One thing you will see in Scottish culture is humour, it's a massive part of working class life here. Every 2nd person in Glasgow is funny and can tell stories 😂
Good video. Dunfermline are called the Pars because of the parallel lines of their jersey. Also, Cowdenbeath are known as The Blue Brazil. Blue because it’s bloody chilly up here (and it’s their team colour) and, Brazil with tongue firmly in cheek because they’re shite.
I thought/ heard the pars got there nickname from supporters of Plymouth argyle, a lot of them come up to rosyth to work at docks back in day, they missed watching football but decided to support a local team whilst up here working, so PARS, Plymouth Argyle of Rosyth Supporters were born. Sure it was my driving instructor who was a massive pars fan told me this 🤷♂️
Another explanation of the 'Pars' nickname I have heard informally is from the description 'part-timers' - as an 'Athletic' club, DAFC's players were part-time rather than the full-time pros of the bigger clubs.
I was getting ready to hate this video, but it's a very well-put-together, informative, and mostly accurate video, so good job. I don't know if your pronunciation of Aberdeen at the beginning was intended as it's not how most people pronounce the city, but it is how the locals of Aberdeen pronounce the city.
Bill Bryson once described hearing the Scottish and English football results on the radio as pure poetry. I love how so many Scottish team names make no reference to the town/city they're located in. In terms of pure romance you can't beat Queen of the South - local poet David Dunbar used the term to describe the town of Dumfries when standing for election in 1857 - although Heart of Midlothian (named after the famous stone in Edinburgh's Royal Mile) run them close. English teams are not so poetic, but Plymouth Argyle, Sheffield Wednesday, Leyton Orient and Crewe Alexandra aren't too shabby. Thanks for the great video.
@@oscarx-ray3545 Yes indeed, and it did happen (thanks to penalties) in 2011. Unfortunately it ended East Fife 4 - Forfar 5. Being a Pools fan my favourite is: Hartlepool United 8 - Grimsby Town 1, not very romantic admittedly - but what a way to decide the Cod Wars!
I don’t disagree but plenty of English clubs are colourfully named after districts most notably clubs in London. I thought it a shame both when Orient went back to Leyton Orient and in Scotland when Morton became Greenock Morton. But England still has Crystal Palace and perhaps best of all, as it isn’t in London, Port Vale !
This is so so good. Its informative , but i actually laughed out loud a couple of times, too. It's maybe some of the funny anecdotes/facts about our clubs delivered in a great deadpan tone. Great work
I believe in Victorian times and later a lot of Dumfries men worked for the Glasgow and South Western Railway in places like the railway works at Kilmarnock or in railway jobs in the Glasgow area. The money was better than local wages and transport was free for railway employees so the distance wasn't a problem, but meant several hours travelling each day. When they'd finished their shifts they'd say 'I'm gaen doon hame noo' (I'm going back down south to my home now) so became known as 'Doonhamers', a phrase Dumfriesians still use with pride, and is also used for the football club.
Enjoyed your video. Well researched, well done. Potential for another one to include teams left out. The Falkirk Bairns, Airdrie Diamonds & Ross County the Staggies, to name a few.
I can do the Falkirk one. It comes from an old saying later adopted by the town as a motto "better meddle wi the de'l than the bairns of Falkirk" (translated as better to mess with the devil than the children of falkirk). There are several reasons as to how the saying came about but let's just say there is a reason the Romans built their wall to keep the Scots out at the south end of Falkirk.
Really enjoyed this video. Spent many hours playing Football Manager looking at all the nicknames and deciding which Scottish team to be (Ayr United, Dundee United and Ross County probably the most memorable ones). I've always been strangely drawn to Scottish football despite being English, love reading about how good all the teams were before the 90s.
Just discovered your channel through this video. I'm a Motherwell fan and although I knew most of the nicknames it was a still a good informative video. I'll subscribe 🙂
To follow up on Queens Park- the first ever Scotland national side which competed in the first mens international match against England on St Andrew's Day 1872 comprised entirely of 11 QP players. They were actually supposed to play in Queen's Park strips that day which were originally dark navy blue jerseys and white shorts- later adopted permanently by the national side (hence the footballing blue actually being much darker than the official blue on the Scottish flag) while QP transitioned to their current black and white hoops. To show that the team was representative of Scotland, and not merely a QP XI facing England, in the days before the game the wife of the club secretary sewed 11 red-trimmed yellow shields bearing a red lion rampant- a depiction of the centuries old Scottish national coat of arms which still adorns our jersey today with 1 altetation being the addition of 11 thistles to represent the 11 players of a football team.
Imagine something liekt his happening now. Steve Clarke wife decides to sew on a unicorn to the scotland players strips for Germany 2024 and we adopt it
Awesome video, I really enjoyed it. Well done on avoiding the comment section being a cesspit too (for the most part - you can't get everybody to listen)
The names of Scottish football clubs, official and unofficial, should be given UNESCO recognition and protection. They are a thing of beauty. In England we have some good ones but Scots are world champions, hands down.
@@Aber1874 I think Hearts are the only football team in the world named after a book. Is that correct? And how about Queen of the South and Hamilton Academicals?
@@jontalbot1 no we’re not actually named after the book, we are named after the old toll booth prison, which is where the Heart of Midlothian lies in the cobblestone streets. sir Walter Scott wrote the book,
this is a very well put video, you should do a part 2 as there is a TONNE more from division 1 to non league not included. i for one was not aware of the motherwell being the starter of the Viking thunderclap and im scottish
This is a BRILLIANTLY researched piece.. well done. Being a scottish football fan I am familiar with all the information but you've done very well. The pronunciation is also excellent with the exception of the very last team featured.. namely Brechin. It is pronounced Breekin like a double 'E' but that's a mistake most English people make too so .. not points.lost on that one.. overall 10 out of 10.
