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, Oct 3, 13:31:16