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

All of una be dundee shaaaa😂😂😂

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

FINALLLYY

I am Nigeria and live on Dens road

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

Absolute class act, Phil. Loved watching him play.

He IS 100% right [at 1:53]: MOST people there are OUT OF THEIR HEADS WITH DRUGS, which is why it IS the "Drugs Death Capital Of Scotland" that is the "Drugs Death Capital of the world"!!! 🤣😂🤣 Stick with that Nigeria. [Am talking from lived experience: I STAYED IN THAT PLACE FOR OVER TEN YEARS. WHY a man whose surname is Kirkcaldy – the name of the place that Sheku Bayoh, a West African, lost his life – is tasked to get rid of that is BEYOND one.] 🙃

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

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

Scotland is full 😂

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 😆

In kenya we say danda meaning stupid