How Dundee United Became An Insult In Nigeria | A View from the Terrace 

Tbf Dundee Utd means the exact same in Scotland as well

If you want us to stop seeing Dundee United as idiots you need to come play another friendly match in Nigeria but you guys have to win 😂😂😂😂

Never knew Dundee United was a name of a football club 😂. And my parents have been insulting me with Dundee United😢.. Anytime they call me Dundee United I cried literally 😭😭

I truly wish someday to be as happy as that Nigerian guy.

send your scouts to Nigeria/West Africa and start signing young prospects do what Celtic does with Japan

Learnt about this out of pure curiosity around 2012 or so. I found out that there was a City and 2 football clubs in Scotland named Dundee, and i was like "huh, Dundee?", so i researched on if there was a link. I then asked my Grandfather, a huge football fan, and he very much remembered the backlash in the Sporting community after the Dundee United tour... Basically a lot of Nigerians had lost huge amounts of money betting on Dundee favoured odds, thinking that a Prof. British Football Club coming to play some of the Amateur Clubs would be a bloodbath, and well, they couldn't be more wrong, because Dundee stunk up the place... So Dundee is now a Nigerian slang for "Disappointment/Idiot/Stupid". BTW, many Nigerians thought like that because they had a high regard for British clubs due to what they've been told about how "good" they were.

As a Nigerian who has used the word/s so many times, I actually thought it was another way to say that someone is a "Donkey" 😀

I am a Nigerian and my favourite Scottish team is Dundee United. I fell in love with the team following my visit to Scotland over 20 years ago. Dundee is an absolutely lovely City and I was introduced to the three J's of Jute, Jam and Journalism.

Why would Nigeria do this?😂😂😂 Nigeria didn't do it... You did it to yourselves in 1972... 😂😂😂😂 Don't over stress yourself mate... Dundee United is here to stay in Nigeria... Use it as a means to expand your influence and fan base...

How bizarre, but fair play to the journalist and the Nigerians in this video. I’m going to find myself resisting the urge to say this when something goes wrong.

Dundee is a nice place I love you all💙 love from Nigeria 🇳🇬

I think that is just Nigeria. Even own goal in Nigeria is called ESCOBAR! due to his famous owngoals in the 1994 world cup.

lol Imagine his parents response back home in Nigeria when he told them "Mum, dad I am going to university of Dundee" "Son are you stupid?!" 😆

If I was a Dundee fan I’d be all over this

I grew up in Nigeria in the late 90s and early 2000s knowing the word "Dundee" to mean "idiot". It wasn't until much later that I discovered they were a football club.

A Nigerian friend of mine put me on to this story. It's hilarious. I even think the word in my head now when I see something that's a bit shoddy, bandy or doesn't work correctly.

I think Dundee United needs to do another tour of West Africa especially Nigeria and rewrite history.

My chemistry professor in oau, my uni in Nigeria back then, told us the story about dundee united. Told us they were a team that was always losing and the term became an insult when Nigerians used to bet on random teams back then with hope of becoming rich. He said when you bet on dundee, you almost always lose because they always lose with high goal margin back then. Those were the days of paper bets that used to be at the back of newspapers before all these online betting platforms, before Nigerians started supporting epl, la liga etc and before streaming and cable services. I guess the term stuck because Nigerians unfortunately still don’t watch Scottish football.

I know the phrase but I cannot recall it being used around me in a looooong time. Nice to discover its origin, though.

Same thing with Harry Maguire in the Ghanaian parliament 😅

This is amazing. I'm a Canadian living in Scotland, so not a lot of historic football knowledge, and one of my coworkers is a big Dundee United fan that mentioned that being associated/referenced to Dundee United is an insult in Nigeria and it left me bewildered. This clarifies it cuz I was genuinely baffled by it and how it came about 😆

When i moved to Ireland in 04 and started getting more familier with the UK football leagues, i always giggled when i saw Dundee United. I've grown out of it now but watching these video just reminded me of those times lol

People of Nigeria…. Do you actually, seriously use the term Dundee United to mean disappointing?? If this is true, I think it’s hilarious 😁😁😂😂

I actually thought dundee was an english word that meant “idiot” and that the club intentionally took the name up knowing fully well it meant “idiot”… but

I'm Zimbabwean and I can infere some similarities. In zim there was a time if you did something you would call you a dunderhead short "dunder" or "Dundee"... I can only see the similarities but it could be divorced from it also

I'll tell you this, many Nigerians don't know the origin of the word. Great journalism.

