Quote Originally Posted by kettering_baggie View Post
Another stupid comment by many commentators is when the ball hits a post or the crossbar, ‘….they’ve been saved by the woodwork’! No they haven’t, the goal frame doesn’t move, the shot was off target. Idiots.
As an ex grammar school boy you really should know the inference of “saved” here Kets.

There’s a difference between your suggestion that the goalposts moved around to make a “save” and the truth of the comment in that the woodwork “saving” the defending team was based on “saving” their hopes.

Don’t mention it, glad to have helped here!