I have really had it with "nil"

A reminder that 2006 was another time altogether.

 

The mark of a truly talented spades player is the ability to go nil.

 

Nil or blind nil?

 

Boston.

 

Nil. Too much luck involved with blind nil.

 

I have really had it with having really had it with nil.

 

Nil spelled backward is . . .

 

Side note:
Years and years (and years) ago, one of the local college soccer coaches (British) called in a result and said "We dominated in a nil-nil tie."
We understood his use of nil — he was a foreigner, after all — but dominate and tie do not go in the same sentence.

 

Not the same. “Space” in soccer is a sort of geographic designation. When you play a ball wide, or into any open area for that matter, hoping someone will run on to the ball, you are “playing it into space”.

 

I'm talking about when color commentators use the phrase "time and space" to describe how the person was open to shoot ... hockey or soccer especially.

 

Even then, if I’m being pedantic, I can see where one is separated from the other in specific circumstances.

In soccer, you can have time, but not space. Say you’re a holding midfielder or attacker with your back to the goal, essentially backing down a defender, keeping the ball to make a decision who and when to pass to.

You can have space and not time if you’re wide by yourself, but you need to make a quick decision to cross, shoot or keep the ball depending on the run of your teammate and whether he might go offsides or not.