hoops n.— «The club, which becomes FC Dallas at season’s end as part of its re-imaging project, hopes to have a horizontally striped jersey, with red as the predominant color. The style is known as “hoops” in soccer vernacular...
handbags n.— «One of the joys of following English soccer is learning some of its delightful jargon. My favorite bit, perhaps because it is so politically incorrect, is the phrase applied to second-rate soccer fights—”handbags at...