Ronglish

Excitable Ron’s description of a popular football skill, usually performed by a ‘tricky’ winger.

It is suspected that this Ronglish classic may owe something to the lollipop stick/trick Cockney rhyming slang staple, although an early form of the term can be traced to the early sixties when Ron’s gaffer at Oxford United, Arthur Turner, greeted Ron’s ill-advised attempt to dribble his way out of trouble with the cutting – and somewhat confusing – rebuke: “You’re nothing but a dustman’s lollipop.”

Anyhow, in Ron’s eyes the lollipop involves the trickster waving one or both feet over a stationary football, much to the bemusement of the on looking Jamie Carragher.

Ron has said:
Denilson’s given it about twenty lollipops there, Clive.

Mrs Ron might say:
Tough day Ron. I’ve gone down the local for a swift G&T, and what do you know, I’ve forgot me wallet. So I’ve gone up there, given the barman a double lollipop and nipped out the tradesman’s entrance. Diamond.