Ref Phrases

Phrases

• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Abide with me (hymn traditionally sung at the English football Cup Final)
• All Day (Nickname of American football player Adrian Peterson)
• Are you ready for some football?
• As blind as a bat
• As blind as a mole
• As clean as a whistle
• Bad Moon (Nickname of American football player Andre Rison)
• Bart the Cool (Nickname of American football player Bart Starr)
• Big Al (Nickname of football player Alan Shearer and of basketball player Al Jefferson)
• Big Ben (Nickname of basketball player Ben Wallace and American football player Ben Roethlisberger)
• Big Cat (Nickname of American football player Leon Lett)
• Big Daddy (Nickname of American football Dan Wilkinson)
• Big Phil (Nickname of football manager Luiz Felipe Scolari)
• Big Sam (Nickname of football manager Sam Allardyce)
• Blind Before I Stop (Meatloaf song)
• Blind alley
• Blind corner
• Blind date
• Blind drunk
• Blind faith
• Blind spot
• Blow the whistle
• Buy blind
• Champagne Tony (Nickname of American football player Tony Eason)
• Crazy Legs (Nickname of American football player Elroy Hirsch)
• Dandy Don (Nickname of American football player Don Meredith)
• Doesn't make a blind bit of difference
• Dog whistle politics (Political messages intended for a specific knowledgable audience)
• Double blind test
• Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while
• Flying blind

• Fourth Quarter Vince (Nickname of American football player Vince Young)
• Fred Ex (Nickname of American football player Freddie Mitchell)
• Garbage Man (Nickname of American football player Michael Bradley)
• Golden Guus (Nickname of football manager Guus Hiddink)
• He Hate Me (Nickname of American football player Rod Smart)
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
• Justice is blind
• Love is blind
• No one likes us, we don't care (A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters)
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• On the blind side
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Political football
• Rob someone blind
• Son of a whore (a bastard, or a general term of abuse)
• Swear blind
• The Crazy Gang (Nickname of Wimbledon Football Club)
• The Special One (Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho)
• The blind leading the blind
• There are none so blind as those that will not see
• There's none so blind as those who will not see
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Train whistle blowing
• Turn a blind eye
• Up a blind alley
• Wet your whistle
• Whistle A Happy Tune
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)
• Whistle while you work
• Wolf whistle
• Word association football
• You can whistle for it
• You're a bastard referee