Lazy football cliches

legaladdick

Ok so maybe I expect too much from pundits/managers but their over-reliance on the same cliches is really tiresome.  Here are a couple of my 'favourites'

'All we ask is that they (the refs) get the big decisions right' (usually after watching contentious incident in slo-mo from a dozen different angles.)

'I've seen them given'. (We have ALL 'seen them given' but that doesn't justify not expressing a firm view)

'He's not that sort of lad' (after a studs up-tackle where the assailant then pretends it was all an accident)

Any others Lifers?

RugbyAddick

'On another day that would've gone in' 

'On another day he would've buried that'

Macronate

"i didn't see it"/"je n'ai pas le voir"

Greg

"Denied by the woodwork"  (as if it moved to block the ball)

sam3110

'He's just having one of those days'

Goonerhater

it was simulation -----------NO  he cheated.

davedave

"These decisions even themselves out over a season".  Oh no they don't!

Curb_It

"Rub of the green."  Irritating. 

McBobbin

... For a big man

Rothko

"Earns £xxxx amount a week, so why's he complaining"

eaststandmike

"Its a game of two halves"

BlackForestReds

"But can he do it on a cold Tuesday in <insert northern town>?

"It's only banter"

"Is there a Plan B?"

BlackForestReds

And: "we would have lost that match last season"

Saga Lout

"It's an easy 3 points on paper".

iaitch

'He'll be disappointed with that'

Valiantphil

"i didn't see it"/"je n'ai pas le voir"

And I still speak with an Allo Allo French accent despite 20+ years in London !

The bloke is a fraud.

ScrappyCAFC

"he should've had that one"

legaladdick

How about 'do the simple things' or 'get the simple things/basics right'.

'Plays football the right way' (most often said about a manager whose team is in freefall and who is facing the sack)

'The ball picked up pace off the wet surface'.  No it didn't, it's against the laws of physics you dunce!!!

Norfolk_Addick

'Were not looking at the table / other teams around us'

Of course you're not.

JT

''Great time to score''

Oriental_Addick

Too good to go down....

...sigh.

dabos

"It's almost too early to score" - as if a striker should intentionally miss an open goal in the first minute.

legaladdick

How have we all missed 'one game at a time'????  As if you can play several at once.

Scoham

"He's got a great left foot"

No, being a reasonable set piece taker and putting in some crosses in with mixed results doesn't mean he has a great left foot. Not said as often about right footed players, despite there being far more of them.

"He's got ability" or similar about any skilful and or pacey winger in cup or lower league games on TV, including those who offer little apart from very occasional flashes of quality.

oohaahmortimer

"2-0 is a dangerous lead to have"

Macronate

"(insert name's) shot went wide of the goals"-a townsend

unless i'm mistaken (insert name's) shot did not miss one goal, boomerang up the other end of the pitch & miss the other goal, so stop saying it

legaladdick

Following on from Scoham - a left foot being described as a 'wand' - never said about a right footed player who invariably is then referred to as 'one-footed'.

Swerve

This rubbish about things 'balancing out over the season'. They don't.

thenewbie

"He could have done better with that..." BUT HE DIDN'T, DID HE? DID HE? NO HE DIDN'T!

Sorry, that one's a particular bugbear.

ScrappyCAFC

"that was a clumsy challenge" - i love that one and you hear it all the time.

cafcsinger

"on paper there the better team" Very,very annoying.