I'm not much older than you and had honestly never heard the term until an old lecturer used it at college. My neighbour uses the term but again he's older generation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just_Jimmy
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I'm not much older than you and had honestly never heard the term until an old lecturer used it at college. My neighbour uses the term but again he's older generation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just_Jimmy
It’s a shy
Other one is nutmeg. Where did that originate and is it nuts or Meg. Meg for me
Cockneys claim it in their rhyming slang. They would !Quote:
Originally Posted by Skol
The term has other names and used in other sports.
I like sportswriter Brian Glanville's explanation/origin of a nutmeg in football.
I think Brian quotes another sportswriter who said..
"nuts refer to the testicles of the player through whose legs the ball has been passed and nutmeg is just a development from this"
Scottish commentators could say
"Lovely skill, straight through his mons megs there !
Or John Greigs!
Skol,do you also say pen?:greengrin
I'm in my mid-40s which must be the dividing line as shy and throw-in were interchangeable when I was at school.
Always been a shy as far back as I can remember. Why do you never get a "foul shy" though? Always a foul throw 😟
Seldom see these given any longer, whatever you call them. Don't know if there's been a rule change or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldEast
Panda eats, shoots and leaves (again). You are grammatically correct the way you have written it above but both kick-off and throw-in are hyphenated in the Laws of the Game. So I'd argue it is correct to say kick-offs and throw-ins. But I'll stick to shy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hamish
Bye line and bye kick comes originally from Aberdeen, when the ball went out of play behind the goals the fans would be sent to retrieve the ball with calls of "come bye"
Think about it 😉
Op is under 70 though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilson
Hearts fans who know nothing about football. There's a surprise.Quote:
Originally Posted by linlithgowhibbie
You penned that wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Another one heard at football matches is "skin him" usually old gents in West Stand when Boyler is on the ball running at the defence. Always wondered the origin of that
My pet hate is presser rather than press conference. Don’t know what people do with the milli-second they save in typing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
If you didn't have bye kicks you couldn't play 10 byes? :dunno:
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Originally Posted by OldEast
I almost got into a Fankle :wink:
https://youtu.be/rkpG4XApJ28
All this talk about shys
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Used to hear it often while watching games at Gladbach and the ball wasn't even out of play. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by gbhibby
did they call it a shy down south aswell? it sounds very scottish
Im from Lancs now living in Chesterfield thats a new one on me. Never heard of that before. Im 58.
I still call it a shy. Mark Milligans last game he unleashed a hidden talent and shied it about 30 - 40 yards.
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Originally Posted by StarryPloughHSC
I had a wee search when the topic came on here.
It does appear to be more a Scottish term for throw in,in years gone by.
Am 70 now, seems everyone called it a shy when i wiz wee !.
Same with bye kick and bye line terms.
In recent seasons, it appears Hibs players have been shy to take quick throw-ins :greengrin
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PS
Terms that scunner me
Onion basket and back stick.
Oh, and so and so is "playing in the hole":hmmm:
He playing as a false 9 is one that gets me as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick O'Rourke
haha aye a thought it sounded a soley scottish term. Aye its no just throw ins weve been shy in the silverwear department also lol HGSP GGTTHQuote:
Originally Posted by Mick O'Rourke
True :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
I read that 'nutmeg' is a really old expression, possibly around the time association football started.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skol
At the time, 1870s or thereabouts, nutmeg was a very expensive import from the US to the UK, highly prized and therefore highly priced. Some exporters would mix wooden balls the same size as the nutmeg seeds into the big sacks they were selling in order to make more profit. So, 'being numegged' became a term for being sold a dummy and being embarassed - just as knocking the ball through a defender's legs would be.
I always thought shies were named for the coconut shy at traditional fairgrounds as another poster (heretoday?) said. That would help explain why ir was a more familar term to older fans. Shy is also a noun meaning the general act of flinging but that's bordering on archaic now, in use in the late eightennth century but almost certainly past its peak by the time the throw in was brught into football - I don't recall ever seeing it used in Victorian-era prose or poetry.
The answer to the OPs question is, it's neither
It's a penalty to The Rangers.
Wether it be a Shy or a throw-in , one things for sure ,
We cannae take them !
Do ewe really think so?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldEast
correctQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
One small reason why I always speak up for Michael Stewart when folk are slagging him off is that he calls it a shy