being too stingy to pay and post my comment on rick waghorn's site, i'm posting it here
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Usually, you would precede the word 'draw' with some sort of traditional football adjective - to a tame 0-0 draw, clung on to a 0-0 draw, ground out a 0-0.
FGiven (sic) Norwich's circumstances, it is difficult to know what best to put before this particular goalless effort - performance-wise they didn't particularly stumble, result-wise they did.
Clung on to a point they certainly did when Gary Doherty's desperate, second-half block saw the ball spin up and against David Marsall's right-hand upright; by the same token, you could argue they deserved more than a point when substitute Chris Martin produced the shot of the match moments after his arrival only for the ball to slam back off the inside of Joe Murphy's post.
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Surely there should be some sort of grammar exam that you have to sit before becoming a journalist. I hope that impressionable kids don't read this article and go away thinking that 'cling' and 'grind out' are adjectives.
Posted By: Dave in France on October 3rd 2007 at 13:31:16
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- being too stingy to pay and post my comment on rick waghorn's site, i'm posting it here (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 3, 13:31:16
- Doubt it. (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 13:49:10
- Capital B at the start of a sentence. It's I'm too, not i'm (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 13:46:23
- "I'm too posting it here"? (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 3, 13:49:39
- either way, who gives a fuck? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 13:51:34
- well (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 3, 14:07:06
- Surely this is just an example of language evolving, being reformed by its users? (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 3, 14:36:40
- It's not a big deal (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 14:11:49
- it is really (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 3, 14:13:46
- It's hardly the Guardian online though is it? (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 14:20:57
- Its also about pride in your own work and respect of your peers (General Chat) - Swiss Yellow, Oct 3, 14:33:45
- who would subscribe? (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 3, 14:32:48
- yeah so when he does a 1000 word piece and there's a couple of errors (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 14:38:34
- Exactly right. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 3, 14:41:10
- I dont go on it (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 3, 14:40:44
- When he said "you" he meant "one", not "you". (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 3, 14:42:12
- all the stranger that you're grumbling about it then. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 3, 14:41:35
- yeah so when he does a 1000 word piece and there's a couple of errors (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 14:38:34
- It's hardly the Guardian online though is it? (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 14:20:57
- it is really (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 3, 14:13:46
- well (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 3, 14:07:06
- either way, who gives a fuck? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 13:51:34
- "I'm too posting it here"? (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 3, 13:49:39
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