Cathal Dennehy: Everyone wrote us off - the most annoying phrases in sport
HOMEWORK: Many athletics commentators who’ve been in the game for decades apparently still don’t know how the timing system works. Pic: Matthew Ashton - AMA/Getty Images
ON the Monday after the Paris Olympics, following a slew of near misses at medals by Irish competitors in the final days, I wrote in this column that one of the phrases I’d like to see abolished from sport is: You get out of it what you put into it.
That was top of the hit list, but there are others. Lots of them. You’ll undoubtedly have your own too, rolling your eyes every time a player, manager or commentator utters them on TV. And so, digging a little deeper into the sporting lexicon of annoying phrases, here are 10 others I’d like to see outlawed as quickly as possible.
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