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[BobG]

Nahhh Hound! She's got one arm shorter than the other

Like your anecdote BB!

BobG

[GazLaz]

Having worked in a football environment at a few different levels I don't think the game itself helps this.

I remember being sat in a meeting at St George's Park in about 2014/2015 and Dan Ashworth came to do a presentation. It was all about the 'England DNA' and how all the age groups, men and women, were going to play.

Even as someone who thinks he knows a lot about football - for some of it he may as well have been talking Greek. It felt forced and felt like he/The FA were trying to sound like their way of playing (which was basically getting the keeper to play it out to the full backs and play quickly through a press) was ground breaking.

Sometimes feel they try to gatekeep the game so they sound more intelligent than us in the stands (to some extent they are because that's why they're there) but I was sat there just wanting him to tell us what he was actually talking about!

I guess the modern age of social media and access to content as meant more technical terminology has found its way into the every day vocabulary so there's more opportunities to bas**rdise it!

I think we’re going to see a turnaround to something different before long. That’s how things evolve in general. Tuchel might be thinking of something like this in getting England to play a bit more direct, sometimes with wide players crossing but without reverting to Sam Allerdyce football. Gerrit forrad (sometimes).

Bob - it was Mike Channon who said ‘the boy Lin-acre’ and ‘Line-acre’ in his ooh arrr South West accent. He was corrected but it was a memorable TV moment which stuck in my head too.

It’s already happening. The days of pass, pass, pass being the majority of teams Plan A, has gone.

[Spud]

I remember Channon calling him "Line-occur."

I just watched the video that was posted on another thread of the “Wrexham” v the USA ladies team and when one of the early goals was scored the American commentator said that the keeper was beaten on the short side, not beaten on the near post as we almost always say over here.
Will that eventually creep in and be heard on the terraces in the UK.

I watched that, the one that stood out to me was "kick save" !

[ravenrover]

Just a litte off course but at the start of DeeDah at 2.00 on Saturdays one of the clips is "shoots, turns, scores" how does that work?

[andysly]

Sky sports news on just now and heard. Minutes on the pitch, moments, the group.

[Chris Black come back]

Have we done “project” yet? Fabrizio Romano has a lot to answer for. A lot.

[BobG]

I HATE project!!

Any football manager who uses it is henceforth a knob.

BobG

[NickDRFC]

I HATE project!!

Any football manager who uses it is henceforth a knob.

BobG

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/football/mansfield-town-v-doncaster-rovers-grant-mccann-committed-to-project-despite-dismal-form-4460441

[ForsolongaRover]

Goal.

A thing which used to be the apogee of the footballing experience - resulting in either delirium or despair. Now though it means the excuse for a jobsworth a hundred miles away to sit on his arse for 2 minutes while he wonders if somebody's toenail was in the wrong place by a millimetre. Today, 'goal' means the precursor to  long drawn out anticlimax.

BobG

PS. By the by Lincs. I distinctly remember hearing Jack Charlton, being the expert on some televised game, saying "... the boy Lineacre". (The spelling is deliberate. That's what JC said)

PPS. Chris and Spain: I heard 'box it' a few months ago on some obscure late night channel that was broadcasting a game from somewhere in America. The commentators used the phrase 3 or 4 times. The Yank invasion of football has clearly already begun.

“The boy….” sounds rather like one of Bill Shankly’s originals.

[Donnywolf]

I dislike "Frame of the goal" instead of Post or Bar or even Angle

I dislike " Back Stick" even more . Imo Far post still way ahead and didn't need changing

[adamtherover]

When did commentators stop saying nil when calling out a score?  They went up to Middlesbrough and beat them four!!!   Jeez..

[BobG]

Lol  Nick.

If he said it, rather than the paper, then he's a knob!

BobG

[ForsolongaRover]

Hi Silk!

They must both have said it. Honestly, I do remember Jack Charlton saying it - and he had a reputation for bas**rdising words.

Cheers!

BobG

And Bill Shankly before either of them.