COMMENT overheard in the press room this week: “If I see that Vine of Erik Lamela’s Rabona one more time, I’m going to explode.”

Yep, modern football is lost on me.

Having just about mastered Google, it turns out a Vine is a six-second-long video clip and a Rabona is the skill of kicking a ball by wrapping your foot around the standing leg, much like the Spurs star did in the Europa League in midweek.

Rabona is actually a Spanish word meaning to play truant from school, so I only hope Mr Lamela had a note from his mum.

The first recorded use of the word was apparently in Argentina during the late forties.

Pele is also credited with performing the trick in the State Championship in Brazil in 1957 but by then it was known, rather plainly, as a “crossed kick.”

Wikipedia records some of the most famous exponents of the Rabona such as Paul Gascoigne, Roberto Baggio, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Diego Maradona, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo and, erm, Joe Cole.

Modern footballers and managers have thrown a few strange words into the lexicon of late, a few of which I’ll share with you now.

A worldie (noun) is a piece of footballing skill, usually from a goalkeeper, which is considered outstanding. Worldy is also an acceptable spelling.

Tekkers (noun) is very similar but more normally attributed to outfield players. You may see someone perform a particularly tough trick and say “tekkers” – if you are aged 21 years or under.

Baller (noun) has drifted into football from America, where it has a whole host of meanings not fit for a family newspaper. It basically means you’re good.

Banter, epic banter or bants (noun) generally refers to footballers taking the Michael out of each other and needs to be stopped now. Most normal people just call it sarcasm.

Finally we have “ledge” which is short for legend, which is one syllable longer and actually means something. Come to think of it, the word legend is overused in football, so perhaps we should forget about that one altogether.

Like most modern ills, social media is to blame. And don’t even get me started on lols, yolos and l8trs.

While we’re at it, I wonder which brave modern day footballer will break the final taboo next weekend... and wear plain black boots?