Halloween: Our spookiest XI combine to form a football team of nightmares

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Ghoulio Cesar

As if QPR wasn’t bad enough, the Brazilian also makes this horror team.

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Phil Deville

England Women’s manager, Phil Neville.

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Vampire Mertesacker

The former Arsenal skipper makes the cut

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Branslav Ivanowitch

Branislav Ivanovic was known to many as Chelsea’s Iron Man

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Satan Baines

Everton’s left back may be fading from view, but he is doing so spookily.

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Boojan Krkic

Bojan was a prospect at Barcelona before his move to Stoke City

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Steven Nzombie

The French midfielder made it into the 2018 Winning World Cup Squad.

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Frankenstein Lampard

Frank Lampard will hope to create a winning team at Derby.

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Marc Alfrighton

Marc Albrighton won the Premier League with Leicester in 2015[

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Roberto Skulldado

Roberto Soldado didn’t flourish at Tottenham.

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Football’s Spooky Halloween XI – Nikita Hellavic

Jelavic scored 21 times for Everton

By Thomas Godfrey

The frights and spooks of Halloween are back for 2018.

Containing some of the best football/spooky crossover puns, we’ve combined a team of 11 creepy players to form the Halloween XI.

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