There was a bloke who used to sit behind me in East Stand Upper whose
match vocabularly consisted almost exclusivley of "cabbage him " followed
by the name of the Leeds midfielder \ defender about to make the tackle,
generally followed by "it would have been a free hit" when the said player
did not in fact 'cabbage' our opponent.
I assumed that it meant 'cripple' him - a cabbage being a derogatory term
for a cripple (or handicapped person for the pc brigade!)
Also the phrase my "head was cabbaged" is a term I have heard used by
people describing their level of inebriation
That's what I've always taken it to mean.
I got it from someone on the Kop a few years ago when we missed the first
couple minutes due to being caught in traffic and arrived to find us one
down. When we asked what had happened we were told that Lucas had cabbaged
someone in the area and given away a penalty. When we saw what had happened
on Match of the Day later it struck me as a very apt description of what had
happened and I've used it from time to time since.
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is Michel Kitabdjian dead yet?
