Weekly Football Phrase: (to) Hit the Byline

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Weekly Football Phrase: Hit the Byline

In this football phrase of the week we look at the verb phrase, ‘to hit the byline‘ which describes a way of attacking. You can read the transcript for this post below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. You can also find out more about this phrase in our football language forum. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us here.

Hello

DB: Hi there everyone. My name is Damon from the Learn English Through Football team and I hope you are all doing well. I am based here in Tokyo, where summer is arriving, bringing with it hot and humid weather. It is still bearable, but it’s going to get hotter! On today’s short weekly football phrase, we take a look at a verb phrase connected with attacking, but first a message.

Stinger: You are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast (from a Galatasaray fan)

Thank you very much for that message, Muzaffer! We’ll have a few more messages in different languages later in this show. I wonder if you can recognise the languages.

Hit the Byline

DB: OK, let’s take a look at this week’s football phrase, which is ‘to hit the byline‘. Now, this is not connected to a match played this week, instead I heard this while watching a football documentary on Andy Robertson. Robertson is a left back and he due to play his last game for Liverpool next weekend and this documentary, by the Anfield Wrap, celebrates his career.

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In the opening, it says that he was always trying to hit the byline. The byline is a common way of saying the the goal line, which is the name for the lines at either end of the pitch, where the goalposts and corner flags are placed.

To hit the byline gives an image of an attacking player reaching this line at speed and cutting the ball back for a teammate or whipping a cross into the box for a centre forward to attack. Robertson is well known for his attacking forays, moves, towards the byline.

Stinger: You are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast (in Chinese)

DB: Thank you for that message, which was in Chinese.

Now, we have had a few comments about this term on a pervious post, with some people saying there is no such term as ‘byline‘ and it should be called the goal line, but you will almost always hear commentators, players, and pundits refer to the lines at the end of the pitch as the byline. What would you say, byline or goal line? Let us know by posting on our forum or by contacting us at contact@learnenglishthroughfootball. And share what you call it in any other languages you know.

Chalk on his/her boots

DB: One more phrase connected to the byline, or the lines on the pitch is to get chalk on his or her boots. If you have chalk on your football boots, you have probably stepped on one of the lines on the pitch. You may be a winger, who is wide left or wide right, next to the sidelines, the long lines on each side of the pitch.

Many teams play with width and the manager wants the winger to get chalk on his or her feet, meaning, they want the player to be positioned very wide.

So, hit the byline means to attack the oppositions’ box and goal line, and to get chalk on your boots, means to stretch the play, to be positioned wide and next to the sideline.

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DB: And thank you for that message in Vietnamese.

Goodbye

DB: Do you know any phrases in other languages that have similar meanings to the phrases we have talked about today. If so, let us know by sending us a message to contact@learnenglishthroughfootball.com. That’s it from this week’s show. We’ll be back this weekend with our main Learn English Through Football podcast. Until then, enjoy all the football and ta-ra.

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