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Football Expression: Thrills and spills

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Thrills and spills

On this week’s English for football we look at the phrase thrills and spills. This is used to describe a particularly exciting match where lots of incidents have taken place. Thrills is the plural noun form of the adjective thrilling so it means exciting while spills suggests that something has gone wrong or that there is a mess so in footballing terms there have been many defensive errors like penalty misses or own goals. In the recent FA Cup 3rd round replay between Havant and Swansea the game was end-to-end, an incident-packed match that had many thrills and spills. Managers often do not like games that have lots of thrills and spills because it means there is a lack of control but for fans these types of games are exciting!

Example: ‘…this Lampard project with its thrills and spills and faith in academy graduates but they cannot have enjoyed what happened next.’ (Daily Mail 31 August 2019)

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