When did a post stop being called a post and start being an 'upright'? Equally it's not a season any more it's a 'campaign'. Macca - do they teach you to come up with new words for everything? Is this an important part of the job? There's loads more I can't think of right now. Any contributions from the floor?
Players used to "hit the bar" in the old days - but now they have a quick ice bath, a sports massage and a nutritious meal.
When Crouch scored yesterday he "reduced the deficit". Someone must have just said that years ago, as their own invention, and it's stuck. Football commentary is laced with old cliches, you don't notice if you're enthralled enough in a game but if you keep an ear out, they'll be every 2 or 3 minutes. It's too easy to keep reeling them out, we need a maverick to shake up the current lot and rejuvenate football language. Macca, are you that maverick?? Take some risks, forge a new path...be a legend.
You don't want that. In Australia we have a commentator by the name of Brian Taylor who commentates in the Aussie Rules. He used to be on Fox Sports (Sky Sports equivalent) but is now on FTA (So I suppose an ITV or BBC commentator). On Fox Sports he was a great breath of fresh air and sounded genuinely excited when he called the game, but now seems to have sold his soul and comes up with crazy, innovative catch phrases that everyone in the media seems to love. "Big Boy MaCavoy" "Boy oh boy wowee" and others have all now entered the lexicon of football commentary and it's annoying the hell out of everyone.
part of writing style is to avoid using the same phrases/words all the time. having two or three or more you can use in rotation rings the changes. unlike writers, commentators don't get the option of going back and editing what they said and frequently don't have much time to think before they speak. posts have also been uprights for as long as i can remember. "the woodwork" is another catch-all.
I say it all the time but I really hate the stats about who was won the most games between the sides since 1884 or whatever. As if that has any impact on a present day match or anyone really cares... Or when they try and twist a stat to make it more interesting by adding the words 'league', 'home/away' or other such restrictions. E.g. "player X hasn't scored in the last 6 home, league, Saturday 3 O'clock games."
Yeah I get the need to avoid repetition but it isn't even about that any more. No one says post now. 'Premier League adventure' is another one to use about clubs like us.
It appears my course is working somewhat, I seemed to get the Jelavic agreement about 5 minutes before everyone else.
My pet hate with commentators is the 'team x haven't won away at team y for 50 years - since 1964' without mentioning the fact that they haven't been in the same division for 45 of those 50 years.
That is the one stat that pissed me off this season - our away record. prior to the Newcastle game, most media outlets were using the stat that we had only one one of our previous 31 Prem away games. What a **** stat! Only McShane was there back when most of those matches took place!
