Ten of modern football’s most annoying words and phrases

To lighten the mood a bit - quite a funny article in which Malky is guilty of using a number of these.

10. Your Tottenhams and your Arsenals. Your Lionel Messis and your Cristiano Ronaldos
The needless, and inaccurate pluralising of names is a modern blight, largely practised by Ray Parlour. There is, of course, only one Cristiano Ronaldo. Thanks to your Thomas Alexanders of London for bringing this one to our attention.

9. Playing ‘between the lines’
Favoured by Brendan Rodgers and people who watch Barcelona on telly, this essentially means the work of slippery customers like Andres Iniesta and Juan Mata. They used to be called attacking midfielders.

8. The project
Remember last week’s ‘group’? That group is almost always involved in a ‘project’ which an enthusiastic young manager who is good with a PowerPoint presentation has put in place. Our Sunderland Club Metro man David Boyle uncovered this one which is apt, as Gus Poyet is probably a big one for ‘projects’.


7. Holding Role
Until recently this was known as the ‘Makelele role’ after the peerless former Real Madrid and Chelsea midfielder. Before that it was known as ‘central midfield’, and really good ones could go forwards, as well as back. But modern football doesn’t like multi-tasking.

6. Worldy
Again, refer back to last week and the ugly world of ‘tekkers’, ‘ballers’ and ‘#flames’. It’s not longer enough to describe a great goal as ‘great’. It must be ‘worldy’. No, it must not.

5. He’s lost the dressing room
No he hasn’t, it’s right where it’s always been. Did you mean the players have lost faith in the manager? There, that wasn’t so hard was it?

4. We’d be raving about that if he was a foreigner
In the same vein as Sam Allardyce joking he’d get more credit for playing a 5-5-0 formation if he was called ‘Sam Allardici’. Unacceptable.

3. Transitions
Teams used to be good at turning defence into attack – particularly Big Sam’s Bolton when Gudni Bergsson was sticking it onto the rugged head of Kevin Davies from 50 yards away. Now it’s all about transitioning and Andre Villas-Boas’ flipchart. We yearn for simpler times.

2. For me
As in, ‘there’s nothing in that challenge for me Clive’. We know you meant ‘for you’ Andy,  as you can’t possibly presume to know what I’m thinking. You wouldn’t like it if you did.

1. The ‘football club’
As in ‘Mesut Ozil has been a breath of fresh air since he came into the ‘football club’. A favourite of pundits and managers who aren’t as clever as they think, the ‘superfluous’ use of the word ‘football’ here is a blight on the modern game. What else could you mean, the ‘rotary club’? In fairness, this isn’t just football’s problem – golfers are forever talking about the ‘golf course’ and cricketers love their ‘proper cricket shots’. But football is the people’s game and it’s our job to make a stand against this kind of nonsense.

We’re sure there are many more aggravating terms that have slipped through the net again, so please fell free to let us know what gets your goat and we’ll compile our next ten in the not too distant future. Until next time…

http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/09/from-the-project-to-playing-between-the-lines-ten-more-of-modern-footballs-most-annoying-words-and-phrases-4139439/

'If it's not a penalty, he should be booked for diving'  Or, of course, he may have just lost his footing and clumsily fallen over....

And there's one pundit on sky for the lower league clubs who without fail, usually several times in a game, insists on saying 'you can see exactly what he's trying to do there' - drives me nuts!

WTF is 'early doors' all about.
My guess is that some clown meant to say it's early days but came out with early doors instead and it came into use.
Another written rather than spoken phrase I see frequently is 'would of'. It might sound like that but it's 'would have' ffs.
Nice little rant, I'm off for a whisky before bed to celebrate.

Cyncoedslumdog wrote:WTF is 'early doors' all about.
My guess is that some clown meant to say it's early days but came out with early doors instead and it came into use.
Another written rather than spoken phrase I see frequently is 'would of'. It might sound like that but it's 'would have' ffs.
Nice little rant, I'm off for a whisky before bed to celebrate.

Pugger provided the derivation of 'early doors' in this thread:
http://www.redbluebirds.com/t5475-has-the-man-city-game-changed#62425

The Tonker wrote:

Cyncoedslumdog wrote:WTF is 'early doors' all about.
My guess is that some clown meant to say it's early days but came out with early doors instead and it came into use.
Another written rather than spoken phrase I see frequently is 'would of'. It might sound like that but it's 'would have' ffs.
Nice little rant, I'm off for a whisky before bed to celebrate.

Pugger provided the derivation of 'early doors' in this thread:
http://www.redbluebirds.com/t5475-has-the-man-city-game-changed#62425

Thank you. I'm off now - I've got to be up early doors  

Cyncoedslumdog wrote:WTF is 'early doors' all about.
My guess is that some clown meant to say it's early days but came out with early doors instead and it came into use.
Another written rather than spoken phrase I see frequently is 'would of'. It might sound like that but it's 'would have' ffs.
Nice little rant, I'm off for a whisky before bed to celebrate.

"Early doors" was a favourite of Ron Atkinson, but this has come up on here recently and there was a suggestion that it's origins had something to do with the pub trade........

"Would of".......an old annoying favourite, sadly seen too often on here....

Where's the whisky..........

Sorry Tonks......guilty of replying before reading entire thread....didn't see your link........ 

I would of responded sooner but had work early doors

Slumdog's Son wrote:I would of responded sooner but had work early doors

Like father, like son.......... 

I may be dealing in supposition, but it seems that Red may have upset a few people on this board recently.  

What makes you say that lotty?

Rhys wrote:What makes you say that lotty?

The answer lies in many of his previous posts, and I don't mean the recent `Moody' correspondence. N.B. I wasn't having a go at Red, just noting the references to use of 'of' instead of have.  

TDA wrote:

Slumdog's Son wrote:I would of responded sooner but had work early doors

Like father, like son.......... 

Not him as well   

lottydottyblue wrote:

Rhys wrote:What makes you say that lotty?

The answer lies in many of his previous posts, and I don't mean the recent `Moody' correspondence. N.B. I wasn't having a go at Red, just noting the references to use of 'of' instead of have.  

Bless, I had no idea you paid so much attention to my posts! There's me thinking everyone was too obsessed with they're own egos.

(I'll give it a moment )

Quality player. Poor, average, good.?