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grumpy_boy | 19:55 Sat 28th Sep 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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Where the hell did the phrase 'early doors' come from? Mainly used by football players or managers as in, 'We got a goal early doors'? I've never known a door to be early, or late for that matter!!!
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I think it's one of TV pundit "Big Fat" Ron Atkinson's malapropisms. He meant to say "early days" and it stuck.
23:10 Sat 28th Sep 2002
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Ron Atkinson, the football manager and commentator, is often credited (?) with inventing this term instead of just using the word "early". But it seems to have originally been a theatrical and music hall expression for the members of the audience who came to an early evening performance.
23:35 Sat 28th Sep 2002

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