Footballing Buzz Words

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  1. kenbolka

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    What words used overly frequently in the game really grind your gears?

    For me the worst has to be the phrase 'in this moment' a popular one among foreign managers it seems and I'm not totally sure why but something about it really annoys me.
     
    kenbolka, Mar 23, 2018
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    Not keen on the use of 'the group'

    Also 'getting a result'...... there is always a result

    Transition what the f is this......... in my day it was getting the ball forward
     
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    ‘I can’t speculate on the future of my position’ is one a lot of managers use. oddly, they end up being sacked a few weeks later.

    ‘Whipping Boys’ is the other one. Watford were known as them in the 99/00 season but we still raised a few brows.
     
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  4. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

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    “(Insert name of stadium) is a difficult place to come to”, especially when it patently isn’t as in “The Stadium of Light is a difficult place to come to”.
     
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    I'm still not sure what a pocket is... but lots of good players seem to find them on the pitch
     
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    Wages.
     
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    oh, and a pocket is a small pouch either on the inside or outside of various articles of clothing designed to carry small objects. You're welcome.
     
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    Well, he was entitled to go down there, so for me it’s a clear penalty.

    Or

    He had to bring him down there. Took one for the team. Good play.
     
    kVA, Mar 24, 2018
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    I tuned into the Holland vs England match last night for a couple of minutes. We were in or around our 18 yard box passing between defenders and the keeper before hoofing the ball 70 yards up the pitch at which point the commentator said something along the lines of ‘England really pass it around well to work it up the pitch’. I switched the TV off.
     
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    At this football club. Say club everyone knows you are talking about football.
    Plurals: Your Man Citys,your Harry Kanes.
    Wretched.
     
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    From radio commentary:

    "Such and such a team are playing from right to left".

    What does that even mean, unless you happen to know where in the stadium the commentator is sitting?
     
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    This one I have neve got my head round
     
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    The use of the past perfect instead of the past participle. "He has gave the ball away too cheaply" "He has went to ground too easily".
     
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    Describing a players run as "scampering forward" he's not a bloody puppy.
    Saying "he can hang in the air"...No he can't, he jumps, gravity takes over, he comes down at the same speed as every other human being.
    Entitled to go down...No that's called diving.
    This one is an absolute 6 pointer...No, 3 is still the maximum.
    Referees assistant...Bloody lino.
     
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    Give that man a coconut! This is SO ******* annoying. WTF is wrong with “squad”, or “team” (depending on the context)?
     
    Keighley, Mar 24, 2018
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    That’s just bad grammar.
     
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    Alan Shearer: "He's fell over".
     
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    'Managing the game' (= 'it is now all going to get thoroughly boring').
     
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    Players being interviewed and starting their responses with "Obviously..."

    And then liberally sprinkling their entire statements with the same word.
     
    Bring Back Standing, Mar 24, 2018
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    Someone on here admonished me earlier season for calling a Press Conference a ‘presser’ and rightly so.

    I also hate the term ‘two banks of four’.
     
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    In interviews, Scientists start every answer with "So...". Equally irritating.
     
    Mollyboo, Mar 24, 2018
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    "He's not that kind of player..." when "he" invariably is.
     
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    Think that may have been me, because that really grinds my gears too.
     
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    'Not for me, Clive'.
     
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    When any player does something good, ie. a raking 50 yard pass, a tap-in from 2 yards or a ball winning tackle, it makes me want to throw old people under a bus when we're told "That's what he does." We know! We just saw him do it!!

    It doesn't really apply to football but in cricket, say, after a batsman has elegantly driven the ball for four the commentator will say "What a marvellous cricket shot." Why add the sports name? It was hardly a great basketball shot! The same happens in tennis, baseball and other bat/racquet based sports. Hrrrmph.
     
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    Using the expression 'grinds my gears'. It's not even a real expression, just something Peter Griffin used on one episode only.
     
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    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

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    “To be fair...”
     
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    At the end of the day........................ is night? Is tomorrow?
     
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    it's just 'Banter' not my favourite either................just an excuse to be abusive whilst dressing it up as a bit of a laugh

    Got a good engine ........... no he's just fitter and more commited than others on the pitch
     
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    Free hit.
    Box to box.
    Baller.
    Top top player.
    Carrying a knock - merging into trying to run it off.
     
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    project
     
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    I quite like it, people know what I mean when I say it and I guess that makes it an expression
     
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    Up top

    It's bl00dy up front, and it always has been.
     
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    All reference to players giving 110% - or, indeed, anything over 100%...
     
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    As someone who named their child after one of the characters, you're hardly the one to talk about taking references from FG and running with them.
     
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