'Golaaaaaaaaaaaaaaço!'
means something like: You have to urgently look up from your desktop onto the TV-screen now because Ronadinho or Simão just did it again. :star:

 

'Scored.'

It's not 'kicked', but I always get a laugh out of it when people who don't follow football say 'kicked a goal' instead of 'scored a goal.'

 

that's what ladettes say who want to make you think they know about football.

"I think Henry is a great player, he does some really great kicks"

 

Yeah, and using "WATCH OUT" instead of "MAN ON".

 

'He's got a good engine' - which translates as 'he's shite, but he runs about a lot'.

'In this game, you make your own luck' means 'all our goals were offside'.

'He's earned a free-kick/penalty' is a euphemism for 'The c*** has dived, but it's a Man Utd player'

'The manager has the total confidence of the board' means 'We're not sure yet how much it would cost to sack the idiot'.

'Nil-nil, but hey, WHAT a nil-nil!' Richard Keys-speak for 'Yes, another crap EPL game on Sky on a monday night'.

 

that's what ladettes say who want to make you think they know about football.

"I think Henry is a great player, he does some really great kicks"

Or 'I used to sit in the Gallowgate End' - Famous girl-who-tries-to-be-a-bloke Tony Blair.

 

"We are in a transitional phase at the moment" = "We suck and we don't know what to do about it".

 

'Nil-nil, but hey, WHAT a nil-nil!' Richard Keys-speak for 'Yes, another crap EPL game on Sky on a monday night'.

I am watching one right now:googly:

The comentator just had a great line about Dudek: "Dudek is tracking his shadow on the bench once again" :howler:

 

I am watching one right now:googly:

The comentator just had a great line about Dudek: "Dudek is tracking his shadow on the bench once again" :howler:

Dudek still has a shadow? I thought it left him long ago out of embarassment.

 

Lol, my favourite is " he's got good feet for a big man". haha, can't help but raise a smile everytime that phrase is uttered.

 

"Deceptively quick" is a good one too, what does that even mean? Either someone is fast or they're not.

 

"He netted from the penalty kick" or simply "he netted"

 

"Deceptively quick" is a good one too, what does that even mean? Either someone is fast or they're not.

well i think that's ok, Pires is deceptively quick or he used to be, he seems to run like a duck but then outruns people, very strange.

 

Lol, my favourite is " he's got good feet for a big man". haha, can't help but raise a smile everytime that phrase is uttered.

which means if he was smaller he'd have shit feet, this is Peter Crouch copyright now.

 

'He took that goal with aplomb!' Where do you get these plomb things from?

And why are deflections always 'wicked'? Why aren't there pure evil and slightly anti-social deflections as well? Why are squibs always damp?

Another one: 'They've given away a free-kick in a very dangerous area'
- like where? Chechnya? Tora Bora?

 

There are lots of neologisms in Italian.

I remember negotiating a large deal with an Italian firm and during the give and take, we kind of ended up all even and he said, perfect, "uno a uno, palla al centro" or something like that, he said it was used all the time during agreements. I really don't know if its true, but I use it all the time now

 

Another one: 'They've given away a free-kick in a very dangerous area'
- like where? Chechnya? Tora Bora?

My favourite use of that one is on the older Pro Evo games where they'd say that if you gave a free kick away near the oppositions corner flag. It was great.

"Rasping drive" sounds totally ridiculous too. Also I'll never work out how a shot can be a piledriver.

 

Yes, and some commentators like to praise the 'velocity' of a shot, instead of the speed, even though velocity is speed + direction and the shot has just knocked the false teeth from the mouth of Mrs Patterson in row F seat 3

 

Oh and then there's "square ball", seriously WTF? "Plays it square" makes no sense either unless someone can pass the ball so it changes direction in a perfect square to come back to him either.

 

Oh and then there's "square ball", seriously WTF? "Plays it square" makes no sense either unless someone can pass the ball so it changes direction in a perfect square to come back to him either.

I use that expresion all the time as a coach. Square and "behind" square :lala: The behind square is super important for my players defensive positioning

 

Well I think you should just tell them to pass it sideways. Kids are easily confused.

 

Well I think you should just tell them to pass it sideways. Kids are easily confused.

:howler: These kids are 17 and 18, they better *(#@$^%! understand or they will follow their shadow on the bench

 

Another one: 'They've given away a free-kick in a very dangerous area'
- like where? Chechnya? Tora Bora?

:howler:

 

Beware of that sentence, barça. :tongue:
It could be intended as a retaliation and as a challenge. For example: I punch you, you punch me back and tell me "uno a uno. Palla al centro". The meaning is: now we are even, but I defy you to give me another punch. :eekani:

:eekani: Point taken

 

I can tell you my least favourite is "he'll be disappointed with himself there". :frustrat: