What I want to know is when and why did something happening consecutively become "on the bounce"? For the first fifty years of my life it was "in a row" or "on the trot", now it's on the bounce and it's driving me mad!

Also, why can't I say that my team has been playing boring, negative football for about a decade now - it's the truth. Until Russell Slade came along I was very much in the as long as we win I don't care camp, but I'm not any more - modern Cardiff City sides have done that to me.