Footy terms for newbs

To be fair I've seen Manny out a fair few times. Definitely a rival for party boy status.

cheers, and one last one :

why do peeps call them 'stabby' ??

R o ? = AMI Stadium, Chch

Seagull = seagull/plane

I am one of those sad f**ks though.

I'll show you next time I'm in Welly.

Marley (as in "Marley, Marley give us a wave")

= a famous (and reggae-star look-alike) steward at the Ring of Fire

Actually, technically PAX = Passenger.

It's a term that came from airline reservation systems (which I had the dubious pleasure to work on a few years back) but these days is more generally used in ticketing systems.

< Sorry train plane spotter alert >

At my uni course (travel and tourism) we got told Pax = People.

Caceras = Caceres

Yeah.. Sorry buffy.
My dad is a pilot and has to PAX back home a lot.


Dont you hate technicalities?

Just shows you shouldn't believe everything they tell you at uni

Football = Association Football

Soccer = Football
Wogball = Football
Poofball = Football
Tw@t = anyone who uses the last two terms in earnest

Ok but can someone explain why its so emphatically FOOTBALL as opposed to soccer. when I played at school in the dark ages it was called soccer yet always get corrected on here

Just a bit of preciousness on our part.

And that everywhere in the world except USA and NZ it is called football.

It's easier to call it soccer in NZ because then everyone knows what you're talking about. Shouldn't be an issue but these days I do like talking about football and footy to non-footballers and confusing them as they think I'm talking about eggball.

Junior822010-03-11 22:04:48

i think we should call them the Fairies

well I'm a kiwi but whn people talk about football i still think they mean gridiron... and i have an automatic censoring chip whn people mention oval ball - my mind jst switches to my happy place and bluebirds sing la la la la la laaaa

skin him!/go at him/f**king take him on = Stop f**king about with step overs and go around him.

jammy = a bit sh*t and dodgy

top locker = top corner

champagne football = good football (fancy passing and stuff you know)

man on/man coming = you're getting closed down by a dude you can't see

1-2/wall pass/give and go = a pass back and forth between two players, like bouncing it off a wall to go around someone

Yellow fever = a drunken, degenerate, loud mouth, with a tendency to "whip it off" towards the end of a game of footy.

gridiron is to American Football what soccer is to Association Football. theyre both unofficial 'slang' terms. AJ132010-03-11 22:21:37

Actually the gridiron is the name for the field not the game.

sh*t sorry doing again

'Go ahead goal'.  A goal that puts a team into the lead.

bench warmer = not good enough to start the game
route 1 = defender hoofs ball down field for striker to score (yeah right)
hand of God = English get Argentinian heartburn in Mexico
hand of frog = cheap french immitation

Doing a Malky - Hacking someones ankle

phil_style2010-03-12 00:00:25

both praise and abuse all at once for arsenal fans, that cracked me up, love your work phil

From what i understand... in 2007 NZ Soccer decided that they wanted to be NZ Football (NZF), so they changed their name. The general consensus was "its football everywhere else in the world, so we're going to call it football here as well". Similar story over the ditch also. I cant think of anywhere else in the world outside the USA and Canada that the official governing bodies still officially recognise the game as Soccer.

Long story short, there is now no longer an organisation known as New Zealand Soccer. Im sure someone will correct me if im wrong.
AJ132010-03-11 23:53:48

Thought "route 1" was when a player ran straight down the middle of the field, with the ball. Durante does it quite often.

I thought WI was where the silver ferns high performance training was held (think about it)

[QUOTE=stealthkiwi]

I had a quick squiz and can see a cpl of hundred new signups just in the last fortnight and many of us are not just new to here but fairly new to the great sport of football

And a fine decision that is to Stealthkiwi. I dont know what you were doing before you got hooked, but I can say that if God had of wanted you to pick the ball up, he would have put handles on it.

However............ This is just the beginning. Football is a World Sport and most of us have favourite teams overseas as well. Mainly in the EPL, (You know what that means now).
Avoid the so called top four. Everyone goes for them and they are so predictable. Win, win, win. Look further down the table for a nice little boost to the blood pressure every Sunday morning. People pick their team for all kinds of reasons. Dad told me to, Neighbour comes from there. I like their shirts, etc.
One things for sure. NOW YOU'RE IN, YOU'RE IN FOR LIFE.

phil_style2010-03-13 04:24:49

Doing a Stefan-falling asleep whilst defending!

'tards. Short for f**ktards.


The name was applied to Victorians in general on the World Game Forum in about 2004. Exact details are lacking due to 'The Great Server Purge'. No one had bumped the particular thread in a while when old threads were deleted so it only lives on in the memories of those that new. Your Hard News should know of this origin.


f**ktards was a common term of endearment at the time on TWGF. In my eternal struggle to get australian soccer fans away from ethnic bullsh*t and onto something we could all relate to, geographic hate, I came across an article suggesting Sydney as a better tourist destination them Melbourne and copied the article onto the forum with the header, "Cop this Melbourne you 'tard factory".


Every none Victorian thought it was a brilliant naming of the sub-human twats from south of the Murray and the nickname stuck also giving us 'tardville, 'tardistan and the 'tard Dome.

This nick naming actully predates the advent of the A-League and MVFC.

It's just a happy co-incidence that when a team arrived in Melbourne that the club, their f**kwit players and their bottom feeding, knuckle dragging, completely and utterly f**ked in the head fans just so perfectly fitted the pre-ordained nickname.


The f**king 'tards.

lol at this gimp.

Starter for 10. What are Our nicknames for the rest of the A-League Teams

WLG=NIX
SYD=Bling
MEL=Tards
GCU=New Bling ?
PER=?
NEW=Jests
NQF=Furries
CCM=Salty Dogs ?
BRI=??
ADL=??

and what for the new Melbourne team next season   Heart sounds like.......

Adelaide = Cakes, Pissants