Barmy Army

Meaning

Proper Noun

• An organised group of cricket fans which arranges touring parties of its members to follow the English cricket team on all of its overseas tours.

Origin

• An English football chant, in which supporters of a team would chant that they were the team manager's "barmy army", was applied to a particularly "barmy" group of supporters who followed the English cricket team to Australia in 1994-95 despite the team being seen as having little prospect of success.