A Pub Team by any other name

By: Bob | September 24th, 2007

Imagine a team featuring Paulo Maldini, Cafu, John Terry and Fabio Cannavaro in the back, Steven Gerrard, Ronaldinho, Kaka and Christiano Ronaldo in the midfield, and Thierry Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy in the attack. Not the glitziest team in the word, but how good would that team be? Good enough to be in fifth place in the Birmingham Coronation League Alliance Division 3.

After finishing last season in last place in the amateur league, the players at Lynam Athletic decided they needed a change. They needed to do something that would strike fear in the hearts of their opponents. They needed to officially change their names to those of professional footballers. So they did and lo and behold they have risen from the bottom of the table to fifth place.

The result is a roster that features a who’s who of the world’s best players even if they are little more than average blokes kicking it around on Sunday afternoons.

Captain John Terry, 29, said: “We’re not in the best shape anyway as both Thierry and Ruud smoke about twenty a day and Gerrard is always half cut on a Sunday – nothing like their namesakes.”

Indeed, it is hard to imagine any of their namesakes getting boozed up at bars, smoking like chimneys or engaging in extracurricular fun.

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levi

Jan you ants at a picnic , stop trying to ruin a funny joke just because you're not a superstar
Jan

Browsing their website reveals that they didn't really change their names. It was a publicity stunt. They simply feed the news to the media and they caught on to it. At the very least you could expect this team to update their website according to their own prank.
Dex

They couldn't think of a better player than Jamie Carragher?
Ian

"and Gerrard is always half cut on a Sunday ..."

Nice. That's funnier than hell. I can't believe they got the whole side to change their names. That's a level of commitment I wish I could get from my Sunday league side.