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By Tony Attwood
We have commented on the fact that most football commentaries are so awful it is better to turn the sound down most of the time. But for once I want you to turn the sound up, to help develop an Football-English dictionary (that is a dictionary of the gibberish phrases that people say when working for radio and TV in English, and while seemingly watching a football match at the same time.
Apart from the phrases we need to know what they mean.
Here are some we have already.
- A footballing side
- A game of two halves
- All to play for
- Best form of attack is defence
- Can’t win nothing with kinds
- End to end
- Just enough to put him off
- He bottled it (he’s a bottler)
- He had to go
- He has lost the dressing room
- High and wide
- Literally – A literally impossible angle, (or maybe literally raining cats and dogs)
- Lost a yard of pace
- Mark of true champions
- On paper
- Park the bus
- Row Z
- The magic of the Cup
- This game needs a goal
- They’ll know they have been in a game
- Schoolboy defending
- Too good to go down
- You can’t get cheaper than a free transfer
- You can’t question his committment
- Up for the cup
- Unbelievable
- Virtually unmarked, virtually impossible
- World class
What you can’t include are the ones that we have invented
- Rotational time wasting
- Rotational fouling
- A 14 man team (11 players, ref and 2 linesmen)
So we need
Definitions and extra phrases please, starting this afternoon.