Football phrases you hate...

[Sticky Toffee Pudding]

The referee is checking his watch

 

[summerisle]

And



Not forgetting :



And, of course :



And, coming up on the outside to win, is :

 

[Sticky Toffee Pudding]

I'd take a ugly win ,over ugly woman any time.

 

[KaiserEFC]

“Sources tell us team x is in for player y”

Even though player y signed a 5 year deal a year previously, team x already has 7 left backs , player y doesn’t remotely fit the way they play and the poor bloke would have to go and live in Wigan from London.

Almost always followed up with “but nothing is official at this stage” so they can get away with printing a poorly thought out lie.

 

[Rugby Toffee]

Break the lines
low block

And anything Carragher and co utter

 

[malacker94]

And



Not forgetting :



And, of course :



And, coming up on the outside to win, is :

that's nightmare material

 

[summerisle]

that's nightmare material

As bad as :

 

[malacker94]

'Manager X's philosophy'
'This is a tactical battle' when two inept teams play each other and nothing happens
In German they often say: 'Da fehlt der Zugriff' when a defender plays poorly in a situation which could be translated as 'He doesn't have a grasp on the attacker'. This was a sentence in an analysis by Hansi Flick, the philosopher king of German football, when asked why we conceded.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

"He had to improvise there" - most of the game is improvisation other than set pieces.

"He didn't/couldn't quite ...................." you mean he missed.

 

[Sticky Toffee Pudding]

He's playing out of his skin.

 

[Moonlight dribbler]

He is a good fit.
He is a bad fit.
Good shout.
My take.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Michael Keane stsrts

 

[anjelikaferrett]

The idiots on sky ' my sources tell me'

This. 100%

 

[anjelikaferrett]

A coming together - usually involving a blatant and obvious foul committed by one of the Sky 6.
xG still no idea what this is

Slide rule pass. Does anybody these days know what a slide rule is or even use one.

Wand of a left foot. Right feet never get this accolade.

 

[Sticky Toffee Pudding]

Have you anything smaller.