Genuinely thought this was was gonna be a dreadful explanation by someone who did t have a clue but it’s a very well made and accurate. Nobody has ever known about the Thunderclap started in Motherwell (a tribute to an Icelandic player) If I may: Arbroath are called the Lichties as, in the east coast dialect, licht is how they say light On the actual name of Clyde rather than their nickname, this is actually tied to my home town, Dumbarton. Its oldest name was Alt Clut (meaning Rock On The River) which became Alcluith and many other variations. Clut meant River. You didn’t butch Doonhamers or ‘doon hame’. Hit it on the head Now, I really need to bum up my team here: Dumbarton drew the first league with Rangers (had GD been introduced, we’d have won it) and won the league outright the following season. We were the first team to win all 4 Scottish leagues and would have been the only ones to do so had Rangers not been kicked down the leagues. We’ve won the Scottish cup, and we played WBA in the centenary of Renton’s 1888 ‘World Cup victory’ over WBA and we beat them 3-2. The Scottish challenge cup allows teams from England, Wales and Ireland into it and, on our only game to ‘foreign’ opposition, we beat TNS in Wales - which I count as a 100% European record. The reason why we’ve an elephant on the badge is, if you see Dumbarton Rock from across the water, it looks like a semi-submerged elephant We’ve an amazing history as a football club and as a town, mentioned in the Irish Chronicles and the Norse Sagas. Roman historians talk of the town and the attecottii, the Pictish tribe who were a client tribe of the Cakedonii. Gotta say: you really done your homework. My only complaint is you missed a LOT of teams out: Ross County, Raith Rovers, Dundee, Inverness Caley Thistle, Peterhead, Elgin, Greenock Morton *spits*, Edinburgh City, Airdrie *spits*, Alloa Athletic, Kilmarnock just to mention a few. What was your criteria for including a club? Was it purely on how interesting you found the nickname? What was in I’m sure took a LOT of time and, as I say, really well done but you missed some great opportunities : had you included Raith Rovers, there was a chance to show the amazing picture from the München Olimpcstadion where the scoreboard briefly read: FC BAYERN MÜNCHEN 0-1 RAITH ROVERS (before they sadly lost both legs 2-1)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I'm glad you liked the video. I had to trim some of the teams because the video would have been an hour long had I included everyone. As for the criteria, as you said I included the ones I found interesting and had information readily available online. As I'm very far from Scotland I probably missed a lot of inside stories and names like the Bayern Raith Rovers game, which sounds very interesting. Maybe I'll do a part 2 since Scottish fans have been so nice in the comments sharing stories and infos (unlike that one English fan calling me Johnny Foreigner on one of my Tiktok videos on big English cities with small clubs)
A lot of those teams have nicknames that aren't particularly interesting. Talking about how Raith Rovers are called 'The Rovers' doesn't make for a great video.
Loved reading this. You're clearly very passionate about the town you're from. Hoping Falkirk get promoted so I can see Dumbarton rock next season. No a patch on the Kelpies though, mind you. 😂
Wrong about why Partick are called the Magyars. Partick played Honved from Budapest Hungary in 1972 in second round of the EUFA cup, and from then on they were known as the Maryhill Magyars.
"Lum" I think is "loom" (learned that from a Steeleye Span track, sung in broad Scots, called Cam Ye O'er Frae France). And "reek" has to be "smoke" (as in the nickname for Edinburgh "Auld Reekie"). But I can't see how they fit together in this sentence!!
@@oscarx-ray3545 Yes, quite right - I was going to amend that post, but wasn't able to get back to it in time. (My suggestion wan't wrong, though - just not right in this particular context.)
Smashing video- very respectful and with an almost Scottish delivery and sense of humour too. I've always used 'lang may your lum reek' to wish financial wellbeing and good luck as in-'may your chimney be smoking for a ling time hence' meaning it is desirable you have the prosperity to be able to burn coal without financial hardship, and thereby keep everyone in your family inside warm in this chillier clime. Also at New year it was said your first foot should be tall dark and handsome and hopefully carrying a small lump of coal for similar good luck. BTW (thats short for 'by the way''), I think you might enjoy 'Parliamo Glesca' from the Stanley Baxter shows as a very funny way of explaining Scots sayings to a more received pronunciation audience.-I'm sure they'll be on you tube somewhere. Looking forward to more....😎
Great video but, fact, Arbroath's nickname, "The Red Lichties" does not originate from the Bell Rock lighthouse, but from the colour of the lamp used to mark the entrance to the harbour mouth. Similarly, the Peterhead football team, from a fishing port further north, were known as "The Blue Lampers". Finally, Brechin is not pronounced BRECKON (Brecon is Welsh) but Breach-in, the /ch/ being voiced like Scottish loch (not English lock), from the International Phonetic Alaphabet /X/, as also occurs in Spanish and Basque phonetics.
I'm amazed that my local football team was featured. My great-grandfather was a professional footballer and played for Renton, Dumbarton and Glasgow Rangers. Although he played for Dumbarton and The Sons, he was not a Son of the Rock as you had to have been born within the borough of Dumbarton and he was born in Renton. My mum was very proud to be a Daughter of the Rock. My Great-grandfather's photograph is featured with his team in the Hampden Museum when Dumbarton won the Scottish Cup in 1886.
