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Finally, a dictionary that makes you laugh! A very funny football book for all fans and a useful guide to terminology for anyone curious about the humour and eccentricities of British football culture
Over 1,000 slang words and phrases of hilarious football-speak
‘It certainly hits the back of the net!’ The Football League Paper (FLP)
A packed collection of dressing-room banter, tunnel talk, pundit-speak, gantry gaffes, classic clichés and terrace ridicule from the colourful language of British football. Short-listed, best-selling author Niall Edworthy brings sharp, high-quality wit to definitions for the rich jargon of the Beautiful Game. This dip-in anthology of terms is a celebration of the national game’s terrace culture, a laugh-out-loud entertainment and essential handbook for all football lovers in Britain and around the world.
Whether rolling off the terraces, yelled on the training ground, mangled in the post-match interview or muttered in the commentary box, the language of British football keeps on giving, a rich and peculiar dialect all of its own, peppered with spicy slang, clunking with commonplace classics and sneering with contempt and ridicule.
Badger’s Football Slang and Banter gives 110 per cent, leaves nothing on the pitch, stamping its authority with aplomb – and that little bit of quality – to create an absolute banger of a read for all football fans in Britain and the millions following Britain’s national game from abroad.
Reviews
‘Badger’s Football Slang & Banter… does a brilliant job of capturing the soundtrack of the game in a fun way.’ John Lyons, editor Late Tackle
‘It will have you chuckling and chortling… It certainly hits the back of the net!’ The Football League Paper
Sample Entries
Brown Trouser Time – Penalty Shootout
Cultured Left Foot – A foot that studied Moral Philosophy and Fine Art at Uni
Lung-Bursting Run – Any sprint up field longer than fifty yards, often fruitless, leading to the explosion of respiratory organs
Massive Club – The status of every club a new player has just joined, usually one that won the FA Cup in 1924 but nothing since
Orc – Northern fan, according to a southern one
Prawn Sandwich Brigade – A military-style unit of bourgeois fans who eschew traditional pies for seafood products in focaccia
Teacups – The go-to projectile of the angry manager at half-time
From the Publisher
ASIN : B0DHQVLG2G
Publisher : Badger Books
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : 22 Sept. 2024
Language : English
File size : 3.7 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 170 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1738452279
Page Flip : Enabled
Part of series : Badger Sport Humour
Best Sellers Rank: 629,126 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) 817 in Sports & Recreation Humor 944 in Football (Kindle Store) 1,333 in Comedy (Kindle Store)
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