Football Club Nicknames

Offensive Nicknames

Everton are called Blue Noses accoriding to Liverpool Fans - By The original uploader was TheBigJagielka at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
It should come as little surprise that supporters of rival football clubs have come up with derogatory nicknames for their enemies over the years. Heading back to the start of the piece and the city of Liverpool, Liverpool fans often refer to Evertonians by the belittling title of ‘Bluenoses’. In response supporters of Everton call Liverpool fans ‘The Redsh*te’. For a city once famed for the friendliness of its rivalry, things have taken a more bitter turn in recent years. That is due in part to Liverpool’s success and Everton’s lack thereof, also earning Evertonians the nickname of ‘Bitters’.
Tottenham is an area of London with quite a large Jewish population. Over the years Spurs have also been under the chairmanship of many Jewish businessmen. During the 1970s and 1980s their supporters would encounter opposition teams that boasted a large number of National Front members; this was particularly the case with West Ham and Chelsea. Some of them would sing anti-semitic chants towards the Spurs fans. Rather than let them win and be intimidated by it, the Tottenham fans took on the label and began to refer to themselves as ‘The Yid Army’; the word ‘yid being an offensive term for a Jewish person.
The different lists in the piece are far from exhaustive. There are many more teams named after the colour of their kit or the industry that made their local area famous. Hopefully, though, this gives you something of a taste of the sort of nicknames that exist in football and why they were given in the first place. Exploring the etymology of these nicknames is a fun way to spend a bit of time, so next time you hear a club referred to by a name you’ve never heard before perhaps find out what it means and where it came from.
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