We built this city....

After re-reading that last post, it made me think of how many other annoying football cliches get churned out so I'm going to focus this on cliches. For those who don't know me, I have done quite a bit of commentating for my local side (great fun...) and during this I stumbled upon an article ( a few years old now) about Setanta Sports pledging to cut out cliches during one televised game ( Setanta to "kick out" cliches ). When I was commentating I loved using cliches but hating listening to them on Sky Sports.

With the FA cup, it seems acceptable for every broadcaster to wheel out these cliches, even the adverts for ITV and ESPN are littered with them. So here is a list of  a few FA Cup Cliches

When describing a lower league team against a better opponent, "it's their Cup Final" - It really isn't, most likely that honour will be bestowed to the Cheshire Senior Cup final (well in Altrincham's case... or Nantwhich)

Potential banana skin. - Although in all my years I have yet to see a person slip on one..... except for on Mario Kart

Any game that is entertaining will be referred to by the commentator as a "proper cup tie as if the others are as pointless as a Fifa Career-mode pre-season came
 

"The best cup competition in the world!" - Because people who say this have watched every single other cup competition in the world, presumably, as believe it is vastly superior to that of the Copa Peru

In every part time team the commentator to point out that one of them is an electrician/plumber etc. - This even happened during the England v San Marino build up - which was a perfectly example of cliches being over used   Form books being hurled out of windows.... I have never seen a form book, or indeed any other book, hurled out of a window.

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