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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 09:34 - Jan 23 with 4280 viewsFDC

Football is all about opinions

Hear this all the time. What does it even mean? There are winners and losers and goals and league positions; football if anything is pretty objective compared to, say, music and film and art, which are fairly subjective.

Goals win you games, clean sheets win you championships

Total drivel. Winning games win you championships. See also you need to score goals in this league etc
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 09:38 - Jan 23 with 3487 viewsWokingR

"I'm a Crystal Palace Supporter"

Never got why anyone would ever say this
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 09:58 - Jan 23 with 3451 viewsPinnerPaul

Sam Allardyce on Saturday.

Palace player has cramp, is sitting up OFF the pitch.

Hauls himself on to the pitch (About 80 yards away from the play). Everton and referee continue with the game - Everton score.

Sam asked if Everton should have kicked the ball out

Sam - "No, not their fault, referee has to manage the game there and stop play"

??????? Player not seriously injured and no where near play, but guess what Palace are s**t, he knows it, so lets blame the referee.
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 10:07 - Jan 23 with 3437 viewswelwynranger

Yea but that's just your opinion
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 10:18 - Jan 23 with 3405 viewsBrianMcCarthy

"The Championship is the hardest league in Europe"

Yes, it's harder than the one above it. No, it is.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 11:14 - Jan 23 with 3346 viewswelwynranger

Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 10:18 - Jan 23 by BrianMcCarthy

"The Championship is the hardest league in Europe"

Yes, it's harder than the one above it. No, it is.


Sven Goran Erickson said it is toughest second division in the world
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 11:15 - Jan 23 with 3341 viewsrobith

"stonewall penalty"

Stonewall means something that is really hard or difficult to overcome, Makes zero sense in this context where people mean "definit", but has become accepted parlance
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 11:32 - Jan 23 with 3295 viewsFDC

Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 11:15 - Jan 23 by robith

"stonewall penalty"

Stonewall means something that is really hard or difficult to overcome, Makes zero sense in this context where people mean "definit", but has become accepted parlance


I always assumed this referred to an outstanding misdemeanor for gay-rights rioting

</tortured-historical-reference-joke>
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 11:40 - Jan 23 with 3282 viewseccles

The word "technical" bugs me.
As in "he's got good technical ability" Doesn't need the word technical. "He's got good ability" says it just the same without the extra word. All the pundits and experts use it and it drives me mad.
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 11:49 - Jan 23 with 3260 viewsisawqpratwcity

Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 11:15 - Jan 23 by robith

"stonewall penalty"

Stonewall means something that is really hard or difficult to overcome, Makes zero sense in this context where people mean "definit", but has become accepted parlance


They probably mean 'stone-cold'.

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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 12:04 - Jan 23 with 3214 viewsPinnerPaul

Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 10:07 - Jan 23 by welwynranger

Yea but that's just your opinion


?????
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 12:05 - Jan 23 with 3210 viewsPinnerPaul

"Family Club"

Don't ALL clubs have members of the same family that attend games?????????
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 12:08 - Jan 23 with 3201 viewsWalnut

Refereeing decisions even themselves out.

"Leeds (for eg) are all in white (for eg)"
Nope, the goalie isn't so they're in all white
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 12:42 - Jan 23 with 3138 viewsBrianMcCarthy

"It was always going wide"

As opposed to those shots that start off certain goals before being cruelly nudged wide by alien spacecraft.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 12:45 - Jan 23 with 3134 viewsR_from_afar

"There was contact". OK, but "contact" is not what makes something a foul, it has to be contact that gives a player an unfair advantage. It is a contact sport, after all.

RFA

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

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(No subject) (n/t) on 12:53 - Jan 23 with 3112 viewsDorse

'He's fit but not quite match fit'. Usually when a player misses a shot. If he's playing a match he is by definition 'match fit'.

Another thing I can't understand is when they say 'What are your thoughts, Robbie Savage?' As far as anyone knows, Robbie Savage is a comic character that has got out of hand. He is the football equivalent of Keith Lemon.
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'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'

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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 13:11 - Jan 23 with 3075 viewsPeterHucker

Robbie Savage always has been and always will be nothing more than a grade A ringpiece.
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 13:12 - Jan 23 with 3074 viewsDorse

Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 13:11 - Jan 23 by PeterHucker

Robbie Savage always has been and always will be nothing more than a grade A ringpiece.


He'd struggle to make Grade C.

'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'

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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 13:47 - Jan 23 with 3002 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

'In and around the box'

I'd be sleeping on the sofa if I had that level of accuracy.
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 13:51 - Jan 23 with 2977 viewsrobith

Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 12:45 - Jan 23 by R_from_afar

"There was contact". OK, but "contact" is not what makes something a foul, it has to be contact that gives a player an unfair advantage. It is a contact sport, after all.

RFA


see also: "he's entitled to go down"

Bin off
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 13:58 - Jan 23 with 2949 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 13:51 - Jan 23 by robith

see also: "he's entitled to go down"

Bin off


Unless it's Heider......

: )
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 14:01 - Jan 23 with 2944 viewsMick_S

Different gravy. Eh?

Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?

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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 15:09 - Jan 23 with 2883 viewsSimonJames

“Sandro’s holding his face. You can tell from that it’s a knee injury.” [Dion Dublin]

100% of people who drink water will die.

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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 15:29 - Jan 23 with 2854 viewsWokingR

Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 15:09 - Jan 23 by SimonJames

“Sandro’s holding his face. You can tell from that it’s a knee injury.” [Dion Dublin]


To be fair though, it always was a knee injury with Sandro wasn't it
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 17:39 - Jan 23 with 2770 viewsPinnerPaul

Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 12:45 - Jan 23 by R_from_afar

"There was contact". OK, but "contact" is not what makes something a foul, it has to be contact that gives a player an unfair advantage. It is a contact sport, after all.

RFA


A close relative

"Yes, the ball DID hit his arm" - doesn't mean its deliberate handball though does it?!
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Things That People Say About Football That Don't Make Sense #173 on 17:50 - Jan 23 with 2759 viewsFDC

Sometimes it's harder to play against 10 men

If this were even remotely true then there would have to be an urgent review of sending people off as punishment. Maybe if someone commits a really bad foul his team should be forced to play with 12 men?
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