Football sayings that drive you bonkers?

"Recycling the ball" crept in by everyone lately
"Get chalk on your boots" S. Collymore (about wingers)
"Plenty of green grass in front of you" S. Collymore (What colour do you expect the grass to be - red?)

Wow - plenty of those...

"At the end of the day" - (used to start nearly every sentence by both managers and players)
"Gives 110%", "Got a great engine", or "Can run all day" - to describe hardworking players
"Gets stuck in" - to describe physical/dirty players
"Didn't show up today" - to describe appalling performances
"Didn't get out of first gear" - when teams cruise through a game
"Turned him inside out" - when one player bamboozles another

Plus the old chestnut, "It was a game of two halves"....well, duh!

"It hasn't sunk in yet"

No dispespect to ............... And then they go and disrespect them in the next sentence. Not the brightest people in the world the footballers.

Not a football cliche as such, but Ray Wilkins is driving me mad on Sky commentary by starting virtually every sentence with "My word... "

"You can never write off United"

...why not? Are we not allowed a different opinion?

Electric Demon wrote:Not a football cliche as such, but Ray Wilkins is driving me mad on Sky commentary by starting virtually every sentence with "My word... "

"Stay on your feet"

Managers being interviewed after the game ....... " I dont want to comment on the official's performance , but he had a shocker today "

thats commenting so set of

The one that's killing me recently is

"He put a shift in today"

90 mins a shift? Do me a lemon.

And the fact that everything seems to be a "little"

a "little" through ball
a "little" cross field pass"
a "little" dink to the back post

Oh and "stood it up" meaning someone crossed it for someone else.

Or "opened himself up to get the shot away"

The list is endless. Hate football, no idea why I watch it.

"Setting their stall out."
"Unveiled as manager"
"End of the day."
"Obviously"

In fact everything that comes out in a post match interview is pretty stupid. No one ever says anything worth hearing.

Footballer X is crap/brilliant without any particular reason or analysis as to why. It's usually because 'everyone knows it'.

"Low centre of gravity"

Almost every player seems to used that to describe them, surely it can't be that important?!

Electric Demon wrote:Not a football cliche as such, but Ray Wilkins is driving me mad on Sky commentary by starting virtually every sentence with "My word... "

THIS annoys me too.

Heard Alan Pardew say "the premiership" today. Boils my urine that one.

When pundits try to refer to a level of players or teams and say something like "The Wigans of this world" or "The Kalous of this world"

Also Redknapps overuse of the word "Literally"

There's even a facebook group about it https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5686467119&v=wall

It's also got a 'Jamie Redknapp literally watch' and people are quick to go on there and post whenever he uses the word.

Just revisited the group and started chucking at this post: ‎

"Barca literally passed Arsenal to Death" Redknapp, J. Sky Sports, 2011. Not one of the Arsenal team came anywhere near to death from what I can recollect. Jamie Redknapp LITERALLY an ignorant mong

"He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn't got a right foot." the more I see these literally posts the more I think the guy is an idiot!

week in, week out

The word "ping".

He didn't "ping" the ball 40 yards, he kicked it

'To be fair'

When footballers are interviewed and they say 'you know' every five seconds. Please stop. If we knew we wouldn't have asked you.

Here's another.

When managers or anyone else complains about playing three games in a week when they play Saturday, Wednesday and then Saturday again.

Not like the other comments posted, but lack of knowledge of the rules really pisses me off:
There is no rule that mentions the last man, it is either a goal scoring opportunity or it isn't.
There is either a hand ball, which is automatically a yellow card, or red card if it denies a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity, or accidental ball to hand and therefore play on, it should be one or the other, to give a free kick and not caution the player makes no sense.

what about the beavers?

"Gutted" is another word that is seriously over-used for everything from missing a tap-in, to losing a match, to being left out of the first team.

"A bad day at the office", also bursts my sausages.

Josiah Maiestas wrote:"You can never write off United"

...why not? Are we not allowed a different opinion?

Well this is not a saying it's a fact.

"WORLD CLASS" - The majority who use this doesn't know what it means.

dondelero wrote:

Josiah Maiestas wrote:"You can never write off United"

...why not? Are we not allowed a different opinion?

Well this is not a saying it's a fact.

"WORLD CLASS" - The majority who use this doesn't know what it means.

There are many different interpretations of what "WORLD CLASS" means and most of us will have a different view on it, but you are true that it's overused to the extent that it can be heard every week, it's as if people have forgotten that other phrases describing high quality exist.

ReallyReal wrote:Not like the other comments posted, but lack of knowledge of the rules really pisses me off:
There is no rule that mentions the last man, it is either a goal scoring opportunity or it isn't.
There is either a hand ball, which is automatically a yellow card, or red card if it denies a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity, or accidental ball to hand and therefore play on, it should be one or the other, to give a free kick and not caution the player makes no sense.

This.

And when players get booked or give fouls away and commentators or pundits say 'He got the ball' - That's not how it works. I heard something on MOTD2 (I think?) that should help clear it up to even the most simple pundits on tackles.
Careless - Foul
Reckless - Booking
Dangerous - Sending off

I know it's hard to distinguish between careless and reckless sometimes, but I'd rather hear them debating that over whether or not he touched the ball.

Half a chance


It's either a chance or it isn't. Make your mind up

Just about everything that comes out of Ray Parlour's mouth.........plus I can't help but think he's going to break into "My old mans a dustman" before he's finished!

I dont actually like the saying 'the gaffer'.

I would just call him the boss or manager.

"Its my dream to play for 'team X' "

1 season later and the same player after his mover can be heard saying: -

"Its my dream to play for 'team Y' "

Shove your )&&%ing dream up your arse!

And when players get booked or give fouls away and commentators or pundits say 'He got the ball' - That's not how it works. I heard something on MOTD2 (I think?) that should help clear it up to even the most simple pundits on tackles.
Careless - Foul
Reckless - Booking
Dangerous - Sending offI know it's hard to distinguish between careless and reckless sometimes, but I'd rather hear them debating that over whether or not he touched the ball.[/quote]
thats right
careless is a foul
reckless is a booking
and dangourous should be off.
and thats how i became a referee (very easy exam)
(it becomes a little more complicvated at youth level especially U11)

dyrewolfe wrote:"Gutted" is another word that is seriously over-used for everything from missing a tap-in, to losing a match, to being left out of the first team.

"A bad day at the office", also bursts my sausages.

Kinky...

I destest anything that comes out of a man's mouth who's surname is Redknapp, it is almost certainly a load of Love sacks!

Same goes for 'butch' wilkins - please can someone give him his job back at Chelsea, I am sick of hearing him refer to every player by their first name!

Also having crept in to EVERY player when they are interviewed is , No, Yeah.

This is always the first two words out of their mouth when asked a question.

"the back of the net", when in fact the ball always strikes the front of the net!!

"the woodwork"...where's the wood???

"a gilt-edged chance"

"we're looking no further than the next game"

When people use plurals when describing players...

"......great players like the Gerrards, the Beckhams, the Rooneys...."

Are there more than one of them like???

"Schoolboy error" - usually harsh on school teams.

"He didn't see that one"

"Our Squads not big enough"

"Erm" During most interviews

"Will you look at that"

"This is crisis time at ..."

"So how do you feel"

Jimmy Greaves..."It's a funny old game".

Well, it really not that funny. I've never burst into a laughing fit when watching a game, it's not comedy.

Atila wrote:Jimmy Greaves..."It's a funny old game".

Well, it really not that funny. I've never burst into a laughing fit when watching a game, it's not comedy.

I beg to differ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4fsLeCjB4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4fsLeCjB4s