Archive for the ‘Separated at Birth’ Category
Separated at Birth: West Midlands whippets
You can almost imagine the scene. West Brom manager Roberto Di Matteo is sitting in the office of Jeremy Pearce, the Baggies chairman, identifying his transfer targets.
‘I wanta new strika Mr Peace’ the softly spoken Italian manages to get across. ‘I wanta sumaone who cana score Westa Brom many goals. Sumaone with pace who cana [...]
Separated at Birth: Danns and Davids
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Pope and Swift don’t often do two Separated at Birth blogs in quick success but there’s a good reason for it. We think something fishy is going on at Selhurst Park.
Neil Danns, the Crystal Palace midfielder, played and scored in his side’s 2-1 defeat at the hands of Ipswich on Saturday. Edgar Davids, [...]
Separated at Birth: Percy and Prince Charming
Percy Montgomery, in Pope and Swift’s eyes, is an amalgamation of  cartoon characters you’d just love to punch. The retired South African rugby union player bears a passing resemblance to Gaston of Pope and Swift Disney favourite, Beauty and the Beast, a man famous for saying  ‘As a specimen, yes, I’m intimidating’, something which we can imagine the [...]
Separated at Birth: Dailly and the geeks
The IT Crowd, for those who haven’t seen it, is a Channel 4 comedy about a three person IT support team working in a dingy basement in London. As a comedy, it isn’t great but it’s pretty solid. Every time you come to watch it, there is a feeling that it might be better than [...]
Separated at Birth: A pair of pointers
Separated at Birth, as readers may have realised, has been put on the backburner these past few months as a little football tournament took over. However, Pope and Swift are pleased to announce that it is back in business. If anyone has any sporting spitting images, please drop us an email (popeandswift@gmail.com) or by tweeting/twittering us [...]
Separated at Birth: Definitely not a French folk duet
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The following is a hypothetical conversation which may have occurred if Pope and Swift had been watching Rafael Nadal’s first round match at the French Open. It serves to illustrate both Pope and Swift’s often comedic double act and the scary resemblance between two of French tennis’ top young talents:
Pope: [Seeing Rafa leading 6-2, 5-1] [...]
Separated at Birth: Just not Clint Dempsey
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Clint Dempsey is everything Leo Bertos wishes he was. A better attacking midfielder, playing for a better club, arguably better looking. It says it all that, whilst Dempsey was helping Fulham to the Europa League final this season, Bertos, a year older than the former New England Revolution star, was plying his trade with Wellington Pheonix. Hardly glamorous.
However, Bertos [...]
Separated at Birth: Two tribes collide
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Part of a fierce (North East) tribe, taller than the usual human, prone to violence (as Steven Taylor will testify), it’s pretty clear that Andy Carroll is Jake from the blockbuster film Avatar. Both sport the greasy long haired look very well, although you probably wouldn’t see our Andy wearing any funny face markings around Newcastle [...]
Separated at Birth: Middle Eastern madmen
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Pope and Swift have had something of a Separated at Birth writer’s block of late. We don’t know what has been the cause of our sporting spot the difference malaise but, you’ll be happy to know, we’re determined to put it right.
Starting with a Cypriot and an Iranian. If you’re at all interested, it came [...]
Separated at birth: Lords of the impossible journey
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Frodo Baggins’ Owen thought as he sat on the physio’s table for the millionth time. ‘That’s right, I’ll model myself on the Lord of the Rings protagonist. It’s perfect; he searched for the ring in the same way that I’m searching for full fitness. Both are almost impossible quests and yet  it Frodo is eventually victorious’.
That’s the [...]