PLEASE, PLEASE don't call him SPARKY

[zeusbheld]

Now , now idiotboy (you started it)
I think you'll find the rag filth named him that, if you'd taken the care to read the OP properly.
That makes it a rag nickname.

Couldn't give a fuck who else call it him after.

rag filth = his schoolboy friends in Wrexham?

by most accounts (except yours) that's where it comes from. (yeah i googled him a lot when Frank signed him.)

It is commonly thought that Big Ron coined his nickname "Sparky", intending it ironically. Hughes puts me right on this. "It was from school, where all the lads were named after comics. One lad was Beano, and I was Sparky. Unfortunately it followed me to United, because I played against a lad for Wrexham Schools who United signed. But Ron certainly kept it going." (source article, from The Independent)

 

[whp.blue]

I agree too many rag conertations every time I hear it used I think back to the rags singing his name ! for me it will have to be leslie and even that sticks a bit if I'm honest just because the cockneys called it him as well dosn't make it ok most of them are closet rags anyway !

 

[blue 1992]

Would hughesy be acceptable?

 

[TravisBickle]

Coundn't give a flying fuck what you call him, so long as he brings back the glory years

 

[felixbg]

Coundn't give a flying fuck what you call him, so long as he brings back the glory years

agree with this

 

[bluezi]

Maybe, just maybe he likes the name Sparky, i certainly have no problems calling him that.
Then again, im not a bitter.

 

[1961RICH]

Boyo

 

[nelsons willie]

BOB

 

[shinpads]

BOB

this

 

[shadygiz]

Now , now idiotboy (you started it)
I think you'll find the rag filth named him that, if you'd taken the care to read the OP properly.
That makes it a rag nickname.

Couldn't give a fuck who else call it him after.

Changed your mind quickly.

End of thread.

PMSL...good spot BT ;)