John Lyons
Badger’s Football Slang & Banter - Niall Edworthy, published by Badger Books, price: £9.99.

It is only when you flick through Badger’s Football Slang & Banter that you realise just how much football talk there is out there.
Soon, you will be chuckling and chortling at the descriptions by prolific author Niall Edworthy.
Fun exploration of football vernacular
Labelled as ‘an illustrated A to Z of classic and curious football speak’ and with more than a thousand phrased included within its pages, the book does a brilliant job of capturing the soundtrack to the game in a fun ...