Modern Football Terminology You Hate !

[Tricky Dicky]

Anything coined by Paul Merson, whose grasp of English is tenuous at best, e.g. "Worldy" or "hit the beans on toast"

 

[BearwoodSeagull]

Box to box

In the hole

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Anything coined by Paul Merson, whose grasp of English is tenuous at best, e.g. "Worldy" or "hit the beans on toast"

What's a 'worldy' meant to mean?

 

[KZNSeagull]

Breaking News - Rooney trains with Man United this morning. And all other non-news on SSN,

 

[Tricky Dicky]

What's a 'worldy' meant to mean?

World class, usually as in a goal in Mers-speak. Unfortunately that one has started to appear elsewhere now. Stop it, stop it now.

 

[LA1972]

Ninety million pound cup final

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Any time someone (commentator, player, person down the pub) casually mentions a competition including its sponsor name.

E.g. "Hopefully we can win the Barclays Premier League this year". It's not just the corporatisation, it just sounds so unnatural.

 

[Mowgli37]

He had every right to go down.

When are you EVER "entitled" to go down?? Hate it when commentators say this, the player has either been fouled or he hasn't

 

[Charles 'Charley' Charles]

"Squeaky bum time" there also seems to be an awful lot more "6 pointers" these days, both highly irritating. The thing I find most annoying though is the general hyping up of matches you would do anything to avoid. "Here we are for Stoke vs Sunderland in what promises to be an interesting match. Both teams having players who want to make the Norway squad announced in 3 months time" etc.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Six pointer.

Not sure when this came out but I cringe every time I hear it.
Try explaining to a nine year what a six pointer means.

 

[Southern Toon]

Comics reporting a clubs about to sign the next wonderkid, wtf is a wonderkid.

 

[Justice]

Grass ****ing roots level for some reason this really get on my goat.

 

[One Love]

FFP. It should stipulate on who it as fair to.

Very fair to the teams relegated from the Prem as it means they can sign all the players no-one else can afford.

 

[GT49er]

Where to start?

Use of the following phrases:

tagging Football Club onto the name of any club often multiple times in the same sentence.

This, this, this!

We know Anytown United is a bl**dy football club, not the model sailing boat club or the bridge club!

This may be an attempt by the semi-erudite to eliminate the ubiquitous "yer know" for which footballers have rightly been lambasted in the past, but as far as I'm concerned, bring back "yer know" any day!

 

[Philzo-93]

Sepp Blatter

 

[Brovion]

Using the team noun as a singular: "Brighton IS expected to do well this year" rather than "Brighton ARE expected to do well this year" (To carry on an argument from the 'Grammar Slam' thread!)

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

That goal was brought to you by Budweiser and is now available on iTunes.

 

[GoingUp]

Bant/Banter

'The lads have great bant'

'The bant is great in the changing rooms'

Or

Tekkers

'The lad has great tekkers'

 

[LA1972]

"Congratulations Qatar you will be holding the World Cup"

 

[perth seagull]

"Project". This word was used in Europe more and rarely in England, but is now regularly applied to English clubs.