Say hello to “T-Bag”

To most of us, Everton’s captain is known as the second greatest player ever to come from the Neville family. To his team mates, however, Phil is known as T-Bag, thanks to his passing resemblance to the character from Prison Break who no one likes but always seems to be involved in all the plans somehow.

With his darker hair and penchant for whispy face art, we think Gary Neville is a better look-alike of the murderous one-handed child molester, but thumbs up to the Everton squad for coming up with an original nickname, resisting the temptation to lazily adding ‘y’, ‘o’ or ‘meister’ to his surname.

Arsenal skipper mad old nickname has been made public

William Gallas is fuming after a former team-mate revealed he was nicknamed Pierre Richard - the French equivalent of Mr Bean - while a trainee at Caen. PSG midfielder Jerome Rothen has gone public with the nickname and a host of other digs at the Arsenal captain in his new book. He claims that Gallas was a nice guy who constantly found himself getting caught out. He wrote:

“I don’t think William Gallas will mind me talking about how he used to be a no-hoper. At school he was a right wally - he would sit at the back of the class as far away from the blackboard as possible.

“One day the maths teacher gave us a test - she knew that William understood nothing about maths, so she allowed him to use the textbook. But even with the book under his nose he still only got four out of 20!”

Apparently, Tottenham players have nicknamed Jonathan Woodgate ‘Frank’, due to his likeness to Frank Gallagher from Shameless. They both have long greasy hair and they have both had brushes with the law, but otherwise I’m not too sure about this one.