Tippy Tappy

[Shaelumstash]

For the last 12 months I've seen the phrase "Tippy Tappy" used on here with increasing regularity.

From what I can gather, it is basically a condescending phrase for players / teams who pass to feet.

It's the same posters who used to ask "does he track back?" before that phrase became a parody of itself.

It's 2013. Possession, passing to feet football is the way the game is played by the vast majority of the top teams. If you want to watch direct football, go to The Swamp. Or The Britannia. Or the 1980s.

 

[SuperYaya]

Wasn't it originally used by Ray Wilkins? I felt like it was his way of saying 'Tiki-taka'.

 

[Shaelumstash]

Wasn't it originally used by Ray Wilkins? I felt like it was his way of saying 'Tiki-taka'.

I'm not sure where it started, but to use another topical Bluemoon phrase "I find it embarrassing" that people think passing to feet is something that should be discouraged!

 

[Rammyblues]

For me one touch decisive passing to feet quickly will unlock most defences, tippy tappy football is where the pass to feet is no more than a yard or so backwards and forward to the same players not going anywhere.

 

[berniethebusman]

Wasn't it originally used by Ray Wilkins? I felt like it was his way of saying 'Tiki-taka'.

I'm not sure where it started, but to use another topical Bluemoon phrase "I find it embarrassing" that people think passing to feet is something that should be discouraged!

It shouldn't but it achieves diddly squat if It's not accompanied with movement.

 

[colin333]

Nasri is an expert

 

[Skashion]

People who say tippy tappy should be shot without hesitation.

 

[Stoned Rose]

For me one touch decisive passing to feet quickly will unlock most defences, tippy tappy football is where the pass to feet is no more than a yard or so backwards and forward to the same players not going anywhere.

Spot on.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

For me one touch decisive passing to feet quickly will unlock most defences, tippy tappy football is where the pass to feet is no more than a yard or so backwards and forward to the same players not going anywhere.

This is my idea of 'tippy tappy' - pass back to the player who has just passed it to you and then take a pass from the next person who received - result is that the ball goes a distance of fifty yards sideways or backwards and three inches forward.

I long for a greater percentage of passes made into space for people to run on to - as well as twenty passes into a space for a striker to smack it past a helpless goalie. Pellegrini hasn't got much to sort out really!

 

[Neville Kneville]

For the last 12 months I've seen the phrase "Tippy Tappy" used on here with increasing regularity.

From what I can gather, it is basically a condescending phrase for players / teams who pass to feet.

It's the same posters who used to ask "does he track back?" before that phrase became a parody of itself.

It's 2013. Possession, passing to feet football is the way the game is played by the vast majority of the top teams. If you want to watch direct football, go to The Swamp. Or The Britannia. Or the 1980s.

Possession football with variation & an end product is surely the way to go. Possession football with no end product is a waste of everyone's time.

But also it's ironic that the clowns on here who made a joke of the idea of tracking back, in the days when everyone was kissing Robinho & Elano's arses, are equally as out of touch as those who don't believe in possession football.

Ask the question 'does he track back' of a Barca, Dortmund or Bayern player, & the answer is 'yes'.