Clichés are expressions or sayings that have become so overused that they have lost some of their original impact. In football, clichés are used quite a lot and they are often associated with the emotional aspect of the game. Sometimes the meaning is clear or extremely obvious, e.g. football is a game of two halves but more often than not the original meaning of a cliché is often difficult to understand. Why, for example, are parrots sick? How can a player give 110% when 100% surely is the maximum? And why does a victory send players and managers over the moon?
Many feel that the overuse of clichés demonstrates the fact that football players, managers, fans, commentators and pundits have a poor vocabulary and are lacking in imagination. However, clichés form part of the football discourse and though there is often no logical explanation to their meaning, they do provide some colour and humour for the football world.
- Football Cliche Quiz (Online version)
- FA Cup Cliche Quiz (Online version)
Latest Football Cliches
- Football Language: Not that kind of player
- Football Language: Big ask
- Football Language: Six pointer
- Football Language: Bore draw
- Football Language: 110%
- Football Language: Kill off the game
- Football Language: Dead rubber
- Football Language: One for the cameras
- Football Language: Turn the game on its head
- Football Language: To pepper the goal
- Football Language: Prawn Sandwich Brigade
- Football Language: Play a blinder
- Football Language: Fill your boots
- Football Language: Marathon not a sprint
- Football Language: (to) Dig deep
- Football Language: Hospital Pass
- Weekly Football Phrase: Romance of the Cup
- Weekly Football Phrase: Up for grabs
- Football Cliche: Form Goes Out The Window
- Weekly Football Cliche: Old School
- Football Language: Good feet
- Weekly Football Phrase: A goal that deserves to win any game
- Weekly Football Phrase: Second Season Syndrome
- Weekly Football Phrase: The Team to Beat
- Weekly Football Phrase: Dying Breed
- Weekly Football Phrase: David and Goliath
- Football Language: Hallowed Turf
- FA Cup Cliche Quiz
- Football Language: Cup Run
- Football Cliche: The game needs a goal
- Football Cliche: Share the Spoils
- Listening Report: Football Cliches
- Weekly Football Phrase: Put a Shift In
- Weekly Football Phrase: To want it more
- Football Phrase: Six of one and half a dozen of the other