Pretty sure he has always been very serious about hockey, most likely would've gone pro if not for his football career

I remember ages ago him saying he wanted to play more hockey as a child but his parents couldn’t afford it.

This is actually incredibly impressive. The EIHL is not a slouch league.

Gigacech

Look like Dark Helmet.

Probably shouts "Keep firing, Assholes" during shooting practice.

The actual helmet he wore for those wondering.

Chelsea and Arsenal badge on each side.

I remember seeing an interview with Zdeno Chara and Marian Hossa (Slovak hockey stars) where they described growing up during the pre-post communist schism/independence. Basically during communism when they were children, despite the relative lack of wealth the government still subsidized sport for political reasons. So even though they grew up poor they (and their peers) always had access to ice time, gear paid for, coaching, you name it. Then in the mid-90s when Slovakia and Czech Republic split both countries were super poor for a while (like Poland at the time) so an entire generation of young players that came after them didn't have shit or could afford it anymore.

In the late 1990s-mid 2000s Slovakia was a legitimate top 6 country in the world in hockey. Then they dipped to like, 10th where countries like Germany were starting to pass them. It's now reversed a bit and Slovakia has a really good young generation, but the ~1985-2000 generation were basically the "lost" generation there.

So after babbling for a bit, I'm guessing Petr Cech may have went through something similar in the 1990s when he was growing up in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic.

Your NFL team names are even worse lol

Northern Ireland actually has mythology based on giants (see Giant's causeway) so it actually makes sense.

sheffield is a bit far, but coventry are in the same league, I live in northamptonshire and go there to watch the giants play. MK may get promoted potentially but dropped out of the league, but I went there too, so I'd like them to get promoted again just so I can watch giants play in more than one place

It kinda requires ice

But don't cross Cech

A disproportionate amount of the praise for that Chelsea team goes to Terry. Even though he wasn't even the best defender on that team.

His near post was basically a wide open door at Arsenal, and he was atrocious at penalties. His reflexes were pretty poor, so it genuinely boggles my mind he would be employed as an ice hockey goalie!? His ass ain't no fine wine, and those reflexes won't have improved.