AWAG

Pronounciation

Usage

Grammar

Meaning

History

Pronounciation<br>
Opinion is divided as to how to say awag. Classicists suggest it should have the same inflexion as away. However, there are some misguided fools who believe it should rhyme with Sehwag, a prominent Indian cricketer of the time.

Usage<br>
Grammar<br>
: verb - to awag, to spend ones time wasting your working day
: noun - to go awag (in a bad way), to go severely mental
Meaning<br>
: What you do following a BOOM BOOM GOAL EXPLOSION for your team. i.e 'There was i mean it was a BROOKER POWER GOAL EXPLOSION and we all rose as one and went awag'. A nonsense word, possibly a mis-spelling that stuck.

History<br>
Several years ago, there was a website called Inside the Web which was home to a lot of English 3rd tier football fans (currently known as supporters of teams in League 1). This was a popular site and when the Rivals network set up it's current system of providing a fan-site for each team they approached the owners of Inside the Web and asked them to provide a forum for followers of all teams in the league. And hence, Twoview was born, a 2nd division equivalent to 'first last and everything' (for supporters of league one, now championship sides) and '3rd world' (for supporters of the 4th tier, commonly regarded by most as the 'Rochdale Division').

Twoview chugged merrily along and grew in popularity, rapidly becoming one of the most visited sites on the Rivals network. Rivals asked their site owners to post under occasional pseudonyms to help boost site hits (and therefore their own revenue) and the owners of Twoview created, in the 1st instance, Valiantitus, a slightly subnormal Port Vale fan with a unique take on the English language. We, who frequented the site, lapped up the tales that came from this character, and the more we entered into the spirit of things, the bigger his role on the board became. It was Valiantitus who first used the word awag, it was never sure if it was an intentional mis-spelling of away or if the word was just invented, no matter, as it caught our imagination and spiralled into something much more than just a irreverant throw away line. And so it was, no longer did we go mental if our team scored a goal, we went awag, particularily after a POWER GOAL EXPLOSION.

The Valiantitus theme of the board grew, people would look at the site specifically to see what he had been up to. His daily adventures kept us rapt and we would read in delight at his tales of breaking his step-father's new scanner by trying to scan coal, his campaign to raise funds for Port Vale (VDNOB - Vale in Dire Need Of Backing), his complaints over plot-lines in Terminator 3. Valiantitus' happiest moment came after England drew 2-2 against Greece to reach the World CUp 2002. Not only did he get to go awag in a very very good way when Beckham scored at the death, he also beat his step-brother Carl at monopoly.

The site continued to grow in popularity, however, Valiantitus was reaching the end of his shelf-life, and another, minor to begin with, creation was born. Vale 66. Another Port Vale fan, Vale 66 started life as a bit of a rubbish character, more often than not threatening violence and being generally ignored or flamed. This changed however when he 'met' Valiantitus for a night of drinks up Newcastle-under-lyme. Stoke fans claimed on the board that they had met our 2 heroes and that at the end of the night, Vale 66 had set fire to Valiantitus' shirt. It was after this, and much condemnation from the board, that Vale 66 came into his own. Valiantitus lived on for a while, drawing pictures of the regular board users while convalescing, but gradually faded away, to become a happy memory.

Vale 66 suddenly had a 'proper name' - Dan Miggs. Dangerous Dan Miggs. Dangerous Daniel Xavier Miggs. He had a sidekick - Stephen 'Norbs' Norbert. And a cat - Stone Cold the kitten. Little by little, his character grew into, arguably, the funniest thing I have read on the web. Accentuated by his poor spelling and questionable ideas regarding the fairer sex, DDM kept the board ticking over for a couple of years. His regular battles with the female members of the board, Tawny in particular, were a delight to read. He regarded femanists (sic) with contempt and demanded their spooning to keep them in check. He started a war over an ice cream van and the shade of his sister's nipples. Soon the board was divided in two. WHIFF or CHAFF. The Clayton Sepratist War was comedy gold. But as with every comedy creation, he soon turned into a parody of himself and sadly died trying to save Norbs from a dragon on Bunny Hill.

Twoview continued to go from strength to strength, lesser creations also kept us occupied, from DaveCreweAlex's one man campaign to bring the quality of 1st division lawnmowers to the world's attention to a host of others. BUt suddenly, and for no real reason, the comedy characters stopped and the new creations became vitriolic and filled with hate against regular board members. Around this time, it was said the rivals had also become unhappy with the site (the lack of football talk annoyed them, as did the swearing) and we were forced into a nomadic existence for several months, taking up home on both Cheltenham Town and Notts County's message boards.