| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 17:06 - Oct 15 with 4875 views | Miaow |
English Football Clubs with Bird Nicknames
A bit of a silly one, and hopefully not too difficult either, although I don't think I was actually aware of one of the 13 answers before putting it together. There are four minutes to try and get them all, with all clubs listed playing within the 92.
Note: "Budgies" is unfortunately not given as one of the bird-related nicknames.
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1696326/english-football-clubs-with-bird-ni
Cheers. ⚽
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 17:18 - Oct 15 with 4207 views | MK1 |
12/13. That second Bluebirds caught me out. |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 17:34 - Oct 15 with 4188 views | Churchman |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 17:18 - Oct 15 by MK1 |
12/13. That second Bluebirds caught me out. |
11/13 |  | | |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 17:51 - Oct 15 with 4172 views | Keno |
12/13 on principle I missed one |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 18:00 - Oct 15 with 4155 views | NthQldITFC |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 17:51 - Oct 15 by Keno |
12/13 on principle I missed one |
You could award yourself that one for participating maybe? And come back and celebrate it in 50 years? On a bus? With no roof?
Or would that be a bit, y'know, tin pot?
10/13 for me: Missed three of the 'duplicates', at least one of which I should have really got. |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 18:14 - Oct 15 with 4137 views | woodbridge_blue |
Full House in 1 minute 13 seconds. |  | | |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 18:14 - Oct 15 with 4138 views | NthQldITFC |
I got excited before this because I knew The Throstles and thought maybe I just might get one that not everyone else knew as The Baggies would be a better known nickname for WBA.
So imagine my disappointment when I saw it was one you had given us!  | |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 19:04 - Oct 15 with 4095 views | BasingstokeBlue |
12/13.
Didn't know the second one. |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 19:28 - Oct 15 with 4066 views | gainsboroughblue |
12/13
I'd have got the Throstles if it wasn't greyed out but not the lesser known Eagles. |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 21:57 - Oct 15 with 3976 views | Grandpa |
Shame it's just English clubs, as I'd have suggested FK Molde
Norwegian Blue...
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 22:04 - Oct 15 with 3966 views | Plums |
Thank you. 12/13.
Wasn't anywhere near to the missing bluebird |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 23:05 - Oct 15 with 3931 views | ParisBlue |
13/13. Guessed the 2nd bluebird, had no idea otherwise. |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 09:42 - Oct 16 with 3812 views | TractorCam |
Got them all after 1:25, but the first Bluebirds and last Robins took some guessing. |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 09:52 - Oct 16 with 3795 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Fun Quiz. Some of the gimmes are actually better known than Barrow, surely
A recurring irritation with these quizzes is how difficult it is to clear typos or wrong answers! | |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 09:57 - Oct 16 with 3794 views | DanTheMan |
11/13. Bluebirds and Robins tripped me up. |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 11:22 - Oct 16 with 3753 views | blueasfook |
I love these quizzes Miaowwers. I got 11/13. I knew one of the Bluebirds ones (Barrow) but not the other. Also one of the other Magpies I was stumped on.
Keep 'em coming. How about something relating to English teams in Europe? Maybe teams to have competed in the UEFA cup or something? |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 11:27 - Oct 16 with 3742 views | Sharkey |
I must say, in about 50 years of supporting Colchester Utd, I have never heard them being called the Eagles. |  | | |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 11:29 - Oct 16 with 3735 views | Miaow |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 18:14 - Oct 15 by NthQldITFC |
I got excited before this because I knew The Throstles and thought maybe I just might get one that not everyone else knew as The Baggies would be a better known nickname for WBA.
So imagine my disappointment when I saw it was one you had given us! |
I was toying with including “The Throstles” - of those I greyed out, that was the one I was closest to putting in. But I decided against it as it seems to be so rarely used these days and I thought some people might have an issue with it. Sorry! (You can have a bonus point from me.) | |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 14:53 - Oct 16 with 3637 views | Miaow |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 11:27 - Oct 16 by Sharkey |
I must say, in about 50 years of supporting Colchester Utd, I have never heard them being called the Eagles. |
I think I remember seeing them referred to by that nickname at least once before - it was apparently coined when the club began using a badge with the eagle on it in 1972, which was the same year that Ipswich first used the Suffolk Punch crest. It obviously hasn’t stuck but given that it has cropped up on one or two pages online, I included it alongside the other lesser-known/used nicknames. | |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 15:16 - Oct 16 with 3620 views | blueasfook |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 14:53 - Oct 16 by Miaow |
I think I remember seeing them referred to by that nickname at least once before - it was apparently coined when the club began using a badge with the eagle on it in 1972, which was the same year that Ipswich first used the Suffolk Punch crest. It obviously hasn’t stuck but given that it has cropped up on one or two pages online, I included it alongside the other lesser-known/used nicknames. |
Mostly they are known as the U's. Or "that little crappy insignificant team down the road" as we like to call them. | |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 15:18 - Oct 16 with 3615 views | WD19 |
12/13. Missed one of the Bluebirds, but reassured that only 7% of participants managed to get that one. |  | | |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 15:39 - Oct 16 with 3597 views | SamWhiteUK |
11/13
Like many, didn't get one of the bluebirds.
Might have got the other Robins eventually, but not in the minute I had left. |  | | |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 16:05 - Oct 16 with 3575 views | jayessess |
Full house in 1 minute, though Bluebird 2 was just a wild hunch! |  |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 16:33 - Oct 16 with 3557 views | SlippinJimmyJuan |
Scraped 13/13 with two seconds to spare  | |
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 17:58 - Oct 16 with 3475 views | Sharkey |
| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 14:53 - Oct 16 by Miaow |
I think I remember seeing them referred to by that nickname at least once before - it was apparently coined when the club began using a badge with the eagle on it in 1972, which was the same year that Ipswich first used the Suffolk Punch crest. It obviously hasn’t stuck but given that it has cropped up on one or two pages online, I included it alongside the other lesser-known/used nicknames. |
In 'the old days' you sometimes saw them called the 'Oystermen', maybe one word or maybe two, but it always seemed to me to be something used by people who wrote quizzes for Shoot! rather than anything anyone would actually say when walking into the pub and asking how the team got on.
The 'Blue Eagle' was a fanzine, I guess in the late 70s and early 80s. But if anyone ever tried to get the name 'Eagles' to replace the U's as the club's nickname, you're certainly right that it never stuck. I have lots of programs from the early 70s (when Jim Smith, the Bald Eagle himself! was manager), and there is no mention of it there, even when the program had a cartoon eagle on the front.
But I do take your point that possibly when a whole host of clubs, Town included, were prevented from using the borough arms as a badge that they may have tried to make a virtue of necessity by coining a more distinctive nickname. Probably by then Palace were already the Eagles. I wonder if that's when Derby became 'the Rams'. And I wonder if anyone tried to make Ipswich anything other than 'Town', or 'the Town'.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392704856321 [Post edited 16 Oct 2023 18:10]
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| Just one more football quiz... 🦜 on 18:22 - Oct 16 with 3446 views | thatbdude |
Got them all in the end. Barrow and Swindon messed with me tbh |  |
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