Football clichés that you can't stand

[bovril]

11 hours ago, Ecdysiast said:

2-0 is such a dangerous score-line

 

If it's Leicester City circa 2003, that's a fair point.

[coolhandfox]

What's not to love about football clichés

 

I've enjoy reading this thread

 

 

[SexyGammonFox]

'The two teams cancelled each other out' which is basically another way of saying 'that was a shite, boring half/game of football'.  

[Blue ROI]

"Needs to move to a big club"

[filbertway]

The best league in the world, when referring to the Premier league.

 

Anyone can beat anyone in the championship, making out that no other league has surprise wins.

[Koke]

Listen to football cliches podcast by Adam Hurrey. 100+ podcasts eposides on cliches. 

[jammie82uk]

1 hour ago, Pliskin said:

Any dribble that falls from Michael Owen’s mouth. 

Yeah he had some howlers 

 

“If there’s a bit of rain about, it makes the surface wet.”  “Whichever team scores more goals usually wins.” “That would’ve been a goal had it gone inside the post.”

[bmt]

People may disagree but the "harder to play against 10 men" one always winds me up 

[leicesterseddon]

Of any newly-promoted team that loses a game post-Xmas: “they’ve been worked out” 

[Walshy5]

33 minutes ago, bovril said:

If it's Leicester City circa 2003, that's a fair point.

Tbf if it's Leicester City this season then it's a fair point.

[gerblod]

11 hours ago, ftfagos said:

Any reference to the concept of a channel on a football pitch. I keep expecting to see the players falling into a water filled ditch. Jenas is one of the worst culprits.

Alternative descriptor?

[gerblod]

2 hours ago, The People's Hero said:

There’s quite a few on here who post in only two ‘languages’

 

2) aloof, patronising drivel with a thread of hatred running through it.

 

 

That's me - to a tee .

[RonnieTodger]

"It's about winning football matches" is creeping in. 

 

I don't know when it became unclear that we were all watching football.

[Jobyfox]

12 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

"The manager doesn't know his best eleven". Such a lazy and outdated comment.

I was actually thinking about this one.

 

It occurs to me that a Manager Not knowing his best starting eleven could often be a good thing. A predictable starting eleven could indicate a lack of squad depth 

[gerblod]

2 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

It makes me cringe when people refer to football or English football more specifically as 'our game'. It stopped being 'our game' over twenty years ago. 

Others would pinpoint it at a 1-0 defeat to the USA in the 1950 World Cup or being thrashed by Hungary 3-6 at Wembley in 1953 and the 7-1 loss in the return in Budapest the following year.

 

* Is "thrashed" a cliché word now?

[thursday_next]

Referring to Jamie Vardy - 'he only needs one chance to score'. Well, not as such, he in fact needs more chances than that to score. You can work that out by using statistics. 

[Scanchez]

'Ooh my little willy just stood up like a solider'.

SO overused.

Wait.

What are we talking about?

[BenTheFox]

15 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

"It's about winning football matches" is creeping in. 

 

I don't know when it became unclear that we were all watching football.

Paul Merson often says 'big football result' or 'important football result'. Urgh. 

[FoyleFox]

12 hours ago, Ecdysiast said:

2-0 is such a dangerous score-line

 

 

1 hour ago, bovril said:

If it's Leicester City circa 2003, that's a fair point.

LCFC circa any time, it's a fair point.

[MPH]

 ‘Plucky’ Leicester 

 

 

( or any other team for that matter).

 

 

 

If you’re not traditional big six and you have a good game you are plucky..

[BenTheFox]

Related to my first post but 'never change a winning team' annoys me. Yes, because the issues that you are going to encounter playing Burnley at home are exactly the same as those that you are likely to encounter playing Liverpool away. 

[MPH]

 

He’ll be disappointed with that one.

 

Really?

 

 

Peraonally I thought  skying it way over the crossbar is the perfect shot.. 

[David Hankey]

"We need a result today". Every game produces a "result" but not always the one we hope for!!

[SeCrEt FoX]

"we go again" 

[Corky]

12 hours ago, EnderbyFox said:

Thought of this earlier when I heard Five Live discussing the Wrexham owners attending a match and, naturally, "you couldn't have written this script" was brought up.