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JennaFletcher
10-11-2010, 05:10 PM
I'm a bit bored today...

What would you classify as some of the most annoying phrases ever used in football? Whether it's commentary, football players/managers themselves, your friends?

I personally can't stand "that's your/our bread and butter" instead of 'the basics'

M11BMO
10-11-2010, 05:17 PM
I'm waiting on Yogi taking over this thread with some of his classics we heard week after week :devil:

JennaFletcher
10-11-2010, 05:19 PM
I'm waiting on Yogi taking over this thread with some of his classics we heard week after week :devil:

"The boys done good"

A lot of footballers also look as if their brain has been scooped out their head just moments before doing an interview on TV as well... :greengrin

Future17
10-11-2010, 05:21 PM
"I'm not one for moaning but....."

or

"I'm not one for criticising referees but....."

HibbyAndy
10-11-2010, 05:22 PM
Defend as a unit.

GB6
10-11-2010, 05:23 PM
The amount of players and the amount of times its said starts to get annoying... when they say ''you know'' in a pre/post match interview

Hibs Class
10-11-2010, 05:23 PM
Commentators who illustrate their ignorance of the laws wuth comments like "he lifted his hands, he has to go" or "he was the last man, he has to go". Or when they(usually Andy Gray) suggests the ref should "show some common-sense".

Thigh ar la
10-11-2010, 05:29 PM
´We punched above our weight´ - which they all seem to use now..
Im sure it was Martin O´Neil that first used it a lot...

Lendo
10-11-2010, 05:34 PM
"he has a great touch for a big man" - Why wouldn't he????

or anything about a player giving "110%"

Hibbyradge
10-11-2010, 05:36 PM
Hibs nil.

TheMentalHibees
10-11-2010, 05:45 PM
"They're a well organised side", "borderline offside", "they didn't clear their lines", "went down like a sack of spuds". There's about a million of them, what was Collins' favourite? "They did ever so well."

Hibbyradge
10-11-2010, 05:46 PM
"He/they just about cleared it."

Greentinted
10-11-2010, 05:46 PM
"He's asking questions of the Hibs defence" :confused:
Its a game o fitba, no University bloody Challenge!

Just Jimmy
10-11-2010, 05:51 PM
at the end of the day...

Westie1875
10-11-2010, 05:53 PM
The amount of players and the amount of times its said starts to get annoying... when they say ''you know'' in a pre/post match interview

"as I says/said" is also a favourite for many :grr: :greengrin

fatbloke
10-11-2010, 06:11 PM
We will take our time and appoint the right man.:greengrin

Emerald
10-11-2010, 06:14 PM
"he has a great touch for a big man" - Why wouldn't he????

or anything about a player giving "110%"
If your guys gave 110% and my guys gave 150%, would the guys giving 200% beat us? At the end of the day, you have to grasp the nettle and give 1000% to stand any chance, you know! I'm proud of their effort despite getting beat 5 - 0, you cant fault them.:yawn:

WhileTheChief..
10-11-2010, 06:20 PM
"2 good teams who like to get the ball down and play football...." said by every pundit before every game on radio Scotland.

Do they ever watch the games in the SPL??:grr:

Haymaker
10-11-2010, 06:23 PM
I heard one the other day "This game is going right to the end..."

Well of course it bloody is! :grr:

Greentinted
10-11-2010, 06:32 PM
"I'm sure we can go to Ibrox and get a result"
Well, duh! A 5-0 doing is a result. A result is the minimum expectation from a football match!

"Playing in the hole"
More apt for those who frequent the hostelries of George St for a post match libation.

"Square baw"

"A game of two halves where football was the winner!"

"A great advert for Scottish football"

"Mutual Consent"

"The Family Final" - A patronising designation appended to a national cup final which is not contested by either of the abominations from the West.

"Scotland needs the Old Firm!" - aye, as much as a post menopausal wifie needs a tampon!

LaMotta
10-11-2010, 06:34 PM
The striker took the penalty and "sent the keeper the wrong way".