Someone should show Nigerians a video of AZ 7 Dundee Utd 0 in the Europa League last season😂

Dundee and Dundee United should travel to Nigeria to play each other in a pre-season friendly to try and prove to Nigerians that (1) they are two different teams and (2) they aren't as comically bad as United were on that original tour.

I used that term 'Dundee United' and never bothered to know the origin. Wow! 😅

Never forget that in professional football (so not friendlies) Dundee Utd are 4 - 0 vs Barcelona. I'm not kidding look it up

🤣🤣🤣I know many dundees

Nigerians getting it right.

OMG this was hilarious and awesome 😂😂❤ Go Dundee 🙌🏻

These days in Nigeria, people don't usually call it in full, they rather say dunduu or dundee to refer to something stupid or an idiot.

I listened to bbc radio when i was a boy, and always giggled whenaver i heard dundee in match schedules or results. I actually thought then that they were 2 different words with the same sound but different spellings and meanings

Absolute class act, Phil. Loved watching him play.

Only Nigerians could do this 🤣❤...

This dundee fan has nothing to worry about tbh. It's not really that popular of a word anymore. Olodo, ode and mumu are used much more frequently

It can't be that easy to change Nigerians minds notion and decades old beliefs about the name calling especially that of Dundee. Where i see a change is when the current generation of people pass. A new generation definitely has different culture that will be relevant to their time

Nigerians use the word here and there, but just in a hilarious way. Dundee has other synonism like ode.

We need a pre season tour in Nigeria again just for a laugh. Would be brillant.

Grew up in Lagos using that insult but never new it was an actual place with a football cub. You learn something new everyday. 😂😂😂

If we had an equivalent expression here in the States, I guess we'd be saying not to act like an Oakland Athletic.

In Indian culture, Dundee United is used to say that the weather is cold!

Firstly you need to understand how popular this gr at clus Dundee United is in Nigeria. As a kid growing up in the 90's our older cousins, siblings and mostly parents refers to anyone who makes silly moves as Dundee United. I don't know why but that was what wenall grown up on.. And its funny how time changes yesterday i am not in Scotland studying. 🇳🇬😯🇳🇬

Of course, the word/phrase Dundee United.. growing up in Nigeria has always meant someone who does something stoopid and that has always been the only meaning and context of the word I know so imagine my shock when I started playing football manager back in the 2009s, 2011 and I suddenly saw a club called Dundee Unitedd...I was so shocked

I am Nigeria and live on Dens road

I am from Northern Nigeria and I know that back then, in the sixties, our teachers in high school used to employ high sounding words to scold irritant and obnoxious pupils. One of the words was "dunderhead". Dundee must have come from that word. "No min am dundee like him", "you dunderheads, nincompoops, you utter rubbish", was an expression once used by our English teacher to berate some irritant mates. 50+ years, I can still remember because for form two impressionable kids, then, that was "big grammar" The expression in Northern Nigeria means a person of low understanding that you have to repeat over and over again for him to understand Nigerians love to shorten and Nigerianise english, that is why we have four english variants 1. Queens 2. Broken 3. Waafarian 4. Grammatical Inde If you are not a Nigerian, 2 to 4 will always be strange

By the looks of that game, nothing will change about that insult soon.

When you do something stupid, they will say, “you are a Dundee United.” I first heard it from my late dad’s mouth.

it's like PAOK FC in North Sumatra

To change Nigerians mindset on this name will be hard,it's even more cultural now.ln every home,once you mess up,they call you Dundee United. But if they have a Nigerian team named Dundee United,that might change their luck.

I am from Northern Nigeria and I've never known Dundee is an insult. But I've known Dundee as a Scottish club since when I started watching Premier League in 2006. The fact that it's derogatory but in Northern Nigeria we don't know it as an insult because the other parts of the country speaks Pidgin English and that has denounced the fact that the 200 million population of Nigeria are using the word. It's just some parts of Nigeria. Northern Nigeria has the highest population in the country and you can't get up to 10% of the populace that know about Dundee as an insult only few like me knows it as a football club. This claim should be directed to people using the word as insult. It's unfair to generalise on we innocent Nigerians, best wishes I'll come to Dundee United one day. I'm a Manchester United fan.

