Modern Football Terminology You Hate !

[Harry H]

"Holding role in front of the back four."
Why can't you just have defenders who can defend

 

[Harry H]

The group and other shite that comes out of brendan rogers mouth

He seems a decent enough bloke to me.

 

[BadFish]

Where to start?


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

Do they do that in the uk too? They do it over here to it drives me nuts. We know they are a football club you are talking about football you don't need to remind us. We are not going to suddenly think 'oh is he talking about the Hawthorn bridge club?' ****ing nuggets.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

There or thereabouts? Where, exactly?

 

[yxee]

"he put in a shift"

 

[clapham_gull]

I think this thread has dipped into Football Clichés slightly which wasn't the point. It's always had that...

I was really referring to things like...

Swansea/Reading (delete where applicable) are a breath of fresh air to the Premiership. They play the game in the right way.

Or when Swansea beat Arsenal it makes back page headlines as if San Marino have beaten Brazil.

 

[Baldseagull]

"simulation" used to be called diving and cheating.

 

[smudge]

Pretty much anything that comes out of Brendan Rodgers gob, but if I had to chose one, it's when he trots out the old, "Liverpool supporters are an intelligent bunch who understand their football & what we're trying to achieve here".
Well David chuffing Brent, if they were that intelligent they'd realise just what a patronizing berk you are!
(And breathe).

 

[atfc village]

Curtain raiser of The season,any thing Andy Townsend says.

 

[theboybilly]

'Top, top' as in top, top player/side.
'Worked his/their socks off'
'Chelsea's buying power'.......it's Abramovich's money

 

[Sam-]

Fluffed lines.

Something our would be goal scorers are often accused of having done.

 

[pastafarian]

EPL (it isn't)

EPL is quite horrendous,its Americanism lazy armchair supporting twit crap at its very worst.
I truly believe anyone using this horrible term to describe the top tier on this site should have an automatic 24 hour ban......and get a spanking

 

[Farehamseagull]

Project.

Brand.

FFP.

Budget.

The greatest league in the world.

Russian/American/UAE billionaire owner.

He's not that kind of player.

 

[Farehamseagull]

False number 9.

The Liverpool/Arsenal/West Ham/Tottenham etc 'way'.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

It’s probably about to get worse. NBC Sports will start live coverage of all Premiership games next week in the States – they’ve lined up Lee Dixon and Graham Le Saux as commentators with Lineker as a special contributor. Wait until they start regurgitating the Americanisms they’ve picked up.

 

[Beach Hut]

We are being weaned onto Soccer etc as Junior is in Kansas for the next two years on a Soccer Scholarship, very frustrating trying to understand all these new meanings.

 

[carlzeiss]

" These things even them selves out over the course of a season "

as an excuse of a bad decision

 

[Slippery Seagull]

'He likes to play football'.

Or

'He knows where the net is'

Both of the above make me feel violated

 

[lighthouse]

'Too close to call'

Over used phrase in political matters but creeping into football commentary. Just say it could be a draw!!

 

[bhawoddy]

Honest bunch, last third, put in a shift..........