How did Scottish Football Teams get their Nicknames? 

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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 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.

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

The hearts video would be super cool!

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)

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!

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.

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.

Excellent, well-informed and entertaining. Good on ye from an Arbroath supporter

Back after the holidays. I hope you all will have a great new year.

You did a pretty good job with most of the names. I enjoyed this wee video...cheers! 👍

Excellent stuff, mate. Really enjoyable

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.

Great video. A lot of research has gone into this and your pronounciation is superb. Well done, from a Jambo!

😂😂 Brilliant wee video. Well played mate.

This is an excellent video, well done!

Great video. Really well informed and genuinely funny. Subscribed.

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.

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 🙂

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.

Major factual error in this video - the Partick Thistle mascot is actually the greatest football mascot of all time.

Fantastic from an Inverness Caledonian Thistle fan. Great video.

Good knowledge! I'm a Partick Thistle fan and didn't know until very recently that Harry Wragg was a jockey...

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)

Thia was a really interesting! Great levels of research too Great vid!

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.

Loved it buddy! Wish you all the best with the channel

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.

As a pars fan I'm so happy we got included. Great video bud 👍

I enjoyed that, very well made!

Excellent research. Thanks.

Glad to see that I'm not the only nutter who found this entertaining! GREAT WORK!!!

Excellent video mate, keep going

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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

Great video mate, would love a hearts video

Excellent video. Well done.👍😊

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

👏👏👏very impressive knowledge, great video👍

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

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Superb. Thankyou.

Excellent video *****(five stars) go to the top of the class and "Lang may yer lum reek"!

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.

Great video, well played man.

A couple you left out: Falkirk FC “The Bairns” and Stenhousemuir Fc “The Warriors”

Very well put together and enjoyable video. Although Aberdeen were formed in 1903 not 1909.

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).

Good Video. Well done. Lots of good research done there.

Hearts video would be great!

I am surprised that you missed out Cowdenbeath F.C. - The Blue Brazil

Hearts video would be sick dude

It's a little bit sad that you have so few subs, best of luck

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.

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.

Why are Stenhousemuir called the Warriors? Gotta love the romance of Scottish football. Second to none.

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.

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.

make more videos about scottish football!

yes pal give us that hearts vid

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

the Dundee United supported with the orange keffiyeh (headdress) is my granda lmao

great video

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.

@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.

You should have included Cowdenbeath fc Or the blue Brazil Or Montrose fc The Gable Endies

Good video

Good video mate

Please do the hearts video!

Better be a part 2

Doonhamers, my local team and a brilliant club

Missed Falkirk here. Will have to watch again

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Really good coverage of ayr united my hometown although you'll not find too many honest men or bonnie lassies 😂😂😂

Nice video- you've gained a sub 👍

Aberdeens called the dons because of the river don that goes through aberdeen so i was told

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.

Yes do the hearts video

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.

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.

Good explanation of the Dundee United nickname, although you missed the most important part - where a local newspaper reporting on the match described the Dundee United teams as "taking to the sand like Arabs" and the name stuck. There was also a hilarious situation a number of years ago when Dundee United played AEK Athens in Europe. A Greek paper did an article on Dundee United, where it correctly told the story about the nickname "The Arabs". It then went on to tell the wholly incorrect story of how "the team is nicknamed 'The Terrors' due to the association between Arabs and terrorism."

nice one

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.

The hoops on Celtic shirt are horizontal not vertical

The green & white hoops are horizontal not vertical

You should make the video on Hearts

Everybody in Scottish football knows Rangers as the Huns and they hate it .

2:12 you spent that long researching Scottish football that you turned Scottish for 4 seconds

The nickname THE WASPS, applies to Alloa Athletic.

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.

You missed out the Blue Brazil.....Cowdenbeath

Aberdeen fc was founded in 1903 & Sevco was founded in 2012

Minor point. St.Mirren are fan owned and I'm pretty sure Motherwell are too.

Still a team in Scotland called the wasps. Allow athletic

Billy Connolly, a Jags fan, stressed that the name of the club is Partick Thistle F.C. as most people believe they are called Partick Thistle Nil.

Attila the Hun used to fight the Roman empire. So Hun is just a refrence to them.

Great video bud and dont worry you didnae butcher any of the names

Great video, and dinnae worry, yer Scots is actually okay! doun hame is perfect.