That’s BFG to you.
Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker is 6ft 6in tall.
Andrew Winning / Reuters
He is also German.
He is affectionately called the BFG, the ‘Big Fucking German’, by Arsenal fans.
Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
And German journalist Christopher Lymberopoulos just used the post-watershed nickname during a Sky Sports News segment.
Cue apologies.
