Complete list of football clichés

[Titanic]

any mention of TEACUPS or HAIRDRIERS

 

[Titanic]

The 'noisy neighbours'

 

[withdeanwombat]

"Legend" - player who makes a minimum of three appearances for a club.

"Sleeping Giant" - perrenial failures,see,for eg Newcastle.

"Sweet left/right foot" - don't try it,it's not true,esp in second half.

 

[Badger]

"He couldn't have hit that any better" - er, he could, it could have gone in the goal.

 

[Jambo Seagull]

"A case of handbags"

 

[Greg Bobkin]

"Good with his head in and around the box". "Stiffens up the back four". "Will be disappointed to be pulled off at half time by the manager".

Cheeky...

'There or thereabouts'... It's a FU**ING OXYMORON!!

Is it? Doesn't "thereabouts" mean nearly there, or approximately there, in which case "there or thereabouts" means "there or almost there", which isn't really an oxymoron at all?[/QUOTE]

But where is it? Most of the time people mean top of the league or in the promotion/European places, so why don't they just say that in the first place?

Other gems:

"20-goal-a-season striker"
"Can he make the step up [from lower to higher division]?"
"The dreaded vote of confidence"
"Magic of the cup"

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Mentioned this one on another thread the other day "paper teams win paper cups".

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

"He's a good lad, trains hard"

"Got his feet on the ground"

Not really a cliche, but it getting there "My word"

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Stonewall penalty.

Five year plan.

Squeaky bum time.

Custodian between the sticks.

Square ball.

Dead ball line (although this isn't used as much as it used to be).

Corridor of uncertainty.

Bottle.

Made a hash of his shot.

They scored too soon.

Six pointer.

 

[armchairclubber]

chance after chance

thought we were the better team...played some fantastic football (particularly Warnock !)

hearing "go on my son" from a fan makes me cringe

 

[savanah]

He's a top top player.jamie redknapp on anyone.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Erstwhile
Warhorse
Evergreen

Pitch is a great leveller

Anything can happen in the cup

its just 11 v 11 out there

Over the moon

Sick as a parrott etc

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

We played too much football in the second half

 

[Snarkey5]

wish these were used more often during commentary

Alan Partridge Football Commentary - YouTube

 

[Box of Frogs]

He's got two good feet - Well if he had bad feet he wouldn't be able to run around would he?!?!

He's got a good footballing brain - If he didn't understand football he wouldn't have got to this level (Insert Ashley Barnes joke here)

He's a half a yard quicker in his head - usually saved for players nearing the end of their career who can't run as fast as they used to.

 

[SeagullSongs]

"He hit that almost too well."

 

[Mo Gosfield]

" All the makings of an upset "
" Years ahead of his time "
" Oh..there's trouble here "
" The referee's word is final "
" Over the moon "
" He'll be disappointed to be beaten from there "
" They're running the clock down "
" A bout of head-tennis going on there "

 

[Jambo Seagull]

Following terrible leg breaking tackle.Pundit on offender "he's not that type of player'

Or in the case of Goran Popov being caught spitting at Kyle Walker:

"On Thursday I want to make a meeting and say sorry to everyone who works at this club.

"I don't want all the fans, players, trainers and staff to change their mind about me. I'm not that kind of player."

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Enigmatic winger.

 

[Lawson]

i love the half time ones when they discuss tactics for the losing teams.

'need to get more shots on target'
'need to come out and attack'
'they need to get hold of the ball'
'they can't let anymore goals in'

The Euro was more like a brainstorm to identify the fundamentals of the game.