Do we have the best nickname in football?

[RealMcCoy]

And when your best striker is the leagues best striker and is called Sharp....
it doesn't get any better!!!

 

[Buxtonblade]

Yes and one of the worst has got to be the trotters, feckin notlob shit houses.
UTB

 

[Lawrence]

And when your best striker is the leagues best striker and is called Sharp....
it doesn't get any better!!!

Sounds like the beginnings of a new song!

 

[grafikhaus]

Could you rephrase the poll question? or is it me that's pissed.

If you are, that makes four of us.

 

[Blade56]

I thought that I'd developed dyslexia trying to read the question.............l

It reads fine to me so you're all safe

 

[S64 Blade]

Burton's 'The Brewers' is pretty cool. Of course ours is the best though.

The worst ones are when it is just either, city, blues, red etc.

 

[BigBed]

Well I think we just edged it, infront of:
The Pigs
the Cunts(Coventry)
The Bottling Bastards(Bolton)

Close though!

 

[away ends always empty.]

Trotters should be allocated to another club
Quakers
Cod army
There some pretty lame ones out their but the blades and gunners are probably up there.

 

[boo radley]

Best by far and the best badge.
It's a bit to 'up and at em' for Pinchy and Bladey Blades. He'd have us called tableware.
Can you imagine hus design for a club badge.

 

[Punk Blade]

Sounds like the beginnings of a new song!

The first bit almost fits to Boomtown Rats' I Don't Like Mondays ('they can see no reasons...'). Seems a pretty obvious song for us to sing, declaring a dislike for a day of the week. Have we never used it before?

 

[Foody]

The blades is great; good for chants, intimidating and references our great city's history. I also quite like the nick name 'The Arabs'. 3 points for the team and the reason, answers on a post card.

 

[Blade56]

Burton's 'The Brewers' is pretty cool. Of course ours is the best though.

The worst ones are when it is just either, city, blues, red etc.

I think it's a terrible nickname.

Whenever I hear it I think of brewing a Tom Tit

 

[cahill]

The Media refer to a small number of clubs by their nicknames, Blades, Wolves, Spurs

Ours is the best

 

[JJBlade]

There was an American woman who used to post on the earlier websites

She had no connection to Sheffield, no family members were Blades but she liked football ( or soccer)

She said she just had to see what it was all about, a club who were called "The Blades"

She just loved the name, it sounded exciting and menacing

I think she became a keen fan as well and even made an odd trip over for some games

 

[Bayingblade]

None better than "The Blades" and lends itself perfectly to the question, "who do you support?". My answer is always "I'm a Blade". It just sounds right!

 

[Rhyll Grease]

Bert likes Leicester's old nickname.
The Filberts.

That's just nuts.......

 

[itsinyerblood]

Putting aside the word spasm that accompanies the OP's question.......do we have the best nickname in football?

By a country mile! By several country miles in fact. Everything else pales by comparison. Plus a badge that's as good as it gets.

As for the S6 benders, I think that whoever came up with The Owls must have had a brain tumor that caused this marvel of the English language. Completely lacking in imagination then as they are now. Perhaps it's why they're an attractive proposition to to the enfeebled of South Yorkshire? Imagine, your task is to create a name synonymous with high expectation, that has clout and gravitas.....after many hours of wearying debate some poor, flat capped, chap at the back of the room shouts, "I have it...The Owls!", and from that moment of shoddy decision making we were left with the lamest name and badge the western hemisphere could summon.....I guess that if someone at said meeting had their weasel or stote with them then you can guess the outcome.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Someone will come along soon and suggest that our nickname encourages people to go around stabbing each other. I think we should change it to something a little more contemporary. "The Flares" anyone?

 

[itsinyerblood]

Someone will come along soon and suggest that our nickname encourages people to go around stabbing each other. I think we should change it to something a little more contemporary. "The Flares" anyone?

But then wouldn't some wag apply the unwritten rules of slang and refer to us as, The Lionel Blairs? No sir, never, not no how!

 

[Bert]

Putting aside the word spasm that accompanies the OP's question.......do we have the best nickname in football?

By a country mile! By several country miles in fact. Everything else pales by comparison. Plus a badge that's as good as it gets.

As for the S6 benders, I think that whoever came up with The Owls must have had a brain tumor that caused this marvel of the English language. Completely lacking in imagination then as they are now. Perhaps it's why they're an attractive proposition to to the enfeebled of South Yorkshire? Imagine, your task is to create a name synonymous with high expectation, that has clout and gravitas.....after many hours of wearying debate some poor, flat capped, chap at the back of the room shouts, "I have it...The Owls!", and from that moment of shoddy decision making we were left with the lamest name and badge the western hemisphere could summon.....I guess that if someone at said meeting had their weasel or stote with them then you can guess the outcome.

They used to play at Owlerton, many older fans used to refer to their ground as Owlerton when Bert was a young man. That is possibly where their nickname came from.

 

[itsinyerblood]

They used to play at Owlerton, many older fans used to refer to their ground as Owlerton when Bert was a young man. That is possibly where their nickname came from.

Bert, whatever lies at the heart of their panto name, it's a classic of comedy proportions.

 

[Seanshoreham]

I'm proud of the fact that we are the original United and all the others who copied us mere imposters

I work with a (plastic) Man Utd fan and remind him every day

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

The Media refer to a small number of clubs by their nicknames, Blades, Wolves, Spurs

Ours is the best

Yeah, & it's unique in our case with it not relating to the name of the club.

Can't think of another case in football where a nickname is synonymous with a club like this (other than diminutives of the club name like you've mentioned).

One of a kind, truly.

 

[RealMcCoy]

Yeah, & it's unique in our case with it not relating to the name of the club.

Can't think of another case in football where a nickname is synonymous with a club like this (other than diminutives of the club name like you've mentioned).

One of a kind, truly.

Canaries?
Cobblers?
Hatters?

 

[cahill]

Canaries?
Cobblers?
Hatters?

Yes but these clubs aren't habitually recognised by their nicknames. If you get me ? All clubs have a nickname, Pigs, Dingles, Leedscum, etc