Eccentric = safe crazy
Nutter = unsafe crazy
We had a guy played for our football team who started off as an eccentric (Kissed opposition players' mothers on the cheek before kick off; would try to get players' sisters' numbers; when backed into the corner flag, asked the defender "what did you have for breakfast?" Before proceeding to nutmeg the bewildered guy and get his cross in; would turn up to games with Mika's "Big Girls You Are Beautiful" blaring from the stereo; replaced his water bottle with an empty bottle of Buckfast, etc etc...)
He quickly became, as you put it Debs, a nutter (attacked an opponent with the corner flag, which had a spiked end; started as a sub and fired BB bullets at his own team's/opposition players from atop a nearby tree; appeared before the league's disciplinary committee in nothing but his pants and his Mum's high heels...)
I digress... so hopefully we shall have him remain an eccentric and not go full blown nutter at LFC!
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