I have really had it with "nil"

In that case, "nil" wouldn't fly for me. On TV, it's just fine. I agree, not in print.

 

I would never use nil in print. Winning 1-nil just looks wrong. But it's perfectly fine to say it on TV.

I know some die-hard soccer fans and they get annoyed if they hear an American broadcaster say "One to nothing" instead of "One, nil." Saying "One, nil" doesn't prove you know anything about soccer to them, but saying "One to nothing" proves you don't.

Tie and draw I think are interchangeable. I guess I usually say "match" when referring to international soccer, but as I think about it, I'm pretty sure I usually write "game" when referring to high school soccer. I'm not at all consistent on that front.

 

Sounds like you know some annoying elitists.

 

Not really. If you were listening to a british broadcast of the World Baseball Classic (just as an example ... I know no one watched it, much less in Britain) and the announcer breathlessly shouted in his best Cockney accent, "And David Ortiz belts a four-run homer!" wouldn't you assume he knows nothing about baseball?

 

Speaking of nil ... wait till Johnny Pimples is the first 7th-grader to sign an NIL deal.

 

I realize MLS announcers are trying to be purists, but all of the talk of "pace," "pitch" and "kits," and other soccer jargon barrowed from Europe is baffling to me.

 

Ohio high schools just rejected it.

 

Do soccer teams that lose "fall" or "fell" like other sports teams?

 

I hate it when baseball announcers use made-up bullshit like "innings."

 

Yet it will likely be here in a matter of months anyway.

https://www.wcpo.com/sports/high-sc...s-landscape?utm_source=ocn&utm_medium=website

 

While we are at it ... can we talk about how "time and space" are the same friggin' thing?! If you have time to shoot, you have the space to do it. If you have the space, you have time to shoot it.

 

“I’ve really had it with nil”

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