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Lazy football cliches

legaladdick
legaladdick Posts: 1,808
edited December 2011 in General Charlton
Ok so maybe I expect too much from pundits/managers but their over-reliance on the same cliches is really tiresome.  Here are a couple of my 'favourites'

'All we ask is that they (the refs) get the big decisions right' (usually after watching contentious incident in slo-mo from a dozen different angles.)

'I've seen them given'. (We have ALL 'seen them given' but that doesn't justify not expressing a firm view)

'He's not that sort of lad' (after a studs up-tackle where the assailant then pretends it was all an accident)

Any others Lifers?
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  • RugbyAddick
    RugbyAddick Posts: 2,091
    'On another day that would've gone in' 

    'On another day he would've buried that'
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,950
    "i didn't see it"/"je n'ai pas le voir"
  • Greg
    Greg Posts: 130
    "Denied by the woodwork"  (as if it moved to block the ball)
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,609
    'He's just having one of those days'
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    it was simulation -----------NO  he cheated.
  • davedave
    davedave Posts: 101
    "These decisions even themselves out over a season".  Oh no they don't!
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,272
    "Rub of the green."  Irritating. 


  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,090
    ... For a big man
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,870
    "Earns £xxxx amount a week, so why's he complaining"
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    "Its a game of two halves"

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  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952

    "But can he do it on a cold Tuesday in <insert northern town>?

    "It's only banter"

    "Is there a Plan B?"

  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    edited December 2011
    And: "we would have lost that match last season"
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    "It's an easy 3 points on paper".
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,337
    'He'll be disappointed with that'
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,427
    "i didn't see it"/"je n'ai pas le voir"
    And I still speak with an Allo Allo French accent despite 20+ years in London !

    The bloke is a fraud.
  • ScrappyCAFC
    ScrappyCAFC Posts: 278
    "he should've had that one"
  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    How about 'do the simple things' or 'get the simple things/basics right'.

    'Plays football the right way' (most often said about a manager whose team is in freefall and who is facing the sack)

    'The ball picked up pace off the wet surface'.  No it didn't, it's against the laws of physics you dunce!!!
  • Norfolk_Addick
    Norfolk_Addick Posts: 2,289
    'Were not looking at the table / other teams around us'

    Of course you're not.
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    ''Great time to score''
  • Oriental_Addick
    Oriental_Addick Posts: 1,003
    Too good to go down....



    ...sigh.

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  • dabos
    dabos Posts: 2,717
    "It's almost too early to score" - as if a striker should intentionally miss an open goal in the first minute.
  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    How have we all missed 'one game at a time'????  As if you can play several at once.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,756
    "He's got a great left foot"

    No, being a reasonable set piece taker and putting in some crosses in with mixed results doesn't mean he has a great left foot. Not said as often about right footed players, despite there being far more of them.

    "He's got ability" or similar about any skilful and or pacey winger in cup or lower league games on TV, including those who offer little apart from very occasional flashes of quality.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,376
    "2-0 is a dangerous lead to have"
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,950

    "(insert name's) shot went wide of the goals"-a townsend

    unless i'm mistaken (insert name's) shot did not miss one goal, boomerang up the other end of the pitch & miss the other goal, so stop saying it

  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    Following on from Scoham - a left foot being described as a 'wand' - never said about a right footed player who invariably is then referred to as 'one-footed'.
  • Swerve
    Swerve Posts: 1,254
    This rubbish about things 'balancing out over the season'. They don't.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,058
    "He could have done better with that..." BUT HE DIDN'T, DID HE? DID HE? NO HE DIDN'T!

    Sorry, that one's a particular bugbear.
  • ScrappyCAFC
    ScrappyCAFC Posts: 278
    "that was a clumsy challenge" - i love that one and you hear it all the time.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,609
    "on paper there the better team" Very,very annoying.

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