There are certain comments that have found a way into the vocabulary of many play-by-play and colour commentators that are downright irritating. Here are the ones that are guaranteed to have me shouting at the TV and that distort viewers understanding of the game and how officials are told to interpret the laws.

1.    "He got the ball" - as in a tackler comes out of a challenge with the ball or eventually makes contact with the ball and somehow that makes everything automatically legal.

There is nothing in the Laws of the Game that judges the legality or illegality of a tackle by whether or not a defender wins the ball. The decision is based on whether or not the defender plays the ball first. Even then the referee might judge the challenge to have endangered the opponent