Badger's Football Slang and Banter : An Illustrated A to Z of Classic and Curious Football Speak : 3

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 EntriesBrown Trouser Time - Penalty ShootoutCultured Left Foot - A foot that studied MoralPhilosophy and Fine Art at UniLung-BurstingRun - Any sprint up field longerthan fifty yards, often fruitless, leading to the explosion of respiratoryorgansMassive Club - The status of every club a new player hasjust joined, usually one that won the FA Cup in 1924 but nothing sinceOrc - Northern fan, according to a southern onePrawnSandwich Brigade - Amilitary-style unit of bourgeois fans who eschew traditional pies for seafoodproducts in focacciaTeacups - The go-to projectile of the angry managerat half-time