| Modern jargon 07:38 - Dec 13 with 4164 views | muccletonjoe |
So much I hear in interviews and match analysis just makes me laugh these days. You hear about game management , transitions, double pivots and the list goes on and on and on.
Let's be quite clear to those who haven't got the first idea of what they are talking about. Keeping possession IS game management, whichever way you look at it , if you have the ball and do not give it away, that is game management. A double pivot is the players who operate between the defenders and strikers, THE MIDFIELD. The transition is from defence to attack , something which town take multiple passes to accomplish on a regular basis.
So let's be quite clear about the jargon , next phase , new wave , its still rock n roll to me. |  | | |  |
| Modern jargon on 09:55 - Dec 13 with 2969 views | ArnieM |
Reinventing the wheel isn’t it. Sir Alf, and Sir Bobby knew a thing or two way back when …. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 10:04 - Dec 13 with 2946 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Pressing also used to be known as 'closing down'. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 10:30 - Dec 13 with 2881 views | Exiled2Surrey |
| Modern jargon on 10:04 - Dec 13 by Marshalls_Mullet |
Pressing also used to be known as 'closing down'. |
or running |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 10:31 - Dec 13 with 2876 views | Meadowlark |
or marking... |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 10:40 - Dec 13 with 2863 views | ITFC_Forever |
My favourite one is the use of numbers....
4 - is a central midfielder, with more of an emphasis on holding.
6 - is a centre-back.
8 - is a central midfielder.
9 - is the big man up-front.
10 - is the little man up-front.
All of the above are correct anyone who says otherwise is wrong. (8 and 9 haven't changed to be fair). |  |
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| Low block = Park the bus (n/t) on 10:45 - Dec 13 with 2831 views | Bloots |
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| Modern jargon on 11:06 - Dec 13 with 2766 views | Garv |
| Modern jargon on 10:40 - Dec 13 by ITFC_Forever |
My favourite one is the use of numbers....
4 - is a central midfielder, with more of an emphasis on holding.
6 - is a centre-back.
8 - is a central midfielder.
9 - is the big man up-front.
10 - is the little man up-front.
All of the above are correct anyone who says otherwise is wrong. (8 and 9 haven't changed to be fair). |
11 is the flash winger lacking in end product.
Or 'Lee Martin' if you will. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 11:19 - Dec 13 with 2712 views | Sharkey |
Keeping possession is game management, yes, but game management also just means cheating as much as you can by breaking up play - fouling (without getting a card), feigning injury, taking throw-ins from the wrong place so that you're sent back to take it in the right place, and so on - to stop the opposition building up any momentum. |  | | |
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| Modern jargon on 11:43 - Dec 13 with 2656 views | ArnieM |
| Modern jargon on 11:19 - Dec 13 by Sharkey |
Keeping possession is game management, yes, but game management also just means cheating as much as you can by breaking up play - fouling (without getting a card), feigning injury, taking throw-ins from the wrong place so that you're sent back to take it in the right place, and so on - to stop the opposition building up any momentum. |
We’re not very good at that “ gamesmanship” are we. I lose count of the number of times an opponent at the slightest touch goes down clutching his head, and rolls over and over, and yes, over. Our player subsequently gets booked. Our players don’t go down when they should do, and if they do get fouled, no card is given to the offender who took him out. | |
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| Modern jargon on 12:31 - Dec 13 with 2577 views | PrideOfTheEast |
100% on the jargon. Makes me laugh. Game management came from nowhere a few years back and now we've got all sorts. | | | |
| Modern jargon on 12:40 - Dec 13 with 2535 views | SE1blue |
I am not sure if it's been mentioned on here much but 'draught excluder'. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 12:45 - Dec 13 with 2506 views | RonFearonsHair |
| Modern jargon on 09:55 - Dec 13 by ArnieM |
Reinventing the wheel isn’t it. Sir Alf, and Sir Bobby knew a thing or two way back when …. |
No, it’s called ‘recycling’ now. |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 13:10 - Dec 13 with 2435 views | SheffordBlue |
| Modern jargon on 10:04 - Dec 13 by Marshalls_Mullet |
