| Unofficial Club Nicknames 10:43 - Jan 3 with 936 views | SaintNick |
A post on another thread brought up nicknames given by fans to other clubs, usually not complimentary.
It always make me laugh how our near neighbours started calling us scum after the term was used by several other clubs and now they think it is original lol
Anyway what other unofficial nicknames are out there
Liverpool - The Red Shite
Everton - The Bitter Blues
Brighton - Seaweed (as chanted by Saints fans back in 77/78 at them as they sung their new nickname Seagulls) |  |
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| Unofficial Club Nicknames on 11:20 - Jan 3 with 908 views | Chesham_Saint |
Bournemouth - the Zimmers. |  |
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| Unofficial Club Nicknames on 12:45 - Jan 3 with 857 views | Wints76 |
Think both Sheffield clubs call each other Pigs.
Other West Midlands clubs called Wolves The Dingles
Think Yam Yams for.any clubs in the Black Country
Palace are the Stripey Nigels. Think Millwall coined that one [Post edited 3 Jan 2021 13:35]
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| Unofficial Club Nicknames on 13:02 - Jan 3 with 840 views | dwayne_dibley |
the skates could be called The Paedos |  |
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| Unofficial Club Nicknames on 13:15 - Jan 3 with 834 views | solent_toffee |
Everton fans call City the denims (due to their fans always wearing denim) and Villa the deans (due to a lot of their fans being called Dean).
Chelsea have always been called the rather derogatory rent boys, or is that just be both Liverpool clubs? |  | | |
| Unofficial Club Nicknames on 13:18 - Jan 3 with 829 views | Chesham_Saint |
It’s a semi-official name (for the city anyway, if not the club) but Swansea folk are of course the Jacks. | |
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| Unofficial Club Nicknames on 19:01 - Jan 3 with 702 views | dirk_doone |
I put this on another thread about funny old regimental nicknames, with reference to the Saucy Pompeys, who, like PFC, derived their nickname from the colour pink and the French courtesan, Madame de Pompadour.
The Saucy Pompeys- the nickname of the 56th West Essex Regiment of Foot (1755-1881).
The Pompeys got that nickname because of the pink facings to their uniforms, a colour which was also known as Pompadour. Any man who wore pink in those days got called a Pompadour or Pompey for short. Little Pompey got the same nickname because their traditional shirt colours were pink, so they were called the Pompadours or Pompey. Because of their pink shirts they were also nicknamed the Shrimps.
Of course, when the original Portsmouth FC was wound up in 1911, the new club which was formed to replace them changed their colours to blue to show they had no connection with the previous club but they couldn't shake off the derisory Pompey nickname.
The Pompadour (Pompey) pink colour took its name from Madame de Pompadour, who loved the colour pink in both her dresses and the decor of her boudoir.
The original Pompey:
https://waldina.com/2019/12/29/happy-298th-birthday-madame-de-pompadour/
Since then, their fans have invented several portsmyths to try to hide the origin of their nickname, or simply pretend they don't know where it came from. Of course, they could just embrace the truth and lay claim to being well ahead of their time with their gay pride chant of Play up Pompey!
It could have been worse: they could have got stuck with the same nickname as the 96th Regiment of Foot: the Bendovers.
As for scummer, it's simply the old nickname for pirates or buccaneers and it's been in use for hundreds of years. The dock strike portsmyth is much more recent and dates back to a spoof story in the Pompey fanzine, Frattonize, in the 1990s, in which Southampton Corporation Union Men (SCUM) broke a strike at the Portsmouth Fish Company (PFC).
https://www.lexico.com/definition/scummer
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scummer [Post edited 4 Jan 2021 7:48]
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