KEVIN HALLS takes a look at some of the more unusual sobriquets on the club circuit

KEVIN HALLS
THEY’RE KNOWN AS…

EVERY football club on the planet has got a nickname, it’s a long held tradition of the beautiful game. How they get them can often be simply down to the colours that they wear.
Take my club Coventry City for example – they are called the Sky Blues due to their strip of blue and white, Burnley are the Clarets, Blackpool, who play in orange, are the Tangerines and Birmingham City are the Blues.
But many clubs choose a nickname linked to a local working...