Football Clichés- Some of the classics!

Most used football Clichés in the game today.. Please add

My personal favourites..

*No-Nonsense player

*Goals win games

*He's gone down in installments

*They've thrown everything but the kitchen sink

*Shut up shop

.. Anymore for anymore?

Merry Christmas fellow Bluebirds

Game of two halfs
If that had gone in it would have been a goal
He hit that like you hit Ulrika ( to Stan Collymore)

I'm surprised that 'mazy run' is still as popular as ever - and usually nothing to do with zig-zagging (as in a maze) but just a longish dribble by a winger.

'Over the moon' and 'sick as a parrot' have finally disappeared after 40 odd years of use and abuse by the inarticulate in front of a microphone.

Pundits BBC
Pundits on Match of the Day
Researchers have found the cliches that make fans wince the most when they tune in to Match Of The Day.

They gave "110 per cent" in their trawl of TV highlights to find the most commonly used phrases by pundits such as Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Ian Wright.

According to the experts, "goals win games", "you can't win the title in August but you can lose it" and "he was in acres of space".

Some matches can apparently be a "six pointer" and there's more chance of winning if your team "likes to play football".

Some games "need a goal" but you don't want to "score too early".

A player may have a "cultured left foot" and "earn every bit of his money" if he "knows where the goal is" and hits the "back of the net". And it always helps to have "genuine pace".

A football match isn't quite complete without a pundit or commentator driving you round the bend with their tired truisms about the game

On a bad day, a player may put on a "ludicrous display" that could leave him having "nightmares about that for years". But if they misdirect a shot they can always console themselves in the knowledge that "if it was on

target, it would have been a goal".

The study commissioned by gaming site MobileSlots.com set out to find the 30 most over-used phrases.

The worst-offending cliches were ones that stated the obvious but other well-worn catchphrases from pundits featured over-used descriptions of stars such as being "top, top players", having something "in their locker" and being "the new Messi".

Several idioms came under fire for their lack of sense such as "that could be a cricket score" and pluralising players' names like "your Rooneys or your Lampards".

MobileSlots.com's Trevor Edwards said: "A football match isn't quite complete without a pundit or commentator driving you round the bend with their tired truisms about the game.

"Some people get so irritated by them that they watch the whole match with their TV on mute just to avoid it."

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Annoying cliches
1 It was a game of two halves

2 It's a six pointer

3 Goals wins games

4 They scored too early

5 He certainly knows where the goal is

6 If that was on target, it would have been a goal

7 Schoolboy defending

8 Good squad on paper

9 Yard of pace

10 Your Rooneys/Lampards/whoevers

11 Cultured left foot

12 He gave 110%

13 He's lost the dressing room

14 He fell into the offside trap

15 He's got genuine pace

16 Away goals count double

17 It could be a cricket score

18 A good time to score

19 A team that likes to play football

20 In his locker

21 This game needs a goal

22 You can't win the title in August but you can lose it

23 He was in acres of space

24 A no-nonsense player

25 He'll have nightmares about that for years

26 That was a great cross but there was no one there

28 Some tired legs out there

29 A bit of 'handbags' going on there

30 Beckham territory

they have been playing with the shackles off since they were relegated and picked up some decent points.

That was a good foul.

Jermaine Jenas makes me laugh, he talks someone absolute crap, got to respect him as an ex pro I suppose but he tries way to hard as a pundit.

A mistake is the only way either side will win this game.
The pitch is a great leveller.

Park the bus

2-0 is a dangerous score.

The classic

"Good touch for a big man"

He put his body on the line.

NO!

He put his body IN the line (of a football).

They're footballers not soldiers!

We wuz robbed

That would have put the game to bed.

" Russel Slade did well to steady the ship"

" Russel Slade did well to steady the ship"

dont forget cleaning up Oles mess, thats quite popular 2

Where do you think they will finish this season?
"Oh i think they will definetely finish there or thereabouts"

A well run little club

He does what it says on the tin

"Beat the keeper but didn't beat the post"

Didn't really beat the keeper then who are there to defend the goal not the post. A bit like having a shot go off target that 'beats' the keeper.

"Pressure's on Norwich"

Everyone's second team

I used to love that one

Kamikaze defending

He's turned on a sixpence

"They're all 6's and 7's"

"The Swansea Way" Whatever hapened to that one??

Any interview by Russell Slade is littered with football cliches in amongst him blowing his own trumpet.

Early doors.. and "they've opened the floodgates"

They won't want half time to come now.

Andy Gray - 'That lino's got a fantastic set of norks. Is this mic on? Bugger.'