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.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Thread: NHC Is it a throw in or shy?
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26-05-2022 01:22 AM #31
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26-05-2022 03:11 AM #32
It’s a shy
Other one is nutmeg. Where did that originate and is it nuts or Meg. Meg for me
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26-05-2022 07:55 AM #33This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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?Last edited by Mick O'Rourke; 26-05-2022 at 08:17 AM.
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26-05-2022 08:02 AM #34
I'm in my mid-40s which must be the dividing line as shy and throw-in were interchangeable when I was at school.
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26-05-2022 08:05 AM #35
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Always been a shy as far back as I can remember. Why do you never get a "foul shy" though? Always a foul throw 😟
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26-05-2022 08:20 AM #36This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-05-2022 08:52 AM #37
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26-05-2022 10:52 AM #38
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 😉There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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26-05-2022 11:03 AM #39
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26-05-2022 11:06 AM #40
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26-05-2022 11:59 AM #42
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
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26-05-2022 01:23 PM #43
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I almost got into a FankleThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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26-05-2022 03:00 PM #46
https://youtu.be/rkpG4XApJ28
All this talk about shys
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26-05-2022 03:32 PM #47This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-05-2022 04:32 PM #49
Im from Lancs now living in Chesterfield thats a new one on me. Never heard of that before. Im 58.
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26-05-2022 04:40 PM #50
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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26-05-2022 04:40 PM #51This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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
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Onion basket and back stick.
Oh, and so and so is "playing in the hole"Last edited by Mick O'Rourke; 26-05-2022 at 04:48 PM.
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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.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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26-05-2022 11:38 PM #56
The answer to the OPs question is, it's neither
It's a penalty to The Rangers.
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26-05-2022 11:47 PM #57
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Wether it be a Shy or a throw-in , one things for sure ,
We cannae take them !
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One small reason why I always speak up for Michael Stewart when folk are slagging him off is that he calls it a shy
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