Hated Footy Phrases...

[silverback]

"seen 'em given"

 

[blueinmadrid]

It's got to be "early doors" - what does that mean?

This. I mean, they never talk about late doors do they?

 

[chaddblue]

"Restored parity"

No, they've equalised or drawn level

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Not a phrase, but a name:
"Bayern Munich"

Their German name is Bayern München which means Bavaria Munich. Yet here in England we take the German first word and the English second word and call them Bayern Munich.

Doesn't make sense! We should either call them Bavaria Munich or Bayern München.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

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!

You're spot on with that post!

It infuriates me. It's like media propaganda is trying to show that football is for thick cunts, and anyone with a few brain cells should choose another sport.

Then you watch other sports and switch on the track&field athletics or swimming or rugby or cricket or anything else where we see that English people are highly skilled and successful and can actually string a sentence together. Then look back at footballers in post match interviews who sound like they're reading a letter out from a four year old and you've just had ninety minutes of seeing that they're utter dog shit at the sport too and we haven't had a successful England team for nearly half a century. And the pundits in the studio of other sports analyse the technical and tactical side if the game with stats and links to strength and conditioning whilst in football they struggle to speak proper English and just give opinions of who is "top top".

I think the media is succeeding at trying to show that English footballers are unintelligent losers and the trend will just continue of our intelligent winners choosing other sports.

 

[IrelandSuperman]

Just watched highlights from the previous round. The multiple ejaculation of "ROOOONEEEEYYYY" with some mention of "captain's goal" added made my fucking stomach turn. Thank God for the Swans winner. Otherwise I may have had a couch to clean, it was that close to me vomiting.

 

[mad4city]

Not a turn of phrase but something that I find off-putting, just the same is the way Sky's pundits dress like they're pall bearers. What is this facination they have with black ties?

 

[laserblue]

"The United Way". Whatever the fuck that means. I'm guessing it refers to incidents like:

1) One chairman selling rancid meat on bent contracts for consumption by Manchester schoolchildren.
2) Another given a police caution for peering under toilet doors in the ladies at Mottram Hall Hotel and then accused of the same by female staff at the swamp who'd been too afraid to say anything before.
3) Evicting badly injured Munich survivors from club houses.
4) Firing at least one of the above by letter.
5) One of their 'legends' banned by the FA from receiving FA Cup Final tickets for 10 years for touting.
6) Another 'legend' demanding and getting £90,000 in 'expenses' relating to the 1998 Munich benefit match.
7) The club paying the above out of the proceeds of the benefit fund instead of from their bulging coffers.
8) Another ex-player convicted and jailed for forging banknotes.

And so on.

 

[Mugatu]

"Stonewall penalty". Hate that. You don't hear of a stonewall anything else.

Speaking of phrases beloved of the Merse, I do like the poignant "next year don't come" and I have a Danger Here t shirt with it on the front.

 

[sir baconface]

"False number nine."

Or a forward who hardly ever scores?