Annoying football language

[jackal2]

"He finished with aplomb" is one of the phrases most over-used by football commentators and pundits when they're trying to sound cleverer than they are. I very rarely hear the word "aplomb" being used in any other context and I wonder if some of the pundits using it even know what it means.

[SwalePie]

In interviews I almost always hear interviewees referring to 'the football club' when it is clearly unnecessary to specify which sport his club plays.

'I think it will be the right move for the football club', says football manager talking about football on football show.

[jackal2]

In interviews I almost always hear interviewees referring to 'the football club' when it is clearly unnecessary to specify which sport his club plays.

'I think it will be the right move for the football club', says football manager talking about football on football show.

That's true. It's unnecessary and pretentious.

[Elite_Pie]

Likewise, what they really should say is "he got away with cheating" but it seems that this is an excepted part of the game now.

It's the same when the pundits say "he felt contact so he was entitled to go down". If the contact was just a little touch (as it often is) why was he entitled to go down? They should really say "he felt contact so he decided to cheat".

[Woodsetts_Pie]

“VAR are checking”...... I despair

[BigFatPie]

It’s now fashionable for managers to refer to the ‘group’ rather than the ‘team’ or ‘squad’. Dunno why but it irks me.

I blame Danny Cowley for this.

[ncfcog]

If these are the sort of things that bother people then god knows how you cope with daily life! Language changes with the times, how many had heard the word “furlough” a few years ago? I had to go and pick the wife up from work half way through the Denmark v Czech game yesterday so put the radio on to listen to it and there were two women commentators and do you know what, it actually made a nice change, they spoke more about the emotive side of the game, sounded fully invested in the events on the pitch and there was less of the so called annoying language mentioned in this thread.

The only thing that really bugged me during the England game was every time Guy Mowbray mentioned Matviyenko, I couldn’t help but keep humming “get out of your lazy bed”.

[bule1]

ncfcog. No one is saying we can not cope with them, just that we don't like them used in a football context. Just like the bugbear you mention.

[SmiffyPie]

It's not limited to football but what really, REALLY, gets my goat is when asked to comment the person being interviewed starts the reply with "Yes, no ...." Just start the reply for heavens sake!!

[bule1]

Vicky Pollard classic, sad thing is it is real.