Football Phrases

homedeeth | 07:38 Tue 09th Feb 2016 | Sport

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Strength and depth
Out and out striker
Stonewall penalty

Do these actually mean anything

Or just something Alan Hansen made up

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douglas9401

Strength IN depth

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/strength-in-depth

Out and out

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/out-and-out

Stonewall (the answer's in there but you need to read down) :-)

https://mikewhalley.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/last-on-motd-the-stonewall-penalty/

Hope that helps.

weecalf

Game of two halves need to be explained .ok so Spurs play bad first half come back and score 8 goals in the second half a game of two halves so the not needed football pundit say .So let's look at that of course it's two halves no matter what happens .lf Spurs had not scored 8 goals then it would not be a game of two halves .so unless the second half is different it's not a game of two halves even though the ninty minutes are divided in to two of 45 minutes .Sack the lot of them I tell you

Arksided

He's 'Hit the ground running' always gets me. I understand the meaning just a stupid expression.

Hopkirk

A worldie.

andy-hughes

The issue here is - history shows that a lot of, but by no means all footballers may not be the most erudite and educated people in the world - and that extends to footballers who become managers and pundits.

They want to sound like they know what they are talking about, but they lack the breadth of vocabulary and descriptive powers to do so comfortably and easily.

The stock phrases therefore come into play - and can be used to compile a cliché dictionary.

I always found Alan Hansen to be a good summariser of a game, especially for someone like me whose knowledge of the game is scant at best.

I also think that Alan Shearer has developed into an impressive annalist, from the bumbling and often mute pundit he was at the start.

sir.prize

The term 'square ball' always confuses me.

needawin

Here comes the second wave! Is it an air raid or something!

Hopkirk

I hate it when they say 'early doors', which I think means early.

fiction-factory

I didn't know Alan Shearer was a writer on Roman history, Andy (predictive text can cause all sorts of problems).

Players and pundits often combine stock phrases with incorrect grammar- "he's took one for the team ", "he should of went for that- should of been straight red" as well as dubious maths "he give 110% today". On the other hand, some of their stock phrases might be seen as clever metaphors and similes in other fields- for example "parking the bus", " he went down in instalments" or "like a knife through butter" or "he rose like a salmon". They also use words most of us never use in every day conversation "he was adjudged offside".

I love football and I enjoy listening to the commentators, pundits, managers and players so the use of stock phrases doesn't bother me.

Whatever happened to "sick as a parrot" by the way

Arksided

One of my favourites 'That'd been a great goal if it was on target'.

fiction-factory

More a Colemanball than a phrase, but I remember "If that had gone in it would have been a goal!"

PankySmooch

Alan Hansen's biggest gaff was "You can't win anything with kids" that was just before Man Utd won everything for the next 20 years!

I hate it when commentators say "They've put a good shift in" or even worse when they call it a park instead of a pitch...Park???... There's no dog *** or swings n slides..behave yourselves!