Micah Richards throws gauntlet down to Dele Alli

[mawspurs]

Regular Sky Sports pundit and former Manchester City defender, Micah Richards, has told Radio 5 Live tonight that Dele Alli needs to follow up his latest Tottenham performance against Liverpool.

Source: The Boot Room

 

[VegasII]

‘Dele, you will go on my first whistle’.

 

[greaves]

‘Dele, you will go on my first whistle’.

'Throws down gauntlet' is the expression. 'Throws gauntlet down' is just wrong, syntactically. And weak in terms of linguistic impact. Why do people write when they can't?