The Language Of English Football.

[oldgit]

Ever noticed how the English football fraternity have devised their very own vocabulary?Here are some of their utterances;

1)"In all fairness"="To be fair"=Actually,I.....etc.

2)"Massive"=quite big.

3)"Massively"=quite big?!

4)"The Gerrards and Rooneys of this world"=Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney, NOT Mr. Gerrard and Mr.Rooney,the blokes who clean the toilets in the local shopping centre.

5)"The Man.Utds,Arsenals and Chelseas of this world"=Man.Utd.,Arsenal and Chelsea,NOT the teams that play in the Inter Stellar league on Pluto.

6)"Literally gutted"= unhappy

7)"Make no mistake(s)"=watch out.Masefield balls up in brackets.

8)"Thin end of a slippery slope"=perilous.I think that was a Bobby Robson gem.

9)"Everest to climb"=impossible situation.

10)"110 per cent"=100 per cent.

11)"The big fella up front"=log of wood.

12)"At the end of the day"=finally,or indeed,in the afternoon?

13)"Early doors"=early on.

14)"Put bums on seats"=the Gerrards and Rooneys of this world.

15)"Down to the bare bones"=I've got to play that deadweight I bought from Italy five years ago.

16)"Totally blown out of all proportion and taken out of context"=true.

17)"The refs had a 'mare"="The ref.has given decisions which,after I've scanned the video replay a dozen times,I don't agree with."

18)"I didn't see what happened"=Every manager conveniently blacking out at the same time one of their players cheats.

19)"Well Sir Alex,how does it feel to win the Champions League?"=some SkySthe limit arselicker.

20)"Well Sir Alex,how does it feel not to have won the Champions League?"=no one,I made it up.

21)"Incredible,incredible,bloody hel_l,football"=Sir A's in depth analysis when Man Utd. beat Bayern Munich to win the Champions League.

22)"I've got a massive amount of respect for what that fellow has done at the very highest level"=Ray Wilkins talking about Bobby Robson in his very best Oxford English.

23)"There are knives going in my back and arrows flying around my head but I don't think some people have any idea what we have to do to keep the ship solvent"=Bobby Robson talking gibberish.Solvents could be the answer.

24)"I make it a rule never to comment on referees and I'm not going to change my rule for that tosser"=Ron Atkinson on T.V.

25)"Frankly, we've got to look at ourselves in the mirror"=manager or player passing the buck.

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[chavy]

Ahmen to point 18 oldgit, that particular line is spoken far too often.

[mrtoad]

"Hollywood ball" - a fancy pass that hasn't come off. I believe one of Big Ron's famous phrases. Not as famous as the other one, but I wont mention that........."Lazy Fckuing ******".

[oldgit]

"Hollywood ball" - a fancy pass that hasn't come off. I believe one of Big Ron's famous phrases. Not as famous as the other one, but I wont mention that........."Lazy Fckuing ******".

The Hollywood ball is one I had'nt heard before,Mr. T.Good one .The next one cost him his job as the <deleted> forgot to turn his mike off.