Sebo

Details

Reference to: Wayward shots at goal
Derivations: –
Started: 2007

Definition

"Sebo" – Doing a "Sebo" is when a player performs a long-range shot at goal which can be ranked as outrageous, overly-optimistic or just plain daft, and in general the wayward shot simply goes nowhere near the intended target. During matches after any player has done a "Sebo", chants of "Sebo, Sebo, Seeebbooo" ring around the stadium.

Chant started on the back of ex-Rangers player Filip Sebo bought by then Rangers manager, Paul Le Guen, for £1.8m and was a disastrous signing for the club. He was so bad that in the Celtic v Rangers games, Celtic fans en mass even began at the matches to taunt the Rangers to bring him on in matches ("We want Sebo").

In his last Celtic v Rangers game when Rangers actually beat Celtic, the Rangers fans themselves retaliated that they were bringing him on to prove how easy the game was for them! His record was 2 goals in 32 competitive games, pathetic. Didn't help his case that he looked like Eddie Munster's elder brother.

A high point for the "Sebo" chant came in the UEFA Cup final of May 2007, staged in Glasgow where the many Spanish fans who came to Glasgow were taught the taunt to chant in games, and for those who couldn't get a ticket, they did so in the pubs along with the Celtic fans during the game. A chant that will linger for a long time to come.