Derived from Johan Cruyff's theory of having a soccer team full of midfielders, that can fulfill all roles on a soccer pitch. It relates in this sense to not specialising in your current group of friends and diversifying and incorporating more people into a circle of friends. Metaphorically speaking, no specialest just a big group of midfielders, that constantly expands and grows.
We are going to have a Total Football weekend, inviting a whole lot of different people with the hope of everyone getting along and becomming friends.
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)