All cracking efforts! I'm trying to do something with surnames that are to do with football in some way: Corner Marks Blackburn Darby France Forward Mann Shotton Skipper Plus I'm sure it's possible to make an 11 where the line up makes a grammatical sentence, still working on that one!
colours: green goldsmith brown brown green gray white brown brown brown reddy couldnt think of a manager for this lot but i suppose itd have to be eddie gray.
buildings and related: storey bridges booth banks croft lodge dyke barnes temple mills stables subs: holmes holmes holme bannister parlour kitchen kitchen hall ward
places (i know many last names are the same as obscure villages but these are ones people have heard of): == places == blackburn selby lester chester durham surrey yorke burton flinton france france subs: west ross
assorted adjectives not colours: round goode best petty strong young keen sharp wilde little lowe dyer sub major
countryside xi: green heath hay peat mudd waters flood brooks hill moore moss sub: ford stone bolder myhill...
Start and End in same letter: Norman Rosenior Ayala Trevitt Edge Norton Sneekes Heath Eyre Dudfield Tait
macs: mckechnie mcneill mcewan mcmillan mcintosh mcparland mcginty mcphee mcseveney mcnaughton mcneill o/t but just found pepper/potts
there was a trialist called pass played a game for us in 1918 and robert scorer played 5 times in 22-3ish.
funny you should mention tree-forrester. i was working on a whole tree related team. had to change to 3-4-3 for this one: oakes branch knott bircham marwood wood wood woodland forrester vine ring (knott might be useful for your sentence. i have a team of verbs to follow)