Socceroos star Jason Cummings nickname ‘Cumdog’ is trending once more and SBS analyst Lucy Zelic has had sufficient, calling for folks to cease utilizing the ‘cheesy’ moniker.
Zelic took to social media to voice her disgust on the nickname after Optus Sport shared the story about Cummings getting snubbed by French star Olivier Giroud on the FIFA World Cup on Twitter.
Zelic isn’t impressed with Cummings nickname which has routinely trended on social media and has blown up once more
Cummings has amusing together with his Central Coast Mariners teammates within the A-League. The Socceroos striker is thought for his massive sense of humour
Talking on The Undertaking, Cummings revealed he had begged the Chelsea star for his shirt in Qatar, saying: ‘Giroud, please man, can I get your shirt, man? I am a giant fan, can I get your shirt?’
‘And he simply walked previous me, pretended he by no means spoke English! And he is been within the Premier League for 10 years! He simply walked proper previous me!’
Optus Sport carried the story utilizing the Scottish-born striker’s nickname ‘cumdog’, which instantly incensed Zelic.
‘Please, please, please for the love of God, can we cease calling him this dreadful nickname? He is represented our nation for goodness sake. That is simply revolting and so cheesy,’ she tweeted.
One fan identified that the time period has a way more derogatory that means that must be taken into consideration.
‘I feel Lucy is referring to the widespread slang that means which is used derogatorily in direction of girls. After all it is a play off Cummings title on this case nevertheless it’s nonetheless a horrible time period,’ they tweeted.
In accordance with City Dictionary, a cumdog is: ‘A unclean s*** out of your native city. The city w****’.
‘I made the error of simply getting into ‘cumdog’ into Twitter search. The outcomes have been a monstrosity to my eyes,’ one other fan replied.
Regardless, most followers have been fast to shoot Zelic down as a ‘gatekeeper’ and referred to as for her to loosen up.
‘Can we as an alternative please cease gatekeeping australian soccer? not every little thing must be romanticised and critical 100% of the time. why cannot we lean into our tradition of larakinism and have that as a energy of our recreation?’ one fan replied.
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‘He chooses to go by it. Ensure you pronounce it appropriately yeah such as you do for everybody else,’ one other posted, in reference to Zelic’s pronunciation of worldwide participant’s names.
‘He selected that nickname for himself Lucy, it is not that deep,’ added one other.
Cummings has beforehand admitted the nickname was self-inflicted throughout a Socceroos Q&A session on Instagram.
‘I received that nickname… it was my wrestling nickname,’ he defined.
Cummings celebrates after the 1-0 win throughout the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group D match between Australia and Denmark at Al Janoub Stadium
‘I wrestled some man referred to as Grado, he was a wrestler in Scotland, and he got here in after I was at Hibs [Hibernian].
‘He got here in and he was giving it the large one so I chucked on the Spandex, put ‘Cumdog’ on the chest and I battered him.’
‘The remaining was historical past. Everybody’s referred to as me Cumdog since then however now I am in Australia, everybody is looking me the Cumdingo. So the Cumdog or Cumdingo, no downside.’
