‘Tucker’ aiming to steer Nemo back to top of ladder

IN this year’s Cork SFC final match programme, Nemo Rangers wing-back Colin O’Brien was the subject of a player profile.

For the question regarding whether he had a nickname, O’Brien pointed out that so many people knew him as “Tucker”. It was as if his given name had been forgotten.

Like so many nicknames, it came about in an unconventional manner, as he explains. “When he was younger, my father played with Coventry City for five or six years. The first time he broke into the team he replaced a player whose nickname was “Tucker” so then the name stuck to him.