Football clichés that are wrong

[Pogue Mahone]

“A goalkeeper should never be beaten at his near post”

Any ‘keeper who is literally never beaten at his near post has got his positioning badly wrong and is leaving far too big a gap at the far post. Yes you should stand closer to the near post, because the ball has less distance to travel, but unless you’re equally hard to beat on either side you’re doing it wrong.

Any other equally wrong clichés?

 

[Ollie Derbyshire]

He hit it too well.....no he didn’t he just missed

 

[Pogue Mahone]

He hit it too well.....no he didn’t he just missed

Yes! He hit it at the centre of the goal. This is not hitting it well. Never mind too well.

 

[Ollie Derbyshire]

yeah, smacks it against the cross bar and “you know what, he’s hit that to true there”

 

[Trequarista10]

"It's a game of two halves" - Unless it's a knockout game that's goes to extra time, in which case it's game of four halves.

"A two goal lead is the most dangerous lead" - the vast majority of teams who take a two goal lead go on to win the game, yet this cliche gets rolled out on the rare occasions a two goal lead is overturned.

 

[Jev]

"A two goal lead is the most dangerous lead" - the vast majority of teams who take a two goal lead go on to win the game, yet this cliche gets rolled out on the rare occasions a two goal lead is overturned.

It's moronic but does anyone actually say it (anymore), or do you only really hear it when someone points out how nonsensical it is?

 

[BrilliantOrange]

"The Serie A is a defensive league"

 

[711]

'It's either a penalty or a dive'. Said three times every match by that fat twat that used to commentate on BBC radio.

 

[horsechoker]

Howard Webb giving favorable decisions to United

 

[Pogue Mahone]

The “hitting the first man at a corner is unforgivable” one is similar to the goalkeepers and near posts. If you’re trying to ping the ball at the near post and a defender never gets there first then it’s not close enough to the near post.

 

[BrilliantOrange]

"Its coming home"

 

[BerryBerryShrew]

If all managers really took it "one game at a time" and weren't "looking beyond today's match" then none of first 11 would ever be rotated.

Also saying that "it's a bad time to concede". Every time is a bad time to concede last time I checked

 

[Baneofthegame]

"Its coming home"

BRING THE ENGLISH BAN HAMMER!

But in all seriousness, “He shouldn’t miss from there.” Is one.

 

[SirScholes]

The “hitting the first man at a corner is unforgivable” one is similar to the goalkeepers and near posts. If you’re trying to ping the ball at the near post and a defender never gets there first then it’s not close enough to the near post.

Nah I disagree
They are professionals and it’s canny shit when they can’t whip a ball over the man stood in the edge of the box like
Certain players were absolutely shocking at it

 

[Trequarista10]

It's moronic but does anyone actually say it (anymore), or do you only really hear it when someone point out how nonsensical it is?

I seem to recall Gary Neville trotting it out a few times recently.