| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) 18:07 - Nov 23 with 4086 views | NthQldITFC |
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| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 18:52 - Nov 23 with 4038 views | Guthrum |
Presumably comes from the phrase "shipping water", when your boat is leaking. |  |
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| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 19:14 - Nov 23 with 3996 views | Vegtablue |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 18:52 - Nov 23 by Guthrum |
Presumably comes from the phrase "shipping water", when your boat is leaking. |
That could well be it. Previously I've understood it in a more boring manner that I'll set out below.
Usage of 'ship' as a transitive verb with the meaning 'to transport or send [object(s)] out/away' dates back to medieval times and often carries connotations of size or scale, courtesy of the noun.
Shipping goals, wickets or tries is thus to transport them to eager recipients (the opposition) on an industrial scale, and its coinage may lack the commemoration of weirder wonderful phrases because the verb doesn't depart from one of its well-understood meanings. |  | | |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 19:36 - Nov 23 with 3969 views | NthQldITFC |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 19:14 - Nov 23 by Vegtablue |
That could well be it. Previously I've understood it in a more boring manner that I'll set out below.
Usage of 'ship' as a transitive verb with the meaning 'to transport or send [object(s)] out/away' dates back to medieval times and often carries connotations of size or scale, courtesy of the noun.
Shipping goals, wickets or tries is thus to transport them to eager recipients (the opposition) on an industrial scale, and its coinage may lack the commemoration of weirder wonderful phrases because the verb doesn't depart from one of its well-understood meanings. |
Personally, I think that's bollokcs, but I do thank you for your efforts and I love the way wot you writ it.  | |
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| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 19:46 - Nov 23 with 3949 views | NBVJohn |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 19:14 - Nov 23 by Vegtablue |
That could well be it. Previously I've understood it in a more boring manner that I'll set out below.
Usage of 'ship' as a transitive verb with the meaning 'to transport or send [object(s)] out/away' dates back to medieval times and often carries connotations of size or scale, courtesy of the noun.
Shipping goals, wickets or tries is thus to transport them to eager recipients (the opposition) on an industrial scale, and its coinage may lack the commemoration of weirder wonderful phrases because the verb doesn't depart from one of its well-understood meanings. |
That might be it.
Could it simply be that an inarticulate pundit said it once and others followed…….?
There are many to choose from and they feed of each others incompetence.
See also ‘getting a shot away’, ‘a wand of a left foot’ and a struggling team that’ is not in a good moment’
All nonsensical. | | | |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 20:05 - Nov 23 with 3906 views | Vegtablue |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 19:36 - Nov 23 by NthQldITFC |
Personally, I think that's bollokcs, but I do thank you for your efforts and I love the way wot you writ it. |
Thank you for hearing my pitch anyway. 😅
John may be even closer. Perhaps it was the closest a commentator could come to the pre-watershed verb they wanted to use and they were conjuring up the image of that post-takeaway experience some of us will have known à la opening the floodgates. | | | |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 20:13 - Nov 23 with 3896 views | monty_radio |
Somebody told me it had to do with Three Lions, with pockets lined with gold, sailing across the Pond in a big boat to save an ailing club. | |
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| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 22:25 - Nov 23 with 3805 views | ronnyd |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 19:46 - Nov 23 by NBVJohn |
That might be it.
Could it simply be that an inarticulate pundit said it once and others followed…….?
There are many to choose from and they feed of each others incompetence.
See also ‘getting a shot away’, ‘a wand of a left foot’ and a struggling team that’ is not in a good moment’
All nonsensical. |
Or Clive Tyldesley's "bringing it under his spell". What a load of shoite. | | | |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:03 - Nov 23 with 3767 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 18:52 - Nov 23 by Guthrum |
Presumably comes from the phrase "shipping water", when your boat is leaking. |
So where’s the boat in football? |  |
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| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:15 - Nov 23 with 3755 views | redrickstuhaart |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:03 - Nov 23 by Swansea_Blue |
So where’s the boat in football? |
Shipping water is an old phrase. Long before football media I would suggest. It is plainly the overwhelmingly likely origin, indicating that one is taking on board something undesirable- ie goals against. | | | |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:32 - Nov 23 with 3731 views | NthQldITFC |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:15 - Nov 23 by redrickstuhaart |
Shipping water is an old phrase. Long before football media I would suggest. It is plainly the overwhelmingly likely origin, indicating that one is taking on board something undesirable- ie goals against. |
You make a strong, yet boring, case. | |
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| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:38 - Nov 23 with 3725 views | redrickstuhaart |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:32 - Nov 23 by NthQldITFC |
You make a strong, yet boring, case. |
If being right is boring, I will take that all day long. | | | |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:59 - Nov 23 with 3716 views | Guthrum |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:03 - Nov 23 by Swansea_Blue |
So where’s the boat in football? |
On Plymouth Argyle's crest. | |
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| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 09:05 - Nov 24 with 3597 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What is the origin of the phrase 'to ship goals'? Sorry, please? (n/t) on 23:15 - Nov 23 by redrickstuhaart |
Shipping water is an old phrase. Long before football media I would suggest. It is plainly the overwhelmingly likely origin, indicating that one is taking on board something undesirable- ie goals against. |
Sorry, I was being flippant and not serious 
(And yes, I agree and imagine that is the origin). | |
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