As football becomes a global business, the language of the game changes, both on and off the field.
Here is a list of terms that are slowly but surely being used in the modern vocabulary of football fans, players and referees.
1. Home Goal – Used to be own goal, but this is now used more often. This is when a player takes the ball to his/her own goal and kicks it in (their own goal).
2. Putting it in the Soup – To miss the goal and the ball to end up in the soup.
3. Leaving your head in the soup – When a player is not playing well.
4. Cuppa Soup – Young players are often referred to as this.
5. Dam Buster – A penalty that involves two balls, one kicked with the right foot and one with the left of the same player.
6. Beaver – Two goals scored at the same time when the Dam Buster is in play.
7. Slag Heap – Celebratory dance when a team wins, starting with the team descending on the team’s own goal keeper. Human Pyramid is the result.
8. Snotty Botty – When a player begins arguing with one of his own team mates on the pitch.
9. Manager’s Special – When a manager urinates into the team bath before they get into the locker rooms. This usually happens when a team loses (on big occasions, this can happen when a team wins).
10. Custard Cream – When a player loses control after getting a red card and held down by his own players and filled with as much Mr Whippy as possible, and then sat on until vomit happens.