New football phrase – Modern language or just jargon?
Is it simply the modern language of football? Or simply “jargon” to dress the game glossary of the game in terms of imaginative clothes?
From a “low block” to a “high print”, the football phrase has obtained countless new rumors in recent years that have become part of the conversations before, during and after the games.
These words alone sparkle of discussion from supporters to past and present players, by the cynics who reject them, to the new generation that embrace them as an integral part of the football experience.
BBC Sport Pat Nevin and Chris Sutton experts who have to decide which one to use or avoid, have explicit opinions on the subject.
Nevin, a former Scotland striker, says: “I think it’s just a jargon used in every sector. He is showing someone who you are in a slightly welcoming club. You are saying” we know about these things “and makes you look a little more intelligent.
“He’s saying ‘We are in the club, we know – you are not’. I never use them, or if I do it I apologize immediately or I follow it.
“For example, I could say that a team is defending itself very deep, so add” or as they say in modern language, a low block “.”
Sutton said: “It’s just the evolution of the game. They are only different words, they are not? I am not one who blocks too much in the past – but there could be one with whom I take a real shadow.”
So what are these modern terms? And what do they really mean?
