Footballers who sound like they should be places

[Ealing Bee]

Dewsbury Hall - Northern stately home

Colby Bishop - Cotswold village (the smallest of The Bishops)

Cole Stockton - Derbyshire pit village

And our own Ellery Balcombe - hamlet on Exmoor

 

[GP200]

............Mason Mount..............

 

[pompeybee]

Keith Hill. Near Barnsley. Or Rochdale, I'm not sure.

 

[GP200]

............Justin Edinburgh.............

 

[seanrs]

Nakhi Wells
Leon Cort

 

[Silly Hat]

............Justin Edinburgh.............

Kirk Liston

 

[BEEcool]

Fitz Hall.

 

[HantsBee]

Zema Abbey......Torquay,Cambridge and various other clubs.

 

[seanrs]

Floyd Street ex Cambridge

 

[Lionel Bart-At]

Bedford Jezzard.

Remember a pissed up old bloke in the White Hart, Harlington. When my mate told him he was a Fulham fan, he started naming all the "greats" of the past, including the above, who he referred to, in all seriousness, as Leighton Buzzard.

Also remember my son as a 5/6 year old asking me, when the England team was announced, if Hemel Hempstead had been picked (Emil Heskey).

 

[BuzzWord]

Warren Barton
Leighton Baines
Craig Burley

 

[seanrs]

Adrian Heath

 

[wanderer paul]

A few very old Bees!!

Arthur Charlton
Oakey Field
Joe Warrington
Ellis Green
Willis Rippon
Thomas Shufflebotham
Jock Hamilton
Teddy Ware

 

[TW3Bee]

Conor Coventry

 

[BuzzWord]

Grant Holt
Lee Camp
Tyrone Mears

 

[SmiffyBee]

Clint.

I said CLINT Hill.

 

[ruislip bee]

Fitz Hall.

One size!

 

[SmiffyBee]

Andre Green.
Nathan Abbey.
Richard Lee ?

Matt Hey. Wood.

Paul Brook.......er

 

[pompeybee]

A bloke I used to work with had a list of Buckinghamshire villages that sounded like West Indian fast bowlers - I remember the opening partnership of Aston Clinton and Weston Turville, but there were others.

 

[SmiffyBee]

Matt Derbyshire.
Eileen Derbyshire.

 

[SmiffyBee]

A bloke I used to work with had a list of Buckinghamshire villages that sounded like West Indian fast bowlers - I remember the opening partnership of Aston Clinton and Weston Turville, but there were others.

Stoke Mandeville ?

 

[TW3Bee]

Neville Southall
Alan Devon shire
Alan Sunderland

 

[JPince]

Dele Alli

 

[HantsBee]

Jim Towers
Dennis Heath

 

[TorbayBee]

Jim Towers

 

[hatfieldbee]

Alan Buckley (Walsall?). Buckley is in Cheshire I believe... .

Some the lower league players, especially from Northern clubs in years gone by, seemed to have surnames which were possibly towns and villages. Perhaps it is a northern thing.

 

[ruislip bee]

Alan Buckley (Walsall?). Buckley is in Cheshire I believe... .

Very good player. Lots of goals.

 

[Hippobee]

Calum Waters

Pretty retirement village, just outside Kilmarnock.

 

[ruislip bee]

Alan Crawley - no sorry it was Hawley.

 

[badgerbee]

Myles Weston - Seaside resort in Somerset......

 

[TW3Bee]

Deon Burton

 

[TW3Bee]

San Diego Forlan

 

[seanrs]

Colin Bolton ex Derby keeper
Danny Clapton played for Hayes in 70s

 

[GP200]

.............Norbert Stiles...........

 

[bee good]

Stoke Mandeville ?

Preston Bissett
Grendon Underwood and his brother Wotton
Barton Hartshorn
Botolph Claydon
Lillingstone Dayrell
Drayton Parslow

 

[bee good]

A few suffering from HS2 sadly

 

[HantsBee]

James Chester
Reece Oxford
Dion Dublin
Joel Valencia
Jack Cork
Shaun Derry
Gareth Southgate

 

[SpiderBee]

Trevor Putney
Ian Hendon
John Barnes
Martin Hayes
Stan Moore
Jim Leighton
Conor Whickam

 

[SmiffyBee]

Preston Bissett
Grendon Underwood and his brother Wotton
Barton Hartshorn
Botolph Claydon
Lillingstone Dayrell
Drayton Parslow

Milton Keynes?

 

[GP200]

...............next stop............Taribo West.............

 

[Brenners]

Jamie England
Antonio German
Stuart Dallas
Lee Thorpe
Junior Lewis

 

[Artixbee]

Conor Washington

 

[Brenners]

Alan Brazil
Ray Stoke Lewington

 

[TW3Bee]

Paris Maghoma

 

[LboroBee]

Lee on Legge

 

[ruislip bee]

Lee on Legge

Very nice Kent spot close to Tonbridge. The place of Angels.

 

[SydneySwansBee]

Very nice Kent spot close to Tonbridge. The place of Angels.

Except Leigh in Kent is pronounced Lie. Apologies if you are talking about somewhere else.

Incorrect pronunciation of Leigh on your automated announcements. - a Freedom of Information request to Transport for London

Ever since you took over many railway stations in South London (London Overground) from Southern Rail your automated announcements (voiced by Emma Hignett) have incorrectly pronounced Leigh (in Kent) as "Lee" when the correct pronunciation is actually "Lie". The previous Southern Rail...

www.whatdotheyknow.com

 

[jlove]

Except Leigh in Kent is pronounced Lie. Apologies if you are talking about somewhere else.

The Surrey one is pronounced lie, as well.

 

[thombee]

Euan East(plays for queen of the south)

 

[OhBeehave]

Harwood-Bellis of Blackburn. Sounds like a firm of provincial solicitors rather than a place though,.