Annoying words or phrases that have crept into football media vocabulary

[boots60]

23 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Along with "easy-osy", "spotter's badge" and "he's done 'im for fun".

Big Ron was the Godfather of annoying phrases. A natural master of bullshit. 

By the way, he nicked easy Osy off Archie McPherson.

[HybridFox]

Brendan Rodgers special - character

[HereBeFoxes]

5 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

"He's come in and galvanised them"

 

I'd love to see that in reality - new manager turns up with a massive electroplating vat and coats all the players in zinc. 

[limeydale]

On 3/21/2017 at 03:07, Arriba Los Zorros said:

So many strange sayings specific to football!:

 

a 'tidy' player  -always puts the washing up away as he does it?

'ponderous' midfielders - spend half time studying the works of Sartre?

a 'cultured' left foot - just wtf? also they only ever say it about left feet for some reason

teams having a 'cutting edge'

 

 

Just means it's been in into some untoward places.

[Tuna]

55 minutes ago, boots60 said:

Big Ron was the Godfather of annoying phrases. A natural master of bullshit. 

By the way, he nicked easy Osy off Archie McPherson.

And a massive racist.

[RatbyBlue]

"He could open a tin of peas with that left foot."

 

This was often did of Kenny Samson as I recall

[Bert]

Cheers Geoff 

[bovril]

17 hours ago, TK95 said:

Brendan Rodgers special - character

Basically anything Brendan Rodgers says.

[Facecloth]

53 minutes ago, bovril said:

Basically anything Brendan Rodgers says.

Basically Brendan Rodgers.

[SystonFox]

16 hours ago, Bert said:

Cheers Geoff 

Cheers Geoff

[Facecloth]

Genuine pace

[HybridFox]

The players had clearly downed their tools

[Donut]

A manager being "given his P45"

 

FFS just say sacked.

[MC Prussian]

Parking the bus.

 

American/Canadian sports broadcasters who still spell Leicester "Lie-chester" and brag about the "Premiere League".

Edited 24 March 2017 by MC Prussian

[foxile5]

3 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

Parking the bus.

 

American/Canadian sports broadcasters who still spell Leicester "Lie-chester" and brag about the "Premiere League".

 

The more annoying aspect of that is American fan-boys that simper and pander, adopting NFL as a sport and using the terming 'winningest'. They could not give a flying hoot about 'soccer', yet we're desperate for American attention. This whole NFL games in London...it's awful.

[sylofox]

Fairy-tale and the fairy-tale continues.

 

No we won the league it was no made up story.

[Izzy]

Talksport talking about Scotland's 'identity' under Strachan 

[Corky]

18 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Talksport talking about Scotland's 'identity' under Strachan 

They're shit, he's shit too. Can't have been a long conversation unless Jim White was purring over the Wee Man and what a great job he's doing in drawing at home to Canada in front of five people.

[Tuna]

How about 'learn their trade' referring to a player's fledgling career.

 

Learning their trade? What a load of old bollocks. It's hardly training to be a plumber or electrician.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

When somebody prolific scores a goal and commentators across the board without fail purr "who else?" or if someone is facing their former club / returning from injury "it had to be!"

 

Next time ibrahimovic or Aguero bag, I guarantee.

[davieG]

Player trading.

[ALC Fox]

On 21/03/2017 at 09:55, foxile5 said:

This is something that has snuck in over the last few years and I feel is part of this weird Americanisation of sports that we're going through. Referring to teams (collectives) as individuals.

 

Leicester is doing well this season.

 

It doesn't work. It's grammatically incorrect. If you're referring to us a singular then the correct way of addressing us beyond that would be 'it', as follows :

 

Leicester is doing well this season. It is top of the league.

 

It should be :

 

Leicester are doing well this season. They are top of the league.

 

We would all refer to our team as 'us' or 'they' so it follows that the correct article should be 'are'. It should never be Leicester is. 

Amen

[ALC Fox]

When numbers are involved and those who say them don't know the exact number it's always:

 

'They've been in great form over the last 4 or 5 games.'

 

I'm pretty sure Mahrez was guilty of it recently when he referred to us being in '14th-15th' place. We're in 15th mate, sort it out.

[Stadt]

Loads of posts in this thread are people moaning about the actual names of things, I understand annoying synonyms or cliches but 'high press', what else do you call it 'closing down high up the pitch'?

[foxile5]

6 minutes ago, Wookie said:

Loads of posts in this thread are people moaning about the actual names of things, I understand annoying synonyms or cliches but 'high press', what else do you call it 'closing down high up the pitch'?

I think it's the development of 'high press' as some kind of brand name, proper noun.

 

They deploy the 'high press'. It's another move towards Americanising sports (and I'm beating that drum in this thread). Like 'The Flea Flicker' or 'The Hail Mary', the 'High Press' is some move towards branding tactical decisions.

 

There's nothing wrong with the sentence 'Leicester try and close down players in their own half'....absolutely nothing. Why do we need to invent a term to suit the sentence 'Leicester play the high press'.