Game of Thrones characters and their Premier League counterparts

Season 7 of the HBO megahit Game of Thrones starts on Sunday. The Premier League comes back in August. Let’s take a look at a few players as Thrones characters.

Game of Thrones is the most popular television show in the world. The Premier League is the most popular soccer league in the world. (One of those statements is definitely true.) So let’s mash them together.

We will take a look at a selection of Game of Thrones characters (dead or alive) and their Premier League counterparts. Comparisons will not be based on physical appearance, although that can be a factor, but rather on character traits, tendencies and how fans feel about the characters and players.

When you play the game of thrones/soccer, you win or you die.

Theon Greyjoy – Wayne Rooney

Reek, Reek, it rhymes with meek. Both Theon Greyjoy and Wayne Rooney left their homes to train under honorable men. They thrived in their new home. Both scored, ahem, a lot early on. That being said, neither were liked particularly much and would lose their appeal.

Rooney certainly didn’t undergo a change as drastic as Theon, but they both changed: Wayne got hair plugs, Theon was tortured into a completely different person and lost his … stuff. Both became shells of the men they had been, nearly unrecognizable as the viral and promising prospects they were in the past.

Late in their careers they would each escape their unfortunate predicaments and be welcomed back by their own kind. Theon discarded his horrendous alter ego, reunited with his sister Yara and joined up with the future queen of Westeros. Rooney was looking at less and less playing time at Manchester United and decided to end his career with his boyhood club, Everton.

Maybe they will both get a happy ending. Well, probably not Theon. He’s definitely going to die this season.