An International team of Mendys

[davieG]

 

 

Chelsea's new Senegal keeper Edouard Mendy is the third with the surname in the English Premier League alongside Manchester City's Benjamin and Nampalys Mendy.

In fact, looking into it, it's possible to get an entire XI of Mendys playing top fight football in Europe - all with African heritage.

 

Full Team here - 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/africa/54263408

 

[Sly]

What I’ve learnt from that article is that Bartafmi Gomis is Mendys cousin. 

[Pliskin]

Bit of a daft article.... you could probably do a team full of Smith’s, Jones’s Thomas’s, Williams’s etc....

[1972 Fox]

10 minutes ago, davieG said:

 

 

Chelsea's new Senegal keeper Edouard Mendy is the third with the surname in the English Premier League alongside Manchester City's Benjamin and Nampalys Mendy.

In fact, looking into it, it's possible to get an entire XI of Mendys playing top fight football in Europe - all with African heritage.

 

Full Team here - 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/africa/54263408

 

Even the BBC are at it now with lazy journalism.

 

When did our Papy join Man City? Hope we got a good fee and they've now loaned him back to us?

[peach0000]

11 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Bit of a daft article.... you could probably do a team full of Smith’s, Jones’s Thomas’s, Williams’s etc....

No where near to the same standard. There is an incredible number of mendys playing at a very high level at the moment. I'm struggling to even think of players with the names you've given Phil Jones, Ashley Williams hardly top players 

[Pliskin]

2 minutes ago, peach0000 said:

No where near to the same standard. There is an incredible number of mendys playing at a very high level at the moment. I'm struggling to even think of players with the names you've given Phil Jones, Ashley Williams hardly top players 

It was a tongue in cheek comment..... sweet baby Jesus of Nazareth, Mary and the cheat from around the corner. 

[Aus Fox]

36 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Bit of a daft article.... you could probably do a team full of Smith’s, Jones’s Thomas’s, Williams’s etc....

Challenge: can you or anyone else name another XI all playing top flight football and all with the same surname?

[davieG]

45 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Bit of a daft article.... you could probably do a team full of Smith’s, Jones’s Thomas’s, Williams’s etc....

 

28 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

It was a tongue in cheek comment..... sweet baby Jesus of Nazareth, Mary and the cheat from around the corner. 

Aye the whole thread is just a bit of fun there's no need for anyone to get upset.

[Pliskin]

26 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

Challenge: can you or anyone else name another XI all playing top flight football and all with the same surname?

Top flight? In whatever country? 

[peach0000]

31 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

Challenge: can you or anyone else name another XI all playing top flight football and all with the same surname?

                                                                            Rui Silva (Grenada)

Alex Sandro Lobo Silva (Juve)  Thiago Silva (Chelsea)     Diego Carlos Santos Silva (Sevilla)     Danilo Luiz da Silva (Juve)

                       

                     David Silva (Real Sociedad)    Adrien Silva (Leicester)   Bernardo Silva (Man City)

 

     Willian Borges da Silva (Chelsea)            Andre Silva (Frankfurt).         Lucas Moura da Silva (Spurs)

 

 

 

I'm sure someone will tell me this doesn't count for some reason 

        

[irishfoxkev]

Good few Pereira’s around in Premier League  and I’d say in Portugal Spain etc but too busy to go looking 😜😜

[peach0000]

1 minute ago, irishfoxkev said:

Good few Pereira’s around in Premier League  and I’d say in Portugal Spain etc but too busy to go looking 😜😜

There's no goalkeeper sadly. Unless you count Joel Pereira who is on loan at huddersfield from Man Utd in which case you could probably get a team together to rival the mendys and silvas. 

 

[Raw Dykes]

Portuguese surnames are probably a good bet. I think I read there's about 14 that make up the vast majority of surnames in Portugal.

[Grebfromgrebland]

I actually think this is mildly interesting

[RobHawk]

GK - Barry Hayles

RB - Barry Hayles

LB - Barry Hayles

CB - Barry Hayles

CB - Barry Hayles

RM - Barry Hayles

LM - Barry Hayles

CM - Barry Hayles

CM - Barry Hayles

ST - Barry Hayles

ST - Barry Hayles

 

 

[Finn Claw II]

Without wanting to open a whole can of worms Mendy is quite surprising as something like Smith is a very common English surname so you’d hope there would be a few of them knocking around in an English league.  Same with the common surnames in the other European countries (E.g. Silva).

 

is Mendy a super common surname in Africa?  I have no idea.

[KFS]

Boring article. There’s enough going on around us and someone’s published this? 

[peach0000]

5 minutes ago, Finn Claw II said:

Without wanting to open a whole can of worms Mendy is quite surprising as something like Smith is a very common English surname so you’d hope there would be a few of them knocking around in an English league.  Same with the common surnames in the other European countries (E.g. Silva).

 

is Mendy a super common surname in Africa?  I have no idea.

Smith makes up just over 1% of the UK population where Silva makes up nearly 10% of Portugal and pereira only slightly less. That probably explains a lot. I have no idea on mendy though. 

 

Edit - Looking at this page Mendys prominence in football makes no sense at all https://forebears.io/surnames/mendy

Edited 27 September 2020 by peach0000

[davieG]

24 minutes ago, KFS said:

Boring article. There’s enough going on around us and someone’s published this? 

Yet sufficiently interesting to make you open up the thread and post in it even though the thread title makes it obvious as to what it's about. 

 

It's just a bit of light hearted nonsense.

[Ian Nacho]

Slow news day?

[davieG]

1 minute ago, Ian Nacho said:

Slow news day?

Well there's plenty on Covid and Brexit.

[Stadt]

You could make a Rodriguez team easily enough. Especially if you include Spanish speaking player’s full names 

[StanSP]

3 hours ago, Sly said:

What I’ve learnt from that article is that Bartafmi Gomis is Mendys cousin. 

Which one?! 

[KFS]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

Yet sufficiently interesting to make you open up the thread and post in it even though the thread title makes it obvious as to what it's about. 

 

It's just a bit of light hearted nonsense.

Was it entirely indicative of what it’s about though Davie? I’d argue not. Can’t believe people get paid for drivel like that, and even worse if people at home find it interesting 😴😴

[Webbo]

1 hour ago, KFS said:

Was it entirely indicative of what it’s about though Davie? I’d argue not. Can’t believe people get paid for drivel like that, and even worse if people at home find it interesting 😴😴

You're not forced to read it.