A crusade to analyse, in excruciating depth, the art of the football cliché. The saturation of football coverage has ensured the emergence of a code, to which everyone in football unwittingly adhere. I seek to dissect this code.
Players and agents are always 'thrashing out terms' too.
You'll love this one from today's Daily Mail (22nd July):"John Aldridge has slammed Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger for making a ‘derisory’ £30million bid for Liverpool striker Luis Suarez"'Slammed' and 'derisory' in the same sentence!
Players and agents are always 'thrashing out terms' too.
ReplyDeleteYou'll love this one from today's Daily Mail (22nd July):
ReplyDelete"John Aldridge has slammed Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger for making a ‘derisory’ £30million bid for Liverpool striker Luis Suarez"
'Slammed' and 'derisory' in the same sentence!