x-post I dunno, if a player hits the post or something I kind of think "yeah he's done well, unlucky."
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
like it's just an inch or two away, he's done so little differently from what he would have had to do to score
which reminds me, "just an inch away!" or "only millimetres from scoring!" when the ball whistles past the post = idiocy, once ball clips post it's still got a good 7 or 8 inches' leeway before it's hitting post and going in
― your favorite toy dinosaur ruined my asshole (acoleuthic), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but is pretty close...surely a post isn't 7 or 8 inches wide?
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but it's kinda like saying 'oh that was close' when you get 5 out of 6 letters needed in a wordsearch.
― dumb mick name follows (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
cliche- jermaine defoe missing a penalty. that's 4 in a row.
― dumb mick name follows (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
edge of ball clips outside edge of post to centre of ball hitting centre of post is about 4 inches...2 more inches and it's inside of post and out...3 more inches and it's in. at a rough guess.
― your favorite toy dinosaur ruined my asshole (acoleuthic), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not...missing by 10 feet, missing by a lot, like I said, hitting the post is so close to scoring. putting ball straight at the keeper or something, that's worthy of disdain.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, no i take and agree with your point, i was just arguing that when a ball MISSES the post and a commentator makes out a breath of wind could have taken the ball in, then i am in disagreement. a bit like
"it was in all the way! then it just curled away at the last moment!"
shut up.
― your favorite toy dinosaur ruined my asshole (acoleuthic), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
"i've seen them given"
― open your shart to me (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"the back of the net...'
Did a quick scan so not sure if it's been mentioned but....
The place every striker tries to put the ball, and every goalkeeper dejectedly retrieves the ball from after he's been scored against, is in fact the FRONT of the net FFS!!!! The BACK of the net is the area BEHIND the net, ie between the net and the perimeter fence!
― Fred Nerk, Sunday, 24 January 2010 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Germans are very clinical and precise on the pitch..."
― more like Goldblapp (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 24 January 2010 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
We can take a lot of positives away, despite the result.
You never hear athletics commentators say an ageing sprinter has an extra yard of pace in his his head, do you?
― ithappens, Sunday, 24 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
― dumb mick name follows (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:12 (20 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
No wonder he isn't in Capello's 11.
― dumb mack maine follows (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 24 January 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
"he shut the door in his face"
― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Sunday, 31 January 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
It's wrong to mock non-native speakers of English for their mistakes, but the expression "he's in a good moment" (to describe a player on a good run of form) is starting to get on my nerves.
I just worry that it's only a matter of time before it rubs off on the English lads and you get, say, Joe Cole saying Yeah, Didier's in a good moment, ya know.
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 8 February 2010 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
In a good moment seems to be hugely prevalent among italian native speakers, it must be a direct translation of a phrase?
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, and Portuguese (cf Mourinho). As I say, I don't want to sound mean, but I just wish someone would have a quiet word.
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 8 February 2010 10:42 (fourteen years ago) link
kind of thing a professinal translator like mourinho should be marking himself down on tbh.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yes i am aware that the word 'interpreter' exists. gah.
That player x is a 'genius' instead of a 'talent'. How well one came run up and down a field and kick a ball is not realted to brain power but ahtleticism and instinct, so stop fucking calling good players genius. A great manager maybe.
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
^ inevitable. Rafa also does a line in 'in this moment' to mean 'at the moment' or alternatively 'now'
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 8 February 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
xp creative ability?
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if thinking 'oh hai i'm going to overhead kick that' or 'oh hai i bet i can make it past 3 defenders' or 'oh hai if i put that ball over the top to the right, no-one will suspect it' is genius. We all do it on pro evo and alan hansen gets disappointed every week when someone hasn't done these things.
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
we all do it on pro evo!
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:55 (fourteen years ago) link
David Moyes gets the "moment" habit:
...Moyes said of Sporting Lisbon who have met English opposition six times in European knockout competitions and won through each time. "However, when we played Benfica, they were in a really good moment and I am not sure that Sporting are."
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 08:12 (fourteen years ago) link
that seems to be a borrowed from native latin speakers talking en ingles, i can remember mourinho using a lot
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, but David Moyes is a native speaker of English!
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
heard this one again recently "well for anyone who says that the fa cup isn't exciting anymore, this game proves blah blah"
but i've never heard anyone say the fa cup isn't exciting anymore, ever.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
guess you didn't see the utd-chelsea final a couple years back then
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Just did a "find on this page" for the word "passion", and strangely it hasn't been mentioned. Gaah I hate the overuse of that word.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
say something other than fucking 'keystone cops moment' for once in yr career, plz pundits
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 9 May 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
We showed character.They showed character.Character.
― Chris, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Just realised that it's also one of those words that just looks wrong when you write it. Character.
― Chris, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
character is important: utd - (badge + character) = ?
― Black IP's (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, during the man city game the last night i repeated the 'good feet for a big man' trope so often that my gf, who was trying to read in the corner, lost her temper.
― Black IP's (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 May 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Were you gazing adoringly at her feet at the time? That would explain it.
― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 10 May 2010 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm maybe she's jealous of crouchy. an aspect i hadn't considered tbh.
― Black IP's (darraghmac), Monday, 10 May 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
stonewall penalty
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
now there's a football saying that's at least three removes away from correct usage of the original term, right?
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
It does make you wonder how it found its way into football vocabulary.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
'He's gone over as if....falling over a low stone wall there Brian?"
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
On a more topical theme, when Emile Heskey is picked again, we will no doubt be reminded ad nauseam that he 'does things that most people don't notice'.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:34 (thirteen years ago) link
That one's just gonna get repeatedly clunked against the "I don't care what anyone says, if you're a striker you have to score goals" one until something gives.
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
One thing that nobody has considered is that Heskey is so good he scores goals that people don't notice.
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Heskey workin thru a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis in his head while the neanderthals around him insist on kicking a sphere. actually that may be more of a Berbatov.
― Hippocrates or wat!! (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"It's their cup final" = e.g when Anderlecht, who have actually won a European competition, played Liverpool in the Champions League a few years back
Neil Warnock actually said, about Barrow. "It's their cup final"... just before Barrow were about to play Stevenage in the, errrrrr, FA Trophy Cup Final
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Berbatov blatantly thinks about nothing but genocide, look at his eyes.
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
the way the word FOOTBALL is constantly repeated like we don't know what the moronic game is called
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link