Some of the other names nominated by the public were:
Alan Shearer, David Beckham, Billy the Fish, Bob Geldof, Jack Charlton or ‘Charlton’, Bridge 66, David Seaman, Dietmar Hamann , Eric Cantona Kung-Foo, Gazza 96, Give us our turf back, Jim Baxter, John Barnes, John Eales, Jonah Lomu - Walk Over, Lawrie Sanchez, Lineker Link, Mandela, Maradonna, My teacher told the class to call it ‘Scott Gibbs Bridge’, but please don't, Not the James Baxter Bridge, Offiah, Pele, Roy Keane, Scott Gibbs, Stanley Matthews, Stuart Pearce, They Think it's all Over Bridge, Thierry Henry, Three Lions, Tofik Bakhramov, Trevor Brooking, Twin Towers, Viv Anderson and Wayne Bridge.