Only a copy of the photograph that's in the Hampden Museum. I don't know what happened to his caps for playing for Scotland. I forgot to say he played for Scotland too. We got the photo when my great-aunt died.
I think that it comes from a sarcastic remark from one of their own supporters on seeing them string two passes together " Wow, two passes, they're like The Blue Brazil"
Another Motherwell FC nickname, primarily used by older fans is the Dossers. While not being a very complementary word, in this case it derives from a newspaper columnist who reported on a match in the 1930's when Motherwell came to prominance, and was so impressed by their elegant and laid back style of play that he described them as those Dossers fae the Shire, (the Shire being Lanarkshire).
@@he_football technically it means an idle person. To say someone is dossing around means they are not doing much. In this instance the writer meant Motherwell played great football with little effort, they were that good.
I actually never really thought about the history of some of these nicknames, My favourite is Brora Rangers "The Cattachs" derives from a local tribe in Scotland who lived in the region back when the Picts were in Scotland. @@he_football
Falkirk FC is known as The Bairns as someone from Falkirk is known as a Bairns. This comes from the Falkirk Coat of arms as the writing on the bottom says "Better meddle wi the deil than the Bairns o'Fawkirk" which means your better messing with the devil than kids of Falkirk
Glasgow had another team, Third Lanark AC, which went bankrupt and was dissolved in 1967. One of their heir nicknames was the Hi-Hi and I'd love to know where that name came from.
😂😂😂😂. I am originally from Elderslie next to Paisley & loved Ayr as a Wwayne but like Paisley Ayr has seen better days tend to go more to Largs now in The Summer. But I know what you mean about honest men & bonnie lassies as far as Ayr go's but honestly you could say the same about a lot of towns in Scotland now sadly. I mean, Paisley has Bubbies but most people from Paisley would not piss on you if you were on fire they be more likely to chib you than hug you in Paisley now. I live in Hamilton now, but when I do visit Paisley is a desperate looking place now in comparison to when I was growing up in the 80s & and 90s.
@@alanfox691 I hear you I actually live in Dublin now and saw a recent video of Ayr and it looked decimated and all the shopping centres and malls abandoned very sad to see 😔
When the fifth tier was mentioned I was hoping it would be for what’s imo the best nickname in football but Cowdenbeath being the Blue Brazil. I live that Scottish football rarely use town name for team name and nicknames are normally weird and wacky.
I don’t know where the uploader hails from, and fully admit that I’d probably make a few howlers in his language but his mispronunciation of Brechin as ‘Brekin’ had me wincing. Also, Arbroath’s nickname ‘The Red Lichties’ owes nothing to the lighthouse but refers to the large window in the burgh’s ancient abbey (now ruinous). It was illuminated at night and thus acted as a de facto beacon in times long ago.
I love the way you pronounce Aeberdeen, just like an Aberdonian 👍 Though Brechin is pronounced gutterally with the throat Thank you for not getting involved in sectarianism, I hate it, its a divide and rule tactic
The only mistake which stood out was you said Aberdeen were formed in 1909(That was Dundee Utd).Aberdeen were formed in 1903. Their original nickname was simply 'The Whites', as the club was formed due to the amalgamation of 3 clubs - Orion, Victoria Utd, and the original Aberdeen. In their debut season, they wore the colours of the original Aberdeen, namely White Top, Navy Shorts, Navy Socks. In their second season, they switched to the Black and Gold top. Excellent and well researched video though. Good work.
@@he_footballfunnily enough the way you pronounce 'aberdeen' is similar to how its pronounced locally in the north east of scotland(a-berdeen) the majority of scots out with this area would say ah-berdeen
Whenever the old firm is on Glasgow is a deadlock zone filled with the two biggest and most successful teams in football which also both don’t like each other
@@he_football not very well as it does cause quite a commotion glasgow however the ratio of fans to not fans wavers more to people being fans of one of those two clubs so people are used to it
Saint Miirren have only been fan owned for a very short time. I am originally from Elderslie, I live in Hamilton now, though. I am not a Saint Mirren fan myself. But I wish Saint Mirren all the best this season. My Gran my Dad's Mum was from Perth so I keep an eye on their results as well. In my family there is Saint Mirren, Saint Johnstone, Rangers & Celtic fans & my Dad's cousins family are Dundee United fans but I would not know them from Adam. In my life, I have known Partick Thistle fans , Hearts , Hibs, Livingston fans, my ex was from Livingston. I would say the way football has & is going. I am a fan of the game but not of football as a business.
@hefootball As a Scottish foitball fan I really enjoyed your video well done. I'm a Pars fan and no, for absolutely certain, NOBODY knows why we are the Pars. As we were founded in a pub in the City, The Old Inn and held club meetings there i like the Paralytics theory but just for the lolz of that tbh. You did however get the Dundee Utd nickname wrong. They are The Terrors, but i I don't know why. I knew the story behind the Arabs thing but that was an abuse from us rivals, not a nickname the club or it's fans used and the Tangerines is just not right despite the shirt colour.
Aberdeen being called the Dons most definitely comes from Aberdonians, but there is a University connection there - just nothing to do with the lecturers being called Dons. It's from Old Boys sports between public schools (private schools as the ROTW knows 'em) or Universities and their old boys (and often, locals!) in Victorian/Edwardian times and carried over as a reporting practice until about the 1950s.
Never once heard Hibs referred to as the Cabbage. And also, in "cabbage and ribs" even a thing? But since your video was accurate in all other areas, I'll bow to your superior knowledge.
Decent video - in Scotland football fans also have nicknames - Celtic fans are Jungle Jims, Rangers fans are Currant Buns and Dundee United fans are DABs.
