Football club nicknames

[stefanovic]

Do you know any amusing nicknames for football clubs in your area?
Examples from my area.
Wolves - the Dingles, a tease from West Brom fans.
West Brom - the Baggies because locals used to wear baggy trousers.
Birmingham City - the Bluenoses, because they're always out in the cold, a tease from Villa fans.
Halesowen Town - the Yeltz, because the town was apparently referred to as Yeltzowen.
Coventry City - probably the Nomads because they're never at home.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

****** United - the Amber Scum - because I hate them.

 

[stefanovic]

Liverpool - the Mickey Mousers (Scousers) from Man U fans.

 

[Orikoru]

Arseh***s
Chavski
Liverpoo
Wet Spam
ManUre
Man Sh***y

All hilarious I'm sure you'll agree.

 

[smange]

Raith Rovers - the wee team (self explanatory)

 

[HomerJSimpson]

****** United - the Amber Scum - because I hate them.

Is that the mob from Gander Green Lane. Thought you were over that now

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Do you know any amusing nicknames for football clubs in your area?
Examples from my area.
Wolves - the Dingles, a tease from West Brom fans.
West Brom - the Baggies because locals used to wear baggy trousers.
Birmingham City - the Bluenoses, because they're always out in the cold, a tease from Villa fans.
Halesowen Town - the Yeltz, because the town was apparently referred to as Yeltzowen.
Coventry City - probably the Nomads because they're never at home.

Well you are wrong on two of those.

The Baggies was reference to the team's shorts in the late 20's and 30's when the club held out against the move to more athletic (for those days) looking kit.

As for Bluenoses it has nothing whatsoever to do with Villa fans, after all they wouldn't have the wit.

It was first used in1956 when the club reached the FA Cup Final without ever playing at home. Some fans took to painting the end of their noses blue as a mark of identity on their travels.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I only realised a few months ago why Sheffield Wednesday are called The Owls - when my son moved into the Owlerton area of Sheffield - and now lives less than half a mile from the ground.

And I like Queens Park being The Spiders - as back in the day (way way back then) when QP were successful, their fans liked to think of their team weaving webs around the opposition. I used to think it started in the 1960s when the new floodlights were being erected at Hampden. I would look out of the back of our tenement flat in Mount Florida and see the steel erectors - looking tiny given the scale of what was being put up - crawling over the pylons as they went up and my mum would say they looked like spiders.

 

[fundy]

Arsenal are called the Gunners after their mascot Gunnersaurus Rex



Well its as sensible as some other posts on this thread!

 

[anotherdouble]

Flopenham flopspurs

 

[Norrin Radd]

Arseh***s
Chavski
Liverpoo
Wet Spam
ManUre
Man Sh***y

All hilarious I'm sure you'll agree.

To a twelve year old I'm sure they are ,💤

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Wycombe are the Chairboys
Chair and furniture making being a very old industry in the town 👍😎

 

[fundy]

Wycombe are the Chairboys
Chair and furniture making being a very old industry in the town 👍😎

Cobblers or is that Northampton

 

[Bazz]

Do you know any amusing nicknames for football clubs in your area?
Examples from my area.
Wolves - the Dingles, a tease from West Brom fans.
West Brom - the Baggies because locals used to wear baggy trousers.
Birmingham City - the Bluenoses, because they're always out in the cold, a tease from Villa fans.
Halesowen Town - the Yeltz, because the town was apparently referred to as Yeltzowen.
Coventry City - probably the Nomads because they're never at home.

They're not our rivals anymore. Barcelona, City, Madrid are.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Is that the mob from Gander Green Lane. Thought you were over that now

Never. My ambition is still to win the lottery, buy the Amber Scum, get them relegated a few times and then sell the ground for housing development.

 

[chrisd]

Never. My ambition is still to win the lottery, buy the Amber Scum, get them relegated a few times and then sell the ground for housing development.

You sound a perfect fit into the FA 👍👍

 

[stefanovic]

References to the history of a town are good..
So Northampton are the Cobblers, Wycombe the Chairboys, Luton the Hatters, Stourbridge the Glassboys, Walsall the Saddlers.
The Shiners are from South Normanton in Derbyshire. You could tell if a person was from the town if the seat of their pants was shiny. Too much sitting around working on stools.
There is also the Iron from Scunthorpe. The ladies team are called the Iron Ladies.
There are 2 teams called the Highwaymen because of the nearby A1. Morpeth and a team from Newark.

Bury FC - the Shakers. Chairman was supposed to have said of Blackburn Rovers 'We'll give them a good shaking'.
Bolton Wanderers - the Trotters. May be a reference to local food delicacy.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Never. My ambition is still to win the lottery, buy the Amber Scum, get them relegated a few times and then sell the ground for housing development.

So that's a yes then. You are over it

 

[PIng]

Do you know any amusing nicknames for football clubs in your area?
Examples from my area.
Wolves - the Dingles, a tease from West Brom fans.
West Brom - the Baggies because locals used to wear baggy trousers.
Birmingham City - the Bluenoses, because they're always out in the cold, a tease from Villa fans.
Halesowen Town - the Yeltz, because the town was apparently referred to as Yeltzowen.
Coventry City - probably the Nomads because they're never at home.

I thought they were called the Baggies because their blue & white striped shirts look like Tesco carrier bags

 

[richart]

We were know as The Biscuitmen, because Huntley and Palmers were based in Reading. No idea why we are now The Royals, as I have never seen the Queen at a game.