Badger's Football Slang and Banter

An Illustrated A to Z of Classic and Curious Football Speak
A humorous dictionary loaded with over 1,000curious words and funny phrases, dressing room banter, tunnel talk, pundit-speak,gantry gaffes, classic cliches and terrace ridicule from the colourful language ofBritish football.

An A to Z humorous dictionary loaded withover 1,000 curious words and funny phrases, dressing room banter, tunnel talk, pundit-speak,gantry gaffes, classic cliches and terrace ridicule from the colourful languageof British football. The sharp and lively definitions given to everydayfootball-speak makes this celebration of the national game's rich culture, a laugh-out-loudentertainment and essential handbook for all fans in Britain and around theworld.

Whether rolling off the terraces, yelled onthe training ground, mangled in the post-match interview or muttered in thecommentary box, the language of British football keeps on giving, a rich andpeculiar dialect all of its own, peppered with spicy slang, clunking with commonplaceclassics and sneering with contempt and ridicule.

Badger's Football Slang and Banter gives 110 percent, leavesnothing on the pitch, stamping its authority with aplomb - and that little bitof quality - to create an absolute banger of a read for all football fans inBritain and the millions following Britain's national game from abroad.

Sample Entries

Brown Trouser Time - Penalty Shootout

Cultured Left Foot - A foot that studied MoralPhilosophy and Fine Art at Uni

Lung-BurstingRun - Any sprint up field longerthan fifty yards, often fruitless, leading to the explosion of respiratoryorgans

Massive Club - The status of every club a new player hasjust joined, usually one that won the FA Cup in 1924 but nothing since

Orc - Northern fan, according to a southern one

PrawnSandwich Brigade - Amilitary-style unit of bourgeois fans who eschew traditional pies for seafoodproducts in focaccia

Teacups - The go-to projectile of the angry managerat half-time

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