Nutmeg football

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Who invented nutmeg in football? Another theory was postulated by Peter Seddon in his book, Football Talk – The Language And Folklore Of The World’s Greatest Game. The word, he suggests, arose because of a sharp practice used in nutmeg exports between North America and England. Where does nutmeg come from in football? Why do they call it a nutmeg when a footballer kicks a ball through his opponent’s legs? It’s rhyming slang for legs. Through the nutmegs, through the legs – you’ve been nutmegged. Who is the king of nutmeg in football history? Trincao, though, has shown a lot of signs of his skill and he is the Premier League’s king of nutmegs this season. Nobody in England, nor in Europe’s top five leagues, has managed more than his 0.96 per 90 minutes, having completed 10 this season. See also What Spices Go Well With Nutmeg? What does nutmeg mean in football? And, so, “nutmegged” came to be defined as Victorian slang for being “tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish”. Seddon claimed the term made its way in to football to describe one player tricking another and making him look foolish by nutmegging him. Why is a nutmeg so humiliating? It’s a skill used mostly in soccer, but can be accomplished in basketball and hockey too. To be nutmegged is considered to be embarrassing because it makes the defender look foolish having the offensive player essentially dribbling or passing the ball directly underneath the defender, between her leg...

The world of football analytics is getting ever more complex and sophisticated, but for all the really useful statistics out there we’re most grateful that nutmegs are getting totted up. Never mind passes per defensive action or key passes, nothing else in football evokes the childlike glee of a well-executed nutmeg. The combination of technical ingenuity and humiliation for the opposition player will never fail to entertain us. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, when a man is tired of nutmegs, he is tired of life. Perhaps unsurprisingly from football’s biggest showman, Neymar ranks highly on the list of the most nutmegs in Europe’s top five leagues this season, having completed 18 in Ligue 1, according to FBref. The Brazil international was edged out on top spot by Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford, who tops the list with 21 nutmegs in 2020-21. Jadon Sancho is third, while Piotr Zielinski and Achraf Hakimi are helping to bring entertainment to Serie A. There are only two Premier League players and three from La Liga. All the major European leagues are represented in this list. 1. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) – 21 2. Neymar (PSG) – 18 3. Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund) – 16 4. Kylian Mbappe (PSG) – 15 5. Piotr Zielinski (Napoli) – 13 6. Leroy Sane (Bayern Munich) – 12 =7. Joao Cancelo (Manchester City) – 10 =7. Gael Kakuta (Lens) – 10 =7. Darwin Machis (Granada) – 10 =7. Luis Muriel (Atalanta) – 10 =7. Alberto Perera (Cadiz) – 10 =7. Luis Suarez (Atletico Madrid) – 10...

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The humble nutmeg is the last move a player wants to be used against them on the football pitch. While it’s undeniably embarrassing to be nutmegged, fans love to rally behind players and applaud their team for doing the deed. However, people are only realising why the classic trick is called ‘a nutmeg.’ Performing a nutmeg looks easy enough, right? All a player has to do is kick the ball through the legs of their opponents. However, this trick takes serious skill. And while lots of football fans are familiar with the nutmeg, some are only starting to realise why the timeless move shares its name with ground spice. Infamous banner reading 'Luis Suarez could nutmeg a mermaid'. Credit: TNT Sports (formerly BT Sports) “Nutmegs were such a valuable commodity that unscrupulous exporters were to pull a fast one by mixing a helping of wooden replicas into the sacks being shipped to England,” Seddon writes. “Being nutmegged soon came to imply stupidity on the part of the duped victim and cleverness on the part of the trickster.” “He just had to take that,” Dicks continued. “He was a young lad, I was the captain and I just said to him, ‘Don’t ever do that again… Luckily enough back then you could kick [players] so if I got the chance I’d let them have it. Most wingers if you kicked them properly, they didn’t come back. But if you didn’t get them, I’d be struggling for the rest of the game.”

29 With 12 matches to go this season, Watford are going for the title they all want: the all-time nutmeg record (62) set by Paris Saint-Germain last season. Their current total is already the second-best in history (records have been kept on this pivotal piece of data since 2017-18) already surpassing previous winners winners Paderborn (2019-20; 42), If Watford keep up their average of 1.8 nutmegs per game — incidentally a number higher than their rate of goals (0.96) — then they’re on course to smash Therefore, come the thrilling climax of the season, for nutmeg fanatics, there may well be calls to use a meg per game (MPG) ranking rather than simply the total. Watford may be heading for the Championship by then but will feel confident of winning nutmeg silverware on that metric too if it goes down to a more granular analysis against their current German rivals. Bayer Leverkusen average 1.63 and Bayern Munich 1.58 per game going into the Peter Seddon’s book Football Talk — The Language And Folklore Of The World’s Greatest Game highlights the likely etymology for the word nutmeg being linked to the trade of the spice in the US and England in the 1870s. The act of partially filling sacks with wooden replicas of nutmeg could dupe those on the receiving end. Once discovered, they’d been “nutmegged” and left red-faced. Cockney rhyming slang (nutmegs = legs) or the ball passing underneath a male player’s testicles (or “nuts”) are other explanations as to why the word is used. Ov...

