Dated v New Football Lingo
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Watching Tottenham v Liverpool yesterday, Gary Neville described a cross by Trent Alexander-Arnold by saying he, 'dropped the ball on a sixpence'. Isn't that a phrase used to describe a manoeuvre, or player turning in a tight spot? I suppose the phrase could be applied to delivering a ball with accuracy, but sixpence? It's a bit dated, no?
I have no memory of a sixpence (although I think the coin went out of circulation in the early seventies; I would have been a toddler). Yet, the phrase, 'turning on a sixpence' is still used by commentators, match summarisers and players to this day. My son (now 16) plays and I've not once heard him refer to a coin to describe how tight the space was etc. In football parlance we still hear, 'taking the game by the scruff of the neck', 'chomping at the bit', 'downed tools' and even, 'the gaffer'. They're all a bit dated yet still used by footballists. Will this eventually phase itself out as younger generations 'come up through the ranks', or is it a language that gets passed on?
What other old phrases and terms are there that are out of place today? I hear my son using terms like, 'they got cooked' or [a player] got 'sent' or that a teams attacker 'got pocketed'. I've heard 'heavy metal' football (used to describe the style implemented by Jurgen Klopp) and 'worldy' seems to be a popular word to describe an amazing goal.
Dated or modern, what do you have in your locker?
I have no memory of a sixpence (although I think the coin went out of circulation in the early seventies; I would have been a toddler). Yet, the phrase, 'turning on a sixpence' is still used by commentators, match summarisers and players to this day. My son (now 16) plays and I've not once heard him refer to a coin to describe how tight the space was etc. In football parlance we still hear, 'taking the game by the scruff of the neck', 'chomping at the bit', 'downed tools' and even, 'the gaffer'. They're all a bit dated yet still used by footballists. Will this eventually phase itself out as younger generations 'come up through the ranks', or is it a language that gets passed on?
What other old phrases and terms are there that are out of place today? I hear my son using terms like, 'they got cooked' or [a player] got 'sent' or that a teams attacker 'got pocketed'. I've heard 'heavy metal' football (used to describe the style implemented by Jurgen Klopp) and 'worldy' seems to be a popular word to describe an amazing goal.
Dated or modern, what do you have in your locker?
essayer said:
put it in the onion bag
I said that to the boys in the team I used to manage and they all looked at me like I'd just spoken a foreign language. Explaining it still didn't make sense because none of them came from a household where they bought their onions in an old style bag. Feirny said:
I think all this xG (expected goals) is absolute b
ks. How you can expect a certain amount of goals is silly. I think it’s just something someone has made up to sound cool but it needs to f*ck off.
Absolutely dead on. xG is a load of sks. How you can expect a certain amount of goals is silly. I think it’s just something someone has made up to sound cool but it needs to f*ck off.te, they act surprised when the xG is low and then its a 5 goal thriller. It's nonsense.
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