Badger's Football Slang and Banter

<p><strong>A VERY funny football book for all fans</strong></p><p><strong>Over 1000 slang words and phrases of hilarious football-speak</strong></p><p><strong>High-quality wit from a bestseller author</strong></p><p><strong>The perfect gift at Xmas and all year round </strong></p><p><br></p><p>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. <strong>Short-listed best-selling author</strong> 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<strong> a laugh-out-loud entertainment</strong> and essential handbook for all football lovers in Britain and around the world.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Badger's Football Slang and Banter </em>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. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Sample Entries</strong></p><p><strong>Brown Trouser Time</strong> - Penalty Shootout</p><p><strong>Cultured Left Foot </strong>- A foot that studied Moral Philosophy and Fine Art at Uni</p><p><strong>Lung-Bursting Run</strong> - Any sprint up field longer than fifty yards often fruitless leading to the explosion of respiratory organs </p><p><strong>Massive Club</strong> - The status of every club a new player has just joined usually one that won the FA Cup in 1924 but nothing since</p><p><strong>Orc</strong> - Northern fan according to a southern one</p><p><strong>Prawn Sandwich Brigade</strong> - A military-style unit of bourgeois fans who eschew traditional pies for seafood products in focaccia</p><p><strong>Teacups</strong> - The go-to projectile of the angry manager at half-time</p>