Public fed up with superstars like Torres and Ronaldo
The world is starting to follow FootballCynic’s preference for lower league and non-league football clubs. Google hits are a reliable way to find out how popular someone or something is at the moment.
The team at FootballCynic HQ googled 7 well known players – Cristiano Ronaldo, Fernando Torres, Demba Ba (the man with the shortest surname to play in English football – and the only one to have a farmyard noise as a surname), England’s Brave John Terry, former superstar George Best plus Jordan Rose, the well known Stockport County star (County are currently bottom of Division 2) and Martin Francis, the star of Pease Pottage Village Football Club.
Surprisingly, Jordan Rose beat Cristiano Ronaldo into second with 38.9 million hits against the former Manchester United favourite’s (ahem) total of 37.8 million. Demba Ba came a poor 7th with just 3.1 million hits.
When Googling on surnames only, however, George Best won by a country mile with 3580 million hits and Demba Ba in second place with 831 million hits. Our friend, Jordan Rose, was in third place. Ronaldo came a poor 7th with a mere 77 million hits.
And what about Martin Francis of Pease Pottage Village? He was just behind John Terry for the full name and ahead of the expensive Fernando Torres for surnames only. Below, the popular Jordan Rose.
The team at FootballCynic HQ googled 7 well known players – Cristiano Ronaldo, Fernando Torres, Demba Ba (the man with the shortest surname to play in English football – and the only one to have a farmyard noise as a surname), England’s Brave John Terry, former superstar George Best plus Jordan Rose, the well known Stockport County star (County are currently bottom of Division 2) and Martin Francis, the star of Pease Pottage Village Football Club.
Surprisingly, Jordan Rose beat Cristiano Ronaldo into second with 38.9 million hits against the former Manchester United favourite’s (ahem) total of 37.8 million. Demba Ba came a poor 7th with just 3.1 million hits.
When Googling on surnames only, however, George Best won by a country mile with 3580 million hits and Demba Ba in second place with 831 million hits. Our friend, Jordan Rose, was in third place. Ronaldo came a poor 7th with a mere 77 million hits.
And what about Martin Francis of Pease Pottage Village? He was just behind John Terry for the full name and ahead of the expensive Fernando Torres for surnames only. Below, the popular Jordan Rose.
Ibrahim Ba played 9 games for Bolton Wanderers in 2003/04.
Having the pair in same starting 11 may prove quite popular. Between them they may sell the football equivalent of 375 million records worldwide. (FootballCynic writes: Dear Mr Pedant - Of course, Ibrahim Ba. FootballCynic agrees that between them they could sell records but they would only be in it for the money, money, money. Anyhow, thank you for the music)
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Steven Naismith contains a farmyard sound in his name. There's a player called Mooney who used to play for Reading as well. (FootballCynic writes: FootballCynic knew there would be some response to this. Where are Ringworm and Lord Knobhead when you need them?)
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I feel a bit sheepish about this, but I can't do better than David Bleat. (FootballCynic writes: Perhaps, you ought tweet this)
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They may be tweeting on the twitter.
Wolves have a player on loan who is fantastically named Geoffrey Mujangi Bia.
He doesn't get many hits on Google, so here's to adding one more to his name.
(FootballCynic writes: Geoffrey's biggest claim to fame is that his name is an anagram of Euro Jiffy Bag enigma)
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Aswell as Anemia Jibe Guff Orgy (FootballCynic writes: Indeed, but it doesn't quite match FootballCynic's favourite anagram - Virginia Bottomley - I'm an evil Tory bigot)
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