It's amazing that some people think that the term "hun" could be construed as a nickname. Same folk would be mortified by the use of the term "Green Grape" or Shettleston Harrier. Very strange. Nice wee video by the by HE.@@brianlawrence8401
@@he_footballyou hadn’t ’messed up’ you just got them wrong. These names rely very much on either the Scottish language or a local dialect. You’re not expected to know how to pronounce Milngavie (mil-ga-ee) or Wemyss Bay (weemz bay) just from looking at them It was a top video and well made and I’m not just saying that for including my beloved Sons Of The Rock
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Okay thanks 👍🏼
One thing you will see in Scottish culture is humour, it's a massive part of working class life here. Every 2nd person in Glasgow is funny and can tell stories 😂
Good video. Dunfermline are called the Pars because of the parallel lines of their jersey. Also, Cowdenbeath are known as The Blue Brazil. Blue because it’s bloody chilly up here (and it’s their team colour) and, Brazil with tongue firmly in cheek because they’re shite.
The parallel lines explanation did not come up in my research. Thanks for letting me know
The parallel lines reason isn’t accurate, no one knows the reason the pars are the pars
The blue bit In Cowdenbeath is just to do with the colour, not the climate.
I thought/ heard the pars got there nickname from supporters of Plymouth argyle, a lot of them come up to rosyth to work at docks back in day, they missed watching football but decided to support a local team whilst up here working, so PARS, Plymouth Argyle of Rosyth Supporters were born. Sure it was my driving instructor who was a massive pars fan told me this 🤷♂️
Another explanation of the 'Pars' nickname I have heard informally is from the description 'part-timers' - as an 'Athletic' club, DAFC's players were part-time rather than the full-time pros of the bigger clubs.
I was getting ready to hate this video, but it's a very well-put-together, informative, and mostly accurate video, so good job. I don't know if your pronunciation of Aberdeen at the beginning was intended as it's not how most people pronounce the city, but it is how the locals of Aberdeen pronounce the city.
Thank you. I think I just heard Aberdeen pronounced like this a lot of times and it stuck with me
@@he_footballThe "Eh" at the beginning as you said it was EXTREMELY Scottish, East Ciast Scottish to be exact and you cracked me up with that.
Bill Bryson once described hearing the Scottish and English football results on the radio as pure poetry. I love how so many Scottish team names make no reference to the town/city they're located in. In terms of pure romance you can't beat Queen of the South - local poet David Dunbar used the term to describe the town of Dumfries when standing for election in 1857 - although Heart of Midlothian (named after the famous stone in Edinburgh's Royal Mile) run them close. English teams are not so poetic, but Plymouth Argyle, Sheffield Wednesday, Leyton Orient and Crewe Alexandra aren't too shabby. Thanks for the great video.
Thank you very much
Mon The Loons, and Up The Owls.
We love you Wednesday, we do.
"Forfar 4 - East Fife 5" being the most poetic result of all!
@@oscarx-ray3545 Yes indeed, and it did happen (thanks to penalties) in 2011. Unfortunately it ended East Fife 4 - Forfar 5. Being a Pools fan my favourite is: Hartlepool United 8 - Grimsby Town 1, not very romantic admittedly - but what a way to decide the Cod Wars!
I don’t disagree but plenty of English clubs are colourfully named after districts most notably clubs in London. I thought it a shame both when Orient went back to Leyton Orient and in Scotland when Morton became Greenock Morton. But England still has Crystal Palace and perhaps best of all, as it isn’t in London, Port Vale !
This is so so good. Its informative , but i actually laughed out loud a couple of times, too. It's maybe some of the funny anecdotes/facts about our clubs delivered in a great deadpan tone. Great work
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it
The hearts video would be super cool!
Back after the holidays. I hope you all will have a great new year.
Excellent, well-informed and entertaining. Good on ye from an Arbroath supporter
Thank you
You don't need to support the team of the town you live just thought I'd inform you I wouldn't wish that on my enemy knot
Quite enjoyed this. Love the fact wee Queen of the South were in there. As a Doonhamer myself, I'd say you nailed the pronunciation!
Thank you very much
Queens fan too, pity they are in the doldrums now....
I believe in Victorian times and later a lot of Dumfries men worked for the Glasgow and South Western Railway in places like the railway works at Kilmarnock or in railway jobs in the Glasgow area. The money was better than local wages and transport was free for railway employees so the distance wasn't a problem, but meant several hours travelling each day. When they'd finished their shifts they'd say 'I'm gaen doon hame noo' (I'm going back down south to my home now) so became known as 'Doonhamers', a phrase Dumfriesians still use with pride, and is also used for the football club.
Enjoyed your video. Well researched, well done. Potential for another one to include teams left out. The Falkirk Bairns, Airdrie Diamonds & Ross County the Staggies, to name a few.
So many people commented with stuff I missed out that I might just do a pt 2
I can do the Falkirk one. It comes from an old saying later adopted by the town as a motto "better meddle wi the de'l than the bairns of Falkirk" (translated as better to mess with the devil than the children of falkirk).
There are several reasons as to how the saying came about but let's just say there is a reason the Romans built their wall to keep the Scots out at the south end of Falkirk.
Thanks for the explanation@@24magiccarrot
What about montrose fc - 'the gable endies'
Aye I’m a Falkirk lad. It’s on the church in Falkirk the saying. It’s true
You did a pretty good job with most of the names. I enjoyed this wee video...cheers! 👍
Thanks!