The keeper didn't just guess wrong then? Nope the striker magically confused the keeper into diving the wrong way.

snooky
10-11-2010, 06:59 PM
"All sorts of problems" - :grr: :grr: :grr: (Murdo McLeod the worst offender)
"Hopefully" - the most overused word in football
"The jury's still out" - We can blame Stormin Norman in Desert Storm for that one.
"Play it wide" - Everybody says it but nobody actually does it. :grr:
"The old onion bag" - Irish commentator's name for the goal net :grr:
"Vote of Confidence" - the football lingo equivalent of "You will be taken from this court and hanged by the neck until dead".
"The players wurny up for it" - Then get ones in that urr and bin the ones that urny.

...WentToMowAnSPL
10-11-2010, 07:05 PM
"All sorts of problems" - :grr: :grr: :grr: (Murdo McLeod the worst offender)
"Hopefully" - the most overused word in football
"The jury's still out" - We can blame Stormin Norman in Desert Storm for that one.
"Play it wide" - Everybody says it but nobody actually does it. :grr:
"The old onion bag" - Irish commentator's name for the goal net :grr:
"Vote of Confidence" - the football lingo equivalent of "You will be taken from this court and hanged by the neck until dead".
"The players wurny up for it" - Then get ones in that urr and bin the ones that urny.

As per other post. I give you Mr John Rankin ...

“Eight points from 11 games is nowhere near good enough,” the midfielder said, “We have got to step up to the plate and take the bull by the horns."

HibeePaj
10-11-2010, 07:05 PM
they did 'EVER SO WELL' john collins. (passed down to yogi)

Lago
10-11-2010, 07:12 PM
I'm waiting on Yogi taking over this thread with some of his classics we heard week after week :devil:

We gave it a right good go.

SloopJB
10-11-2010, 07:17 PM
Sack the board

shankssaysno
10-11-2010, 07:37 PM
A work in progress

Keith_M
10-11-2010, 07:42 PM
The word "literally" is never used correctly.


"The defender literally cut him in two" - Aye, cos he keeps a chainsaw in his back pocket.

AK86
10-11-2010, 07:44 PM
"plays up top":grr: Its up front!!! do defenders play down bottom:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

"Its the final pass which lets them down":grr::grr: Of course every move ends with the final pass!!!!!!!!!!! Its not going to be the 3rd last pass which breaks down the move is it:confused:

Jim44
10-11-2010, 07:47 PM
Definitely 'definately'

leithsansiro
10-11-2010, 07:52 PM
Not annoying, but more funny - particularly enjoyed Jim Spence's description of a dull first half amounting to "the square root of hee-haw".

Still makes me smile and I try to use the phrase on a daily basis. Try it, it's fun.

e.g
"What have you done at work today?"
"The square root of hee-haw I'm afraid, boss":wink:

heretoday
10-11-2010, 08:21 PM
"He's went and took the kick....."

Despite his many years in the BBC no one has had the temerity to point out to Murdo McLeod the errors in his grammar.

He's not a "role model" to the youth of Scotland!

leithsansiro
10-11-2010, 08:23 PM
He's not a "role model" to the youth of Scotland![/QUOTE]


And it's not just the youth that he's not a role model to. But boy, can he take a free kick to the face...

EasterRoad4Ever
10-11-2010, 08:34 PM
"Hibs open the scoring against the Gers".... with 84 mins left to play :cool2:

"We're seven minutes into injury time....... and goal fur ra Gers !!!"

Cocaine&Caviar
10-11-2010, 08:40 PM
'We are the people'

ballengeich
10-11-2010, 09:00 PM
The use of the historic present tense (by B Dodds particularly). "He crosses and the forward shoots", when the incident was a couple of minutes ago.

Newspaper opinions about managers by their colleagues - I'd like to read a player asked about an ex-teammate who's just got a management job saying "He's a congenital idiot and hasn't any chance of success as a manager". It would usually be true.

Phil D. Rolls
10-11-2010, 09:17 PM
Ever so.

As in "ever so well", "ever so brave" etc.

"Get it sorted Petrie!"

Cropley10
10-11-2010, 09:30 PM
"Set their stall out" is meaningless

"For me..." as in "For me, Messi is the best player in the World". An Alan Shearer fave.

"Take a bow son". As if!

"He'll be disappointed with himself". Always blindlingly obvious after a player has made a howler.