Derek Parlane McQueen – The Biggest Name in Football

By: Daryl | November 10th, 2008

Most people inherit the team they support from their parents. Usually because they take you to games when you’re young and the dye is cast. But Derek McQueen got more than that from his dad. When Derek was born in 1975, his father named him after every player in Rangers 1974/5 league winning team. His full name is (deep breath…)

Derek Parlane Stein Jackson Hunter McCloy Kennedy Scott Forsyth Henderson Boyd Robertson O’Hara Johnstone Miller Dawson Armour McDougall McLean McKean Fyfe McDonald Jardine Young Morris Denny Hamilton Watson Greig Wallace McQueen.

That’s his first name, his last name and 29 Rangers players’ names inbetween for a grand total of 198 letters. Which (according to The Sun) may give McQueen the record for world’s longest name.

“I don’t imagine many people will have longer names than myself,” Derek told The Sun. “When folk ask me I can’t even remember them all — even after all this time.”

“They wouldn’t put my full name on my driving licence or even my registration for my kids.

“On forms they simply reduce it to the first name, which is Parlane. But I quite enjoy the middle names — it is unique and a bit of fun. Most people just laugh. However it means something to my dad which is nice.”

Which begs the question: If you were going to make a mockery of your child’s birth certificate just to make yourself smile, which specific squad would you name them after?

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• simon |  November 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am

  
  
  

  Charlie Oatway, Havant and Waterlooville captain (them who were beating Liverpool at Anfield for 5 mins in the FA Cup last year) has a similar name:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Oatway
  “Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway, more commonly known as Charlie Oatway”
  After the QPR first team squad of ‘73

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• Daryl |  November 10th, 2008 at 10:50 am

  
  
  

  Thanks Simon, good knowledge. He should get that on the back of his shirt.

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• Mustafa |  November 10th, 2008 at 10:52 am

  
  
  

  hmm, if somehow (and play with me here) the 2008/2009 Spurs take the premiership, and i had a child with the same naming convention, his/her middle name would be (i’m using the names from the first team from the teams website):

  Corluka Gomes Hutton Bale Zokora Bentley Huddlestone Lennon Jenas Pavlyuchenko Bent Gilberto Stalteri Modric Ghaly Gunter Dos Santos Campbell Taarabt Dawson Sanchez Boateng O’Hara King Assou-Ekotto Rocha Woodgate Bostock Dervite

  Whew… quite a handful, and I went by jersey numbers, except that I bumped “Corluka” to the front of the list because thats what it appears the name that is reduced to, like this guy had “Parlane”

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• Laurie |  November 10th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

  
  
  

  And I’ll bet he’s thanking his lucky stars that Nicky Butt was a different time and place.

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• Laurie |  November 10th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

  
  
  

  And even worst would be Darren Bent, Nicky Butt and Yuri Zhirkov.

  P.S. I can’t believe I just wrote that.

  P.P.S. Daryl, how can you do this to me? You know that once my brain starts down these paths I can’t quit until I’ve exhausted all the possibilities.

  P.P.P.S AARGH! HELP!! MAKE IT STOP!!!!

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