If I got any of them wrong feel free to let me know
@@he_footballBrechin is pronounced Breekin but you were spot on with everything else. 👍
Great video. A lot of research has gone into this and your pronounciation is superb. Well done, from a Jambo!
Thank you very much. I'm glad you liked it
Really enjoyed this video. Spent many hours playing Football Manager looking at all the nicknames and deciding which Scottish team to be (Ayr United, Dundee United and Ross County probably the most memorable ones). I've always been strangely drawn to Scottish football despite being English, love reading about how good all the teams were before the 90s.
Glad you enjoyed the video. There is a pt 2 in the works
Major factual error in this video - the Partick Thistle mascot is actually the greatest football mascot of all time.
I see it in my sleep at night after making this video.....
'Mon the Kingsley!
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Excellent stuff, mate. Really enjoyable
Many thanks!
This is an excellent video, well done!
Thank you very much!
Great video. Really well informed and genuinely funny. Subscribed.
Thank you. Glad to have you on board
Great video. I love the way you pronounced Aberdeen kinda made you sound like you are from there. I made the same mistake with QoS.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thought they were Doomhammers
Thia was a really interesting! Great levels of research too
Great vid!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just discovered your channel through this video. I'm a Motherwell fan and although I knew most of the nicknames it was a still a good informative video. I'll subscribe 🙂
Thank you very much I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Excellent research. Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
To follow up on Queens Park- the first ever Scotland national side which competed in the first mens international match against England on St Andrew's Day 1872 comprised entirely of 11 QP players. They were actually supposed to play in Queen's Park strips that day which were originally dark navy blue jerseys and white shorts- later adopted permanently by the national side (hence the footballing blue actually being much darker than the official blue on the Scottish flag) while QP transitioned to their current black and white hoops. To show that the team was representative of Scotland, and not merely a QP XI facing England, in the days before the game the wife of the club secretary sewed 11 red-trimmed yellow shields bearing a red lion rampant- a depiction of the centuries old Scottish national coat of arms which still adorns our jersey today with 1 altetation being the addition of 11 thistles to represent the 11 players of a football team.
That is very interesting. Thank you for sharing, I always thought that the darker blue was just a style choice
Imagine something liekt his happening now. Steve Clarke wife decides to sew on a unicorn to the scotland players strips for Germany 2024 and we adopt it
Queen's park were also up until a few years ago the only amateur team playing in a professional league.
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Brilliant wee video. Well played mate.
Thanks 😁
Awesome video, I really enjoyed it. Well done on avoiding the comment section being a cesspit too (for the most part - you can't get everybody to listen)
Thank you, I am glad you liked it. The comments have been very civil so far
I enjoyed that, very well made!
Thank you
Excellent video mate, keep going
Thanks a lot!
The names of Scottish football clubs, official and unofficial, should be given UNESCO recognition and protection. They are a thing of beauty. In England we have some good ones but Scots are world champions, hands down.
Some of the non league names are great too
@@Aber1874 Inverurie Loco Works, Auchinleck Talbot! The romance of it! So much better than shit like Bruins and Steelers
@@jontalbot1 Bonnyrigg rose, Inverurie loco works, civil service strollers , vale of Leven , I’m biased but Heart of Midlothian 🙌🏻❤️
@@Aber1874 I think Hearts are the only football team in the world named after a book. Is that correct? And how about Queen of the South and Hamilton Academicals?
@@jontalbot1 no we’re not actually named after the book, we are named after the old toll booth prison, which is where the Heart of Midlothian lies in the cobblestone streets. sir Walter Scott wrote the book,
Fantastic from an Inverness Caledonian Thistle fan. Great video.
Thank you
Loved it buddy! Wish you all the best with the channel
Thank you very much
this is a very well put video, you should do a part 2 as there is a TONNE more from division 1 to non league not included. i for one was not aware of the motherwell being the starter of the Viking thunderclap and im scottish
Glad you liked the video. I'm currently working on pt2
👏👏👏very impressive knowledge, great video👍
Many thanks
@@he_football you're welcome.
Great video mate, would love a hearts video
Thank you. I am planning to do it
Very good knowledge and me too for a Heart of Midlothian clip
Thank you
Good knowledge! I'm a Partick Thistle fan and didn't know until very recently that Harry Wragg was a jockey...
Superb. Thankyou.
Glad you liked it
This is a BRILLIANTLY researched piece.. well done. Being a scottish football fan I am familiar with all the information but you've done very well. The pronunciation is also excellent with the exception of the very last team featured.. namely Brechin. It is pronounced Breekin like a double 'E' but that's a mistake most English people make too so .. not points.lost on that one.. overall 10 out of 10.
Thank you so much for your kind comment I'm glad you enjoyed my video
Great video, well played man.
Thank you very much
Genuinely thought this was was gonna be a dreadful explanation by someone who did t have a clue but it’s a very well made and accurate. Nobody has ever known about the Thunderclap started in Motherwell (a tribute to an Icelandic player)
If I may:
Arbroath are called the Lichties as, in the east coast dialect, licht is how they say light
On the actual name of Clyde rather than their nickname, this is actually tied to my home town, Dumbarton. Its oldest name was Alt Clut (meaning Rock On The River) which became Alcluith and many other variations. Clut meant River.
You didn’t butch Doonhamers or ‘doon hame’. Hit it on the head
Now, I really need to bum up my team here: Dumbarton drew the first league with Rangers (had GD been introduced, we’d have won it) and won the league outright the following season. We were the first team to win all 4 Scottish leagues and would have been the only ones to do so had Rangers not been kicked down the leagues. We’ve won the Scottish cup, and we played WBA in the centenary of Renton’s 1888 ‘World Cup victory’ over WBA and we beat them 3-2.
