A yank who would appreciate some SUFC culture- and general football schooling

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Jennifer said:
For the record, my name is Jennifer. I am from and live in the southeastern United States. Please don't hold that against me, lol.

I need some help, and according to someone posting in sheffieldforum.co.uk, this is the place I should come get it. I'll try to keep it brief: I am in the wee-small early stages of penning (what I hope will one of the liftetimes be) a novel. My secondary protagonist is a British ex-pat chef hailing from Sheffield (yes, a chef from Sheffield -- insert rimshot here!) who is a Blades fan.

Personally, I don't know much about football -- or, as we call it here, soccer. I don't know much about what we call football, either, although that feels like a misnomer and is certainly another story for another day. So I'll need some indoctrination in football as you guys know it and in Blades culture/fandom. Key events in Blades history, the like. The more condensed, yet still hitting the important points, the better.

If anyone could help, I would be indebted to you for . . . well, a ridiculously long time. Thanks!
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Hi Jennifer. Clearly you have incredible taste, no mean feat from someone tother side of the pond lol. To choose The Blades from all the clubs in the world could prove a shrewder move than you currently understand. We are an incredibly well loved club ,mostly by our own fans i might add but never far from conjecture and sometimes controversy.Material is plentyfull

I am a writer and wannabe Producer/ Film maker ,Graduating University with First Class Honours and the time is ripe in my humble opinion, for another film about the Blades now we have "One of our own" at the helm, in the dressing room at least. So I hope you do not mind me suggesting a collaborative project that could grow your Novel into a Movie or Documentary, or both?? Yes we are an ambitious lot on the whole.It would be wonderful to Produce a piece that serves my ultimate passion but more importantly helps another human achieve great things.
I was also a Chef for 16 plus years so maybe i could offer you some insight into the "Goings on" of Kitchens and Life as a Blade/Chef.I am 57 years old and while many more fans can offer more recent first hand experience (living overseas) I would love to contribute.

Anyway be great to hear what your thoughts are.

Kindest regards,Paul Hibberd.

PS do you have a Synopsis and Premise you may wish to share and of course as a fellow writer I fully respect your intellectual property.

Take care. UTB
 
Nobody actually says it while the match is on, more of a solidarity thing outside of match days, a code if you
Iike

If you must know it's UTB, FTP.

FTP is a reference to another club, "Pigs" , I'll let you work out FT
 
If you need any translations I'm a Blades fan of over 50 years and have lived in the US for 10 years.

If you need an equivalent passion in the US to supporting a football team in England it has to be college football. I've been to a couple of games over here and the atmosphere is amazing!

Good luck with the book!
 
TexasBlade said:
If you need any translations I'm a Blades fan of over 50 years and have lived in the US for 10 years.

If you need an equivalent passion in the US to supporting a football team in England it has to be college football. I've been to a couple of games over here and the atmosphere is amazing!

Good luck with the book!
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Thank you. But I think UK football fans make American 'football' fans look like a bunch of non-committal sissies in the enthusiasm department, personally.
 
Put it like this: Gary Oldman makes me go slack-jawed faster than the likes of Colin Firth or our Channing Tatum. When I'm in a new town or city, I like to find the holes-in-the-wall that only the locals know and adore. I never saw Downton Abbey's mass appeal. No disrespect to its players; it just wasn't my jam. I could go on, but bottom line is this:. Keeping it real is what I do and love.
 

Again, very interested to see a Region 1 copy of "When Saturday Comes," if any of you have better luck finding one thanI have.
 
I guess vocabulary is the easiest part of a dialect to reproduce for an outside audience. Your chef would almost certainly have grown up amongst people who call each other 'luv'. New students from outside are at first unnerved to be called 'luv' by total strangers - it sounds like a gay chat-up line when used by a man to another man. He will have stopped using it in America, but it will deep in his psyche.
Another gem is 'nesh'. Standard English lacks a word meaning 'susceptible to the cold'. It is much used by Local football fans, especially now so many players wear gloves; there is no other way to describe them but 'nesh'. And it has a second meaning of 'cowardly', again much used in football locally, often as a verb: to nesh a tackle is to chicken out of a tackle. Sheffield football fans can put up with just about anything except lack of commitment. A player who neshes tackles does not last long here.
 

Jennifer, not sure if you are aware but the Blades played an important league match today. You're looking for what makes up the culture and DNA of a Blade then may I suggest you read (if you haven't already) all the posts that have been put on this website since about 3.00pm (our time) today. You may well learn more about us from these posts than the individual dialogues that this current thread has developed into.
 
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