coldharvest wrote:I'm going to switch after the Full English information
redharen wrote:Yeah, I'm football, breakfast notwithstanding
Welcome on board
Here's more help, and a bit of background on the yin and yang of football/muggy bonehead.
The term "muggy bonehead" first came from the hooligan documentaries "The Knockers" and "Whatever happened to the Knockers?" About a gang of West Ham lads who went out "knocking" doors in East London in the 80s when they were out of work, they were the prototype "man in a van" types, wide boys after some cash.
But, importantly, they were football casuals, so had a certain pride in what they wore and how they went about things - thought of themselves as a cut above the average skinhead or grebo for instance. In the first doco a rival "firm" (The Knockers call them "the Millwall mob" but this is never confirmed) of knockers turn up on their patch and a fight ensues. The other mob are fought off with the help of conveniently placed sticks outside a hardware shop (it all looks staged).
One of the young knockers is interviewed later and he says something like "That other lot, they're not even football, they were just muggy boneheads". later he says "If you're not football, you're muggy bonehead" A legend was born.
Here's a great skit on it, with actual footage from the fight itself, by Bob Mills on "In Bed With Me Dinner" - classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdLgoAvwQL8&feature=player_embedded#Now, it should be getting clearer class?
Cheers