Welcome to the latest instalment of It Is What It Is, the sister column to Adam Hurrey’s Football Cliches podcast and a parallel ... As for the ball: a classic red herring.

Welcome to the latest instalment of It Is What It Is, the sister column to Adam Hurrey’s Football Cliches podcast ... unchecked and oddly grand football phrases that tends to trigger another ...

We asked our Telegraph Sport writers to submit their most irritating phrases in football and they didn't let us down. It turns out the subject of tedious football phrases struck a nerve as ...