Watching the telecast tonight, I noticed, not for the first time, that 'number' now appears to be a synonym for 'player'.
Not that long ago, as we all suffered through flooding, teams were regularly reported to be "getting numbers back". Tonight I heard Anthony Hudson describe a passage of play thus: "There's a number free [on the wing]..."
It's not quite of the quality of Peter Landy's famous "each of two" description of level scores, but not bad.
King of the Tongue-Twisters at the moment would have to be David Schwartz. The Ox wants to be considered educated and regularly mangles expressions. A recent favourite referred to a player being "a former shadow of himself".
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Pick up that number!
Not that long ago, as we all suffered through flooding, teams were regularly reported to be "getting numbers back". Tonight I heard Anthony Hudson describe a passage of play thus: "There's a number free [on the wing]..."
It's not quite of the quality of Peter Landy's famous "each of two" description of level scores, but not bad.
King of the Tongue-Twisters at the moment would have to be David Schwartz. The Ox wants to be considered educated and regularly mangles expressions. A recent favourite referred to a player being "a former shadow of himself".
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