West Ham phoning it in.

[Packerman]

NYC has has had a Weston in this thread fair play

[A Quiet Monkfish]

It means phoning is great - or sick as they say.

What ???

[Father Dougal]

I really don't want Leeds to stay up.

This thread is on page 2 now and I still don't understand

However I did Google it and it appears its to do something with low effort.

So as west ham won 3 1 you were either saying they won 3 1 really easily or you posted it when Leeds were 1 up. Am I close?

[A Quiet Monkfish]

I didn't know what it meant either.
A while back I also didn't know what pegging meant, so I googled that. Google then thought I was interested in stuff not related to hanging out the washing.

I may have got this wrong but when I was a nipper I remember a gypsy woman knocking on our door and asking if I "wanted a pegging ". All makes perfect sense now..

[Tuerto]

NYC has has had a Weston in this thread fair play

Sorry Mate, but what's a 'Weston'......

[The Bloop]

This thread is on page 2 now and I still don't understand

However I did Google it and it appears its to do something with low effort.

So as west ham won 3 1 you were either saying they won 3 1 really easily or you posted it when Leeds were 1 up. Am I close?

I couldn't be bothered to Google it. Does that mean I phoned it in?

[Garth Blue]

I'm fine darling. I just find willful ignorance slightly irritating.

But not wilful arrogance, it seems.

[ToTaL ITK]

ahhhh Leeds have only gone and dialed it.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Sorry Mate, but what's a 'Weston'......

Super Mare

[jimmyscoular]

As long as rookie or soccer doesnt become words we use. Rookie being used in golf is bad enough. Feckin yanks!!!

This canard that "soccer" is an Americanism is getting old. When I was a kid, which was a very long time ago, my little friends didn't knock on the door and ask if I could come out to play "football." It was "soccer."

Here's the iconic David Coleman from 1969, not giving it a second thought:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPaYry5XOMQ

[Wales-Bales]

Some people need to get with it..

[goats]

Guess we won't have Everton away next season then

No Leeds away on a wet cold Tuesday night early February with a train strike on aswell

[Harry Paget Flashman]

What ???

Don't you mean wassssupppp?

[JamesWales]

I lived in America for six months...I must say I had no idea what the phrase 'phoning it in' meant!

Learn something new every day.

That said I am no more likely to use that than yo say that someone is the 'winningest' team.

[Bobby Dandruff]

I couldn't be bothered to Google it. Does that mean I phoned it in?

Lol

[Bobby Dandruff]

Have you heard of Google? It's American, so probably not. Oh well.

Wow - you will never know how ignorant a thing that is to say. Especially to me!

[ToTaL ITK]

not getting much love eh! NYC.

[2b2bdoo]

What happened with that call in after?

[Whisperer]

What a stupid turn of phrase - gimme cockney slang everyday of the week.

[Carl Dale's Mole]

Who called who?

[William Treseder]

Who called who?

Who’s zooming who?

[North Cardiff Blue]

I'm fine darling. I just find willful ignorance slightly irritating.

It's a stupid phrase no one uses it in the UK.

[Brian]

This canard that "soccer" is an Americanism is getting old. When I was a kid, which was a very long time ago, my little friends didn't knock on the door and ask if I could come out to play "football." It was "soccer."

Here's the iconic David Coleman from 1969, not giving it a second thought:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPaYry5XOMQ

Great clip - you forget how bad the pitches were back then.

Other things that come back to you - one keeper in a flat cap, the other in baggy tracksuit bottoms, picking the ball up from a back pass, 3 around the ball at a kick off, and all the players in long sleeves. Loads fans come on the pitch after a goal - one nearly jogged to the halfway line with the players after the 3rd.

About 5 years before my time but lovely to see us batter someone and with a 'young John Toshack' as they referred to.

PS I've never heard of phoning it in either so not sure if I'm wilfully ignorant or just ignorant

[TWGL1]

I remember saying to a work colleague I was just going to “chill” for the weekend. She didn’t have a clue what I was talking about. It’s a normal UK saying now.

[jimmyscoular]

Great clip - you forget how bad the pitches were back then.

Other things that come back to you - one keeper in a flat cap, the other in baggy tracksuit bottoms, picking the ball up from a back pass, 3 around the ball at a kick off, and all the players in long sleeves. Loads fans come on the pitch after a goal - one nearly jogged to the halfway line with the players after the 3rd.

About 5 years before my time but lovely to see us batter someone and with a 'young John Toshack' as they referred to.

PS I've never heard of phoning it in either so not sure if I'm wilfully ignorant or just ignorant

Little me gave "Tosh" many a slap on the back before hoofing it back to the Grange End.