There are so many weird and wonderful phrases used by commentators, pundits and fans in football, but ‘top bins’ might just take the biscuit. It is something that most people will feel as though they […]
Hear the words ‘Hollywood pass’ without any context and you might well wonder whether someone is making reference to a studio head deciding not to put a film into production, or an actor turning down […]
Every country has its own phrases when it comes to football, some of which make it over to England. Oftentimes, they will appear on our shores having been translated into something that the English football […]
Different football clubs work in different ways to one another, with some asking the players to head straight to the ground at which the match is being played, whilst others will tell them to head […]
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, […]
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