Clich

[Bandage]

It was six of one and half a dozen of the other (took great delight in making up my own version of this one: It was six and a half of one and half a baker?s dozen of the other).
It was a game of two halves.
They were at sixes and sevens.
Goals change games.

Any more that piss you off?

[Ball_Ox]

I can up with one last night in the drinking den

“Which came first, the chicken or hen!!!”

[Bandage]

@steamboatsam

the early bird catches the worm - what worm? depends on where the worm is, if it’s underground then no fooking bird will catch it. what if the worm is clever and stays underground until the early bird has gone past, thinking fook it there’s no worms about i’ll have a spider this morning, and then the worm sticks his head up and some lazy ass bird who wasn’t arsed getting out of his nest before 10 wanders by and catches him. Will that bird not then go and find the smart ass early bird and rip the worm up in front of him saying “fook you early bird you didn’t get the worm this time you fookin prick, waa waa waa”. The cliche doesn’t make any sense and it has nothing to do with anything else other than birds and worms, who nobody cares about…well apart from other predators in the animal kingdom…who we may well consume from our position at the top of the food chain…but the link is too vague.

Good point.

[Bandage]

You win some, you lose some.
Take every game as it comes.
Everybody wrote us off (particularly loved in GAA circles and used even by overwhelming favourites sometimes, even when they win, e.g. ?We came up here today after winning the title last year and everybody said we were a flash in the pan. Everybody was writing us off so they were and we showed them so we did).

[briantinnion]

People who refer to the plural of players and teams when in fact only one exists. Example:

You want to be playing against the Lee Carsleys and Steven Gerrards of this world every week.

There’s only one of each!!!

[farmerinthecity]

@briantinnion

People who refer to the plural of players and teams when in fact only one exists. Example:

You want to be playing against the Lee Carsleys and Steven Gerrards of this world every week.

There’s only one of each!!!

Exalt for that tremendous observation Brian

[farmerinthecity]

@Bandage

Everybody wrote us off (particularly loved in GAA circles and used even by overwhelming favourites sometimes, even when they win, e.g. ?We came up here today after winning the title last year and everybody said we were a flash in the pan. Everybody was writing us off so they were and we showed them so we did).

Another great observation. That technique is particularly popular in Ulster.

‘This is for those boys down in Dublin. Spillane and O’Rourke’.

Little do they know is that Spillane and O’Rourke live for that kind of comment because they then believe that their pathetic little comments have had some effect

[WhyOhWhy]

@farmerinthecity

@Bandage

Everybody wrote us off (particularly loved in GAA circles and used even by overwhelming favourites sometimes, even when they win, e.g. ?We came up here today after winning the title last year and everybody said we were a flash in the pan. Everybody was writing us off so they were and we showed them so we did).

Another great observation. That technique is particularly popular in Ulster.

‘This is for those boys down in Dublin. Spillane and O’Rourke’.

Little do they know is that Spillane and O’Rourke live for that kind of comment because they then believe that their pathetic little comments have had some effect

Resists urge…knows farmer is baiting… >:o >:( >:( >:(

[system]

‘You have to lose an All Ireland to win one’

[ClarkeyCat]

@farmerinthecity

@briantinnion

People who refer to the plural of players and teams when in fact only one exists. Example:

You want to be playing against the Lee Carsleys and Steven Gerrards of this world every week.

There’s only one of each!!!

Exalt for that tremendous observation Brian

Tremendous? That doesn’t bother me at all. I’d like to smite the two of ye but I think I’ll go for Tinnion.

[iamthelaw]

@ClarkeyCat

@farmerinthecity

@briantinnion

People who refer to the plural of players and teams when in fact only one exists. Example:

You want to be playing against the Lee Carsleys and Steven Gerrards of this world every week.

There’s only one of each!!!

Exalt for that tremendous observation Brian

Tremendous? That doesn’t bother me at all. I’d like to smite the two of ye but I think I’ll go for Tinnion.

I’d better exalt him then, it annoys me. What sort of group is “the Lee Carsleys and Stephen Gerrards of this world” meant to define? Vague and lazy.

Also, any variations on “not the strongest”, “not the best”; again, far too fooking vague.

[WhyOhWhy]

Another GAA and sport in general.

When a good team who will go far in the championship are playing minnows.

'We’re not looking past the match against "

[briantinnion]

@iamthelaw

I’d better exalt him then, it annoys me. What sort of group is “the Lee Carsleys and Stephen Gerrards of this world” meant to define? Vague and lazy.

Also, any variations on “not the strongest”, “not the best”; again, far too fooking vague.

was meant sarcastically. I suppose a better one would be the Zinidine Zidanes.

[Bandage]

‘But will he be able to do it in the Premiership?’

‘He needs time to adjust to the pace of the Premiership.’

‘The Premiership is the fastest league in the world.’

[Rocko]

Not really a clich? but I despise when pundits and commentators call any headed chance in the box a free header. Sometimes a corner comes in and a lad will beat 3 men in the air and power a header in on goal. Some gobshite commentator will just say “free header, should have scored.” They’re not all free headers.

[Bandage]

‘Form goes out the window in a/an insert area derby.’

[briantinnion]

Some none sporting cliches I thought of/encountered over the weekend:

You?re not my type

I?ve got a boyfriend

Leave me alone

I don?t want a drink

[Bandage]

‘He’s run his socks off.’

‘It was more a case of ball to hand than hand to ball.’

And not a cliche but a cracking line from Stephen Alkin during the Chelsea-Villa commentary on Saturday:

‘Old enough to be his father - that’s Makelele, 33, versus Agbonlahor, 19.’

What a tool.

[Rocko]

“Away goals count double…” No they fucking don’t! Away goals count 1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001