Cartoon look-alikes in football : Part II

As promised, we are back with the second part of this series, Cartoon look-alikes in football, after the highly successful Part 1 of the same.

Read Cartoon look-alikes in football: Part I.

I’m quite sure that there have been times when you watched a certain player and went, “Oh my God! he looks like someone I’ve seen on a show”, or laughed out loud on the uncanny resemblance of a footballer to your favourite cartoon character. In the worst case, you might have associated a footballer you hate with a despicable fictional character. Here is our comprehensive list of the best footballer look alikes, who aren’t real personas. The list includes cartoon characters, characters from sci-fi as well as fantasy movies, and in one case, a horror movie (Guess who)!

Mesut Ozil and Gollum from LOTR

My precious…

Like Wayne Rooney and Shrek, this is another famous look alike. In fact, these two were featured on a promo released prior to the Germany vs England match in the 2010 FIFA World Cup as Shrek and Gollum. It’s still quite unclear what Ozil’s version of “my precious” is.

‘Arry Redknapp and Droopy

Which one is Droopy? I'm confused…

The similarities are many in this case. Drooping cheeks, drooping eyelids, absence of a neck and a pot-belly might strike you as coincidence. But wait, there’s more. They both are lethargic, are slow in speech and movement, and speak in a monotone all the time. When Harry Redknapp took over Tottenham, he must have told the players, “Hello, all you happy people. You know what? I’m the hero”, much like Droopy. And being a look alike of Droopy makes him a ‘triffic manager.

Albert Riera, Glenn Quagmire and the Trollface

Problem?

A wide midfielder with a wider face. Albert Riera is a look alike of Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy. Though Quagmire is an airline pilot who is described by his neighbor as a rapist, Riera neither took off, nor is aggressive enough to be a rapist. Taking it a step further, it does seem from the picture that the Trollface was inspired by Riera’s reaction when Rafael Benitez said that he was going to swap Xabi Alonso with the great Gareth Barry.

Jimmy Bullard and Linda Blair

Scary. Bullard, that is.

The picture is worth a thousand words. But the question is, what good are a thousand words, when you cannot speak out of spook? Jimmy Bullard, the former Wigan and Fulham midfielder successfully pulls off an imitation of Regan from The Exorcist, a role played to perfection by Linda Blair. The difference? Linda Blair needed make-up. A lot of it.

Mikael Silvestre, Gabriel Obertan and Roger

One of them is a cartoon. Which one?

What is common to Mikael Silvestre, Gabriel Obertan and Roger from American Dad? Yes, you noticed it right. One feature that repeats itself in all the three pictures is the head. Disproportionate, conical and bald – to assume that they came off the same spaceship wouldn’t be outlandish(forgive the pun!). While Roger is an extremely intelligent and accomplished personality, the less we talk about the others, the better.

Marlon Harewood and Goomba

Sorry Mario, your princess is in another castle

The former West Ham United and Aston Villa frontman could make a living by playing Goomba of the Super Mario Bros. fame just by putting on a set of false teeth. In fact, Harewood’s career is very similar to the growth and fall of Super Mario Bros. franchise. Both started out bright, and then some very bad decisions led to their downfall. Harewood is playing for a Chinese club at the moment. He is remembered for his stint with West Ham, while Super Mario Bros. is remembered in its oldest version in the form of cartridges.

Carlos Valderrama and Hair Bear

Those were the days!

Possibly the best look alike in the entire series. Carlos Valderrama is Colombo’s most capped player, and one of the most recognisable faces in football, thanks to the mass of curls on his head. His hairstyle seems to be a copy of that of Hair Bear from Help!… It’s the Hair Bear Bunch! Fast-talking and hot-tempered are two words that describe both of them the best. Oh, and Carlos Valderrama would look even better with a green scarf!

Avram Grant and Boss Nass

Default expression, whatever the case.

Apart from the appearance, there isn’t much similar to both Avram Grant and Boss Nass from Star Wars. While Boss Nass was a true leader, extremely uncompromising and ruthless, Avram Grant is a football manager by position having none of the competency required to be one, the Champions League final notwithstanding.

Arsene Wenger and Seymour Skinner

I ziz not zee zat coming!

Unlike Avram Grant and Boss Nass, this one is quite apt. Arsene Wenger runs his football club pretty much the same way Principal W. Seymour Skinner runs his school. Always complaining, lacking a sense of control and failing to deliver more often than not. They are also strict disciplinarians, bitter about something or the other most of the times and having an affinity towards kids.

Peter Crouch and Timmy

Timmy!

Like Timmy Burch from South Park, Peter Crouch is a man of few words, is unintentionally funny, and has multiple handicaps. Uncyclopedia described Crouch as an offspring of Jolly Tree Giant and a Lady Giraffe, though both of them deny it. He also breaks the taboo that players with zero skill can’t make it in the Premier League, just as Timmy does it for mentally challenged students at South Park Elementary. Timmy, while restricted to a wheel chair exhibits more mobility compared to Peter Crouch though.

And the last one…

South Korean players and Manga characters