Following a four month ban, Suarez seemed to appeal to Barcelona who bought him from Liverpool who received £75 million for their ex-forward.
Yesterday evening our Women's national team during their 3-0 victory collectively received an elbow, some spitting, saw the opposition push the ref and were on the end of several late tackles which did not endear the public to Les Lions Indomptables. It was a poor show, but the English Lionesses stood firm.
I don't know how the Cameroon team would refer to these various offences which would be in French of course; I bet they have an unflattering phrase for VAR.
All over the world of football there are phrases that describe football; Tom Williams has written a book called "Do you speak Football?" The RABONA suddenly came into our vocab a while ago. We may have do it before but did it have a name? Johan Cruyff of course had his own move!
Postman Football is some midfield who pops around the field collecting and giving simple passes.
The "cheese watcher" was used to describe an AZ Alkmaar's fan, who came along to watch the game but didn't do anything else, like applaud. Roy Keane would call this lot the "prawn sandwich brigade".
An air shot, shown above, is known as "kukanyaga nyoka"-step on a snake....from the Swahili language, where in Kenya there are 121 species of snake to avoid...like missing the ball. A puff adder shot is one that shoots along the ground.
A faecal plug-in Finalnd- "pihkatappi", means what happens to bear's backside when it hibernates! It is a description of a midfielder who just blocks the hole in the centre of the team shape! Yuk!
In Brazil the top bin or top corner was we might refer, is known as "where the owl sleeps". Other phrases; "where the spiders nest", or the gallows.
The Brazilian "popcorn man" is a player who lets the game go past him.......
AND Finally..."Dundee United" means "Idiot" in the language of Yoruba in Nigeria. In 1972 the Scots toured Nigeria with very little preparation and they fell ill, got injured and suffered! TRUE!
There's more here...................
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/30/is-dundee-united-really-slang-for-idiot-in-nigeria
No comments:
Post a Comment