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Football phrases that grinds your gears
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The commentator on motd just said messers for the 3 Leicester players coming on.
Uneccesary pluralusation of something that is a single entity....
"Man Utd need to be careful about the teams on their tail... Your Leicesters, Liverpools and Chelseas".
Just say Leicester, Liverpool and Chelsea.
"Man Utd need to be careful about the teams on their tail... Your Leicesters, Liverpools and Chelseas".
Just say Leicester, Liverpool and Chelsea.
I never understood this, seems to happen in football mostly with your Nevilles, your Carraghers, your Shearers
Moyes: "Im a winner its what I do" Deluded or what!
Fluid football
Low block
False 9
Heavy metal football
Gegenpress
These modern terms grind my gears. I'm a 4-4-2 fan. My football team consists of tall strong bastards at the back, speedy wingers that could compete with cheetah in 100m olympics for both sides and a number 9 that will score an acrobatic diving header even it if breaks his nose.
Low block
False 9
Heavy metal football
Gegenpress
These modern terms grind my gears. I'm a 4-4-2 fan. My football team consists of tall strong bastards at the back, speedy wingers that could compete with cheetah in 100m olympics for both sides and a number 9 that will score an acrobatic diving header even it if breaks his nose.
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Anything that comes out of Michael Owen's mouth.
Have some respect mate. Moyes is the boss who proves you don't need trophies to be a winner but he is a winner.
And yes somehow he was manager of the fecking decade when Ferguson was still managing. The mind boggles.
All of that plus cringey hipster shite like Trequarista and Fantastista. A mate of mine actually said the latter out loud one night, he got a slap in the back of the head.
Well done, he's 41
Any time ball is added after a manager to describe their football
Sarri-ball
Ole-ball
Potter-ball
Sarri-ball
Ole-ball
Potter-ball
Yes my man, that’s my kind of team
Michael-BallAny time ball is added after a manager to describe their football
Sarri-ball
Ole-ball
Potter-ball
Pivot. Has to be the worst, it’s two defensive mids ffs..
Hit with little or no backlift
"In this day and age"
"Pulling the strings"
"Powerhouse"
Whenever non-Spanish speakers say "Barthelona"
People who call Fred "Fredge"
"He's off for an early shower"
"Knocking on the door" / "They're starting to ask some serious questions now"
Anything with "kitchen sink" in it
"Pulling the strings"
"Powerhouse"
Whenever non-Spanish speakers say "Barthelona"
People who call Fred "Fredge"
"He's off for an early shower"
"Knocking on the door" / "They're starting to ask some serious questions now"
Anything with "kitchen sink" in it
Who are the players called false 9 who grind your gears?
Ah makes sense, cheers
Martial is false 9. And also false 10 and 11.
This annoys me too.
It's like two deeper lying midfielders are a brand new concept never seen before Pep et al.
A double pivot is just two deeper lying midfielders and has been around for decades, I swear without ever being called a double pivot until Pep came along.
that’s the best one.
Wow do any of you like football and the discussion around it at all? Don't be such a crumpet
That's not really a saying or phrase is it? That's a tactical decision.
Oi you, don't be throwing in Trequarista to that list. It's a classic Italian football term.
"It's like a game of chess", when a lack of ideas is more likely the cause of inaction than managers being overly cerebral.
Yeah and when speaking in Italian it's fine, but the problem is when people drop it into an English sentence about football. It's jarring.
Have some respect mate. Moyes is the boss who proves you don't need trophies to be a winner but he is a winner.
And yes somehow he was manager of the fecking decade when Ferguson was still managing. The mind boggles.
It certainly does.Another one: David Pleat from about 30 years ago. 'England are playing with wide channels, but Waddle is playing a narrow width.' Me and my uncle were pissing ourselves at the time about that. He never explained what he meant to Motson either.
Agree with ‘pivot’. Don’t know when that started to become a thing. I heard Glen Hoddle say ‘patterns of play’ last night; another one that seems to irrationally irritate me
Fine margins has crept in lately as well
I've been annoyed by it since Fabregas. But right now Firmi no goal takes the top spot.
Have some respect mate. Moyes is the boss who proves you don't need trophies to be a whiner but he is a whiner.
And yes somehow he was manager of the fecking decade when Ferguson was still managing. The mind boggles.
Very interesting to see how the English-phrases differ from the German ones.
A very popular football phrase in Germany is:
[After a tough draw] ..."it doesn't matter, if you want to win the title, you have to beat everyone." - which is wrong of course. You only have to beat the teams you get drawn. Such a horrible, dense phrase.
A very popular football phrase in Germany is:
[After a tough draw] ..."it doesn't matter, if you want to win the title, you have to beat everyone." - which is wrong of course. You only have to beat the teams you get drawn. Such a horrible, dense phrase.
"Nothing doing"
What
What
Not a specific phrase but literally anything Savage says in commentary.
He sounds like a clueless cliche generating machine.
If someone shoots and misses, they should have passed according to Robbie. Conversely in an almost identical situation if they pass and it doesn't lead to a goal they should have shot.
Oh and the classic he should be saving that whenever a keeper misses a save. Yeah no shit Rob.
He sounds like a clueless cliche generating machine.
If someone shoots and misses, they should have passed according to Robbie. Conversely in an almost identical situation if they pass and it doesn't lead to a goal they should have shot.
Oh and the classic he should be saving that whenever a keeper misses a save. Yeah no shit Rob.
Because I heard it again very recently, I will repost my post in here from 10.2019...
‘Saved by the post / crossbar / woodwork...’
The woodwork never saves a GK or a team, it doesn’t keep the ball out. If there were no posts & a ball went over the location where the post would be, it’s just a goal kick. Same thing with an imaginary crossbar (harder to imagine & recreate, though).
Remove them & shots that cross those intersection points are just goal kicks.
‘Saved by the post / crossbar / woodwork...’
The woodwork never saves a GK or a team, it doesn’t keep the ball out. If there were no posts & a ball went over the location where the post would be, it’s just a goal kick. Same thing with an imaginary crossbar (harder to imagine & recreate, though).
Remove them & shots that cross those intersection points are just goal kicks.
I think the phrase came in just before Pep, roughly around when everyone started playing 4-2-3-1 in the mid-2000s, and was often used to describe how the likes of Benitez and Mourinho would set up in that formation.
But aye, I'm not a massive fan of positions getting renamed, as part of a tactical analysis subculture, when there are perfectly fine terms already in use.
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