Football's Most Hated Words

[Guest TinCanFan]

What football words or phrases do you hate most?  For me it's between "Soccer", "At the end of the day" and my most hated of all "it was a fairytale".

[Kingsmills]

As far as cliches go eleven men against eleven men is hard to beat.

[Heilandee]

"we're nine points clear,that should see us safe from relegation"   :019: :019: :019:

[chris123]

my words include

freeland

strachan

diddy

strachan

bigots

strachan

postponed

strachan

monday night

strachan

strachan

strachan

[buckett]

Early doors

He's went . . . .

At the end of the day

Punching above our weight

Rangers/Celtic 5 . . . .

[Yngwie]

110%

[Scotty]

... strong on paper

... a game of two halves

... you can't get closer than that

... All Credit to 'oppositionPlayer'

... He hit it with his favourite left foot

and finally, anything where commentators manage to use England and 1966 in the same sentence like ... England are in red, maybe a good omen as they wore red in 1966...

maybe we should start a thread for the best comments ? I quite liked this one from the wee ginger tawt ....

interviewer: "Gordon, can I get a quick word?"

strachan:" Velocity"

interviewer: "in what areas were you beaten today gordon?"

strachan: "that big green one over there!"

[caley89]

ross county football club  lol

[Scotty]

having thought about it more, my most hated is any sentence that contains the words "Inverness NIL" anywhere in it

[MorayJaggie]

Mine has definatley got to be Scotsport presenters and Inverness for the drip this season a few of my mates who are celts and gers are saying it grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[chris123]

having thought about it more, my most hated is any sentence that contains the words "Inverness NIL" anywhere in it

Unless its "Inverness 9 Celtic (and the wee ginger barsteward) NIL"

[RiG]

"Gretna" and "fairytale".

[tm4tj]

One that will loom on the horizon for us in the future

It is now mathematically impossible to avoid relegation :029:

[Kingsmills]

Ouch !

[SMEE]

-  On any other day

- "They think its all over.....it is now"

[SMEE]

When a player has been sed to have "won" a free kick or penalty ala Andy Walker. To me it suggests cheating :020:

[Alex MacLeod]

"it was a game of two half's"

[wyness_is_god]

"1966" and "England start another qualifying campaign, we can win this one cant we ?"

John Motson is an utter *** :008:

[SMEE]

Just Listening to Celtic game on radio...and a phrase i hate AND one I had considered posting in my earlier replies was mentioned.........so, its going in

-meat and drink (I mean......WTF?) :029:

[dead_ball_specialist]

Kevin Keegan Quotes:  :029:

"If I've got a blank piece of paper, there's 2 names on it."

"You can't play with a one armed goalkeeper...not at this level"

"England have the best fans in the world and Scotland's fans are second to none"

"I don't think there's anyone bigger or smaller than Maradona"

"The tide is very much in our court now"

"They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Highway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different"

"What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio."

"If we played like this every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistant."

"He was Liverpool through and through, he had red blood running through his veins."

John Motson Quotes :  :024:

"That's football Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice."

"For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all yellow strip."

"Mirandinha will have had more shots this afternoon than both sides put together."

"I would also think that the action replay showed it to be worse than it actually was."

"They have got their feet on the ground, and if they stay that way they will go places."

"He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head."

"The crowd think that Todd handled the ball... they must have seen something that nobody else did."

"There's no way Ryan Giggs is another George Best, he's another Ryan Giggs."

"Ronaldo is always very close to being either onside or offside."

"Julian ***** is everywhere, it's like they've got eleven ***** on the field."

"What will you do when you leave football Jack... will you stay in football?"

"You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals."

"You couldn't have counted the number of moves Alan Ball made... I counted 4 and possibly 5!"

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[beachcomber]

"It's a big ask" gets me every time

[Johnboy]

Colemanballs D-B-S..?

Here's a few more....

Motson : When he (the Chelsea goalkeeper) learns to speak English, he'll be the best keeper in the country....

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected -

Paul Gascoine

Commentator : So at the end of the day why do you think Arsenal won?

George Graham : Because we scored 2 goals and they scored 1...

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win...

Vinny Jones

It was a terrible challenge - could have decapitated both his legs....

Colin Gibson

A brain scan has revealed that Caddick is not suffering from a fractured shin...

Jo Sheldon

Even one goal would be enough to break the deadlock...

Alan Parry

We always consider a point dropped at home is a point dropped...

Walter Smith

Jim Rosenthall : So what's an American doing playing in goal for Millwall?

American Goalie : I'm just trying to keep the ball out.

He had no alternative but to make a needless tackle...

Paul Elliot

A late consolation goal from Middlesbrough - but they won't take any consolation from it....

Ray Stubbs

I've played against him a few times... He's a very tough kettle of fish....

Kenny Dalglish

[Alistair]

One of the worst from  a lot of commentators is the phrase. "he just about stopped that one". When clearly the goalie made a save. Not just about he actually did it.

[Libero]

got to be they think its all over .......  as mentioned above

or

anything that comes out of andy walkers mouth

[gerx13]

"If you want entertainment go to a cinema" Blobby Williamson. What a sh*t footballing philosophy.  :001: