
In honour of Swansea ‘Swans’ City and Bradford ‘Bantams’ City getting to the League Cup final, Football Burp got punning on bird footballers and came up with the following wince-inducers…
Bird footballers
Robin van Persie, Manchester United
Raheem Starling, Liverpool
Radamel Falcon, Atletico Madrid
Ostrich-ard Dunne, Aston Villa
Lark Ji-Sung, Queens Park Rangers
Christian Ben-turkey, Aston Villa
Gareth Quail, Tottenham Hotspur
Pigeon-jo Shelvey, Liverpool
Louis van Gull, Holland manager
Goose Hiddink, manager of FC Anzhi Makhachkala
Sami Chickadee-ra, Real Madrid
Peter Crow-ch, Stoke City
Albat-Ross Barkley, Everton
Magpie Gueye, Everton
Ledley King-fisher, Tottenham Hotspur
Owl-an Shearer, ex-Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and Southampton
Ian Thrush, ex-Liverpool
Robbie Fowl-er, ex-Liverpool
Tit-i Camara, ex-Liverpool and West Ham United
Simon Grouse-on, Huddersfield Town manager
Dave Pheasant, ex-Wimbledon, Southampton, Chelsea, Nottingham Forest
Manuel Duck Osta, ex-West Ham United
Lau-wren, ex-Arsenal
Emu, ex-Arsenal
Andy Finch-cliffe, ex-Everton, Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday
Dan Gosling, Newcastle United
Jay Spearing, Bolton Wanderers
Jay Jay Okocha, ex-Bolton Wanderers
André Beak-ey, Middlesbrough
Chris Wood-pecker, Leicester City
Hawk-ín, Málaga CF
Sparrow-man Pavlyuchenko, ex-Tottenham Hotspur
Paulo Swan-chope, ex-Derby County, West Ham United and Manchester United
Peli-Kanu, ex-Arsenal and Portsmouth
Puffin-idi George, ex-Ipswich Town
Owls that for starters? Give us your bird footballers in the comments section below…