The Scottish challenge cup allows teams from England, Wales and Ireland into it and, on our only game to ‘foreign’ opposition, we beat TNS in Wales - which I count as a 100% European record.
The reason why we’ve an elephant on the badge is, if you see Dumbarton Rock from across the water, it looks like a semi-submerged elephant
We’ve an amazing history as a football club and as a town, mentioned in the Irish Chronicles and the Norse Sagas. Roman historians talk of the town and the attecottii, the Pictish tribe who were a client tribe of the Cakedonii.
Gotta say: you really done your homework. My only complaint is you missed a LOT of teams out:
Ross County, Raith Rovers, Dundee, Inverness Caley Thistle, Peterhead, Elgin, Greenock Morton *spits*, Edinburgh City, Airdrie *spits*, Alloa Athletic, Kilmarnock just to mention a few.
What was your criteria for including a club? Was it purely on how interesting you found the nickname?
What was in I’m sure took a LOT of time and, as I say, really well done but you missed some great opportunities : had you included Raith Rovers, there was a chance to show the amazing picture from the München Olimpcstadion where the scoreboard briefly read:
FC BAYERN MÜNCHEN 0-1 RAITH ROVERS (before they sadly lost both legs 2-1)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I'm glad you liked the video. I had to trim some of the teams because the video would have been an hour long had I included everyone. As for the criteria, as you said I included the ones I found interesting and had information readily available online. As I'm very far from Scotland I probably missed a lot of inside stories and names like the Bayern Raith Rovers game, which sounds very interesting. Maybe I'll do a part 2 since Scottish fans have been so nice in the comments sharing stories and infos (unlike that one English fan calling me Johnny Foreigner on one of my Tiktok videos on big English cities with small clubs)
To be fair, I think it's pretty well known that Motherwell fans started the thunder clap.
A lot of those teams have nicknames that aren't particularly interesting. Talking about how Raith Rovers are called 'The Rovers' doesn't make for a great video.
Loved reading this. You're clearly very passionate about the town you're from. Hoping Falkirk get promoted so I can see Dumbarton rock next season. No a patch on the Kelpies though, mind you. 😂
And, of course let's not forget David Byrne.
As a pars fan I'm so happy we got included. Great video bud 👍
Glad you liked it
Wrong about why Partick are called the Magyars. Partick played Honved from Budapest Hungary in 1972 in second round of the EUFA cup, and from then on they were known as the Maryhill Magyars.
I didn't find that whilst doing my research so thanks for sharing
@@he_football no problem, great video though.
thank you very much
FYI that marvelous photo at 8:18 is the mighty Partick Thistle (The Jags) versus Queens's Park (The Spiders) at the field of dreams Firhill Stadium.
It really is a great photo
Excellent video *****(five stars) go to the top of the class and "Lang may yer lum reek"!
Thank you very much but you will have to translate the last part for me 😂
"Lum" I think is "loom" (learned that from a Steeleye Span track, sung in broad Scots, called Cam Ye O'er Frae France). And "reek" has to be "smoke" (as in the nickname for Edinburgh "Auld Reekie"). But I can't see how they fit together in this sentence!!
Lum is chimney,@@Krzyszczynski
@@oscarx-ray3545 Yes, quite right - I was going to amend that post, but wasn't able to get back to it in time. (My suggestion wan't wrong, though - just not right in this particular context.)
Smashing video- very respectful and with an almost Scottish delivery and sense of humour too.
I've always used 'lang may your lum reek' to wish financial wellbeing and good luck as in-'may your chimney be smoking for a ling time hence' meaning it is desirable you have the prosperity to be able to burn coal without financial hardship, and thereby keep everyone in your family inside warm in this chillier clime.
Also at New year it was said your first foot should be tall dark and handsome and hopefully carrying a small lump of coal for similar good luck.
BTW (thats short for 'by the way''), I think you might enjoy 'Parliamo Glesca' from the Stanley Baxter shows as a very funny way of explaining Scots sayings to a more received pronunciation audience.-I'm sure they'll be on you tube somewhere.
Looking forward to more....😎
Glad to see that I'm not the only nutter who found this entertaining! GREAT WORK!!!
Thank you. I really didn't expect such a great response
Excellent video. Well done.👍😊
Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed it
Great video but, fact, Arbroath's nickname, "The Red Lichties" does not originate from the Bell Rock lighthouse, but from the colour of the lamp used to mark the entrance to the harbour mouth. Similarly, the Peterhead football team, from a fishing port further north, were known as "The Blue Lampers". Finally, Brechin is not pronounced BRECKON (Brecon is Welsh) but Breach-in, the /ch/ being voiced like Scottish loch (not English lock), from the International Phonetic Alaphabet /X/, as also occurs in Spanish and Basque phonetics.
I am glad you liked the video and thank you for the corrections, I will include Peterhead in pt2
Good Video. Well done. Lots of good research done there.
Glad you liked it
I'm amazed that my local football team was featured. My great-grandfather was a professional footballer and played for Renton, Dumbarton and Glasgow Rangers. Although he played for Dumbarton and The Sons, he was not a Son of the Rock as you had to have been born within the borough of Dumbarton and he was born in Renton. My mum was very proud to be a Daughter of the Rock. My Great-grandfather's photograph is featured with his team in the Hampden Museum when Dumbarton won the Scottish Cup in 1886.
Do you still have stuff from him? Like shirts or medals?
