Football phrases that grinds your gears

'fraud' and 'charlatan' to describe any manager not doing well. Neither seem to accurately capture what exactly the person is trying to say.

In recent years there's been an emergence of double pivot, metronome and clutch, which I don't like
 
Anything Martin Tyler says.

And “he’s got that in his locker”. How the feck do keep a thirty yard volley in your locker?

oh and “What a strike”. It’s a shot, he’s not striking/lighting a match ffs!
 
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So basically anything said more than once applies to this thread.

Yous lot must be a bundle of laughs:D
 
Steve Bruce said:
So basically anything said more than once applies to this thread.

Yous lot must be a bundle of laughs:D
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I hope you didn't make those 381 posts since yesterday, and picked that username to troll us :wenger:
 
TheScriptwriter said:
"They've bottled it" or "They are bottlers".
Used all the time these days and I absolutely hate it.
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You should have gone all the way and included bottle job but you bottled it.

Should of instead of should have. Its have you cnuts not of.
 
Melville Red said:
Anything Martin Tyler says.

And “he’s got that in his locker”. How the feck do keep a thirty yard volley in your locker?

oh and “What a strike”. It’s a shot, he’s not striking/lighting a match ffs!
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Agree with anything Tyler says, especially:

“AND ITS LIVE!”
 
"Pashun, fite, desiyah"

Anytime a commentator implies that a team is losing because they don't have the right mentality, not because they might simply be shite.
 
'Plays for the shirt'

'If anyone deserves more time, it is him'.

'It is a process and I am willing to be patient'
 
'The lads are working hard'

Boils my pish.
 
‘Taking one for the team’ in other words cheating by stopping an attacking movement. City do it all the time, usually Fernandinho, but he rarely gets booked or he’d only play 8 games a season. United do it too and it on a par with diving for me. They should introduce a 15minute sin bin for that offence and watch how it will stop it.
 
koop said:
Close but no cigar.

Heard it in FIFA like 10 years ago, still haven't been bothered to google it and find out what it means.
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Pretty common phrase, I use it when one of my bets takes a bad beat - often :lol:
 
Narrative
Straw man
Agenda

Never seen them used so much anywhere in life as on this forum
 
Joining into the grumpfest. My pet hate (under LVG) was the word 'Philosophy'.
 
Zlatan 7 said:
Narrative
Straw man
Agenda

Never seen them used so much anywhere in life as on this forum
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And when someone is trying to get his or her point across to someone, assured of their own righteousness:

"Give your head a wobble."

And when he or she is the only sane view in a sea of idiocy:

"State of this place."
 
When commentators add an ‘s’ at the end of players names, for example when they say ‘your Lampards, your Gerrard’s, your Pirlos’ etc. Why? is there more than one of them?
 
Commentators at the start of games "Mata will be the creative force in midfield".

And anything Peter Drury says.
 
“Grinds your gears” :)

Unless referring to a convicted bunco artist, I ignore anyone who uses the word “fraud”.
 
“He’s box office”

“They’re a side you’d pay to watch”

“I thought he played well, to be completely honest with you.”
 
"goals win games"

Yes I know it's technically true but it's constantly used as a defense of rubbish footballers who happen to have decent goal records (Lukaku, Batahauyi etc). What people don't factor is for one goal they get they probably break up about 10+ attacks due to a poor touch or bad movement meaning a high number of opportunities to get said goals are pissed away largely because of them.
 
"2-0 is a dangerous scoreline/lead" - No it's not, it's a very good position to find yourselves in.

"Number 6" (when talking about midfielders) - It's a central defender's number. Paul Pogba is wrong.

"The beautiful game" - If you were Cantona or maybe someone like Pirlo you could get away with saying it, if you're not don't
 
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