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Phrases you really hate 10:25 - Aug 27 with 10891 viewsRedbourneR

There are some phrases football seems littered with with make no sense at all and are just irritating as a result. My latest hate is the phrase 'tried to play in the right way' and variations on that theme. As if anyone sets out to play in the wrong way, and what exactly is the 'right' way anyway? It's just hot-air b*llocks to fill some time on the TV, and to save whoever's said it from actually thinning about what they're going to say.

What other phrases p*ss people off?
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Phrases you really hate on 12:09 - Aug 27 with 2370 viewsRedbourneR

Phrases you really hate on 11:51 - Aug 27 by Toast_R

Your right, he is one of the most irritable commentator.

You don't hear it much these days but how about old Tyldesley with... "That Magical Night in Barcelona"?


This one's gone a bit quiet, thank God, always irritated me too
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Phrases you really hate on 12:13 - Aug 27 with 2362 viewskensalriser

Any phrase you've never heard before in the context that suddenly everyone start to parrot. First noticed some years ago during a tournament when one of the commentators made reference to a team 'setting out their stall'. At least one team in every game after that would be setting out their stall in the first 15 minutes.

Current anti-favourites:
'flat-track bully'
'linked with'
'opens/opening up his body'
'recycling possession'

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Phrases you really hate on 12:19 - Aug 27 with 2345 viewsTacticalR

Mark Hughes seems to have his own private language. A favourite is his use of the term 'the building' to refer to the club.

Hughes on Wilson Palacios: 'He hasn’t really surprised me because my view was always that Wilson was a very good player and I was pleased he was still in the building.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2384820/Mark-Hughes-Jermaine-P

Air hostess clique

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Phrases you really hate on 12:33 - Aug 27 with 2316 viewsHantsR

The Rooneys, the Gerrards, the Lampards...(cont ad nauseum)

Maybe they should be sent to climb the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro?
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Phrases you really hate on 12:38 - Aug 27 with 2309 viewsTacticalR

Phrases you really hate on 12:33 - Aug 27 by HantsR

The Rooneys, the Gerrards, the Lampards...(cont ad nauseum)

Maybe they should be sent to climb the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro?


Ah, the Kilimanjaros. Let's sign them.

Air hostess clique

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Phrases you really hate on 12:38 - Aug 27 with 2309 viewsToast_R

What about made up colours, that's some kind of bulls*it.

Plumb......its f*cking Purple
Tobacco....f*kc off its brown
Tangerine....It's Orange
Salmon..... Admit it, it's pink..
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Phrases you really hate on 12:50 - Aug 27 with 2287 viewsthemodfather

any of those STAY CALM things, related to football....

i like to panic lol!
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Phrases you really hate on 12:53 - Aug 27 with 2273 viewsrrrspricey

"What a brilliant reaction save"......when the keeper couldn't have avoided the ball if his fcking life depended on

The sort of save a corpse would made had it been in the same position
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Phrases you really hate on 13:00 - Aug 27 with 2258 viewsscot1963

young and hungry football player/manager and also Juzzie's first gripe
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Phrases you really hate on 13:04 - Aug 27 with 2235 viewspaulparker

His not that sort of player- after said player breaks another's with a 2 footed challenge

there are no easy games- as England prepare to take on the Isle Of White

Mark Hughes has done a triffic job at stoke ??

it was ball to hand, - its fcuking handball

And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles Brian Moore

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Phrases you really hate on 13:12 - Aug 27 with 2214 viewsbob566

any lobbed goal from a distance is a la beckham.

Sure he wasn't the first person to lob a keeper in the history of the game.
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Phrases you really hate on 13:19 - Aug 27 with 2204 viewsheadhoops

sleeping giant. No the football club is not sleeping and rarely do footballers go over 7ft.

underdogs.

he's a journey man pro. Just because you have played for 6-7 'lesser' teams you are a journey man pro - opposed to Ibrahimovic a galactico pro?????

