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posted 06-10-2008 06:47
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For obscure names how about El Salvador's Luis Angel Firpo, named after the Argentinian boxer from the 1920's and 30's?
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posted 06-10-2008 06:51
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There's a team called Robin Hood in Surinam...
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posted 06-10-2008 06:54
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Gil Vicente (Portuguese 2nd division) was a poet and playwright.
After that the best I can do is that the stadium in which Colombian clubs America de Cali and Deportivo de Cali play is called Estadio Olimpico Pascual Guerrero who was apparently a poet (though so minor that he doesn't even have a wikipedia page)
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posted 06-10-2008 08:01
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The Purple Cow wrote:
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"The first name is along the lines of Shnské, i.e. with the two "u" sounds being swallowed completely and a short but noticeable flourish at the end."
Doesn't the 'u' sound depend on you being a man or a woman?
... well, no.
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posted 06-10-2008 08:26
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Back to Red Star, they must be the only team in the world whose name gets systematically translated into every language, so not only are they Red Star in English but Estrella Roja in Spanish, Estrela Vermelha in Portuguese, Étoile Rouge in French and so on.
Weird, that.
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posted 06-10-2008 08:35
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And on the poet theme, Real Valladolid play at the José Zorrilla stadium, named after poet and playwright José Zorrilla, the creator of Don Juan.
Well, sort of. Their old stadium was named after the street it was located on, Paseo de Zorrilla. So when they moved to a new stadium in the outskirts of town in 1982 they named the stadium Nuevo Estadio José Zorrilla.
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posted 06-10-2008 08:59
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There aren't enough football teams named after poets in the world.
Pam Ayres United
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posted 06-10-2008 09:11
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There aren't enough football teams named after poets in the world.
I've mentioned them on here before, but ambitious fourth-tier Japanese side MIE Rampole take their name in part from author Rampo Edogawa, who wrote a bunch of mystery stories set in the local area.
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posted 06-10-2008 09:20
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Tennyson Borussia
Goethe Berlin
Hansa Klopstock
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posted 06-10-2008 09:21
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It's a safe bet Joe Public will have dabbled in it at some point.
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posted 06-10-2008 09:22
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Alderman Barnes wrote:
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Tennyson Borussia
Goethe Berlin
Hansa Klopstock
AC Milan Kundera?
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posted 06-10-2008 09:28
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posted 06-10-2008 10:43
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Donne-caster Rovers
Byron And Hove Albion
Milton Keynes City
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posted 06-10-2008 10:51
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RCD MalLorca
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posted 06-10-2008 10:54
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AS Byatt Roma?
(sorry)
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posted 06-10-2008 11:00
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Donnestable Town
Gravesend & Northfleet
Marlowe Town
LocoMotion Moscow
Newbolton Wanderers
Sidney FC
Real MaLlorca
Gunter Grasshoppers Zurich
Juvenaltus
Racine Club de Paris
Burton Swifts (a twofer)
Hans Christian Anderlecht
SK Slavia Plath
FC Rilke 04
Isaac Rosenberg BK
and not forgetting the famous Rossetineri of Milan (they've been big spenders in their time). Note: not all poets are bohemians, and vice versa.
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posted 06-10-2008 11:00
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Is it me or we've the poet name pun thing before?
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