Month: December 2025

The idea of a ‘target man’ might make you think of those outlines of a human body you might see at the end of a shooting range. It could make you say ‘target person’ in […]

There are some football phrases that remain as relevant today as the day they were first uttered, whilst others require some explaining to anyone new to the game. It’s fair to say that ‘the woodwork’ […]

It is fair to say that the vast majority of people in the world have been through something tense during their lives. How each person handles tension will differ from one to another, but we […]

Football as a sport has a wealth of weird and wonderful phrases associated with it, but perhaps none of them tick both of those boxes quite like the idea of Squeaky Bum Time. Elsewhere on […]

Anyone who has ever been to the hairdresser’s will know that the hairdryer treatment has the ability to be quite pleasant, resulting in warm air being blown on you gently whilst the hairdresser looks to […]

There are some people who you might describe as ‘old school’ when it comes to football, refusing to accept the modern terminology that has become such a regular part of the game. For those people, […]

Gone are the days when a football team simply looked to close down the opposition and win the ball back. They used to say that part of the reason why the Liverpool team of the […]

Elsewhere on this site, you can read about the phrase ‘low block’, which is one of a number of terms that feel as though they’re very ‘modern football’ in their nature. Another one of those […]