Hungry Joe
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I know banning certain words sounds a bit Orwellian but I really am getting f***ed off with every tom, dick and harry being called a legend. It's got to the point that it's about as meaningless as calling something 'amazing'.
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Can we ban the use of the term 'legend' please?
- Thread starter Hungry Joe
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Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
Hungry Joe, a true poster of sensible views and comment, something oh so rare on NSC...you are well on the way to becoming a legend of the board.
R. Slicker
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- Jan 1, 2009
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I agree, I think he's amazing
Shinbreath
Member
What an amazing, legendary legend !!!
A man after my own heart....continual use of the words ' great ' and ' legend ' just drive me mad. Calling Adams a legend and Murray a great player is ridiculous.
Can I humbly suggest a rating system that we all try to use.
1) Journeyman pro....good enough to be a pro and carries out his job with reasonable consistency but has obvious weaknesses that limit career progress
2)Good player......more consistent than journeyman and has ability to change or influence a game off his own back. Would expect to see him performing at or near highest level of the game. ( top two divisions )
3) Very good player....performing at highest level of game, an international and regularly changes or influences games.
4) Great player....very few of these...world stars...ability to win games off their own back and inspire team-mates to win trophies ( e.g Pele, Maradona, Best, Zindane etc...probably been less than 20 of these in football history )
5 ) Legend...could come from any of the above categories but through his performances, reputation or notoriety will be talked about at local, national or international level as long as the game is played.
On this basis, a lot of professional fotballers would come into the ' journeyman ' category.
Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
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what is even worse is when people call them a "Ledge" 
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
what is even worse is when people call them a "Ledge"
Agreed, a ledge is somewhere that a pigeon perches and shits...if someone compared me to that I would feel somewhat insulted.
NMH
Banned
Dangerous word anyway, as most "legends" are so quickly called 'bellends'.
R. Slicker
Well-known member
- Jan 1, 2009
- 4,490
Lumbering legend?
A short ,fat, alcoholic goalmachine. Similar to how he was descibed in 1975
LowKarate
New member
This thread is awesome!
What about 'The complete . **** category.......... such as Scott McGleish and the like.
The Large One
Who's Next?
Call them a foot. Means just the same.
He once drank 8 pints before a game in the Cliftonville and still scored a hat-trick in the first half...........
No it doesn`t you small, round door handle.