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Game's gone (or related, game's dead/ they've killed the game)

X league is a great product 🤢

Any time a team loses a match or fails to win a competition - "bottled it"

Claims that today's players are soft because they try to stay warm on the sub's bench.

Always been around but seems to be much worse now - claiming after any goal to take a lead within the last 10 minutes "and Roy wins it for Rovers!" even though there's plenty of time for an equaliser.

Coronavirus references: eg bad marking = social distancing or lack of crowd noise being typical for a club with no fans, lol.

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8 hours ago, JagsCG said:

"Get Back to where we/they belong" - usually refers to a team who believe they are bigger than the level they are playing at, talking about their desire to get promoted. 

 

7 hours ago, DA Baracus said:

Thinking clubs should have a 'level' rather than accepting that the leagues are a meritocracy.

"It's time we got back to our rightful place in the top flight." No, by definition your rightful place is exactly where you are.

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10 hours ago, G-MAN said:

You need a certain mentality at Celtic and Rangers. You are expected to win every week.

“He just about got there” when he did.

It’s always a difficult ground to go to (no matter where it is - the further away the more difficult it is)

He hit it too well.

If a goal is ruled out or penalty not given, and a team loses by a single goal, pundits and managers think the game would have played out the exact same way had they been given (i.e. if that had been given it would have been a draw)

Going on every season that Hibs are an exciting team.
 

"That pass was so good, Lee couldn't get it." David Coleman, circa 1972

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7 hours ago, Father Dougal McGuire said:

Every single guest on the ‘Si Ferry meets ...’ podcast says ‘At the time’ constantly and half the time it doesn’t make sense.

‘Celtic were playing at Parkhead... at the time’. Do they not still play there like?

Cos "Si" Ferry is fucking dreadful. 

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8 minutes ago, ewan14 said:

Not just in football but beginning a sentence , especially an answer , with " so "

Is this from the States ?

Like most linguistic developments these days; yes.

It is absolutely horrendous, I fully support you here. It's bizarrely prevalent among well educated types. An expert being interviewed on the radio on the impact of development on a pond favoured by newts would start every single one of their answers with "So..." for example.

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I don't like the emerging prevalence of pundits using the term "that play" to describe a passage of play, was reminded of it listening to radio 5 for the evening game last night and John Murray described one particular movement of the ball as "the best play of the game thus far". It just sounds clunky and I wait with dread for it to show up on Sportsound or Sportscene soon.

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