'Park the bus' and 'squeaky bum time' – how football cliches have changed our language ✍️ susie_dent for ipaperviews
From such fanaticism grows a tribal lexicon, a shorthand that unites those who belong and excludes those who don’t. Whether you’re shouting about a belter/pearler/zinger/thronker/screamer of a shot, a daisy-cutter, or a ping into the top bin, any new word or expression can travel at the speed of an Erling Haaland bicycle kick.
The picture continues to evolve. This is a language in which “quality” and “class” are the adjectives of choice, where players’ names are continuously pluralised , where “them” replaces “those” and “y’knows” are liberally sprinkled through conversation. At the end of the day, you couldn’t make it up – except we do, week after week, as we climb the terraces or shout at our TV screens. Football language is one that is endlessly replayed and renewed and that binds its collective speakers together as one, no matter who we support.
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