Football phrases you hate...

[jonesey10]

XG
"Idea ball" and my all time fave...
"He's not that sort of player" after he rakes his studs down someones chest.

 

[KaiserEFC]

XG
"Idea ball" and my all time fave...
"He's not that sort of player" after he rakes his studs down someones chest.

I hate XG.

Yeah so their average XG is 2.7 so it’ll come, the advanced metrics are saying blah blah blah

It’s March and they’ve scored 37 goals all season.

 

[Jacob]

Pearl Drop Rodgers had me guessing when he first uttered in interview at the RS.. "as a side, they're very good in the transition". I was eventually informed that this meant doing what the aim of a football team is ie, moving the ball forward from one end of the pitch to the other.

The club did have their own in house psychiatrist at that time though I believe...on secondment from their Supporters Club in Lower Breck.

 

[Jeff Jones]

Big club.

 

[KaiserEFC]

“This could be England’s tournament”

After getting into an international tournament by winning every game in a group consisting of San Marino, Moldova, Faroe Islands U12’s and Pontypandy FC

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Relegation...

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

In the PL era...different name same shabite

 

[glory_daze]

"Ex/former Liverpool " even though a player has had a number of clubs, John Barnes is the perfect example, rose to fame at Watford,especially with that goal v Brazil in 83 or his goal of the season in 84 for Watford at Birmingham,yet media only recognise or portray his time at RS.

 

[DualityNSNO]

I hate XG.

Yeah so their average XG is 2.7 so it’ll come, the advanced metrics are saying blah blah blah

It’s March and they’ve scored 37 goals all season.

I mean that's even more telling that there's a striker problem.

The media should've never found out abot xG ffs

 

[perth_blue]

Any noise that Jimmy Bullard makes.
Arseclown.

 

[davep]

If anything he's hit it too well...

(Apologies if posted. Arsed reading all 15 pages)

 

[davep]

They all have developed since we became an americanised TV show instead of a football match.

When was it first used?
In the 1930s,the Austrian national team known as the wunderteam were dazzling fans and opposition teams with their revolutionary style of play. Leading the team was the withdrawn center forward Matthias Sindelar. Sindelar was one of the first strikers who dropped deep to create havoc among defences. Then there was the great Hungarian team of the 50s with Nandor Hidegkuti as the deep lying forward. But in modern football,the earliest example one can think of is,Francesco Totti for Roma under Luciano Spaletti in 2006/07.

 

[Sticky Toffee Pudding]

Get in the hole

 

[Street end man]

Give the kid time, he's only 26.

 

[slipstream86]

"We all need to put our hands up and be counted"

Utterly ridiculous metaphor, often spouted by managers/players on a poor show of form. You're going to have to raise more than just a hand to win the approval of paying fans I'm afraid....and to be counted??? Literally, just making up the numbers.