Wow we use the name dundee to call you stupid or an idiot I never knew it was a place with football team in Scotland😂

I remember Dundèe losing 9-0 to Celtic last season on a Sunday. The Nigeria in me felt like what to you expect from Dundèe united

SO you are telling me Dundee United is REAL. whala oh....Love to the DUNDEE FROM from nigeria....

I think Dundee united needs to return to Nigeria and a have a good preseason to change this narrative 😅😅😅

Presnter got the lifetime kit

I'm Canadian, but have been a DU supporter from my childhood. This is the first time I am hearing about this, but can't say I am totally shocked. This pretty much describes all the teams I support, just one big Nigerian disappointment.

FINALLLYY

The only way to change this is to set up a scouting network in Nigeria and find a wonder kid (or a few). He/they will eventually leave of course, but having some of their own play for your team would right the wrong.

Walk up the street 50 yards pal then your home

Surely this will be a hate crime in Scotland after April Fools day?

I grew up in Nigeria, in the 80s and 90s and Dundee United was used to refer to people as idiots or losers😅

2:10 😂

It's Dundee he's saying when did they add United I'm confused

"I feel like an idiot" 😂😂😂🤣

Every nigerian that went to primary school in the 80s and 90s (including me) has Dundee United to mean someone acting foolish ingrained in their vocabulary 😁😁😁

Wasn’t it mostly because one of the players was very rude in a press conference. Think the “investigative journalist” would have come across that.

So you chose the wee team?

They should come to Nigeria for another match or series of matches.

It must be atleast 3 months since the last time I heard what Dundee United in Nigerian slang means . Obsessed with Dundee United. Famous all over the World 🧡🖤

That tag is here to stay forever 😂😂😂. If you like make 24hrs winning videos of recent Dundee United 😅

What a fella hahaha, great laugh

I thought it referred to the Dundee cake! That made sense to me because it contains nuts and fruit. I never heard people use the 'Utd'

Are nigerians generally smarter than other african nations or something? Most ones I meet went to uni, have businesses, etc.

Dundee United cannot still perform in Nigeria. (good Documentary though)

This is so random 😂

Im not mad, Im Dundeesapointed in you........... Utd.

The only remedy for Dundee united is to win premier league or champions league. Then alone Nigerians can forgive them , otherwise they remain a Dundee to Us

How many more stories do Dundee Utd have in their pockets about goin on tour back in the day?

Weird to see Africans talking about Dundee Utd 😂

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you dundee united

In kenya we say danda meaning stupid

Dun dee united, he doesn't even where to go...

I never knew the reason an idiot was referred to as "Dundee United" in Nigeria until I watched this video clip.

All of una be dundee shaaaa😂😂😂

Dundee means stupid in Nigerian slang

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You mean you went to University of idiots 😅

Would calling someone a "Dundee" be considered hate speech though???

And this is funded by us. How about some live football. Glad I don't pay the tv tax.

I'd rather be Dundee United than Nigerian

Pro-Gr3at r3placement propaganda disguised as football segment

Imagine saying why it began in the first place like the title suggests

Danda means stupid in swahili too

Part of what made Dundee become an insulting word, is because of its closeness to the word "Dummy"! In Nigeria , words that represent Dunce or Dummy, tend to be words beginning with the alphabet "D"!! Dekpe, Didirin, Dopemu, Dodo, are some of the local words that describes someone who might be perceived as being clumsy, or clueless or slow witted! Which almost resonates with the English language where words like Daft, Donkey, D*ckhead, Dummy and Dunderhead are put down words! Now Nigeria , in the 1970's still had stronger sociocultural ties to Britain as a former colony than we do now! And secondary school students in Nigeria of that era, were on a roll , as they sought relevance of their own, forming slangs and phrases to look hip and modern! Dundee as a name seemed to tie in well with both English and Nigerian ( Yoruba) words for a slow witted and clumsy person, and so the name stuck as an insult! I imagine the performance of the football club Dundee United on tour to Nigeria didn't help matters! A great number of Nigerians today will use the "pass me down word"with no idea or inkling as to how the word came to be!! Inter-est-ing!! 👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!!