It's from a Northern English dialect.
The word FOOTY means poor, worthless and paltry, so FOOTIER is a superlative of that, and then there's FOOTIEST also.
So it's got nothing to do with one's foot or feet. It's just a slang word from the North of England which probably hasn't been used in 400 years.
Then there's FOOTIE, which doesn't mean British football (i.e., soccer), but rather is another spelling for FOOTSIE, which is game two people who are flirting with each other do with their feet.
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