After Tottenham spelt Wayne Gretzky wrong..can you spell sport's top 10 most commonly misspelled names correctly?

Spurs had 'Gretsky' printed on ice hockey legend's shirt last night

James Orr
Thursday 24 September 2015 13:32 BST
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Last night Tottenham Hotspur made an almighty blunder - they presented ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky with a shirt, but they had rather embarrassingly misspelled Gretzky on the back (see picture below).

Spurs were forced to apologise to the Canadian great Wayne Gretzky during half-time of the 2-1 League Cup defeat by Arsenal at White Hart Lane, but Gretzky took it all in his stride and sent Spurs back a tweet saying that "it happens all the time."

Ledley King presents Wayne Gretzky with his wrongly spelt shirt
Ledley King presents Wayne Gretzky with his wrongly spelt shirt (twitter.com/SpursOfficial)

But we are all human after all, so just how many of sport's top 10 most commonly misspelled names can you get right. Take our quiz below.

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