This week’s cliche of the week “Managerial merry-go-round”

 

A “managerial merry-go-round” is known as the part of the season where moves in management during the season. Commonly in the months of May-June

This week’s football cliche is “Throw the kitchen sink!”. 

This is the complete opposite of “park the bus,” as I selected for last week. 

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When somebody says that a team needs to “throw the kitchen sink”, it means to go all-out attack. Typically deployed in the last few minutes of a game, when a team desperately needs to get a goal. This period of time is usually known as “squeaky bum time”, originally coined by former Manchester United manager and Scotsman Sir Alex Ferguson. 

Typically, when a team does choose to “throw the kitchen sink” at the game, it will mean all players, even defenders will trek much higher up the pitch, and with the attacking side possibly having a front line of 7 players, with only 2 midfielders and 1 defender remaining in any defensive unit. This is done

to effectively create more goal-scoring chances and cause overloads for the opposition. This does have its downsides, including the huge chance of the opposition counter-attacking when there are only minimal defenders available to deal with this. 

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Example usage: “Chelsea need to throw the kitchen sink now if they’re to get anything out of this game!”

This week’s football cliche is “Throw the kitchen sink!”. 

This is the complete opposite of “park the bus,” as I selected for last week. 

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When somebody says that a team needs to “throw the kitchen sink”, it means to go all-out attack. Typically deployed in the last few minutes of a game, when a team desperately needs to get a goal. This period of time is usually known as “squeaky bum time”, originally coined by former Manchester United manager and Scotsman Sir Alex Ferguson. 

Typically, when a team does choose to “throw the kitchen sink” at the game, it will mean all players, even defenders will trek much higher up the pitch, and with the attacking side possibly having a front line of 7 players, with only 2 midfielders and 1 defender remaining in any defensive unit. This is done

to effectively create more goal-scoring chances and cause overloads for the opposition. This does have its downsides, including the huge chance of the opposition counter-attacking when there are only minimal defenders available to deal with this. 

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Example usage: “Chelsea need to throw the kitchen sink now if they’re to get anything out of this game!”

This week’s football cliche is “Throw the kitchen sink!”. 

This is the complete opposite of “park the bus,” as I selected for last week. 

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When somebody says that a team needs to “throw the kitchen sink”, it means to go all-out attack. Typically deployed in the last few minutes of a game, when a team desperately needs to get a goal. This period of time is usually known as “squeaky bum time”, originally coined by former Manchester United manager and Scotsman Sir Alex Ferguson. 

Typically, when a team does choose to “throw the kitchen sink” at the game, it will mean all players, even defenders will trek much higher up the pitch, and with the attacking side possibly having a front line of 7 players, with only 2 midfielders and 1 defender remaining in any defensive unit. This is done

to effectively create more goal-scoring chances and cause overloads for the opposition. This does have its downsides, including the huge chance of the opposition counter-attacking when there are only minimal defenders available to deal with this. 

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Example usage: “Chelsea need to throw the kitchen sink now if they’re to get anything out of this game!”

This week’s football cliche/piece of jargon a week is “Park the Bus” - originally coined by Portuguese manager, Jose Mourinho. It refers to a style of play in which the team in question is defending very stringently and mostly what makes up their game, where the other team plays a very deep block and attacks very little. 

 

Usually deployed by a team when they are trying to see out a game whilst winning by one goal in the closing stages of a game.