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Football phrases that grinds your gears
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Keown on Channel 4 just now: “he plays the game with a twinkle in his eye”.
Get to feck.
Get to feck.
This is exceptional. And I expected it to be shit.
"Bodied"
"They deserved more today"
"They lost but controlled the match"
"They lost but controlled the match"
Michael Owen just did this one! ‘Harry hit it too well. Better to just mishit it…’
The Gerard’s, the Scholesy’s, the Lampards etc, just say players like FFS, just grinds my gears massively.
I've always been confused as to why people say this. There's only one of those players in the context of top level professional football.
Michael Owen often talks about purposefully scuffing shots slightly to fool the keeper.
Owen talks some nonsense to be fair
Believe what you like but it's a technique he says he used to practice, especially from close range.
Ok didn’t know that. Still talks platitudinous nonsense most the time in my view, but maybe he gets a pass on that one…
"the keeper was beaten all ends up" whenever the ball hits the post, despite the keepers outstretched hand probably saving the shot if it was on target.
And yeah I agree with you and @cyberman in general. He does talk a lot of bollocks but he knows about scoring goals.
Yeah, no denying that.
Yeah, just say their names. I’ve heard another one like “the Bayerns, Barcas and Madrids”. How many Bayern Munich or Real Madrid sides are there.
Just say “top clubs” or name them properly.Oh it's one of the funniest things I've ever read. There are multiple articles and I'm crease up everytime.
‘The’ Arsenal
Without the Arsenal, we would have never gotten this gem, so I'll have to disagree
Without the Arsenal, we would have never gotten this gem, so I'll have to disagree
He hit it too well
Calling transfer news a smokescreen.
Currently it's got to be 'xG', but typically it's anytime a new word/name is introduced for a system that has existed for ages and was described without any problem for years. Often feels like those using the new term think it's a recently conceived breakthrough in football analytics or strategy. E.g. 'low block'.
'he has a high ceiling'
He's a football player, not a Georgian townhouse.
It's a stupid phrase that means bugger all and makes no sense.
People need to Stop using it.
He's a football player, not a Georgian townhouse.
It's a stupid phrase that means bugger all and makes no sense.
People need to Stop using it.
What? I like that one. It makes perfect sense and is a perfectly good way to describe a player's potential. Obviously it's always pure guesswork so there's almost never any real meaning behind it apart from the person who saying it's gut feeling, but it's still a good descriptor of potential. Vague, but good.
What do you have against xG?
Spelling. Should be eG.
Magnus Carlsen has really let himself goWithout the Arsenal, we would have never gotten this gem, so I'll have to disagree
When somebody shoots from a distance and the commentator states "he was never gonna score from there". Yet the player is well capable and has scored from there or further out on many occasions.
This one: "what would Pep do??"
No one has a ceiling.
Your are limiting that player by claiming they have a 'ceiling'.
There's no such thing. How does one define a ceiling? As you say it's pure guesswork, so it means absolutely nothing.
It's bollocks and grinds my gears proper.
Describing blatant cheating as, "clever/dark arts"
I think football is better evaluated with lexicon rather than mathematics. Statistical modelling may provide some insight but it requires human thought and an articulated evaluation in order to have any real value, if any value at all.
People seem to think of xG as the indicator/predictor of success these days, which to me is the same as saying a player covering the most ground is most influential. It could sometimes be true, but it could also be an indicator of poor positioning. It's mainly a TV analysis gimmick in my eyes, likely quoted by the presenter and not the pundits (at least not the ones that are knowledgeable with regard to the game).
Hahaha, yeah, also this!
Most humans have ceilings regardless of their profession.
I have a ceiling. I have 11 ceilings in my house to be precise.
Saying, we could have scored 5 or 6 does sound way better than we had a +3xg.
This is a very specific one but I can't stand how Jim Beglin constantly begins sentences with, 'Listen...' when he's talking to the other dude on comms and then usually follows that up with a completely nonsensical statement.
Players don’t have ceilings. They have potential. They realise it, or they don’t. ‘Ceiling’ is a fantasy.
Imagine voldermort in modern football