Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

always been the bane of my life doing things too well tbh

"missing" being compatible with "technically perfect" hmmmm

he's hit it too well if anything

it's almost as if you've found a footballer who doesn't have the perfect words to express what he means, contact nasa. if english was his native language this would be even more amazing.

no, that's not the point. as Number None pointed out, the "hit it too well" cliche is a thing amongst Anglophone footballers/pundits too

It's not completely nonsensical, you might mean the connection and the hit itself rather than the result. Scuffed shots do go in.

there's sort of a sense to it, but i've always found it to be one of the funnier commentary cliches

the one i hate the most of late is people saying "unplayable" to describe a player who is so on form that you can't credibly compete against him. feels more common lately.

fuck yes. HATE it and it's definitely become more common in recent years

it's more annoying because i think they know it's wrong, it's the newness of it that seems to get them all saying it.

Most often used to describe powerful striker types. Like i first noticed it being used a lot when Drogba was at his peak in the Premiership

it's almost as if you've found a footballer who doesn't have the perfect words to express what he means, contact nasa. if english was his native language this would be even more amazing.

― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 13:33 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

often feel like we need to clone another garda to scorn the one-eyed bullshit the other comes out with sometimes

like if hoy was defending chamakh saying that you'd so have buried him

'unplayable' is fair usage tbqh

the one i hate the most of late is people saying "unplayable" to describe a player who is so on form that you can't credibly compete against him. feels more common lately.

― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:48 PM (22 minutes ago)

this is pretty bad, think it has a lot to do with drogba

no i wouldn't have slated hoy hoy, i actually believe my further argument in this case, hence why i don't think there was any great disagreement with number none.

i just think it was fairly pedantic even by ilx standards, not a big deal.

there are times when drogba does look like hes impossible to contain and the term sort of makes sense

most of those times involve william gallas tho

its not as bad as the grayism

UNSTOPPABLE

UNSAVEABLE

IF U HAD THREE GOALIES U WOULDNT OF SAVED THAT

to me "unplayable" is wrong just because it's a negative term, like the match was "unplayable" due to adverse weather conditions. or he's "unplayable" due to an injury or something. it's passive, the thing it describes cannot be played, surely? for a player to be "unplayable" surely that would mean he was suspended or injured or shit? it's a really ugly word anyway...

syntactically it means play is transitive wrt to players, players can be played like for example if torres rapes vidic then it means vidic has been 'played'

torres atm is eminently playable tho

oh god i did that wrt to thing again i hate that

yeah i guess in the modern sense of "play or get played" it does mean something, not sure your andy townsends are invoking this though.

messi is pretty unplayable.

I haven't heard "meat and drink" (or variants e.g. "food and drink") so much lately, which is meat and drink to me

iirc "unplayable" came from Triple H of WWE and the lyrics of his theme song "The Game" by Motorhead

they should start saying "meat and chips"

in homage to the true late night kebab snack

twitter.com/philmcnulty/statuses/180055889452081155

Penny for AVB's thoughts after that show of guts and character from Chelsea. Some of the old unplayable Drogba there tonight.

Many would have paid more than a penny for the thoughts of Villas-Boas if he was watching this game while the wounds heal from his sacking. He may have wondered how he could have failed so spectacularly to coax a performance on this scale from Chelsea during his nine months at the club.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/2012/03/abramovich_basks_in_chelsea_vi.html

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Thursday, 15 March 2012 23:42 (1 month ago)

nice to know he successfully refashions his twitter insights on the big stage, nult is unplayable at the business end of things

nult is technically perfect.

i may be misunderstanding youse leadig lights- it is my steez tbf- but i think the 'play' in playable (or otherwise) simply refers to 'having as opposition'. 'we're playing x next week', sort of thing. 'unplayable' just hyperbolises the concept of the difficulty of doing this with drogbascent opposition.

The key figures were Drogba, Terry and the indefatigable Lampard.

indefattiable more like amirite

I guess darragh, just unplayable surely used to describe waterlogged pitches or whatever.,,

has it been used in like cricket or something like a really good delivery?

yeah i know, but we've just got to allow this one uncertainty into our vernacular, we've got to take on the challenge of deciding whether the word refers to a cresting beast mix of power, pace and technique like drogba or whether it refers to a lumpy, cut-up, soggy mess that the ball seems to come off at unlikely angles like luke chadwick

naturally I also dislike 'unplayable'

I have a bit of an instinct that it really needs a dulling preposition beside it, like 'against' - a bit 'unlistenable [to]'
but I think I may even be wrong about that.

no i think that's it

they could just say unstoppable.

Imagine an unstoppable delivery in cricket, that'd be something to see

uncuntable

unstoppable a bit lacking in terms of the continuous imo, fooball jargon has a good instinctive feel for these finicky gaps u know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7oBceuEJ9k

interesting - that ball was "unplayable" because of the unplayable condition of the pitch

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/05/article-1320515297477-0EADE91B00000578-734492_636x300.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJiehceTvRs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/20/ched-evans-found-guilty-rape

if on the same night, both had sex with the same person who was too drunk to consent, then am i missing something?

“John Terry for me is the best defender technically I’ve ever seen. I used to say to him: come out with the ball.

"But English football always encouraged him to be more aggressive, play on his power and determination. We should have tapped into his technical ability. He could control a game in same way Beckenbauer could. But that wasn’t the English way.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/european-championships-2012/9214801/Joe-Cole-Liverpool-was-a-bigger-culture-shock-than-France-and-Ive-not-given-up-hope-on-playing-at-Euros.html

That's good. I wish it were feature-length though, he sounds like he's got stuff worth saying.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/european-championships-2012/9214801/Joe-Cole-I'm-a-cunt-kill-me-please.html

seo hof