Bogey Team

The word bogey means an evil, bad or unlucky spirit or ghost. Mothers often tell their misbehaving children to “be good or the bogeyman will get you”. And bogey also means something that is annoying, something that bothers you. So, if we put these meanings together, something bad and annoying, we get the idea of what a bogey team is.

It is a team that strangely always does well against another team and a team that one other team finds hard to beat.

Example: Bolton were often regarded as Arsenal’s bogey side.

Example 2: Euro 2012: Ireland are Italy’s bogey team, says Sean St Ledger.