The new traditions

[Alan Turing]

When did every manager, player, pundit, commentator etc start overusing the phrase ‘in terms of’?

I swear I heard a commentator say, ‘He’s six feet two, in terms of height’. Really? I thought you were telling me his shoe size!

Mark Hughes is the worst, he uses it at least twice in every interview.

 

[Sherborne Green]

I know this is in the long distant past but Argyle always kicked off at 3.15pm

I beleave this was to allow the dockyard workers more time to get to the match as they worked Saturday mornings.

 

[Hores Everywhere]

When (why?) did 'dispossessed' take over FFS :furious: .......he was bleddy tackled :facepalm:

 

[mervyn]

When did players start referring to their manager as ‘the gaffer’. I find it a demeaning, forelock-tugging, old-style word which really irritates me.

 

[Balham Green]

When did EVERYTHING become 'brilliant' 'fantastic'?

 

[Argylegames]

LC ,I know about the diagonal line of control but why isn't the referees assistant on the Lyndhurst side never on the Barnpark side and his opposite number on the halfway line to Devonport

It is actually up to the Ref which diagonal he runs and hence which 1/2 of the pitch the assistants run. Most tend to use the same diagonal although you do sometimes see the opposite.