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Question and a brag. In my team meeting on Thursday I referred to a colleagues upcoming return from maternity leave as being like a new signing and nobody even flinched. What’s the next cliche to drop in to my team meetings, ideally just under the radar, to continue to footballspeak her return?
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I was always pretty decent at free kicks and I owe it to a hedge between my garden and garage that was a perfect sized wall to bend one around.
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Best and worst contender are garage doors. Perfect size and the noise difference between the door/goal and concrete post helped decide in off the posts. Downside was you can’t really dive on the concrete drive and the noise is really annoying if you aren’t the ones playing
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Always lovely to see where kids have found two trees a perfect width apart to make a goal from. The bare ground goalmouth always the giveaway you’ll spot in parks and playing fields. Ours as kids got so worn away and ground down that any rain turned it into a giant puddled mud bath. Wouldn’t stop us
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Gianluca Vialli went through a stage of having absurdly big knots on his tie in his Chelsea days. He looked as stylish and cool as it gets. Me trying the same in my school uniform probably less so
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The range from A-list to barely famous that Lawro and Sutton have faced fascinates me
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Very possibly asked and answered before but how long does the “no time” threshold last? For me, Drury correct to use it after 10mins for Spurs second but had it just been their first he’d have been way off. For even higher scoring starts like 3 or 4 goals, how far into a game can “no time” go?
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Curious about this one as I quite like a “silence” and you don’t see it used too often. Are they as simple as just the away team winning or is there a bit more to it than that? I wouldn’t say Spurs silenced Man City on Saturday, that felt slightly more emphatic. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Danny Murphy liked and overused QB so much that I suspected that he was only doing it because he wanted people to start retroactively referring to him as one.
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There was a spell about a decade or so ago where a few pundits tried to import “quarterback” into football. It was as NFL became more popular and deep midfielders like Carrick and Alonso were tagged as them. Never caught on enough to stay but pundits definitely tried for a bit.
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Champions League and World Cup draws are painfully too long and overstaffed.
Any modern football stadium with a design that results in the main camera losing focus when the ball goes from sun to shade on the pitch is unacceptable.
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We need to show ambition once we’re up and get a strong foothold in League A. We don’t want to become a yo-yo nation.
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If on Sunday morning I get the very basics of a UFC fight I’m not interested in but am happy to watch a 20 second video of the ending, and then nothing more about UFC for the rest of the week, this site is working just fine.
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“Group A? You’re having a laugh, Group A? You’re having a laugh”