r/footballcliches

I am sure this will be easily bested but even by wikipedia footballer pictures this is piss poor. Bonus points for prominent players

To be clear, not the last times that the club signed someone regarded as being a top-class player, but the last top-class player to come in and become the latest star of a successful team there.

From a 2007 interview in the Guardian. Surely this isn't true? I've never heard anything other than the 'Golazo!' from the Brazilian commentary Adam tracked down...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/aug/12/sport.obsmagspecial8

This has been doing the rounds today.

Have never played pros at 5s before. However, I remember getting to the final of a charity tournament and we played Scotland’s team who represented the country and the Homeless World Cup. Have never been as humbled. Their strength and movement was off the scale and we later found out their best player was missing a lot of his toes…

Surely just use a dash or don't include them at all

BBC getting weirder by the day. Disasi also given permission to visit Madame Tussauds and the Natural History museum

The next [insert player name] when that player is still only 25. Are we having this? I feel like the threshold should be 30+

Trying to work out how Flashscore have decided to order the league table before the season starts. Up to 11th is alphabetical at least but after, who knows? Likelihood manager to be sacked? How ‘Barclays’ they are?

Do we know if Opta measure goals scored after family bereavement?