Try not to laugh at this fan absolutely losing it over a footballer's surname

Oh dear.
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LONDON -- This isn't the first time footballer Christian Fuchs' surname has attracted attention, and it probably won't be the last.

On Monday, Middlesbrough took on Leicester City in a Premier League match.

The game itself was a fairly uneventful 0-0 draw, but there was one highlight: this unidentified man's gloriously delayed reaction when spotting that Fuchs, who has played for Leicester City for well over a year, has a name that sounds like a rude word:

We particularly like the fact he nudges both guys next to him to share the observation.

The clip was tweeted by Deian Sion Thomas, and has since been shared around 13,000 times.

Twitter enjoyed the man's reaction almost as much as the man himself enjoyed the discovery of Fuchs' surname.

Fuchs himself has yet to tweet about the clip, but given how active he is on social media -- and his regular use of the hashtag #NoFuchsGiven -- it's surely just a matter of time.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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