Birmingham vs Derby guess the score.....

[Rams4Justice]

It's like a 'cricket score' because they gain more high points in cricket then what you would normally see in an actual football game. It's unrealistic too see a 7-1 scoreline in football, so that's why they call it a 'cricket score'.

[roger_ramjet]

But in cricket 7 is a very low score... a high score might be 600 for a team but an average score is perhaps 250 to 300. So how is 7 in any way like a cricket score? It isnt remotely like one. If Norwich had scored maybe 130 goals against Reading then perhaps that could be like a cricket score - in a low scoring T20 maybe.

[Rams4Justice]

Look Roger, 7 is a huge number when you compare it with football ok!

[roger_ramjet]

Fine, that says it all. 7 is a lot in football. No need to compare to anything else.

[Rams4Justice]

When you score 7 or more goals in Fifa, the commentators say "oh! this is like a cricket score this, you wouldn't expect to see this in an ordinary game of modern football, it's like playing a computer game."

[Ram59]

Let's call it a curling score, 7 is about average for curling!

[Rams4Justice]

Any game term, that is above average for a football game that has a high score that wouldn't be a high score in another sport but would be for that sport, would be used to describe that scoreline for that perticular game.

[roger_ramjet]

When you score 7 or more goals in Fifa, the commentators say "oh! this is like a cricket score this, you wouldn't expect to see this in an ordinary game of modern football, it's like playing a computer game."

But surely it IS playing a computer game, not "like playing" it???

Just because some voice over commentary in a computer game says something, you do realise that doesn't make it true, don't you?

Derbyshire scored 363-8 on Friday - just like about 120 football matches. Hmmm

[Rams4Justice]

You can simply put it as: wow! huge scoreline it's out of this world.
But It's not very eye catching, way of talking about the scoreline and doesn't grab your attention and doesn't hardly describe the match in full detail.

A more eye catching way of saying about the scoreline would be this: "Oh! This is like a cricket score this, you wouldn't expect to see this in an ordinary game of modern football, it's like playing a video game." This is a more expressive and eye catching way of describing the scoreline and definitely grabs your attention then just simply saying "Wow! huge scoreline it's out of this world."

[macstheman]

I think 'wow' sums it up or 'beam me up, Scotty'!!