Annoying words or phrases that have crept into football media vocabulary

[lildave3]

2 hours ago, foxile5 said:

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'.

Because it's quicker and means exactly the same thing? 

Not that I've ever heard anyone say 'they play the high press' in my life before though. 

[Donut]

1 hour ago, lildave3 said:

Because it's quicker and means exactly the same thing? 

Not that I've ever heard anyone say 'they play the high press' in my life before though. 

Its literally used all the time, its one of the in fashion terms.

 

Teams not using a certain pressing strategy, theyre using "the high press"

 

as in "the high press registered trademark"

 

its proper shit.

[Wymsey]

A rather old and now-rarely expressed word in the game now, but "bouncebackability".

 

Fairly certain that it was Iain Dowie who used this term when he was a boss ages ago?

Edited 25 March 2017 by Wymeswold fox

[foxes21]

gegen pressing.

running around the pitch really doesn't need a fancy name.

[Lovejoy]

'He's not that type of player'. Has that one been said?

[GaelicFox]

The pocket 

 

there is NO fecking pocket on a football pitch 

[Goober]

Hoddle is the king of using made up, bullshit phrases to make himself seem clever

[FoxesDeb]

It annoys me when people refer to 'the park'. It's a pitch.

[Izzy]

4 hours ago, GaelicFox said:

The pocket 

 

there is NO fecking pocket on a football pitch 

Is the pocket the same as the hole? 

Both bollux terms...

[Izzy]

'Heat maps' can do one as well 

[foxile5]

On 25/03/2017 at 12:19, lildave3 said:

Because it's quicker and means exactly the same thing? 

Not that I've ever heard anyone say 'they play the high press' in my life before though. 

Just because it is quicker doesn't make it any less annoying. Why does communication need to be distilled down into bare bones? Are you not capable of understanding the sentence I provided? Are the extra seconds of that much value to the commentator and the viewer? If so then both parties need to reassess how they spend their time. 

 

'the high press' has only come to prominence over the last eighteen months, how did we get by before hand? How on earth did MotD ever fit itself into its run time?

 

 

[potter3]

28 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

'Heat maps' can do one as well 

What else do you want them to be called?

[StanSP]

38 minutes ago, potter3 said:

What else do you want them to be called?

think it's more to do with the fact that they're not that important and are just over-used now. 

[ithuriel]

Foot fall progression = heat maps

Ability plussing          = learning their trade

Shit                           = Rashford 

[Lovejoy]

"They're a team that likes to play football". As opposed to what, Cricket!?

[Lovejoy]

"He's got a sweet left foot". Why does no one ever have a sweet right foot?

[PegguyArphexad]

"World-class"

[SystonFox]

On 26/03/2017 at 12:34, GaelicFox said:

The pocket 

 

there is NO fecking pocket on a football pitch 

Ngolos pocket? 

[Wymsey]

Video camera technology.

[Tuna]

At sixes and sevens. What does it even mean?

[ajthefox]

16 minutes ago, Tuna said:

At sixes and sevens. What does it even mean?

Have you never heard that saying outside of football? 

 

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/sixes-and-sevens.html

 

Means the same thing on the pitch as it does off it.

Edited 27 March 2017 by ajthefox

[RonnieTodger]

Luckily I'm at an age now that doesn't involve mates watching Soccer AM, but I put it on the other day with Tom & Serge being on there. 

My god it's embarrassing. Helen is surely in her mid 40s now and the show is still trying to crowbar stupid buzzwords into teenage fans' vocabularies. "Tekkers, swaz and top bins". Grow up.

Also anyone that is quick to point out an English player cheating as if we're not all aware. Danny Mills would say something like "Costa would be lambasted for that!" then lambasts the diving Englishman. 

 

 

Edited 28 March 2017 by RonnieTodger

[foxile5]

39 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Luckily I'm at an age now that doesn't involve mates watching Soccer AM, but I put it on the other day with Tom & Serge being on there. 

My god it's embarrassing. Helen is surely in her mid 40s now and the show is still trying to crowbar stupid buzzwords into teenage fans' vocabularies. "Tekkers, swaz and top bins". Grow up.

Also anyone that is quick to point out an English player cheating as if we're not all aware. Danny Mills would say something like "Costa would be lambasted for that!" then lambasts the diving Englishman. 

 

 

I read that in the voice of your avatar.

[MPH]

'it's a a game of two halves'

 

 

 

Well thank goodness for that. 1/4s would be annoying and can you imagine the players playing non stop?

[casablancas]

And he puts it in the top bin

 

hate it.