It’s not unheard of for dedicated fans to change their name to show loyalty to their favourite team or a star player. Even BBM has done it, although admittedly it was only to throw police off the scent after we kept sending death threats to Ashley Cole (and pube shavings to his then-wife Cheryl). But we don’t want to bore you with the details of how BBM changed our identity and fled to Australia after being named as a “serious person of interest” in a case of breaking and entering that led to a former Girls Aloud star coming home to find ejaculate all over her underwear drawer.
Instead we bring you the tale of Axel Gogstad, a 27-year-old sports journalism student from the University of Southampton, who has been called Axel Gogstad-Anfield since turning 18 in his native Norway.
We know what you’re thinking: “He must be a serious Liverpool fan to change his name to something so stupid.” But you’d be wrong – he’s only been to Anfield nine times in as many years. So basically he’s a tit.
“It was quite a spontaneous thing, really,” he said.
“I’ve always been proud of my name but I thought if I put ‘Anfield’ next to it I’d be even more proud of it and I can carry Liverpool wherever I’m going.
“My mum said ‘What have you been doing today?’ and I said ‘I changed my name to Anfield’. She said ‘No, you haven’t’ and I said ‘Yes, I did’. We went back and forth for half an hour, and then I showed her the papers. She said ‘No really, you didn’t?'”
Well good luck to you anyway Axel, although we suspect you may have some trouble getting a job as a sports journalist with a name that implies your reporting is going to be biased. Maybe that’s why you’re 27 and still a student.
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