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Football talk is just like everything else. Sayings and cliches come and go. As long as I understand it, I can't really say that what other people say bothers me. "On the pitch", "on the grass", who cares? My daughter said "check out my drip" last night. I had to google it.
Most things that come out of the mouth of our commentary team usually annoy me and has done so for years.
Calling players by their first names or nicknames is a particular bugbear of mine.
Double Pivot
XG
A saying I miss ?
What a shot, it was a real humdinger !
Back of the net , if you really hit the back of the net, you’d miss !
Also, it could have hit the side or roof of the net and still have crossed the line. Or even the corner!Quote:
Originally Posted by SOXY BOY
xG. What is all that about. It's utter bollocks..
For about the 17 years from 1978 to 1995, before the internet hit in a big way, it was almost impossible for people like me living in North America to keep track of British soccer. American and Canadian media completely ignored it. Then, when it became available, I was quite entertained by some of the commentary innovations that had sprung up during my long absence. Things like "He fluffed his lines" and "They're asking questions" were new to me and sounded original. After hearing them thereafter about 50,000 times I realized they were probably clichés, new only to my starving ears.
Ian Darke a little while ago referred to a rare error on the part of a generally reliable defender as "a collector's item." I thought that was descriptive and clever. I have not heard it again, so perhaps it was original to him.
For my part I will always cherish the greatest cliché: "Toshack. Keegan. One-Nil!"
Goal contributions. Before the advent of fantasy football about 30 years ago, I don't think assists ever existed as something to count. Now they're counted alongside goals scored to created a total of goal contributions.
Commentators who say x comes inside another player
Dinosaur. Nothing wrong with it. It's not the 1970s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Its a marquee signing.. a marquee is a fukking tent!
Pundits and commentators, an example Robbie Savage, describing the game and players' positions.
Savage was discussing with another panel member a game they were covering and instead of saying the position, he used numbers.
Number nine and number ten have crept into the vocabulary of these people and most people can understand what they mean but Savage comes up with stuff like "I don't see him as an eight, he's more of a six".
Does everyone who watches football understand what he means and is it so hard to just say defensive right midfielder, left winger or right back?
I’m sure you mean ‘Toshack, Clark, One-Nil’, if not f*ck off !!!!!!:wave::hehe: and the hee hee was forcedQuote:
Originally Posted by jimmyscoular
One - NothingQuote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Quite, but I've a mind like a sewer rat and can't resist the odd giggle at it!Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Well, I certainly would have meant that if it had ever been a thing, which it never was because David Coleman never uttered it.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Doesn’t have to be a famous commentator to utter it surely, it rippled through the Ninian Park terraces and that’s good enough to be a football phrase for me :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyscoular
“Back in the game” when it’s 1-1 - like you were out of the game at 0-1Quote:
Originally Posted by Kerkyra Blue
Ha yeah I'm only messing, it is funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Fans are stating when they are discussing a player that I would have him as a quarterback
I first heard that about Sir Peter Whittingham.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rontomuk
I’d love some permanent monument for him.
An old one I think another one from Hugh John's - He didn't quite get enough purchase on that shot.
And a new one which my son says if someone is playing well - they are doing bits !
Yeah, I don't like that kind of over familiarity with players either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Even worse when a club has got 2 players with the same nickname, and it's not immediately obvious which one is being referred to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
Robbo anyone?
The over use of "Quality" to describe good gets on my tits but not as much as previously much mentioned "on the grass" and of course "In the building".