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| Paul |
Why r Arsenal r called "Gunners" ? FIND OUTArsenal (Gunners, Gooners) - The club started out as woolwich arsenal, and guns are stored in an arsenal so... the gunners.Aston Villa (Villains) - club named after Villa Cross church in Aston, villains developed from that Blackburn Rovers (Rovers, The Riversiders Rovers) - common team name like rangers or wanderers implies teams are willing to travel great distances for glory. Riversiders - named after a stand in the ground. Bolton Wanderers (Trotters) - Another way of describing travelling - from the official name wanderers Charlton Athletic (Addicks, the Valiants) - A corruption of the word athletic, or named after a local fish shop or because local fish man would shout “Haddocks”. Valiants after the name of the ground. Chelsea (Blues, or Pensioners) - Named after the well known chelsea pensioners - war veterans living in a nearby hospital. Everton - Toffees, or The Toffeemen, or Blues - local sweet shop gave away toffees and mints, or slang term for Irishmen. Fulham - Cottagers - Their ground is Craven Cottage Liverpool - Reds - kit colour Manchester City - Citizens, City, or Sky Blues Citizens - developed from City, sky blues from kit Manchester United - Red Devils - The club themselves chose the name because they liked it and incorporated a devil into the club badge. Middlesbrough - Boro - Abbreviation Newcastle United - Magpies - based on colour of kit - black and white Portsmouth - Pompey - A nickname for the city of navel extraction Reading - The Royals or Biscuitmen (obsolete) - The "Huntley & Palmers" company had a biscuit factory in Reading. The Royals comes from the royal county of Berkshire where Reading is situated. Sheffield United - Blades - Steel industry, famous for knives Tottenham Hotspur - Spurs, Penis and Lilywhites (obsolete) - A shortening of hotspur, club originally played at Northumberland Park - Northumberland in Shakespeare gave rise to Harry Hotspur, so some literate public schoolboy element appended Hotspur. The story that the club was called Hotspur after an Earl who lived locally is apparently false. Watford - Hornets, - Golden Boys Yellow and black football kit West Ham United - Hammers, The Irons - Team started life as Thames Ironworks. Wigan Athletic - Latics - Corruption of athletic |
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| -E.A- |
Tottenham Hotspur - The Penis.
Worst nickname ever 
Apart from Yeovil FC - The Glovers 
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| Paul |
lol
u r not supposed to say that about ur own team lol |
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| Bradley |
spurs also the yids
dont no if im aloud to say why on this forum 
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| -E.A- |
Chel$ea - The pensioners 
Brilliant! |
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| Bradley |
Liverpool are also the Scousers
dodgey list 
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| -E.A- |
I think it's old.
Watford and Sheffield aren't even in the prem
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| Paul |
It is old, look here is the full list
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL LIST |
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| Bradley |
liverpool have been called scousers for over 50 years spurs been called yids for over 50 years also lool |
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| -E.A- |
pm me why the yids  
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| Sohaibs |
Arsenal's is just class
Villa's is good too |
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| yusufmanu |
Man utd-red devils = brilliant!
Chelsea- pensioners = lol!
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| Bradley |
why do man united basically worship the devil?
there crest, there nick names, there mascot ..... |
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| Paul |
True but aren't a lot of clubs like that? Sheffield Wednesday - Ryan's club their crest - yup their nickname - yup their mascot - yup!!! |
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| RJ |
They dont even have all of the reasons, They have the prem but as soon as it gets serious in league 1 they havnt any answers lol | ||
| .HAZ |
spurs - YID ARMY | ||
| Turtle-Man |
Spurs rule all.
End of. |
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| Paulolad |
Liverpool's is really boring 
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| ronny99 |
RED DEVILS - cus we are so good we can have a devil on our shirt and still be the best:) |