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posted on 20/7/11

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posted on 20/7/11

Pavel Nedved / Patrick Swayze is quite a good lookalike, now I come to think of it.

I remember a really good interview with Veron a year or two ago in which he said he was still occasionally in touch with Scholes, whom he also referred to as 'el colorado'.

posted on 20/7/11

Some of them are pretty self-explanatory ('Karate' for Nigel de Jong) but I really like the ones that come out of leftfield, e.g. Churrasco de Víbora (Viper Steak) for John O'Shea. Have I missed some cultural reference?

posted on 20/7/11

Saw article earlier. Fave was Jonathon 'El Inspector' Spector.

Sign up to Guardian's Fiver. They come out with some good one's e.g. EBJT (Terry), Stevie Mbe (Gerrard) & Petit Pois (Hernandez)

posted on 20/7/11

Correction Terry is now EBLJT (England's Brave & Loyal JT)

posted on 20/7/11

quality article

With the Rooney reference is it meant to be something to do with being a "star" or is a literal reference to astroboy?
http://www.astroboy.co.uk/images/astroboy1.jpg

beacause personally i dont see the similarity!?

comment by Elvis (U7425)

posted on 20/7/11

comment by Red Russian (U4715)

posted 45 minutes ago

Pavel Nedved / Patrick Swayze is quite a good lookalike, now I come to think of it.
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My brother and I have actually called Nedved Patrick Swayze for years. Not only do they look alike, but they both have the same strut aka the Swayze swagger.

posted on 20/7/11

Elvis

It's often the way with lookalikes: when you suddenly see it, you wonder why you never noticed before.

By the way, I had to edit the article because ja606 detected a forbidden word. In modified form (since it only resembles the word they wanted to forbid):

Guti - s h a g g y

posted on 21/7/11

A commentator here in Spain nicknamed Xavi "Humphrey Bogart" cause his style of football was like Bogie's famous line from Casablanca:

"Play it again Sam"

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