Comments on: Nine Football Announcing Cliches We Could Do Without

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:32:32 +0000

Those near misses when a ball hits the post or misses the post by a few inches. ‘That should have gone in’, or ‘they should be one up now’, ‘they deserve to be level’. It doesn’t matter whether it misses by an inch or a mile it is still a miss.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:48:15 +0000

Pretty much anything ever uttered by Mark Lawrenson would also fit quite nicely into this article. ‘Its a Greek tragedy’ when England thrashed Greece just one example of how infuriatingly cheesy the man can be.

By: Richard Whittall

Richard Whittall — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:15:18 +0000

I actually think the best bit comes around the sixty-fifth minute when no one says anything at all for thirty seconds and you think maybe something’s wrong with the sound. As bad as some English announcing gets, this would NEVER happen during an American telecast…

By: RT

RT — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:22:53 +0000

How about when a team goes up 1-0 at the 80 minute mark and the announcers declare the game over.

By: Fsquid

Fsquid — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:04:07 +0000

I could do without the whole “that magical night in Barcelona” crap that comes out any time Man United play.