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MANY will remember when Deportivo Wanka took Britain by storm. The shirt has become a cult collectable and gave top flight clubs a run for their money by selling thousands of shirts in the mid-2000s.
The D. Wanka shirt sold out in 2006Credit: Football kit archive
But the Peruvian team are not the only club to cause a stir with their unfortunate name.
Awkward translations and unfortunately named villages mean that a lot of innocently named clubs around the world have ended up the butt of the joke.
From an Indonesian side named after cement to a club in Wales that has visitors sniggering like kids, we’ve found some teams that deserve a red card for indecency. 
Check out the best below…
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Deportivo Wanka 
Innocently named after the Wanka tribe which once occupied Huancayo, Peru this team were very puzzled when their name made headlines, with one spokesperson saying: “It is very strange. Everyone in Britain seems to think we have a funny name.”
And Subside sports, who sold the kit, admitted: “The club just doesn’t get the joke.”
Deportivo Moron 
Another deportivo, which means football club, with a dodgy translation. 
This Argentine side is named after its local city, Moron, which is just outside Buenos Aires. 
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Bonar Bridge FC 
Based in the heart of the Kyle of Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands, Bonar Bridge proclaims itself a ‘proud member of the North Caledonian Football League.’  
Unsurprisingly, it gets its name from the local bridge, a towering steel structure that is built to impress, as well as to serve an important purpose. 
A Bonar Bridge FC signCredit: https://twitter.com/bonar_fc?lang=en-GB
Bonar Bridge FC pitchCredit: https://twitter.com/bonar_fc?lang=en-GB
FL Fart 
In English, the dictionary definition of ‘Fart’ is ‘to emit wind from anus’, but in Norwegian it simply means ‘speed’. 
The team are certainly living up to their name (the Norwegian version), and have made it to the third division in Norway. 
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Kanye Swallows 
It might seem like this club’s got it in for a certain American rapper, but in fact it’s named after its home village in South Botswana. 
The team currently plays in the Botswana Premier League. 
Cockermouth
The garishly named Welsh club club refers to itself as the ‘Cockermouth Titans’ , and plays in the Smurfit Kappa Cumberland Premier League. 
The local town, Cockermouth, is named as such because it sits alongside the spot where the River Cocker flows into the River Derwent. 
Wacker Innsbruck
Contrary to what its name suggests, this team has nothing at all to do with the Colombian singer and Gerard Pique’s ex Shakira.
The Austrian team is named after local town, Innsbruck, and its epithet, ‘Wacker’, simply means ‘brave’ in Austrian. 
Wacker Innsbruck fans getting rowdyCredit: Getty
Wacker Innsbruck play their matches at the multi-purpose stadium Tivoli NeuCredit: Getty
Nyasa Big Bullets FC
The Malawian football club landed on the name Big Bullets after trailing others along the same lines, including  Bata Bullets, Bakili Bullets and Total Big Bullets. 
The team have recently been living up to their ambitious name, becoming the Malawi TNM Super League Champion in 2023. 
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Semen Padang
This Indonesian club is named after its owner, a cement producing company, which makes sense given the direct translation of Semen Padang, is ‘Cement Field.’
The club has not come on well and has been unable to get back into the top flight after being relegated in 2019. More

CRYSTAL PALACE were forced to wear a combination of their kits during their match against Chelsea to avoid a kit clash.And those watching on from home were not happy with the result.
Crystal Palace had to change up their away kit to avoid a clash against ChelseaCredit: Reuters
The Eagles wore their home socks alongside their away shorts and shirtCredit: Reuters
Palace normally wear the blue socks with their home stripCredit: Getty
With Palace travelling to Stamford Bridge they had to wear their away kit to avoid the dark blue portion of their home shirts clashing with Chelsea’s home kit.
Their away kit normally features a predominantly white shirt with light blue shorts and white socks.
But even that was too much of a clash according to the Premier League’s software that decides each team’s kits.
Instead Palace had to wear their dark blue home kit socks instead of the white away socks so that they would differ from the white socks sported by the Chelsea team on the night.
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The confusing change to the strips left fans blasting the clash on social media.
One wrote: “That kit and socks combo is dreadful omg.”
Another added: “Palace wearing home socks with the away strip is nasty work.”
A third chimed in writing: “Kit looks dreadful with those socks!”
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While a fourth said that Palace should have just worn their black third kit, posting: “Surely just their black kit or at least the shorts and socks would have been less of an eye sore.”
Normal regulations impose strict kit rules to prevent match officials, spectators or TV viewers being confused.
But teams can only wear the same colour shorts or socks as each other if there is “sufficient contrast” across the strips.
The decision is made by Premier League software that ensures the kits selected for any match are “identifiably different colours” and also to determine the “best possible kit combination” for any match.
Arsenal’s match against Luton saw both sides wearing black shorts due to the nature of their vastly different orange and yellow shirts in the game.
Fans didn’t like the mismatched kitCredit: Getty
Palace usually sport white socks with their away kitCredit: Alamy More