Crap football phraseology

[Franchise FC]

And my particular favourite : "giving 110%"

Can someone with more intelligence than me (and there's a fair few of you out there) how anyone can give more than their maximum to ANY activity ?

"going the extra mile"...what fukcing extra mile?...

I'm off work today - man flu - that's cheered me up a bit

[Skyline]

That reminds me of another one - "He covered every blade of grass" - really?

[Franchise FC]

That reminds me of another one - "He covered every blade of grass" - really?

Only Jan Molby could do that - and he didn't need to move, just lie down.

[prostak]

"THAT BOY'S GOT A STEEL SKULL!"

Haven't heard that one - must've been referring to 'Arry Redknapp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio ... Soccer_Pro

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Well he's f*cking wrong - Look at the spelling of it!!

Anyway, proof needed of him stating how his name is said...

I believe his first name should also be pronounced 'Tomarsh' too.

Put it this way....pronouncing "c" as "ts" is the standard pronunciation in Czech (and in much of eastern europe). It could be that...

a) by fluke, his name is pronounced with an English soft c, despite that being unheard of in the Czech language.

b) the people who don't how the pronounce a "c" in Czech are actually wrong.


I don't know about you, being I'm really struggling to decide which of those two is more likely.



Commentators who think Darius Henderson's first name is said the same as Darius Vassell's annoy me, although not as much as when he played for us (..err.. as in it annoyed we more when that said it when he was a Reading player, not that I found him being a Reading player more annoying, although there were days...)

[prostak]

There's a Davies/Motson illness with pronouncing foreign names, too. One day in the distant past, they must have discovered that a particular overseas player had a slurred s in their name, so it sounded like a 'sh'. Since then, every central European s has been assumed to follow this rule. Jonathan Pearce has this same affliction.

Rosicky is pronounced ROH-sits-kee, yes.

[readingbedding]

CONFIDENCE PLAYER.

[seahawk10]

"And it *had* to be David Gerrard!" from his equaliser vs. us during our win over them whilst still in the Prem.

Did it really *have* to be him? No one else could have scored?

lolwut

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

It's a newspaper thing more than the media in general, but does anyone except tabloid headline writers refer to Steven Gerrard as "Gerro"?

[Pseud O'Nym]

Why, according to the tabloids, do managers not just say they need a striker but always have to "admit" it, like it was some kind of crime. Having admitted it and, often, "run a rule" over their targets do they just buy them? No, they "swoop" for them and "snap them up" like some fecking flock of, slightly guilt ridden, pterodactyls.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

In tabloid speak, clubs don't have a transfer budget. They have a "war chest"

[SLAMMED]

"THAT BOY'S GOT A STEEL SKULL!"

Haven't heard that one - must've been referring to 'Arry Redknapp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio ... Soccer_Pro

I loved that game

[Man Friday]

Football pundits still pronouncing Madejski as "Majedski". Gabby Yorath - I thought you were supposed to be eloquent.

[soggy biscuit]

Andy Townsend earlier after a Southampton player crossed the ball across the face of goal too far in front of the attackers so that no one got a touch:

'I am afraid he just hit that too well'

[frimmers3]

Football pundits still pronouncing Madejski as "Majedski". Gabby Yorath - I thought you were supposed to be eloquent.

no,she is welsh.

[AthleticoSpizz]

most recently and topically


his head has been turned


seems to be a phrase that is overly popular, and overly-used,

Used to the extreme this time every year by the media, during the six monthly silly transfer window bun-fight

[M-U-R-T-Y]

"Now we've got a real cup tie on our hands"

What were we watching before?

[Handsome Man]

AC Milan and Inter Milan
Deliberate handball

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

AC Milan and Inter Milan

Inter Milan, I'll give you, but AC Milan is the name of the club
http://www.acmilan.com/

[frimmers3]

paul merson...."ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..he's hit the sunday roast!!!"