Best of The Commentators' View 2024/25 - Part Two

The best bits as John Murray, Ian Dennis & Ali Bruce-Ball talk football, travel & language.

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BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries:

Sat 2000 Spain v England in U21 Euros quarter-final.

Glossary so far:

2-0 is a dangerous score,

After you Claude,

All-Premier League affair,

Aplomb,

Brace,

Brandished,

Breaking the deadlock,

Bundled over the line,

Champions elect / champions apparent,

Clinical finish,

Commentator’s curse,

Coupon buster,

Cultured/Educated left foot,

Denied by the woodwork,

Draught excluder,

Elimination line,

Fellow countryman,

Foot race,

Formerly of this parish,

Fox in the box,

Free hit,

Goalmouth scramble,

Good touch for a big man,

Honeymoon Period,

In and around,

In the shop window,

Keeping ball under their spell,

Languishing,

Loitering with intent,

Marching orders,

Nestle in the bottom corner,

Numbered derbies,

Nutmeg,

Opposite number,

Park the bus,

PK for penalty-kick,

Postage stamp,

Put their laces through it,

Rasping shot,

Red wine not white wine,

Relegation six-pointer,

Rooted at the bottom,

Roy of the Rovers stuff,

Sending the goalkeeper the wrong way,

Sleeping giants,

Slide rule pass,

Small matter of,

Spiders web,

Stayed hit,

Steepling,

Stinging the palms,

Stonewall penalty,

Straight off the training ground,

Stramash,

Throw their cap on it,

Thruppenny bit head / 50p head,

Put it in the mixer,

Towering header,

Turning into a basketball match,

Turning into a cricket score,

Walking a disciplinary tightrope,

Wand of a left foot,

We’ve got a cup tie on our hands,

Where the owl sleeps,

Winger in their pocket,

Wrap foot around it,

Your De Bruynes, your Gundogans etc.