Hated Footy Phrases...

[willipp]

When players sign for a club and call it a 'project'. Makes me cringe every time.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Time and time again

 

[ianw16]

"It's our year."

"We go again."

"It doesn't slip now."

 

[mosssideblue]

"Unleash the Crowd" wrong game Brenda

"And Its Live" of course it is

Marginally offside

Game Changer

A Game of two halfs

I'm going to stop now, I'm winding myself up

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

He absolutely raped him there.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

"We need to cut our cloth accordingly"

 

[BlueTG]

"TIKKKKABOOOO SUN"

 

[jared]

First Shot in anger

 

[Vienna_70]

Alan Shearer and his 'Could of went,' as in, 'Nani could of went inside, there.'
Just goes to show that one out of three Geordies is just as thick as the other two.

As a linguist (a cunning one!), and at the risk of being pulled up by the grammar police, I'm afraid that the general standard of English used by the majority of these 'pundits' is poor, to say the least.

Most of them fail to realise that terms like 'would have scored' is, in fact, a conditional perfect. Yes, I know that the weak pronunciation of 'have' as an auxiliary verb is the same as the weak pronunciation of the preposition 'of', but come on . . .

Similarly, as the previous poster has mentioned, most of these people cannot distinguish between past simple forms like 'went' and the past participle forms like 'gone'. Thus, we hear expressions like 'the lad done really well' or 'he's went past the defender'.

Another problem is with adverbs. Words like 'fantastic' are adjectives and cannot therefore be used to describe verbs, as in 'he done (sic) fantastic there'.

Apart from that, we have invented words like 'worldy' and the interesting Merson verb 'to header'. This bloke also says 'throw-on' instead of 'throw-in'.

As for their diabolical accents and dialects, say no more!

As our English teacher told us in the first year (as it was then): "There is no such verb as to of!"

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

The swamp
Rags
footy

The title says hated footy phrases, so if you hate these you must be a.......................................................RAG