Modern day football terminology.

[Robbored]

Another ‘modern’ term is managers describing their players as ‘a group’ It always used to be ‘squad’. Personally I find that irritating………..

[Swede]

Did someone mention box entries? 

What about giving it to him/her "early doors" Another irritating piece of terminology.

[Red-Robbo]

19 hours ago, pongo88 said:

Back to square one is an old footy phrase you don’t hear very much these days. The phrase originates from the days when football was listened to a lot on the radio. To help the listener picture the scene, the pitch was divided up into a grid of imaginary squares, square one being around the goalmouth. Thus, whenever the ball went out of play for a goal kick, or someone made a boring pass-back (of the type no longer allowed), the commentator would groan: "Back to square one".

Not a lot of people know that 

 

Isn't it more likely to have originated from snakes & ladders (or chutes and ladders as our American friends call it)? You literally go back to square one if you step on the wrong snake. 

[pongo88]

1 hour ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Isn't it more likely to have originated from snakes & ladders (or chutes and ladders as our American friends call it)? You literally go back to square one if you step on the wrong snake. 

Quite possibly because one team who passes the ball back could go back to square one but the other, kicking in the opposite direction, would go back to square 7 or 8. (and they’re not squares) 

[Red-Robbo]

6 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

Quite possibly because one team who passes the ball back could go back to square one but the other, kicking in the opposite direction, would go back to square 7 or 8. (and they’re not squares) 

Aye. Has a measure of urban myth to it that one. Like the oft-quoted "port out starboard home" for Posh. 

[johnbytheriver]

In terms of(should be banned)

[bcdc]

22 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

The corridor of uncertainty.

Surely a cricketing term? The corridor of uncertainty outside the off stump ‘n all that. Wasn’t Geoff Boycott an early populariser?

[Highburnred]

That’s a leg breaker when the challenge made contact but no one suffered a broken leg

[LondonRobin]

Got to be the massive influx of chocolate related terminology see link for proof of such

 

 

[Talk Of The Town]

Low block 

Clutch defending 

Recycling the ball 

[Open End Numb Legs]

Let's face it, we don't really know what the players and coaches say to each other during the game these days, they spend the whole time with their hands over their mouths with paranoia at being lip read.

I remember years ago in my cricket days, the skipper and me had a regular laugh to break the tension when the game wasn't going well. If the opposition batsmen (batters?) were running away with the game and we had tried everything, we would stand in the middle of the pitch pointing and waving our arms about to give the impression we had some great plan to turn things around when in reality we were saying 'we're stuffed', 'your missus is looking good today' and 'where are we drinking after the game?' I sometimes wonder if the pros do that.

[The turtle]

Low block, mid block, high block (did i make it up?) high press.... Half the time people just use one when it's really not what's happening! 

They all sound technical, but it fails to tell the story.

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Double pivot..... So yeah 4231

 

[Shelton’s Love Gravy]

Groin.

[Ago]

There's a really good podcast that is all about the ridiculous language of football. It's called Football Clichés. 

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[Mike Hunt-Hertz]

Managers referring to "the football club" when "us" or "the club" would suffice.

[TedsHeadIs Red]

No end product in the final third = we haven’t scored 

[Offside]

“Time on the grass” really annoys me. Also “We go again” and when pundits discuss whether there was “contact” when a player dives in the penalty area.

 

[Lanterne Rouge]

One that always winds me up far more than it should is `at the helm`. You`re managing a mediocre football team not navigating a supertanker through an Atlantic hurricane FFS!

[Highburnred]

Just heard on Bolton v Oxford that Bolton didn’t attack the ball in the landing zone wtf