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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan 15:35 - Sep 25 with 2740 viewsTummer_from_Texas

Apparently Fulham are cheap bastards.

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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 16:18 - Sep 25 with 2650 viewsEagleEye

Interesting insight to the way clubs operate differently. Great to hear a good news story about the way the club operated back in those days. Wonder if the MO is the same today ?
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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 16:27 - Sep 25 with 2636 viewsKeithHaynes

Another good signing by HJ.
Sold for 5 million.

As some do never really went anywhere after he left the Swans.

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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 16:59 - Sep 25 with 2570 viewsReslovenSwan1

My recollection was he was bought for £5m from Barnsley and sold for £15m or above to Fulham after getting into the England squad.

I have never liked the phrase "fire-sale" as this has parallels with "fire damaged sale" which suggests 5p-10p in the pound. The word indicates big losses and desperation. It is used loosely today as a forced sale. Swansea had big losses on Clucas for sure but small loses on Ayew J and Ferdandez but big profits on Mawson and Fabianski.

"Galvanised" is another loose word thrown around carelessly. Most people that use it have never heard of Luigi Galvani who the process was named after or the process itself.
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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 17:30 - Sep 25 with 2471 viewstheloneranger

It was reported as £20M to Fulham.

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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 17:57 - Sep 25 with 2429 viewsSullutaCreturned

Galvani.

Fulham can be cheap, even today, which club is in the better position?
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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 18:18 - Sep 25 with 2394 viewsKeithHaynes

You could be right mate, passage of time.

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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 19:11 - Sep 25 with 2292 viewsReslovenSwan1

Some corrections made to my post as I know you guys are always red hot on fact checking with respect to people from the Neath Valley. Hotbed of metallurgy.

A French guy actually invested it. A British engineer patented the process and came up with the lightweight corrugated zinc huts for the military. He was a Mr Nissan. Nissan huts are now commonly seen to house free range pigs.

Why it is used by football pundits is a mystery..Martin Allen while at Barnet stated he had turned around the clubs fortunes by "literally galvanising the enthusiasm of the dressing room". Gobblygook on stilts. He "literally" coated enthusiasm of his players with zinc.
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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 19:45 - Sep 25 with 2207 viewstheloneranger

Why is it "Gobblygook"?? ...

When Martin Allen's meaning is in the Oxford English Dictionary!!

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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 20:26 - Sep 25 with 2152 viewsReslovenSwan1

He used the word literally and rooms ( even enthusiastic ones) cannot be galvanized by zinc if the rooms are not made of steel like the Nissan huts.

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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 20:45 - Sep 25 with 2137 viewsReslovenSwan1

The word itself is dubious. "Hoover" is also a noun and adjective simply from use. You can do some hoovering and a room can be "hoovered,"

Explain to me exactly what galvanized means in Martin Allen's "what we did first at Barnet was galvanize the enthusiasm of the dressing room". It is meaningless.
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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 19:14 - Sep 26 with 1410 viewsSullutaCreturned

galvanize
/ˈɡalvənʌɪz/
verb

1.
shock or excite (someone) into taking action:
"the urgency of his voice galvanized them into action"
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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 19:36 - Sep 26 with 1397 viewsLuther27

We made a few quid/pesatas on him so it was good business and that’s all that counts really mate.
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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 19:39 - Sep 26 with 1386 viewsKeithHaynes

The ex football manager ?

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Alfie Mawson quip about Swansea vs Fulhan on 21:42 - Sep 26 with 1287 viewsReslovenSwan1

It has come to mean this but has no link to the the metallurgical meaning. Enthused is adequate.

Many people think it means something else like reinforced or strengthened. It is used loosely in football.

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