The so called 'pundits' regularly refer to strange parts of the football pitch - I say strange because until recent times, they did not exist at all. Apparently the large square of grass (an oblong within the parameters of 100-130 yards long and 50-100 yards wide, but typically 115 x 75) has some special areas known as 'the Hole' and 'the Gulley' !! Further, there are also 'Channels' in which players sometimes move! These references seem more akin to cricket than football; clearly the pundits are trying to create some sort of mystique about their talents and observations, and want to bamboozle us with fancy jargon. Basically, they're all talking complete shit.
While I'm on the subject of football, there has been a decline in observation of the rules over the last three years, such that nowadays, it's actually more common to see a corner kick where the ball is not placed in the 'D' rather than within the confines of the small arc in each corner of the pitch. For anyone interested, the purpose of the quarter circle at each corner is not decorative; each is there so that the player takling a corner knows where to place the ball - supposedly WITHIN the markings. The current trend amongst players is to place the ball so that a tiny part of it 'overhangs' the white line. The officials (twats) seem to have abandoned all sense of logic let alone the rules themselves, and they lamely allow kicks to proceed illegally.
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