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Niall Edworthy - Badger's Football Slang and Banter, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Badger's Football Slang and Banter

An Illustrated A to Z of Classic and Curious Football Speak

Av Niall Edworthy

Del 3 i serien Badger Humour

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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
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Niall Edworthy is one of the UK's most prolific authors andsuccessful ghostwriters. A former reporter for broadsheet newspapers and theinternational wire agencies AFP and Reuters, one of his first beats wascovering English football in the early 1990s. He also covered the 1998 WorldCup and the European Championships in 1996 and 2000.Niall began writing books in 1997. His first book was England:The Official FA History, his third The Second Most Important Job in theCountry, the story of England's managers and the trials they endured. He is the author orghost of almost 50 titles, most for the big publishing houses, many of them forwell-known names (actors, soldiers, musicians, sportsmen & televisionpersonalities), others for 'ordinary' people with extraordinary stories. He haswritten in a wide range of genres, mainly Biography, History and NaturalHistory but also Humour, Sport and recently, in Fiction. His first novel, OttoEckhart's Ordeal, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Best Published NovelAward 2021. He will soon be publishing his second novel. He lives in WestSussex, UK.

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