Football clichés that you can't stand

[sacreblueits442]

On 27/10/2021 at 07:53, BenTheFox said:

Almost every cliché mentioned on this thread now. 

 

Surprised to have not seen "he's hit that too well". 

...you obviously have not been reading the topic thoroughly!!!

  That one came up some time ago.

[BenTheFox]

Just now, sacreblueits442 said:

...you obviously have not been reading the topic thoroughly!!!

  That one came up some time ago.

I have since acknowledged it, so maybe you haven't been reading the topic thoroughly 

[Guest StevieLynex]

Nigel Pearson: 'In the sense that..'

[Guest StevieLynex]

Gary Lineker: 'Congradulations' instead of 'Congratulations'

Edited 28 October 2021 by StevieLynex

[Guest StevieLynex]

Low block

High press

[Corky]

Earn the right to play 

[Guest StevieLynex]

'I know it's a cliche, but we need to take each game as it comes'

 

'The lads'

 

 

[Kalacs_Orthopedic_Shoe]

Three of the best, he's made them pay...

Edited 28 October 2021 by Kalacs_Orthopedic_Shoe
Typo

[String fellow]

Won by the odd goal in 7. What's wrong with plain old 'won 4-3'? If a match has 7 goals, 4 of them are odd!

[leicesterlad1989]

"We go again.."

[Webbo]

Club "X" has knowledgeable fans. 

[baldeagle]

Limbs all over the place … you’re not at ****ing Dunkirk 

Edited 28 October 2021 by baldeagle

[TonyN11]

"and really he should be hitting the back of the net"

- Alan Shearer on a difficult chance that he probably would've missed himself.

[TonyN11]

On 26/10/2021 at 23:51, Grebfromgrebland said:

And Kasper Schmeichel kicks it out for a throw in.... that's the fourth time today.

"So unusual for Schmeichel to do that"  

[gerblod]

On 27/10/2021 at 11:40, ftfagos said:

Area would do me.

I don't think that "area" lends itself to the idea of an emerging pattern. Once the rhythm of the game is established, then players will use those pathways which offer the optimum opportunity to create goal chances. They're certainly not fixed. 

I agree that channel is a clumsy word -maybe openings is better.

[gerblod]

17 hours ago, FoxesAreBlue said:

Not so much a clicé but seems to be a trend that the football world has unwittingly picked up upon:

 

It’s the tendency of managers/players, when answering any interview or press conference, to begin every answer with a sharp intake of breath and say “Listen….” or “Look…”

Tony Blair answered every fookin question with the word "look" at the start. Patronising.

[Carl the Llama]

"They love their football here".  I should hope so, otherwise you've got a stadium filled with thousands of amnesia sufferers, scared and confused about how they got there.

[trugerkem]

Outstanding …. The amount of times several players in one game have been outstanding really annoys me… by definition only 1 can be outstanding surely 

[Kalacs_Orthopedic_Shoe]

"He had no right to score from there!"

 

 

 

Hello? Police please...

[Spudulike]

17 hours ago, FoxesAreBlue said:

Not so much a clicé but seems to be a trend that the football world has unwittingly picked up upon:

 

It’s the tendency of managers/players, when answering any interview or press conference, to begin every answer with a sharp intake of breath and say “Listen….” or “Look…”

 

It comes across to me as if they think they’re about to impart some heretofore unseen wisdom, that we, the mere mortals, could never have understood or spotted until they pointed it out.
 

Unfortunately what normally follow is the normal, media-trained non-comittal answer that we’ve all heard 1,000 times before.

Pretty sure this started as an Australian thing. Listen to their cricketers and you'll hear it over and over. Annoying. 

[ceredigion]

''The (insert name of club) Way.

[gerblod]

'Honours even' and, on here in particular, "let's be honest" - as if we all really believe what the poster is stating, despite the fact that x number of us have been arguing to the contrary for months.

[ianormondroyd]

19 hours ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

Oh come on, it was arguably the greatest, most dramatic in-game moment in PL history.

Martin Tyler's commentary on that is amazing. 

I know you'll see it from a professional angle as well as a fan. But I just hate it. I will concede that it may be the overuse of it more than the commentary itself.  But I still hate it!

[Guest StevieLynex]

Roy of the Rovers stuff

Playing through the lines/ in the channels/ gullies (Ron Atkinson)

Good situations (Glenn Hoddle)

Laying siege

Weld cup (instead of World Cup) said by Cockney pundits

Punditry

Lawro/Keano/Wrightie

David versus Goliath

The twelfth man (fans)

Fans favourite

Hit the woodwork

[Guest StevieLynex]

19 hours ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

Oh come on, it was arguably the greatest, most dramatic in-game moment in PL history.

Martin Tyler's commentary on that is amazing. 

Nowhere near as good as this Geoff: