Well worn cliches...

[Ben1]

One of the most boring cliches I ever heard but never will again...

"It's been xxxxxxx years since Spurs last managed to win away at Chelsea".

Good bloody riddance to that one too.

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This irritates me most with promoted clubs...'they haven't won here in 56 years'...yeah that's 4 matches, calm it.

 

[class of 62]

Running down the channels..

The English.. The Bristol??

 

[Spurslove]

This irritates me most with promoted clubs...'they haven't won here in 56 years'...yeah that's 4 matches, calm it.

Yep. Good shout.

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[SUIYHA]

• When a goalkeeper is pretty crap but people try to find positives and call them a "good shot stopper". Newsflash - ALL goalkeepers at Premier League level are "good shot stoppers". If they're not good shot stoppers, they will not be a professional goalkeeper! Now fair enough if they have lightening quick reflexes or agility to dive across the goal to make outrageous saves, but shot stopping is literally the absolute basic!
  
  
• When a big team gets completely outplayed but somehow manages to nick a result and people say "they just know how to win these sorts of games" - such an easy thing to say after a victory, is it so hard to say they got lucky and probably didn't deserve it?
  
  
• "They have a bad record away from home against the top 6" - no shit sherlock, so does everybody, those games are pretty fucking hard to win.

And the absolute worst:

• "We'd have won if only we'd taken our chances" - Nobody scores all of their chances! If you have missed loads it means your attacking players were shit and they probably don't deserve to win.

 

[VegasII]

'Man on'
'Anfield boot room'
'5 times'
'The lights are burning bright at White Hart Lane' (some **** probably just left them on)

The flipside is I still quite like the phrase 'Swoop'...can't beat a transfer swoop. Or 'Reducer' when used on Salah.

 

[VegasII]

Thunderbolt

And Lightfoot?

 

[Spurslove]

I hate these bloody transfer windows when the sports media use the word 'eyeing' when referring to one club (allegedly) looking at a particular player. It means absolutely nothing. It's a throwaway comment with no basis in truth.

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[TheChosenOne]

'Man on'
'Anfield boot room'
'5 times'
'The lights are burning bright at White Hart Lane' (some **** probably just left them on)

The flipside is I still quite like the phrase 'Swoop'...can't beat a transfer swoop. Or 'Reducer' when used on Salah.

Square ball ?

 

[alexis]

Andy Gray's "Take a bow, son" always got up my nose for some reason.
Keyes to Gray: "Is it a question of who wants it more?"

Gray and Keyes full stop get up my fucking nose

 

[alexis]

If you go to Thailand you'll hear it often.

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[Spurslove]

Square ball ?

Yeah, that's a good one. In my mind, I think I've just invented a really weird new game...

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[werty]

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It was a terribly put together joke about "tucked away with aplom" and ladyboys.

I think we need to forget that it ever happened.

 

[alexis]

Got it thanks

 

[KenTHFC]

"He's got a wand of a left/right foot"

I'm pretty sure if that was the case they wouldn't be a footballer

Left footed players get that so much, don’t think I’ve ever heard Chris Brunt get described with anything else ?

 

[Lumiere]

One of those special European nights under the lights at Anfield

 

[Spurslove]

I don't know if this fits the bill, but it always winds me up when I hear people describe players like Ron Harris, Nobby Stiles, Billy Bremner and Norman 'Bites Yer Legs' Hunter as 'hard men'. They were nothing of the sort. They were all pussy boys who could dish it out but couldn't take it when given back.

The only really hard man I ever remember, was our own Dave Mackay. He used to kick players all over the park, but when he was subjected to the same treatment, not a peep. He was really some player.

That famous photo of him picking Bremner up by the shirt always embarrassed him. What actually happened was Bremner went down like a pussy boy after a challenge and Dave growled at him 'Get up man, you're a Scotsman'! God rest his dear soul.

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[popstar7]

Mackay had just come back from a season out with a broken leg, if I remember right. And Bremner tried to break it again.

 

[Spurslove]

Mackay had just come back from a season out with a broken leg, if I remember right. And Bremner tried to break it again.

Not a good idea...!

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[TheChosenOne]

The ref 'brandished' a red card !

brandish

ˈbrandɪʃ/
verb
gerund or present participle: brandishing

1. wave or flourish (something, especially a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement.
   "a man leaped out brandishing a knife"
   synonyms:flourish, wave, shake, wield, raise, hold aloft; More
   
   

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[BehindEnemyLines]

Five pages in and we haven't got to...... You don't say no to Madrid

When the big Spanish clubs come calling that's it
Madrid always get their man