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Post by J-Roar on Sept 5, 2024 11:09:07 GMT
It was to commemorate a battle which took place on the Spion Kop during the Boer War and lots of teams named their end after it. Nothing to do with copying Liverpool! I know now! I researched it after someone put me straight 😅 ...well actually, I already knew the bit about the battle, but thought it was just Liverpool, cos where I read about it ages ago it was saying that's why Liverpool named their home end Spion Kop ..... they'd just failed to mention all the other clubs that did the same! Hey but now I know!  There seems to be more clubs with a Kop than those without  |
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Post by davethebass on Sept 5, 2024 11:10:52 GMT
Not a cliche, but something that really bugs me is then pundits turn players names into "plural" The Wayne RooneyS The Ricardo FullerS The Steven GerrardS 🤬 ...or when they say "...someone like a Brighton or a Brentford...". Which implies the plural. The Gary Linekars and Alan Shearers of this world are gonna hate us for this |
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Post by davethebass on Sept 5, 2024 11:21:22 GMT
I know now! I researched it after someone put me straight 😅 ...well actually, I already knew the bit about the battle, but thought it was just Liverpool, cos where I read about it ages ago it was saying that's why Liverpool named their home end Spion Kop ..... they'd just failed to mention all the other clubs that did the same! Hey but now I know! Think it was on 'Who do you think you are' I saw it! 😅 Now that does ring a bell, it might have been that 😅 |
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Post by stoke1989 on Sept 5, 2024 11:45:33 GMT
When a player in the spotlight for some reason or another scores..... "who else"
"you couldn't write it"
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Post by stoke1989 on Sept 5, 2024 11:48:06 GMT
Perhaps not overused but "cultured left foot"
Is a right foot un-cultured?
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Post by figo85 on Sept 5, 2024 11:52:34 GMT
Game’s Gone!
Also, an oatcake favourite “tell me you don’t know football without telling me you don’t know football”. Mostly from the arm chair elite level coaches.
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Post by redandy on Sept 5, 2024 11:58:32 GMT
"Waiting for apples to drop", aka an admission for a shit recruitment policy, leaving us at the behest of others.
"he's out on the grass", aka the player is still months away from being fully match fit, so don't exect to see the player any time soon.
"Two nil is a really dangerous scoreline" ... is it fcuk, it's far less perilous than being one nil up.
"it is what it is" This one really boils my piss, its mainly used outside of football but, aka I have zero control, knowledge or care for what the outcome is.
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Post by Los Alfareros on Sept 5, 2024 12:03:47 GMT
"Playing through the lines" - which as far as I can tell is passing it forwards to a team mate.
"They came here to make it hard for us" - As opposed to what you twat? they came here to make it easy for us???
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Post by march4 on Sept 5, 2024 12:05:08 GMT
Think it was on 'Who do you think you are' I saw it! 😅 Now that does ring a bell, it might have been that 😅 The first recorded reference to a sports terrace as "Kop" related to Woolwich Arsenal's Manor Ground in 1904, four years after the Second Boer War. A local newsman likened the silhouette of fans standing on a newly raised bank of earth to soldiers standing atop the hill at the Battle of Spion Kop. Liverpool’s Kop was named for another 20 years. |
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Post by dirtygary69 on Sept 5, 2024 12:23:23 GMT
Gael Cliche.
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Post by ihaveadream on Sept 5, 2024 12:27:57 GMT
Giant Killing
Route One Football
The business end of the season
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Post by davethebass on Sept 5, 2024 12:54:15 GMT
When a player in the spotlight for some reason or another scores..... "who else" "you couldn't write it" "He hasn't read the script" |
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Post by davethebass on Sept 5, 2024 12:56:13 GMT
Perhaps not overused but "cultured left foot" Is a right foot un-cultured? Or the variant, "wand of a left foot" |
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Post by davethebass on Sept 5, 2024 13:03:09 GMT
Now that does ring a bell, it might have been that 😅 The first recorded reference to a sports terrace as "Kop" related to Woolwich Arsenal's Manor Ground in 1904, four years after the Second Boer War. A local newsman likened the silhouette of fans standing on a newly raised bank of earth to soldiers standing atop the hill at the Battle of Spion Kop. Liverpool’s Kop was named for another 20 years. Just been reading about that, I'm learning today! Demolished in 1915 it said. Put me in mind of the old Stoke End at the Vic as well, which was just a big bank of earth wasn't it, no roof, away fans used get soaked. |
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Post by davethebass on Sept 5, 2024 13:07:00 GMT
"four on the bounce" 😅
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Post by J-Roar on Sept 5, 2024 13:07:04 GMT
When a player in the spotlight for some reason or another scores..... "who else" "you couldn't write it" "He hasn't read the script" Roy of the Rovers stuff Slide rule pass Turn on a sixpence All relatable terms 🤣 |
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Post by superpej on Sept 5, 2024 13:07:33 GMT
"moments" seems to get used a lot these days as in "he had moments to score" "there were moments in the game" "We're just not performing at this moment in time
"group" as in "great group of players"
Various alternatives is it "dressing room" or "changing room" I'm guessing prem and championship teams prefer dressing to changing which is for the lower leagues - some times reduced to just "room" in "has he has lost the room?"
