| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans 09:03 - Feb 15 with 6168 views | SaintNick |
We will be regaled by mass chanting of "Scummers" by our neighbours from across the Forest this afternoon, but we don't seem to care about them as much as they care about us.
We don't have a nickname for them as we do our Skate friends towards the East, this must rankle to average Bournemouth fan, in their average 7 years of supporting the club, it must upset them that as an established Premier League club, that they don't have a true local rival apart from perhaps Weymouth.
So should we join in with their little game and find a disparaging nickname for them, if so what should it be.
Should it be an obvious but fairly friendly one such as "Deck chair attendants" or should it be a llittle more vicious.
Truth is I can't think of much about Bournemouth that distinguishes it as a town or a football team or for that matter a supporter group. |  |
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| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 10:39 - Feb 19 with 597 views | GasGiant |
| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 09:48 - Feb 19 by dirk_doone |
It's getting bloody boring now. I don't know why they're so bothered that the nickname for their football team just came from a football shirt colour. The Cherries don't seem that bothered.
I guess it doesn't sound heroic enough for their liking. There always has to be a Portsmyth, as you can see here. They love the one about heroic sailors from Portsmouth climbing a pillar in Egypt. How on earth would that have made a newspaper sports reporter first describe them as Pompey Pinks when they ran out for their first games in their pompadour pink shirts in September 1899?
https://sallyantiques.co.uk/why-is-portsmouth-called-pompey/. [Post edited 19 Feb 10:36]
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I told you. Because your theory was demonstrably wrong. Here's a tip. Proper reasearch does not interpolate from a desired outcome retrofitting chosen facts that appear to justify your proposition. Any fool can do that and we see it on the internet all the time. Proper research works forwards, establishing the chain that links each fact before linking it to the next, and not just quoting the facts themselves. . And when you work forwards you realise that your string of apparent causation didn't work. The Essex Regiment theory falls down, both in fact and in reason. If you think the entire country in World War 1 would know Portsmouth the City as "Pompey" on the basis of a minor football team playing in a minor league as they did at that time then you are being fanciful. If you think that the nickname spread because the sailors came from just about every city in the land and all knew the Naval Base as such then you are looking at something that fits the facts. And finally, just to stress it one more time, the club seems to have thought its shirts were salmon pink, and nothing to do with "pompadour pink" at all. |  | | |
| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 12:01 - Feb 19 with 521 views | kernow |
GasGiant sir, were you based at Culdrose, or is this classified information? | | | |
| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 12:57 - Feb 19 with 496 views | GasGiant |
| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 12:01 - Feb 19 by kernow |
GasGiant sir, were you based at Culdrose, or is this classified information? |
We all did basic flying training at Culdrose, for a few months, starting on Fixed Wing then progressing as the Navy saw fit. | | | |
| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 13:14 - Feb 19 with 485 views | arfurdent |
surely they are just skate kiddie fiddlers |  |
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| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 13:29 - Feb 19 with 468 views | franniesTache |
No idea why they need a nickname, we don't have one for swindon do we? |  | | |
| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 16:34 - Feb 19 with 372 views | kernow |
How about the happy chappies?
Bournemouth that is, not Swindon. [Post edited 19 Feb 16:35]
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| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 10:55 - Feb 20 with 227 views | 130yrs_and_one_Cup |
| Nickname For Bournemouth Fans on 09:48 - Feb 19 by dirk_doone |
It's getting bloody boring now. I don't know why they're so bothered that the nickname for their football team just came from a football shirt colour. The Cherries don't seem that bothered.
I guess it doesn't sound heroic enough for their liking. There always has to be a Portsmyth, as you can see here. They love the one about heroic sailors from Portsmouth climbing a pillar in Egypt. How on earth would that have made a newspaper sports reporter first describe them as Pompey Pinks when they ran out for their first games in their pompadour pink shirts in September 1899?
https://sallyantiques.co.uk/why-is-portsmouth-called-pompey/. [Post edited 19 Feb 10:36]
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Hilarious.
Tells us how to do proper research with history societies etc , and that its all verifiable, then posts an antique website that just so happens to show a long list of possibles for the Pompey name including Pompadour Pink which is never mentioned in proper historical discussions of the nickname.
Buffoonery at its finest |  |
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