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[newhoosehibby]

Shanley going out on loan to the gypsies

 

[Dub]

Shanley going out on loan to the gypsies

Who and who?

 

[1875]

The gypsies?

 

[newhoosehibby]

Who and who?

Ryan Shanley

 

[Doc Shrink]

Who and who?

Took the words right off my keyboard.

 

[Dub]

Ryan Shanley

Going to where? You're not exactly a mine of information.

 

[hibbybilly]

Clyde?

 

[Jack]

??????Civil Service Strollers play/train at/near Gypsy Brae??????

 

[Green tinted specs]

Shanley going out on loan to the gypsies

Tyson Furys backroom team?

 

[Dub]

Clyde?

Aren't they the Bully Wee?

 

[hibbybilly]

Aren't they the Bully Wee?

I read somewhere that they were called Gypsies on account of them moving parks over the years Dub.
They are the Bully Wee tae though.

 

[Hammi]

Has this been deciphered yet? ?‍

 

[The Family]

Shanley going out on loan to the gypsies

Ryan Shanley is going on loan to who?

 

[hibbybilly]

Only gypsies reference I can find.

 

[Dub]

Only gypsies reference I can find.

Never heard that before but fair enough. @newhoosehibby didnae need to be so cryptic though.

 

[moathibby]

What does Booly Wee mean.Something to do with wee marbles?Or perhaps wee balls of wool?

 

[1875]

Jeez, I reckon its Bohemian in Ireland.

 

[Doc Shrink]

Jeez, I reckon its Bohemian in Ireland.

Think you've cracked the code.

 

[Dub]

What does Booly Wee mean.Something to do with wee marbles?Or perhaps wee balls of wool?

It's Bully Wee and the origin is unknown although there are three theories;

The club's nickname, "The Bully Wee", is of uncertain origin although the club themselves have advanced three theories.[71]

The first suggests that the clubs and supporters and perhaps players mainly came from Bridgeton, Glasgow, a tight working-class area whose inhabitants had a reputation as "wee bullies", with this becoming transposed as the Bully Wee.

Alternatively, it is also claimed that it comes from around 1900 when a group of French supporters paid a visit to Barrowfield and, upon the scoring of a disputed goal, were heard to remark "But il'y, oui?" or "Their goal, yes". Supporters listened to this unfamiliar phrase as "Bully Wee", and the name stuck.

Finally the third theory, and the one accepted by the club as the most plausible, links the term to the old Victorian idiom "bully" meaning first-rate or high standard and suggests that Clyde, a small club, would have been regularly referred to as "Bully Wee Clyde", with the first two words eventually becoming the standalone nickname.

 

[tricky]

Shanley off to Kelty on loan