The term given to the
core of young
British players that played for Liverpool
FC in the 1990s. Coined mainly as a derogatory term, it mocked the players' underachievement in
winning trophies compared to the team of the previous decade, seen as a byproduct of their laddish behaviour and laissez-faire attitude to the game, such as the occasion they paraded the pitch before the 1996 FA Cup Final in Armani cream suits, and subsequently lost to rivals Manchester United. Since then, the term has also become a general slang term for garishly metrosexual young
men, though it has largely slipped out of the common vernacular with 'fuckboys' being a more common modern alterntive.