What’s in a name?

SHWFC has its fair share of recurring forenames We’ve several John’s, Steve’s, Mike’s and Dave’s too So, in an effort to overcome the potential confusion that we are faced with we’ve elected to use nicknames to identify the various individuals whose parents lacked the vision to select forenames as individual as their off springs

John

John Hawkins - quite simply is forever referred to as Lord Rainford

John Davies - now known as Coach

John Carson - or Kit to some of the older guys, struggling to overcome career threatening injury at present

John Bone - One More for unspecified reasons

Dave/David

Dave Clark - Grazer due to his tackle technique

David Hamer - Hammer he claims a childhood leftover

David Trenner - Dave Seagull of Brighton & Hove Albion infamy

Dave Barrow - Thatto Heath Dave

Dave McCarthy - Dave Mac when available (not recently sadly)

David Robinson - Crusoe (marooned again?)

Martin

Martin Briggs - Cockney Rebel

Martin Williams - Chopper

Geoff/Jeff

Geoff Painter - Citeh Geoff

Jeff Birchall - Jeff or Betty (reasons unknown)

Andy

Andy Houghton - Andy Capt. Andy Howell - new Andy H

Allan Maldon - Molly

Gareth

Gareth Clark - Gaz

Gary Radford - Gary

Ian

Ian Bridge - Lefty

Ian Hopkins - Vicar of Dibley

Mark

Mark Davies - Mark

Mark Gravener - Grav

Michael

Michael/Mike/Michaylo

Michaylo - Michaylo (pronounced Mike)

Mike Andrews - Mika

Mick Machin - Speedo Mick

Mike Oxley - Oxo

Mike Wayne - Bruce

Steven/Stephen

Steve Pitt - Herr Pitt

Steve Forshaw - Honeyman

Steve Ford - Fordie

Steve Rivers - Steve B2R (Billy 2 Rivers)

Stephen Goldthorpe - Goldie

Tony Byrne - Snakehips

Tom Parr - Stretch

Tom Derbyshire - Darby

Peter - El Presidente

Les - Victor Meldrew

Joe - The Ghost

Chris - Gonzalo Higuan

Our huge thanks to the parents of;

Alex, Les, Chris, Alain, Bryan, Deggsy, Donal, Joe, Lee, Nigel, Paul, Phil, Tony, Wayne and of course El Presidente for their thoughtful actions so many years ago! Choosing unique names (well unique for our purposes) helps Blog writers bigly

And to anyone who might have missed apologies for the oversight