadians?

Sort of, and those are crap names, but at least Texas would expect to draw full support from Texans. Mumbai, on the other hand, is an Indian league playing against other Indian teams, so you wouldn't think all Indians would barrack for them.