What nickname would you give your team?

I refer to my national team of Uganda as "spaghetti Cranes" or at times "the chickens". obviously with a name like "cranes", you'd be comfortable playing golf and not football. What is gentility for in football? Are cranes revered for gracefulness or courage? This brings me to what we Ugandans refer to them as, especially when we are disappointed:DISCRAGEFUL CRANES.

That implies a buch of weaklings really! sorry, it's a bit harsh but that demonstrates how far ouur disappointent gets at times. We know them for "always" failing at the last hurdle. Really such a disgraceful team really. Surprise is how they really managed to qualify for CHAN? May be rigging...I don't know.

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England: "The Blind Owls". They were just kicking around without passing the ball to each other and what with that owl perched on the goalpost - I guess England players could not 'see' where the goalposts.

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Three blind mice for the England team.

Western media have been critical of African football. I watched the Brazil Ivory Coast match, commentaries were one sided. I heard Kaka didn't deserve the red card? What was the difference between Kaka's Nigeria's Kaita offence and Kaka?

I like SA's Bafana Bafana, so how about Banana Banana for our England lot. You get the inference, eh?

Headless horsemen. They run around all over the place but can't see a thing, and bring misery and doom to us all.

Indomitable Lions will do just fine for my Country Cameroon. It's true they've been an utter disgrace over the past couple of years but that cannot wipe out all the beautiful things they've done in the past and all the strong emotions they've made us experience. Today i'm ashamed of them but i'm comforted with the potential i see. If all goes good, i think the cubs are going to grow into strong, fearless and and pitiless lions. Players come and go but the Indomitable Spirit always remains.
I also think supporters should be a bit considerate. There're good times and there're bad times for players and for teams. That's Life. It's ok to feel dissapointed and let-down when your team loses but it's not fair to throw them to the dogs. You can't win it all the times u know!!

I think am gonna do this for some teams here in SA: Nigeria is (Super Chicken), cos they can't fly like Eagles that they claim, Cameroon should be (pitiable cats), England should be (hmmmmm. 11 Goats), France should be (French Fried, edible by all and sundry)....

The "Three Lions" are now the "Eleven Donkeys".

The german team squad could get the name "The Magic Millipedes" if they play as well as in the game against England, since they run fast with the ball (as if they had 1000 feet) and pass brilliantly to each other.

However they also may be called the "surprisingly young surprise bags" since you never know if they will play great (like against England or Australia) or surprisingly horrible (like they did against Serbia or e.g. in the qualification against Finnland).