Nicknames
Posted in Curiosities, Football at 12:00 on 30 November 2023
In Saturday’s Guardian there was a good article on various sporting teams’ nicknames.
Apparently The Pilchards, aka Perranporth, a team from Cornwall, once had a manager who said “I’m gutted.”
As well as The Pilchards and multivarious others it mentions Scotland’s own Doonhamers, Bully Wee, Blue Brazil, Loons, Red Lichties and Hi Hi.
Stamford FC in England are nicknamed The Daniels after that country’s fattest man Daniel Lambert. Albacete in Spain are seemingly known as The Clockwork Cheese.
I was surprised that Harrogate Town’s tag of the Sulphurites wasn’t included as it is on the surface a bit strange. (Not htough when you consider the town’s arigins as a spa due to its sulphur springs.
Not to mention The Flying Donkeys (ChievoVerona) whom fans of their city rivals Hellas Verona were fonds of saying that only when those animals did achieve that feat would Chievo ever appear in Serie A. Chievo had the last laugh though when in 2001 they played in the Italian top flight for the first time and their fans adopted the nickname i Mussi Volanti. Sadly Chievo, though still registered, no longer play in the Italian pyramid system due to problems with financial viability over tax liabilities and a dispute about Covid dispensations.
Tags: Albacete, Blue Brazil, Bully Wee, Chievo Verona, Doonhamers, Harrogate Town, Hellas Verona, Hi Hi, Loons, Perranporth, Red Lichties, Stamford FC, Sulphurites, The Clockwork Cheese, The Daniels, The Pilchards
