As provided by Mr. Ayo, DFO’s own W.C. Minor.  

“Footy” = soccer

“Matchday One” = First day of a full schedule of matches. Like the first Sunday of football.

“The King’s Afrikan Water Pistols” = Arsenal Gunners. Cecil Rhodes favoUrite side.

“Top of the Table” = Table is the ladder, aka the standings. Top of it means in first place

“draw” = Tie. Kissing your sister, things of that nature.

“Mighty Whitey” = Fulham F.C. (“F.C” = Futbol Club, aka soccer team)

“Shite” = Liverpool, more popularly Red Shite, and sometimes referred to as the Pool Boys

“The Athletic” = Paid sport news site that Hippo will copy and paste when needed.

“sportsball” = Geek term for jock stuff.

“meeeee-djia” = Mitrovic

“Cunt Buckets” = Still the Pool Boys

“Community Shield” = As Hippo stated, a glorified exhibition

“the newly promoteds held their own” – The 2nd tier teams (see C-ship) that were promoted to the EPL. (This year that would be Nottingham Forest, Fulham, and Bournemouth)

“1-1-1” = 1 win, 1 tie, I loss, respectively. This is how to properly read a futbol table from left to right. Unlike the NHL which does win, loss, then tie.

“Cherries” = The aforementioned recently promoted Bournemouth. Their actual nickname.

“clean sheet” – Allowed no goals

“CBs” = Not corner back, Center back, of which there are 3: LCB (left), RCB (right), and CB (um, yeah, no need to be repetitive). Tactics may dictate a different number of CBs.

“C-ship” = Championship League. 2nd level of English footy. EPL relegations go here.

“Robins Hood” = The aforementioned recently promoted Nottingham Forest. They don’t actually rob the rich.

“Not great, Bob!” = Hippo predicting Robins Hood will be relegated to the C-ship this year.

“Barcodes” = Saudi funded Newcastle United team. Named for their black and white striped jerseys. Also know as the “refs” for same jersey reasons.

“Wolves” = Wolverhampton team. Also a black hole of my betting.

“Leeds” = Leeds United team. (These are getting very obvious folks)

“Ted Lasso” = Apple+ saviour.

“kerfuffle” = Dust-up or fight. Hippo will let us know tomorrow.

“But I need naptime today” – Hippo had his fair share of pills.

“Everton” – Most disappointing EPL team destined to be in the C-ship next year.

“Chelski” – Chelsea, waster of the greatest US footy player of all time. (Pulisic if you’re not paying attention)

“nil” – English for zero in footy. Also called “love” in tennis.

“Ben Godfrey” – Ded Toffee. He has an ankle per Al Michaels.

“Toffee” – Nickname for disappointing Everton, where the make this delicious delicacy.

“Spurs” – Nickname for Tottenham. Actual name is Hotspurs. Immortalized on the Trainspotting soundtrack by Born Slippy.

“Saints” = Southampton team. Note that the “h” in the name belongs to “ampton”, not “Sout”. Also, the departure site of the Titanic. RIP DiCaprio.

“Sham Town” = Southampton again.

“Yeah right’s culinary brilliance” = Sunday Gravy. Arriving soon!

“What y’all gots going on?” = Apparently not much!