Time out: take a break from the world and its problems

[Lisnaholic]

Sorry to interrupt the sports banter, but if anyone feels inclined, they can spend a relaxing minute as I did this morning with this cute video, pondering on the mystery of babies' minds, life and the answer to everything:-

Back on the topic of soccer, as an outside observer, one of the things I like is the way team names get abbreviated into nicknames that everyone recognises: Man You for Manchester United, while for Tottenham Hotspurs you can choose between the commonplace Spurs or the more affectionate, Totts.
Well, that exhausts my own list of team names: anyone else with nicknames they like ?

[Mindy]

gonna go wild on this one but your gif choice, dude throwing a computer into the dumpster...I didnt see that when I replied, it must not have loaded.


oddly, this morning I did that though, I threw two computer monitors away in a dumpster just like that.....

[jimmy jazz]

Back on the topic of soccer, as an outside observer, one of the things I like is the way team names get abbreviated into nicknames that everyone recognises: Man You for Manchester United, while for Tottenham Hotspurs you can choose between the commonplace Spurs or the more affectionate, Totts.
Well, that exhausts my own list of team names: anyone else with nicknames they like ?

You seem like your local team would be Arsenal. I know you're a Londoner.

Have you ever been to a match? Have you ever been taken up the Arse?

[Lisnaholic]

You seem like your local team would be Arsenal. I know you're a Londoner.

Have you ever been to a match? Have you ever been taken up the Arse?

As a schoolboy, my friends told me to say "Chelsea" when I was asked "What team do you support?" and I remember seeing graffiti saying "Chelsea Shed" in various places in London, which seemed to endorse the popularity of their choice. The football ground I became most familiar with was Fulham's, which I have walked past on many occasions, while I used to meet up for a beer with a friend and his dad, after they had been to a Wimbledon game.
Nothing ever called my attention to Arsenal though, and the only football match I ever attended was a Brentford home game ( "Come on, you Bees!"). The guys I was working with at the time insisted that I should go to at least one football match in my life, for which I am now grateful, though I didn't enjoy it much at the time.

Thanks for the Qs, JJ. And how about you? How often do you go to a match ? Are you fiercely loyal to just one team, or are you an unfaithful supporter, spreading your affection around? 

[jimmy jazz]

Yes mate just Villa. This is a Villa area, everyone in my family is Villa. My aunt used to work at Villa Park and I've been in the chairman's office. It was really nice and old fashioned from what I remember. You will see the flags on cars and houses and the railings and things painted claret and blue here. Even if I didn't like football I would still consider myself Villa just because it's home.

I don't go anymore because it's expensive but I've been to loads of games.

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[jimmy jazz]

Also saw a funny exchange at the hospital. At the crossing, a guy shouted out his window to an old lady "you're a slapper!" and she turned round and goes "I'm a slapper? Well I wouldn't suck your cock!" 😂😂😂

Then as she's walking off she says to the woman with her "he's just a twat" and then apologised for swearing in front of a child.

[Saulaac]

^   Never knew the origins of the term "slapper". Were they the ones who were slapping the men around, or getting slapped themselves?

Back on the topic of soccer, as an outside observer, one of the things I like is the way team names get abbreviated into nicknames that everyone recognises: Man You for Manchester United, while for Tottenham Hotspurs you can choose between the commonplace Spurs or the more affectionate, Totts.
Well, that exhausts my own list of team names: anyone else with nicknames they like ?

Some which I remember by casually flitting through the sports pages over the years:

Norwich are "The Canaries", due to their bright yellow shirts I guess.

"The Den" is the Wimbledon ground, right? Certainly sounds like it. As in "Vinnie Jones gave 'em a right good kicking down at the Den last night".

"City" (or Citteh) could technically be any city in the UK that has a cathedral, but nine times out of ten that refers to Manchester City.

"County". Again, that could be any county in the British Isles. But no, for some reason it is reserved for two teams that I know of. Derby County or Notts County. I'm going with Derby County because they have spent more time in the premier league than Notts County.

EDIT: And just one last one. "Town". Or "Toon!". I think everyone, including Stateside, knows who that refers to.
And on that topic, what are everyone's favourite American Footie nicknames? The Steelers springs to mind. Or, were they the best stealers of the ball?

[jimmy jazz]

My favourite names for overseas sports teams are Deportivo Wanka.

http://in 2006, it emerged that Deportivo Wanka shirts had become a cult collectible item for British football fans, with over 1,000 shirts selling in the space of a few weeks. The British slang word wanker "one who masturbates", sounds like Wanka when said with a (non-rhotic) British accent. The Sun quoted a club spokesman as saying that "It is very strange. Everyone in Britain seems to think we have a funny name."

Their nickname is Los Wankas 😂

Also Newell's Old Boys (often referred to by their acronym, NOB):



I'm such a big NOB fan.

[Saulaac]

Well I happily admit I'm a bit of a NOB myself. Newell's Old Boys sound like a great outfit 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newell%27s_Old_Boys

[Lisnaholic]

"The Den" is the Wimbledon ground, right? Certainly sounds like it. As in "Vinnie Jones gave 'em a right good kicking down at the Den last night".

^ aha! Vinnie Jones ! Thanks to your comment, I now remember debates and doubts about his sportsmanship. Quite a controvertial player, apparently!
I  don't remember hearing The Den being mentioned, but the team itself were usually referred to as The 'Dons.

[Suburban Placeholder?]

Bolton's current stadium is called The Toughsheet Community Stadium

 

BTW The Den is/was Millwall's ground.
Wimbledon play at Plough Lane.,

[jimmy jazz]

Crazy what happened to Wimbledon. No pun intended.

I remember Vinnie Jones playing for them. Robbie Earle etc.

Just seen Robbie Earle is now 60. I was a kid not long ago and now I can remember when a 60 year old was an athlete.

Sad!

[Trollheart]

Yeah the Den is Milwall all right, County is usually Notts County (Derby go by The Rams) and City is indeed Man City. Leicester City are The Foxes, Wolverhampton Wanderers are Wolves, Newcastle The Magpies and Sheffield United The Owls. A lot of animal imagery in there! Arsenal are the Gunners, Liverpool the Reds, Man United the Red Devils (don't mix them up!) while despite playing at the City Ground, Nottingham Forest just go by Forest. AFC Bournemouth are The Cherries, Everton The Toffees, Brighton are known as The Seagulls (more animals you see) and West Ham, unsurprisingly, are The Hammers.

Vinnie Jones was the hard man of football, especially during his time with Wimbledon, who, for those who don't know, sort of split into two clubs: AFC Wimbledon remained in Wimbledon while the part of the team that moved to Milton Keynes are now known as the MK Dons, holding on to part of the nickname. Vinnie, as you probably know, went on to become a movie star playing - surprise, surprise! - gangsters and hard men.

[Suburban Placeholder?]

Vinnie was a cartoon hard man.

Terry Hurlock, now that was one mad bastard.

"Some of us [Millwall players] were playfully goading Terry about what he was going to do to Vinnie Jones in the upcoming fixture with Wimbledon. Without saying a word, he got up from the table and walked to the entrance of the pub and ripped the door off its hinges" – Millwall teammate Tony Cascarino

[Trollheart]

Don't forget the man they called Psycho!