GLF 67: Geoff has discovered yournotme.com and investigates the first team squad!
Two Andy Gorams
Yournotme.com is an interesting site.It tells you how many people on the voting register share your name.I can confirm that I am one of 84 Geoffrey Nicholsons, the most notable is probably the author of darkly humorous books.
Graeme Smith shares his name with 446 other Graeme Smiths.One of whom is also a goalkeeper but you knew that already didn't you?Another Graeme Smith defected from the Liberals to Labour in 2006.
Paul Quinn can go one better than our goalie because there are 448 Paul Quinns in Britain. There used to be one more but Paul Quinn, a lorry driver, was murdered in Northern Ireland last October.
Mark Reynolds is the most common player in our defence as he is one of 493 Mark Reynolds taking over the country.As well as being a prospective parliamentary candidate the list of Marks also includes the Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC and the author of the football book"The wrong kind of shirts"named after Fergie's excuse when United changed their shirts at half time at Southampton.
Stephen Craigan and Steven Hammell will now take to the floor for the karaoke.The song they have chosen to perform is that Chesney Hawkes classic "I am the one and only".Yes, that's right, when you watch them playing football and sing their name just remember that there really is only one of each of them.
Steve McGarry hasn't got a lot of namesakes as there are only 18 people with his name.I think we can safely say that our Steve is the most famous of that small number.
Stephen Hughes is our most common player sharing his name with 1151 other Stephen Hughes.With Stephen/Steven being such a common first name in our team you might be interested to know that there are 624,069 people with either spelling of that first name. Or then again you might have a life.
Chris Porter would have to hire a hall holding 266 people in order to have a Chris Porter party.He wouldn't get much scintillating conversation as the most noted Chris Porters I could find were two photographers.
If all the David Clarksons in Britain turned up at the Chris Porter party hall then eleven of them would have to stay outside.Hopefully one of those would be the rather dull Scottish poet David Clarkson.
Ross McCormack could provide his own football team of Ross McCormacks but would not be able to field any substitutes.
Lastly is Keith Lasley.Have a close look at our midfielder because he doesn't exist!There are but a mere 22 Lasleys in Britain but there are no Keith Lasleys according to yournotme!So who is he?No wonder they say we lack something in midfield, we lack a real person.What's going on?I think we should be told.
Geoff Baby
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