The 12 most annoying football clichés - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

We all love talking about football, with the latest matches, transfers and events dominating the train of thought and sparking debate on a daily basis. From the highest echelon of football commentators, journalists and even the players and managers themselves, down to the man in the pub, anything can be explained and justified with a well-rehearsed and used-to-death cliché.

EA Sports have released a new video featuring an interview with football commentators Martin Tyler and Alan Smith. Both commentators will be the voices of FIFA 12. The video shows Tyler and Smith recording some of the lines that will be used in the...
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They say that ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder', and after a small eternity of not seeing the mighty Arse play, I cannot wait for the new season to start. Simply seeing our players on a green pitch again during recent friendly games, made me realise how much I've really missed our team over the last few months.

The Football Supporters' Federation has launched a petition – visit www.fsf.org.uk/safestanding as part of our campaign for the introduction of safe standing areas in the top two divisions in England and Wales. We know some of you might think that signing a petition is a bit of a futile gesture, but the timing for the campaign is crucial.

On Friday afternoon, we brought you the first part of our mini-series paying tribute our top six football commentators, and today it's time for the second three. Again, we would like to take the opportunity to point out that this top six is not in any particular order merely that it was a pleasure to spend our Saturday afternoons, Saturday evenings, Sunday afternoons and more in their company.

It often seems as if football commentators are more divisive that than they perhaps they should be. We, as supporters, allow our hackles to rise whenever they open their mouths, yet what they do is extraordinarily difficult. Perhaps the point is that they make it look easy, leading us to believe that it is easy.

Barcelona's training academy must be an incredible place to work. Not only does the place produce some of the most frightening talent ever to be seen in the history of football (Leo Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Pepe Reina, Andres Iniesta and Xavi are factory prototypes, to name but a few) but it would also give plenty of opportunity for savvy young women to husband hunt like the Ride-or-Die WAGs before them to identify future hotties of the game.

Real Madrid's La Liga title hopes suffered a huge setback as they were humbled 1-0 by lowly Osasuna on Sunday evening leaving Jose Mourinho's men seven points adrift of table-toppers Barcelona...

The winner came courtesy of Javier Camunas whose driven shot in the 62nd minute eluded Madrid shot-stopper Iker Casillas and crept in off the post in a tight encounter at the Estadio Reyno de Navarra.

Foot in mouth is not a new concept With Andy Gray, Richard Keys and Andy Burton all currently lolling around in a pub near the Sky Sports studios (no doubt letching at the barmaids, poring over page three of the Sun), we thought it was about time to give them something to lift their spirits: [...]

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This week's main report looks at the future of the London Olympic Stadium with two London sides interested in possibly moving there. Explanations of key vocabulary (in bold) can be found at the foot of the post.

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This week's main report looks at the future of the London Olympic Stadium with two London sides interested in possibly moving there. Explanations of key vocabulary (in bold) can be found at the foot of the post.

Hi Guys, finally back home after a week out & again thanks for your patience as updating was not an easy task at all. Italian press surprised Everyone was surprised yesterday at the announcement of LIONEL MESSI as the 2010 FIFA GOLDEN BALL winner. The reactions have been "negative" from many local Spanish Football commentators as they believed the XAVI & INIESTA had more merit for their