Only a copy of the photograph that's in the Hampden Museum. I don't know what happened to his caps for playing for Scotland. I forgot to say he played for Scotland too. We got the photo when my great-aunt died.
Your great grandfather was a very cool guy
I am surprised that you missed out Cowdenbeath F.C. - The Blue Brazil
I hear about the Blue Brazil but I had no explanation for the name
I think that it comes from a sarcastic remark from one of their own supporters on seeing them string two passes together " Wow, two passes, they're like The Blue Brazil"
😂😂 That's a good one I'm gonna yell it at my local team
Another Motherwell FC nickname, primarily used by older fans is the Dossers. While not being a very complementary word, in this case it derives from a newspaper columnist who reported on a match in the 1930's when Motherwell came to prominance, and was so impressed by their elegant and laid back style of play that he described them as those Dossers fae the Shire, (the Shire being Lanarkshire).
And what does a dosser mean?
@@he_football technically it means an idle person. To say someone is dossing around means they are not doing much. In this instance the writer meant Motherwell played great football with little effort, they were that good.
That is very interesting. I couldn't find that story online so thank you for sharing it
@@he_football try steemenonline or motherwellnet for more info
Thanks
Good video mate
Thanks 👍
Hearts video would be sick dude
great video
Glad you enjoyed it
I actually never really thought about the history of some of these nicknames, My favourite is Brora Rangers "The Cattachs" derives from a local tribe in Scotland who lived in the region back when the Picts were in Scotland. @@he_football
I put them in pt2
Falkirk FC is known as The Bairns as someone from Falkirk is known as a Bairns. This comes from the Falkirk Coat of arms as the writing on the bottom says "Better meddle wi the deil than the Bairns o'Fawkirk" which means your better messing with the devil than kids of Falkirk
They will be in pt2
Missed Falkirk here. Will have to watch again
They will be in pt2
Yaassss@@he_football
Hearts video would be great!
It's on the list
Very well put together and enjoyable video. Although Aberdeen were formed in 1903 not 1909.
I'm glad you liked it. Yeah I mixed up the founding date
Glasgow had another team, Third Lanark AC, which went bankrupt and was dissolved in 1967. One of their heir nicknames was the Hi-Hi and I'd love to know where that name came from.
They played at the old Cathkin park. Weren't they recently reformed?
Similar to another Glasgow team recently 😂
Better be a part 2
I'm thinking of doing one
It's a little bit sad that you have so few subs, best of luck
Thank you
the Dundee United supported with the orange keffiyeh (headdress) is my granda lmao
😂😂 that is a great coincidence
Worlds most beautiful country
Doonhamers, my local team and a brilliant club
2:12 you spent that long researching Scottish football that you turned Scottish for 4 seconds
😂😂
Good video
Glad you enjoyed
Nice video- you've gained a sub 👍
Awesome, thank you!
make more videos about scottish football!
I am planning to. Especially after the amazing response on this video
Please do the hearts video!
I am planning to
@@he_football mon the jam tarts
Their nickname sends me straight to the snack cupboard
nice one
thanks
A couple you left out: Falkirk FC “The Bairns” and Stenhousemuir Fc “The Warriors”
I am planning a part 2
@@he_football when doing a part 2. You need to include airdrieonians or the diamonds. They have a football strip that's unique in world football.
@@robertanderson8458 I will keep that in mind
Why are Stenhousemuir called the Warriors?
Gotta love the romance of Scottish football. Second to none.
Really good coverage of ayr united my hometown although you'll not find too many honest men or bonnie lassies 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂.
I am originally from
Elderslie next to Paisley
& loved Ayr as a Wwayne
but like Paisley Ayr has seen better days tend to go more to Largs now in
The Summer.
But I know what you mean
about honest men & bonnie lassies as far
as Ayr go's but honestly you could say the same about a lot of towns in Scotland now sadly.
I mean, Paisley has Bubbies but most people from Paisley would not piss on you if you were on fire they be more likely to chib you than hug you in
Paisley now.
I live in Hamilton now, but when I do visit Paisley is a desperate looking place now in comparison to when I was growing up in
the 80s & and 90s.
😂😂
@@alanfox691 I hear you I actually live in Dublin now and saw a recent video of Ayr and it looked decimated and all the shopping centres and malls abandoned very sad to see 😔
When the fifth tier was mentioned I was hoping it would be for what’s imo the best nickname in football but Cowdenbeath being the Blue Brazil. I live that Scottish football rarely use town name for team name and nicknames are normally weird and wacky.
They will be in pt2
yes pal give us that hearts vid
On the list
I don’t know where the uploader hails from, and fully admit that I’d probably make a few howlers in his language but his mispronunciation of Brechin as ‘Brekin’ had me wincing. Also, Arbroath’s nickname ‘The Red Lichties’ owes nothing to the lighthouse but refers to the large window in the burgh’s ancient abbey (now ruinous). It was illuminated at night and thus acted as a de facto beacon in times long ago.
Thanks for the corrections
I love the way you pronounce Aeberdeen, just like an Aberdonian 👍 Though Brechin is pronounced gutterally with the throat Thank you for not getting involved in sectarianism, I hate it, its a divide and rule tactic
Living 2000 miles away it would be pretty weird to get involved in another country's ethnic and religious tensions
He said Brechin the same way Gordon Ramsay did and he's meant to have family there
@@beardedsloth7805 Gordon Ramsay doesnt have a Scottish accent
The hoops on Celtic shirt are horizontal not vertical
I get confused by directions
The green & white hoops are horizontal not vertical
I got them mixed up
Very good.
