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.
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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.
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A couple of the female commentators on the BBC are truly awful, Vicky Sparkes and Robyn Cowan, sound as if they’ve been coached by Jonathan Pearce in the ‘art’ of shouting, he’s ******* awful, too! Whoever it is commentating, I don’t need to be told what I’ve just seen; ‘….oh, he’s hit the crossbar’, yes, I know, I just saw it.
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As an ex grammar school boy you really should know the inference of “saved” here Kets.Originally Posted by kettering_baggie
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!
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On this matter I am correct; actually, I am correct in almost every matter……..!
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But you’re not, the word “saved” has various meanings and inferences.
The posts and bar are also a part of the “target”.
The ball can go in off the posts or the bar so by definition it’s part of the target area, in fact, sometimes if it’s a very narrow angle the posts are actually an important factor.
I’ve purposely used the inside of a post when I’ve been out through on a narrow angle back in my playing days.
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Yes, of course going in off the post counts as hitting the target but if you hit the post and it doesn’t go in, you have missed, the post hasn’t denied you. You may as well have hit the corner flag. Regarding the corner flag, if the ball hits that and goes for a throw in, you would say that the flag has saved a corner! Would you?
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The best terminology is that post, bar or corner flag has “stopped” something happening I guess.
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I still disagree; the post, crossbar, corner flag or whatever hasn’t stopped anything happening, they are inanimate objects, what ensued after the shot was made was down to direction in which the ball was kicked, unless a defender managed to deflect the ball.
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Nowt wrong with Laura Woods, could listen to her for hours!
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Same here, great chemistry with her co-hosts too which makes great listening.
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