No 1 In the building . wtf
You would never hear a foreign coach say it .
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No 1 In the building . wtf
You would never hear a foreign coach say it .
“at his near post” Rob Green did a great series on goalkeeping and debunked the shouldn’t be beaten at ….
Hugh Johns , HTV on a Sunday afternoon, used to always say, “that a shot was adjacent” , still does my tits in now.
The game being referred to as a product
Sign of my age I'm sure, but modern day phrases that make it sound like things that have been around for ages are new concepts do my head in - "between the lines", "compact" and "low block" when referring to defending being examples.
"offensive' instead of attacking. An awful Americanism. 'Offensive' means something completely different !!!
The press.
Bad day at the office.
Get it over the line (transfers or contracts).
Six-pointer.
They're (insert players name) are 'back on the grass'.
It's fuucking called training you fannies.
I'll translate (as if you needed me to) Between the lines- Passing the ball forward.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Low Block-Defending a lead and holding on for dear life.
Compact-Three midfielders within touching distance of the central defenders.
All bollocks really........
No two for me is back on the grass as has been mentioned .
TransitionQuote:
Originally Posted by Kerkyra Blue
Travel
Look after the ball
Professional foul: an act that any old clogger playing Sunday football can commit.
Technical area: nothing technical about it
Unplayable: in normal English it means unable to be played rather than be played against efficiently.
Could have scored a hat-trick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kerkyra Blue
Should have scored at least x goals in the 1st half
Not so much a phrase, but it winds me up when Gary Neville does another one of his over-dramatic groans when a defender/goalie makes a mistake.
‘The City are 7 down’
Going through the protocols along with this one and back on the grassQuote:
Originally Posted by Kerkyra Blue
It always seemed like David Brent was talking when Morison was giving an update at a press conference
Most of this is all bollocks, most footballers don’t have the ability to think to deeply about instructions
Usually the simple things like if you got it keep it and if you lose it get it back would suffice for a team talk
and the old favourite that probably a decent manager would have said to Ng after starting him on Tuesday
“Murphy is a tricky player, let him know you’re there”
I'm getting nostalgic for 'over the moon' and 'sick as a parrot'!
Anyone else old enough to remember when players didn’t “bring the ball under their spell”, they controlled it?
The debate of who’s ‘world class’. It’s a meaningless phrase - he’s played in a World Cup, is that world class? Meaningless
Nice one, Splotty.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
StT.
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Won a penalty / foul.
Simulation.
All different ways of saying cheating.
StT.
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"Seriously adjacent" :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
In the building
He does what it says on the tin 😡😡😡
When a player is returning from injury
He’s back on the grass 😡😡😡
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