Havant & Waterlooville player/coach Charlie Oatway took part in a surpisingly long FA Cup run this year with the non-league minnows finally losing out to Premiership giants Liverpool in the 4th round. Quite fitting for a man with such a surprising long name; the former Brighton & Hove Albion man was actually born Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway. Each of his eleven names came from a member of Queens Park Rangers 1973 first-team, who finished second in the "old, old Division Two" (that's the "old First Division" or "The Championship" in modern parlance) to Burnley, winning promotion to the top flight in the process.
Of course you might've noticed that Charlie isn't actually one of his given names. Apparently when his aunt found out the intended epithet for her newborn nephew she reacted in the manner of most sane people (i.e. non football fans,) commenting: "You'll make him look a right Charlie." And so that moniker stuck instead. Still, it could be worse, at least he's not called Neville Neville.
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