Pressing also used to be known as 'closing down'. |
And it was probably known as something else before 'closing down'. When people started talking about 'closing down' other people probably said similar things to this post about fancy modern language! | |
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| Modern jargon on 13:15 - Dec 13 with 2404 views | MK1 |
| Modern jargon on 12:40 - Dec 13 by SE1blue |
I am not sure if it's been mentioned on here much but 'draught excluder'. |
Having a nap mid game. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 13:17 - Dec 13 with 2398 views | MK1 |
"The players really put their bodies on the line today"
No they never. They played a game of football and got a bit muddy. | |
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| Modern jargon on 13:17 - Dec 13 with 2396 views | PioneerBlue |
I don’t mind the modern language but it does help to understand it!! A few favourites from time passed to now are Gegenpressing, Counter pressing and Duels. Where it comes unstuck is uefa coefficient and clear and obvious errors. [Post edited 13 Dec 2024 13:22]
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| Modern jargon on 17:22 - Dec 13 with 2207 views | BlueBadger |
'Technical' = 'any kind of football not played by Mick' |  |
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| Modern jargon on 17:32 - Dec 13 with 2168 views | Vic |
| Modern jargon on 10:40 - Dec 13 by ITFC_Forever |
My favourite one is the use of numbers....
4 - is a central midfielder, with more of an emphasis on holding.
6 - is a centre-back.
8 - is a central midfielder.
9 - is the big man up-front.
10 - is the little man up-front.
All of the above are correct anyone who says otherwise is wrong. (8 and 9 haven't changed to be fair). |
Trevor Whymark or Teddy Sherringham might take exception to you saying that 10 is the little man!
Other than that, you are correct. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 17:38 - Dec 13 with 2160 views | iamatractorboy |
It's not jargon as such, more like an annoying phrase, but the one that really gets me these days is 'in and around', especially when used in conjunction with 'penalty spot' (IN the penalty spot?? What??) or more amusingly, with 'player name', e.g. 'in and around Delap'. Excuse me? IN Delap?
Also, 'stonewall'. Nearly always followed by penalty. Used to be 'cast iron' but has since had a downgrade. | | | |
| Modern jargon on 18:50 - Dec 13 with 2045 views | J2BLUE |
Passion = waving your arms about like a mime artist trying to warn people of a fire |  |
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| Modern jargon on 19:02 - Dec 13 with 2004 views | bluelagos |
When a manager brings on an "impact player" - known for decades previously as a "fresh pair of legs" |  |
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| Modern jargon on 19:09 - Dec 13 with 1936 views | HighgateBlue |
I suppose language changes in proportion to how much it is used in public. Football is discussed and dissected in all corners of all media, constantly. Plus, there is much more data than in years gone by, to allow more and more supposedly technical analysis, which relies on categorisation and hence jargon.
I must say that my personal least favourite is "baller". I always found it odd that the Americans used that term, because it spectacularly fails to make clear which sport it's referring to. But having worked out what they were on about, it was with horror that I first started to hear British people refer to footballers as ballers. I suppose it's just me getting old, and I can't help that! :/ |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 19:29 - Dec 13 with 1890 views | Mercian |
A "Double Pivot" is a system where two primary defensive midfielders are employed the most common being a 4-2-3-1 formation like we play most of the time. A 4-3-3 formation is normally played with a single pivot but can be played more defensively with two CMDs or more offensively with two Number 8s and an attacking midfielder. |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 20:02 - Dec 13 with 1842 views | Oldsmoker |
At the end of the day, if we manage the expectations and deliver for our fans then we will realise our aims and achieve our goals.
Nonsense : something absurd or fatuous. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 21:19 - Dec 13 with 1750 views | Whos_blue |
| Modern jargon on 12:40 - Dec 13 by SE1blue |
I am not sure if it's been mentioned on here much but 'draught excluder'. |
My personal favourite........ |  |
| Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness. |
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