Never really got the difference between "pressing" and "counter pressing" - I guess you "press" the opposition when you have the ball and "counter press" when you don't. Sometimes reduced to just "the press" as in "they've broken the press" or "Their press isn't working"
"transitions" as in "They are quick in transitions" or even worse "turnovers" taken from rugby or American football
"Senior leadership group" any older player however crap gets promoted to the groups "senior leadership group".
Childish nick names "Wouts" "Gibbo" "Thommo" etc presumably its "Willy" for Wilmott
Anything data related "Here's your match facts from AWS" "Here's his heat map" "If its down to XG we should have won the match" "He let that one through but his expected saves are the best in the Championship"
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Sept 5, 2024 13:15:41 GMT
Game’s Gone! Also, an oatcake favourite “tell me you don’t know football without telling me you don’t know football”. Mostly from the arm chair elite level coaches. Games gone Yep..completely ridiculous one Good shout |
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Post by davethebass on Sept 5, 2024 13:17:04 GMT
"He hasn't read the script" Roy of the Rovers stuff Slide rule pass Turn on a sixpence All relatable terms 🤣 The magic of the FA Cup Threaded through the eye of a needle Can land it on a sixpence. Or in Sir Stan's case...with the laces facing the other way! |
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Post by skip on Sept 5, 2024 13:59:47 GMT
A new one I quite like, for when an attacking player rinses a defender is "he sent him to the shadow realm" which my nipper used last Saturday, although it hasn't caught on with any commentators because they wouldn't know what the hell it refers to. At least its modern parlance with a contemporary reference point, unlike imperial coinage, Roy of the Rovers et al.
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Post by dirtclod on Sept 5, 2024 14:40:15 GMT
It's taking time for the players to gel.
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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Sept 5, 2024 15:11:16 GMT
Again, not a cliché but ‘cross-cum-shot’ will forever be the greatest football phrase. The joy is getting in to declare it as a cross-cum-shot before the commentators inevitably announce it.
I think that’s how it should be spelt, but I daren't search for that on Google.
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Post by madelinesmithmmmh on Sept 5, 2024 15:58:04 GMT
Disappointing.
i.e. we got stuffed
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Sept 5, 2024 16:00:14 GMT
Again, not a cliché but ‘cross-cum-shot’ will forever be the greatest football phrase. The joy is getting in to declare it as a cross-cum-shot before the commentators inevitably announce it. I think that’s how it should be spelt, but I daren't search for that on Google. Angry wankers? |
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Post by smallthorner on Sept 5, 2024 17:31:09 GMT
United
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Sept 5, 2024 17:33:04 GMT
Recent commentator’s cliches
“Apologies for any bad language you may have heard from the crowd”.
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Post by ceejays on Sept 5, 2024 17:36:08 GMT
Sitting in the Tile mountain with some gobshite behind me saying get into them every other minute. Me turning round and asking are you Bayern Oatcake in disguise ? Those on here who say we will have to wait till the end of the season before making a judgment. Threads you know will be regurgitated after a loss - Wilmot . Football sings you can’t make out the words no matter how you try . Shouting who are ya when we score ( although I like that one and join in !!! ) . The mind numbing interviews with some of our coaches before the match . The meet the manager meetings with no tasty questions.
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Post by thicknthin on Sept 5, 2024 17:39:18 GMT
“final ball” boils my piss.
It’s always the final ball if it’s a shit pass
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Post by smallthorner on Sept 5, 2024 17:45:09 GMT
He's gone to the monitor.
We all know what that means....
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Post by hughjarse on Sept 5, 2024 18:01:10 GMT
Recent commentator’s cliches “Apologies for any bad language you may have heard from the crowd”. I never hear it so I’m always left wondering what they said |
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