Modern football speak

elkimp

elkimp

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DC always gives a good interview. Well spoken and honest.
But he, like a few others loves new football terminology that sounds like NFL analysis. Some examples are 'initial phase'; 'first contact'; and 'box entries'. These just a few from his after match Bury interview.
I'm not as old school as Mike Basset, but it is all a bit jargon. What's wrong with, 'balls in the box' or 'first ball' or'passage of play'.
Times move on I guess. I used to think I was old when I became older than the players. Now I'm older than the manager!
 
Merthyr Imp said:
What makes you really feel old is when you realise players you remember seeing play have retired as managers.
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I'm older than everybody, apart from the ground (although some of the changes are younger than me). When I started going the capacity was somewhere around the 25,000 mark, though a lot of it was standing/terracing in those days.
 
elkimp said:
DC always gives a good interview. Well spoken and honest.
But he, like a few others loves new football terminology that sounds like NFL analysis. Some examples are 'initial phase'; 'first contact'; and 'box entries'. These just a few from his after match Bury interview.
I'm not as old school as Mike Basset, but it is all a bit jargon. What's wrong with, 'balls in the box' or 'first ball' or'passage of play'.
Times move on I guess. I used to think I was old when I became older than the players. Now I'm older than the manager!
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Get some Ronglish in!
http://www.dangerhere.com/ronglish.htm
 
PerthImp said:
When I started going the capacity was somewhere around the 25,000 mark, though a lot of it was standing/terracing in those days.
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Not sure how they used to arrive at those figures for capacity but I remember my Dad telling me that when he was in the ground and we had over 23,000 against Derby it was completely jammed in and people were hanging off poles and sitting on fences and there was no room left in the ground anywhere.
 
It suddenly dropped in 70s I think from 25000 to 16000 and then down to 9500 in the 80s.
 
Davidimp said:
It suddenly dropped in 70s I think from 25000 to 16000 and then down to 9500 in the 80s.
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That was for safety reasons in the 1970s. I can't remember whether it was prompted by the collapse of the wall at the South Park end during the Stoke City match, but it was later said that certain other walls could have been unsafe if people were crammed up against them.
 
Merthyr Imp said:
That was for safety reasons in the 1970s. I can't remember whether it was prompted by the collapse of the wall at the South Park end during the Stoke City match, but it was later said that certain other walls could have been unsafe if people were crammed up against them.
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Thanks for that guessed it most have been something to do with that.
 
No different to any other line of business.

Politicians speak in repetitive meaningless jargon.

In business the David Brent example is pretty normal (which was why that show was so popular because nearly everyone knew a manager like that)

And in sport it has now become all about "new cliches" with lots of fans lapping it up and proclaiming their own manager as different to the others............despite just using new versions of the old cliches.

They all still manage to squeeze the old ones in though to fill out the press conference time.

"take it one game at a time" etc.
 
How about Chris Sutton infamously signing off his programme notes 'C'mon the Imps'! Idiot. Can't remember much he said, luckily
 
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