HDMsport HDMsport North Ferriby boss John Anderson has resigned from his role. Find out why, and who will replace him, in tomorrow's Mail. Justin Whittle perhaps?
my bet. or mark greaves perhaps. is greavsey still a gardener? after all it is getting back end and very very cold to be digging gardens and clearing leaves
Claude Puel.. I'd love that.. won nothing since 2000 and still out of a job after 3 barren years of drab football here in Lyon..
it comes from film and theatre sets where the "gaffer" employs it to tape down wires etc. He's the head of lighting or a film crew.
i think the name would pre-date electricity. The film industry probably just picked it up from it's then current(sic) usage. I think it's a colloquial term for an old man/village elder. Possibly a corruption of some other phrase. One site suggests 'godfather", which gives a whole different concept to the footballing family and contracts.
This was the definition as I understood it - British slang for a boss, foreman, or owner of a factory, mine, etc.
excerpt from wikipedia: "The Polperro Gaffer is a type of fishing vessel used in Cornwall." I rest my case!!!
according to my Dictionary of Etymology (a real book not some dubious website) the word "gaffer" was first used around 1570-1580 as the contraction of "godfather". It was used to mean "old man" or "elder" most often in rural/village communities (DMD already said this, just backing him up) . In the 19th Century it was applied to foreman or supervisor and then into its current use in the film business and also as a term for a master glassblower. aren't you glad you asked?