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Phrases you really hate on 13:19 - Aug 27 with 2204 viewseasthertsr

'Top, Top player'
'Real football Man'
He's got a good engine!'
'Big Club'
'Merse, What do you think?'
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Phrases you really hate on 13:26 - Aug 27 with 2187 viewsMrSheen

Transitions. Suddenly appeared and still so new it needs to be explained. "They're so good at the transitions, when possession changes over". Just in case you thought it referred to the Chelsea squad's gender reassignment, or a short spell as a tadpole.
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Phrases you really hate on 13:29 - Aug 27 with 2180 viewsCamberleyR

A favourite of Andy Townsend - "In and around" really boils my p1ss.
[Post edited 27 Aug 2014 13:31]

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Phrases you really hate on 13:42 - Aug 27 with 2067 viewsPinnerPaul

"Last man - he had to go" Last man not mentioned in laws of the game

"That was reckless, had to be a red card" Reckless actually means a yellow card, again read the laws if you're paid to commentate!

"You have to take your chances in the Premier League" Other leagues give you goals without you having to do that do they???!!!

"Just about offside, so just about got that right" He's either offside or not! Correct or not!
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Phrases you really hate on 13:47 - Aug 27 with 2060 viewsSuperhoop83

"That was a stonewall penalty!"

Don't get me started...

"He's been denied by the post."

No, he's missed the target.

"He's given 110% today".

Mathematically impossible.

Suffering since 1978.

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Phrases you really hate on 14:04 - Aug 27 with 2033 viewsTacticalR

Phrases you really hate on 13:26 - Aug 27 by MrSheen

Transitions. Suddenly appeared and still so new it needs to be explained. "They're so good at the transitions, when possession changes over". Just in case you thought it referred to the Chelsea squad's gender reassignment, or a short spell as a tadpole.


I assumed this had come from some FA coaching manual, or perhaps from soccerball coaches in the USA.

Air hostess clique

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Phrases you really hate on 14:06 - Aug 27 with 2029 viewsMatch82

Phrases you really hate on 13:47 - Aug 27 by Superhoop83

"That was a stonewall penalty!"

Don't get me started...

"He's been denied by the post."

No, he's missed the target.

"He's given 110% today".

Mathematically impossible.


"He's been denied by the post."

No, he's missed the target.



This. Only correct use for this phrase in football terms is a work permit application in which the applicant is subsequently informed by the Royal Mail that they have failed...
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Phrases you really hate on 14:19 - Aug 27 with 2009 viewsBluce_Ree

After we get defeated and someone says "if QPR play like that all season they'll be alright."

We lost at home to Hull. We're doomed. Shut up!

Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.

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Phrases you really hate on 15:12 - Aug 27 with 1980 viewsrobith

Also: stonewall regarding penalties. Makes absolutely zero sense
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Phrases you really hate on 16:44 - Aug 27 with 1927 viewsheadhoops

You need a fox in a box.
No you need a goalscorer in the penalty area.

worra, darra and anything else from Jamie Carragher.

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Phrases you really hate on 18:52 - Aug 27 with 1873 viewsjamois

Doesn't technically fit the OP criteria, but not exactly worthy of its own thread - what is it with footballers declaring their retirement from international duty??!!**!!

Just feck off into the wilderness why don't you. It never used to happen this way - one day you were selected and the next you were not. Big deal. The overweened, preening egos now need to find a nice quiet spot in the news agenda and declare their retirement so we can all fawn over them. Another pathetic totem of the modern media age. Just p!ss off.

Actually i'm that agitated maybe it is worthy of a thread.

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Phrases you really hate on 19:00 - Aug 27 with 1860 viewsE17hoop

Phrases you really hate on 18:52 - Aug 27 by jamois

Doesn't technically fit the OP criteria, but not exactly worthy of its own thread - what is it with footballers declaring their retirement from international duty??!!**!!

Just feck off into the wilderness why don't you. It never used to happen this way - one day you were selected and the next you were not. Big deal. The overweened, preening egos now need to find a nice quiet spot in the news agenda and declare their retirement so we can all fawn over them. Another pathetic totem of the modern media age. Just p!ss off.

Actually i'm that agitated maybe it is worthy of a thread.


You are correct. It avoids the media pulling Roy apart for not selecting Fat Frank, gives Lampard a sense of control over his destiny and creates a chapter for his ghost written autobiography.

To add to the thread...EPL.
No it's not - it's the Premier League, not the EPL. I don't get confused by Celtic being in the SPL so there's no need to tell me that Villa, Aresnal and ManU play in the EPL. Meaningless fluff to sell overseas TV rights.

It's always noisiest at the shallow end
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Phrases you really hate on 19:12 - Aug 27 with 1844 viewsJalfrezi_Rs

"That's a great pass if he can make it"

No, if it's a great pass he doesn't have to stretch to get it does he
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