They formed a circle in the centre of the pitch. Arm-in-arm, they stood there, waiting for the news. Some wept. Others went down to their knees. They waited and they waited and they waited. These were the moments when Paulo Bento, the South Korea manager, detached himself from his players and found a place just inside the tunnel. He stood by himself, hands pressed into his pockets, and he tried his best to hide all the different emotions that must have been churning through his mind. But he was fooling nobody. On the pitch, his players were gathering around mobile phones. South Korea’s players wait for the final whistle in the Uruguay-Ghana game (Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images) Everyone knew anyway. They had their own phones out. They were watching it live. Thank goodness for the WiFi in Doha. And before we go any further, perhaps this is an opportune moment to spare a moment for those poor, deluded individuals who confess to disliking football. Some of these people have avoided the football bug. They are not interested, they say, in the These people deserve our sympathy. They will never know what it is like to experience the highs that football can conjure up. The mobile-phone footage was showing (Photo: Maja Hitij – FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images) And then, finally, the moment. The hardest thing is to find the words to express the scenes once the stadium, as a whole, found out that the corresponding game was over. Uruguay had not managed to find that third go...

The origination of the word has long been debated. The most popular theory being that it was a slang for the male private anatomy- a concept put forward by Countdown star Susie Dent, of Dictionary Corner. It is believed to have come into practice when nutmeg (a spice from a tree in the genus Myristica) exports took place between America and England in the 18th century. Since nutmeg was a valuable commodity then, exporters used to mix wooden replicas into the sacks that were being shipped across the Atlantic. Nutmeg soon came to imply stupidity on the part of the outwit victim and smartness on the part of the trickster. It later caught on in football, where it meant that the player through whose legs the ball had been played had been tricked, or, nutmegged. In Spanish, the skill is known as ‘cano’ or ‘tunel’. Here are five of the best in World Football so far. Magic happened when two of the South American continent's most iconic footballing exponents - The entire world was left stunned when one of the greatest players of the century and a footballing legend across the globe Diego Armando Maradona was nutmegged by his Selecao counterpart Romario. Maradona, who was well known for leaving defenders red-faced, had a bitter taste of his own medicine In 1993 the Brazilian moved to Barcelona and became part of Johan Cruyff’s ‘dream team’, which included legends like Pep Guardiola and José Mari Bakero. He formed an exceptional strike partnership with Bulgarian footballer Hristo Sto...

Who invented nutmeg in football? Another theory was postulated by Peter Seddon in his book, Football Talk – The Language And Folklore Of The World’s Greatest Game. The word, he suggests, arose because of a sharp practice used in nutmeg exports between North America and England. Where does nutmeg come from in football? Why do they call it a nutmeg when a footballer kicks a ball through his opponent’s legs? It’s rhyming slang for legs. Through the nutmegs, through the legs – you’ve been nutmegged. Who is the king of nutmeg in football history? Trincao, though, has shown a lot of signs of his skill and he is the Premier League’s king of nutmegs this season. Nobody in England, nor in Europe’s top five leagues, has managed more than his 0.96 per 90 minutes, having completed 10 this season. See also Which Country Consumes The Most Saffron? What does nutmeg mean in football? And, so, “nutmegged” came to be defined as Victorian slang for being “tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish”. Seddon claimed the term made its way in to football to describe one player tricking another and making him look foolish by nutmegging him. Why is a nutmeg so humiliating? It’s a skill used mostly in soccer, but can be accomplished in basketball and hockey too. To be nutmegged is considered to be embarrassing because it makes the defender look foolish having the offensive player essentially dribbling or passing the ball directly underneath the defender, between...

The origination of the word has long been debated. The most popular theory being that it was a slang for the male private anatomy- a concept put forward by Countdown star Susie Dent, of Dictionary Corner. It is believed to have come into practice when nutmeg (a spice from a tree in the genus Myristica) exports took place between America and England in the 18th century. Since nutmeg was a valuable commodity then, exporters used to mix wooden replicas into the sacks that were being shipped across the Atlantic. Nutmeg soon came to imply stupidity on the part of the outwit victim and smartness on the part of the trickster. It later caught on in football, where it meant that the player through whose legs the ball had been played had been tricked, or, nutmegged. In Spanish, the skill is known as ‘cano’ or ‘tunel’. Here are five of the best in World Football so far. Magic happened when two of the South American continent's most iconic footballing exponents - The entire world was left stunned when one of the greatest players of the century and a footballing legend across the globe Diego Armando Maradona was nutmegged by his Selecao counterpart Romario. Maradona, who was well known for leaving defenders red-faced, had a bitter taste of his own medicine In 1993 the Brazilian moved to Barcelona and became part of Johan Cruyff’s ‘dream team’, which included legends like Pep Guardiola and José Mari Bakero. He formed an exceptional strike partnership with Bulgarian footballer Hristo Sto...