Outspoken football expert Lucy Zelic BLOWS UP over Socceroos cult hero Jason Cummings’ ‘revolting and tacky’ nickname – but some fans think she should loosen up
Socceroos star Jason Cummings nickname ‘Cumdog’ is trending again and SBS analyst Lucy Zelic has had enough, calling for people to stop using the ‘tacky’ moniker.
Zelic took to social media to voice her disgust at the nickname after Optus Sport shared the story about Cummings getting snubbed by French star Olivier Giroud at the FIFA World Cup on Twitter.
Zelic is not impressed with Cummings nickname which has routinely trended on social media and has blown up again
Cummings has a laugh with his Central Coast Mariners teammates in the A-League. The Socceroos striker is known for his big sense of humour
Speaking on The Project, Cummings revealed he had begged the Chelsea star for his shirt in Qatar, saying: ‘Giroud, please man, can I get your shirt, man? I’m a big fan, can I get your shirt?’
‘And he just walked past me, pretended he never spoke English! And he’s been in the Premier League for 10 years! He just walked right past me!’
Optus Sport carried the story using the Scottish-born striker’s nickname ‘cumdog’, which immediately incensed Zelic.
‘Please, please, please for the love of God, can we stop calling him this dreadful nickname? He’s represented our country for goodness sake. This is just revolting and so tacky,’ she tweeted.
One fan pointed out that the term has a much more derogatory meaning that needs to be taken into account.
‘I think Lucy is referring to the common slang meaning which is used derogatorily towards women. Of course it’s a play off Cummings name in this case but it’s still a horrible term,’ they tweeted.
According to Urban Dictionary, a cumdog is: ‘A dirty s*** from your local town. The town w****’.
‘I made the mistake of just entering ‘cumdog’ into Twitter search. The results were a monstrosity to my eyes,’ another fan replied.
Regardless, most fans were quick to shoot Zelic down as a ‘gatekeeper’ and called for her to loosen up.
‘Can we instead please stop gatekeeping australian football? not everything needs to be romanticised and serious 100% of the time. why can’t we lean into our culture of larakinism and have that as a strength of our game?’ one fan replied.
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‘He chooses to go by it. Make sure you pronounce it correctly yeah like you do for everyone else,’ another posted, in reference to Zelic’s pronunciation of international player’s names.
‘He chose that nickname for himself Lucy, it’s not that deep,’ added another.
Cummings has previously admitted the nickname was self-inflicted during a Socceroos Q&A session on Instagram.
‘I got that nickname… it was my wrestling nickname,’ he explained.
Cummings celebrates after the 1-0 win during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group D match between Australia and Denmark at Al Janoub Stadium
‘I wrestled some guy called Grado, he was a wrestler in Scotland, and he came in when I was at Hibs [Hibernian].
‘He came in and he was giving it the big one so I chucked on the Spandex, put ‘Cumdog’ on the chest and I battered him.’
‘The rest was history. Everyone’s called me Cumdog since then but now I’m in Australia, everyone is calling me the Cumdingo. So the Cumdog or Cumdingo, no problem.’
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