Thank you
The only mistake which stood out was you said Aberdeen were formed in 1909(That was Dundee Utd).Aberdeen were formed in 1903.
Their original nickname was simply 'The Whites', as the club was formed due to the amalgamation of 3 clubs - Orion, Victoria Utd, and the original Aberdeen. In their debut season, they wore the colours of the original Aberdeen, namely White Top, Navy Shorts, Navy Socks. In their second season, they switched to the Black and Gold top.
Excellent and well researched video though. Good work.
Thank you very much
@williamdryden3286 They were formed in 1909 as Dundee Hibernian, they only changed their name in 1923. They were formed in 1909.
@@he_footballfunnily enough the way you pronounce 'aberdeen' is similar to how its pronounced locally in the north east of scotland(a-berdeen) the majority of scots out with this area would say ah-berdeen
You should make the video on Hearts
Yes do the hearts video
Whenever the old firm is on Glasgow is a deadlock zone filled with the two biggest and most successful teams in football which also both don’t like each other
I wonder how Glaswegians who aren't into football feel about all the commotion
@@he_football not very well as it does cause quite a commotion glasgow however the ratio of fans to not fans wavers more to people being fans of one of those two clubs so people are used to it
5:39 Its actually east stiringshire that fired sir alex im pretty sure
It was St Mirren. He moved on on his own accord from East Stirlingshire
@@he_football Oh okay, Thought it was east stiringshire
Aberdeens called the dons because of the river don that goes through aberdeen so i was told
Queens park. So very close to winning both the Scottish FA cup and the English FA cup in 1884. Would have been the only club for all time.
It would have been an amazing achievement
Minor point. St.Mirren are fan owned and I'm pretty sure Motherwell are too.
Saint Miirren have only been fan owned for a very short time.
I am originally from
Elderslie, I live in Hamilton now, though.
I am not a Saint Mirren fan myself.
But I wish Saint Mirren all the best this season.
My Gran my Dad's Mum was from Perth so I keep an eye on their results as well.
In my family there is
Saint Mirren, Saint Johnstone, Rangers & Celtic fans & my Dad's cousins family are
Dundee United fans but I would not know them from Adam.
In my life, I have known
Partick Thistle fans , Hearts , Hibs, Livingston
fans, my ex was from
Livingston.
I would say the way football has & is going. I am a fan of the game
but not of football as a business.
My new nickname for them is Helen.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🏴🏴🏴💙💙💙💙💙🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
You missed out the Blue Brazil.....Cowdenbeath
You should have included Cowdenbeath fc
Or the blue Brazil
Or Montrose fc
The Gable Endies
Pt is in the works
Aberdeen quite obviously known as the dons because of the river there’s no debate surrounding that fact
Scotland approves. 👍🏴
@hefootball As a Scottish foitball fan I really enjoyed your video well done. I'm a Pars fan and no, for absolutely certain, NOBODY knows why we are the Pars. As we were founded in a pub in the City, The Old Inn and held club meetings there i like the Paralytics theory but just for the lolz of that tbh.
You did however get the Dundee Utd nickname wrong. They are The Terrors, but i I don't know why. I knew the story behind the Arabs thing but that was an abuse from us rivals, not a nickname the club or it's fans used and the Tangerines is just not right despite the shirt colour.
I'm glad you liked the video
Aberdeen being called the Dons most definitely comes from Aberdonians, but there is a University connection there - just nothing to do with the lecturers being called Dons. It's from Old Boys sports between public schools (private schools as the ROTW knows 'em) or Universities and their old boys (and often, locals!) in Victorian/Edwardian times and carried over as a reporting practice until about the 1950s.
Thought it was the river don
Never once heard Hibs referred to as the Cabbage. And also, in "cabbage and ribs" even a thing? But since your video was accurate in all other areas, I'll bow to your superior knowledge.
It seemed odd at first too, but this is what I found online about the name. I hope it is correct otherwise I've just lied to a lot of people 😂
How can you play in the SPL on plastic pitches.
Decent video - in Scotland football fans also have nicknames - Celtic fans are Jungle Jims, Rangers fans are Currant Buns and Dundee United fans are DABs.
Can you tell me where those come from?
@@he_football I could but like you said in the video let's not go down the sectarian road
@@he_football jungle jim rythming with tim ,currant bun rthyming with hun
It's amazing that some people think that the term "hun" could be construed as a nickname. Same folk would be mortified by the use of the term "Green Grape" or Shettleston Harrier. Very strange. Nice wee video by the by HE.@@brianlawrence8401
@@josiekaposie5783I assume DAB stands for Dilligent Angus Barstewards
High ..Bees pronunciation for Hibs nickname , Breek..inn for Brechin
Thank you, I knew I messed up some pronounciations
@@he_footballyou hadn’t ’messed up’ you just got them wrong.
These names rely very much on either the Scottish language or a local dialect. You’re not expected to know how to pronounce Milngavie (mil-ga-ee) or Wemyss Bay (weemz bay) just from looking at them
It was a top video and well made and I’m not just saying that for including my beloved Sons Of The Rock
Thank you, Dumbarton castle has been added to my huge travel list which I can't afford :))
@@GioMarron Millguy , just explaining the proper pronunciation
It's not 'breek..inn' at all. The CH is guttural and not a hard K. Like pulling phlegm out of your throat.
Hamilton academical are nickname the Accies they are found on a school team
Attila the Hun used to fight the Roman empire. So Hun is just a refrence to them.
Vertical hoops?
I messed up, I'm not good with directions :))
@@he_football No worries : )
Great video bud and dont worry you didnae butcher any of the names
Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I also have a pt2 for it