And some more mixed metaphors !
It was a stone-banker handball"
Tony Pulis
“I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.”
“Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.”
“The lads have run their socks into the ground.”?
“I'm absolutely over the world!”
Bobby Moore after the 1966 World Cup final
“The panic buttons were ringing.”
Trevor Francis
“Fabio Capello needs to nail his Hammers to the mast.”
Andy Townsend
“And there is Sammy Lee, another inbred Liverpool man”
David Pleat
“United will break caution to the wind.”
Glenn Hoddle
“I’d love to be a mole on the wall in the dressing room.”
Kevin Keegan
“We could be putting the hammer in Luton’s coffin.”
“In the Scottish Cup you only get one crack at the cherry against Rangers or Celtic.”?
Commentator Tom Ferrie
“They’ve got their tails between their teeth.”
Birmingham football correspondent Tom Ross
“If you want to buy a ticket you have got to win the raffle.”
West Brom legend Tony Brown
and of course
“I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.”?
OFB
Are Boro on any free channels tomorrow night ? I usually check HESGOAL which is a bit of a pain as the picture keeps freezing.
Philip of Huddersfield
Before the game on Saturday the commentators were saying it was a stone wall banker for a home Reading win and what a poor team Boro were. I must confess I did tweet that to a few interested Boro people.
I wonder if NW told the Boro players what the commentators had said before the game?
OFB
Mark Drury and Maddo give out Birthday Greetings Anniversary Celebrations all through the game and not just at the beginning which infuriates me !
OFB
So now official that Bristol City have appointed Nigel Pearson as their new manager.
Pearson is set to watch Tuesday evening's Championship match away at Middlesbrough before taking charge of Saturday's trip to Swansea City.
Up the Boro!
@original-fat-bob. I must have tuned in a bit later as I did not hear that. Had I done so then I perhaps would not have been as generous in my praise of their commentary fairness.
I would agree that we had been on a poor run form wise but not that we were a poor team.
If NW did hear it and tell the team then it certainly did the trick.
If we are a poor team then what does it say about Reading given we have taken 4 points out of six this season and they have not won against us in the last nine meetings! 😎
@original-fat-bob. Totally agree with that.
I am fully in agreement with them reading out celebrations having made use of the service myself for my brothers 60th. These should, however, be restricted to post and pre match sections of the show and during the half time interval.
One of the key criteria, in my view, to a good commentary is the adage that less is more. 😎
Of course the late David Coleman was notable for a few, but I can’t remember any at the moment. Didn’t Hilda Ogden once refer to muriels on the wall?. My wife once came up with a stunner after my brother had been teasing her with a riposte “You can’t pull my leg over my shoulder”. One of my favourites though was Stan Laurel’s “You can direct a mule to water, but a pencil must be lead”.
In it's own way 'the carrot at the end of the tunnel' makes some sort of crazy sense. That is of course If you are crazy!
Some one on this blog said that it was too late for them to appoint a new manager, so all was well for us to catch them in freefall and do our goal difference a bit of good. How wrong we were, lets hope that he keeps his debut for the weekend.
On a serious note. Boro haven’t drawn a home league game for 12 matches, whilst Bristol City haven’t drawn an away league match for 12 matches. Unlucky 13 coming up?
Also a good referee is one you never notice. Very rare nowadays!
Some crackers there.
I also liked "If Matt Busby were alive today he would be spinning in his grave." and " The sands of time are ticking away for United".
And Ken, one of Coleman's most famous comments was on the great Cuban athlete, Juantorena, on winning an Olympic 400m gold: "Juantorena simply opened his legs and showed his class".
Few, however, can surpass RayMoore, compering a Miss World competition and asking one of the contestants to comment on people who criticised the contest:
"And what do you think of Miss World's knockers?"
Perhaps Maddo doesn't do such a bad job.
More on Referee Tim Robinson
STEVE BRUCE claims referee Tim Robinson “was not ready” to preside over his first Premier League game, and has blamed the official for Newcastle United’s 1-0 defeat at Burnley.
Robinson infuriated Bruce as he failed to award Newcastle a free-kick when Chris Wood appeared to bundle over Federico Fernandez in the build-up to his winning goal.
The referee initially awarded Newcastle a goal-kick, only to change his mind and hand Burnley a corner. Ashley Westwood swung the ball into the middle, and Wood headed home from inside the six-yard box.
@lenmasterman
A couple from Brian Johnson the cricket commentator:-
“Neil Harvey is standing in the slips, legs apart waiting for a tickle” and in a test match against the West Indies “The bowlers Holding, the batsman’s Willey” although I think they might have been said deliberately knowing Johnston’s sense of humour.
And there was, of course, the best ever actual scorebook entry:
Lillie caught Willey bowled Dilley.
According to Sky website the match is available on the red button from 7pm.
Are Boro on any free channels tomorrow night ? I usually check HESGOAL which is a bit of a pain as the picture keeps freezing.
Philip of Huddersfield
If you are a "Daddy" there is a "live club" you could check out!
@redcarred I’m happy to pay my £10 to watch on the iPad. Hopefully some of the money goes to MFC. Being able to watch the games has been a rare positive from the pandemic lockdown.
Neil Warnock has a couple in his press conferences such as “Are you with me?” and “If I’m honest ...."
One, not particularly NW’s is that I find annoying is “At this moment in time”. What’s wrong with “now” or “nowadays”? But the worst one is the interjection “yer know”. Maybe it’s nervousness, because one wouldn’t write it during a sentence, so why use it when speaking? However I suppose most of us are guiity of using favourite words or sayings. I once tried to convince a Croatian receptionist that “chao” was Spanish, but she insisted it was Serbo-Croat.
I used to love using the word “piadista” in Portugal meaning “joker” or “you’re joking” which I picked up in Brazil but very few Portuguese knew it’s meaning.
I had been hoping Tav may have made the bench but clearly his recovery is still not at the right stage yet. 😎
Bristol ahead. Easy downward header from unmarked Diedhiou bounced past dive of Bettinelli after another quick break and poorly defended Nagy ball into the box (0-1, 21 mins)
😥
Meanwhile Fletcher off clutching his hamstring. That was the injury that side-lined him for three months. The agonising over whether to play him brought into stark perspective now. Akpom on
🙁
One step forward and two steps back! Typical Boro with some shocking defending. What has happened to Saturday's team! 0-2 and no way back now! 😎
Here we go again...
Double bugger, as Vic puts it:
Goal! Middlesbrough 0, Bristol City 2. Famara Diédhiou (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nahki Wells.
That one courtesy of the Beeb.
Typical, we get to play a team that has been down and out just after they appoint a new manager. They are out to impress him tonight... 2 down in half an hour.
Long hard evening now if we are going to win this tonight.
Make that treble bugger (+ some of those things that are round & bounce)! The Robins obviously out to impress Big Nige! 🙁 Diédhiou returns the compliment:
Goal! Middlesbrough 0, Bristol City 3. Nahki Wells (Bristol City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Famara Diédhiou with a headed pass following a fast break.
Or, according to Vic:
Long ball from Kalas, FRy loses a header to Diedhiou, drops for Wells who shrugs off Howson and rounds keeper and slots into an empty net. Gift-wrapped (0-3, 38mins)
Sigh! One step forward, three back... 😥