Taste of Blood in his eyes refers to mixing up the saying "He smells blood in the water". This was first uttered by Jack "Jaws" Wright, a professional esports caster for the Overwatch League whilst accidentally mixing up a phrase.
"there is a taste of blood in his eyes" "yeah what happened?" "he mixed up a couple of phrases"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)