Embarrassing football related confession....

Mitch Connor

I don't know what a slide rule pass is...

Anyone tell me?

I used to think it was simply a ball played along the ground parallel to the goal line (if you get me) so that a player isn't given offside (ball not going forward) but I have heard it used refering to a simple forward pass.

Is it just a pass along the ground?

JPA

I think it's a pass or through ball for a player who is running to meet it. Not directly to a players feet but a pass to where they will be.
But not 100% either.

Frisbee

Slide Rule - As in it was measured to perfection, no?

ShatterProof

Frisbee wrote: »

Slide Rule - As in it was measured to perfection, no?

Eggzacery

SK1979

Frisbee wrote: »

Slide Rule - As in it was measured to perfection, no?

This would be my interpretation of it too. A slide rule pass - perfect pass into someones stride etc?

Tusky

I've never heard that phrase.

Carroller16

Never ever heard that phrase . .ever. . Are you sure your not getting mixed up with Slide tackle, offside rule and through pass. .

Kells...

"slide-rule pass" is a colloquially expression used by sportswriters, commentators and fans to describe a pass in the game of soccer. British sportswriter Simon Barnes explains that the term is a cliché that "combines the idea of immense precision with the actual action of a person using a slide rule."

Mitch Connor

Carroller16 wrote: »

Never ever heard that phrase . .ever. . Are you sure your not getting mixed up with Slide tackle, offside rule and through pass. .

positive. heard it a lot.

See mention of it in the BBC Live PL updates for tonights games

2044: Disallowed goal at Goodison Park as Peter Crouch slots in Gareth Bale's slide-rule pass only to be given offside. It was the right call.

explanation given by posters above makes sense....

Tusky

In 20 odd years of playing, talking and watching football Ive never heard it once. Odd.

parker kent

Carroller16 wrote: »

Never ever heard that phrase . .ever. . Are you sure your not getting mixed up with Slide tackle, offside rule and through pass. .

How have you never heard it? It is used an awful lot by commentators, journos etc

But Zidane still left us something worth remembering: a slide-rule pass. The cliché is long out of fashion, but I have always liked the way it combines the idea of immense precision with the actual action of a person using a slide rule. And the slide-rule pass was always Zidane’s greatest contribution to the movement of a football match.....

You can’t win the World Cup without a proper striker, they said. You can if you’ve got Zidane in your team, with his conductor’s baton and his slide rule and his falconine profile and his Gitanes ablaze. And just to prove that it was no fluke, he led the France team to victory in the European Championship two years later.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/simon_barnes/article685407.ece

Guy:Incognito

Tusky wrote: »

In 20 odd years of playing, talking and watching football Ive never heard it once. Odd.

Do you watch it on tv with the sound on?

Mars Bar

Is it a through ball?

I've never heard of that phrase before.

Trhiggy83

You lost me as well - playin the game 20 years and i never heard of that phrase in my life.

parker kent

mars bar wrote: »

Is it a through ball?

I've never heard of that phrase before.

As is said above by others (and in my link) it is a pass so accurate that it "it combines the idea of immense precision with the actual action of a person using a slide rule".

Mars Bar

parker kent wrote: »

As is said above by others (and in my link) it is a pass so accurate that it "it combines the idea of immense precision with the actual action of a person using a slide rule".

But what's the slide rule?!

MrStuffins

Carroller16 wrote: »

Never ever heard that phrase . .ever. . Are you sure your not getting mixed up with Slide tackle, offside rule and through pass. .

This made me laugh out loud!

stovelid

Always thought it was a perfectly angled pass. As in measured with a slide rule. Could be mistaken.

Did have to ask once what a daisy cutter was though.

lordgoat

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I don't know what a slide rule pass is...

Anyone tell me?

I used to think it was simply a ball played along the ground parallel to the goal line (if you get me) so that a player isn't given offside (ball not going forward) but I have heard it used refering to a simple forward pass.

Is it just a pass along the ground?

My understanding was it was a through ball but the player is moving across the pitch and slides it forward to towards the goal.

The player would be moving right to left (or vice versa) and plays the ball forward into the box/goal area, quite a clever measured pass.

parker kent

mars bar wrote: »

But what's the slide rule?!

This is a slide rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

This is another reference to it:

A simple device with one sliding part that could do complex mathematical calculations in moments. Multiplication, division, roots, logarithms, and even trigonometry could be performed with ease. But as technology marched forward with sophisticated computers and graphing pocket calculators the lowly slide rule was forgotten... left unused in attic boxes and yard sales, its contribution to aviation, space exploration, and architecture just a memory

Saying slide rule indicates the accuracy of the pass. It was used to make accurate calculations, much like how a footballer can make an accurate pass.

BigBenRoeth

It's just a retarded commentators term for a really good through ball along the ground

TheBigLebowski

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Do you watch it on tv with the sound on?

Maybe he doesn't watch football on TV. Now there's a crazy idea.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Never heard of a slide rule pass, tbh.

kakee

robbed from elsewhere. Just google slide rule pass.

A "slide-rule pass" is a colloquially expression used by sportswriters, commentators and fans to describe a pass in the game of soccer. British sportswriter Simon Barnes explains that the term is a cliché that "combines the idea of immense precision with the actual action of a person using a slide rule."

yabadabado

I have heard of it a fair few times.its a through ball .a slide rule is like a ruler witha sliding middle section for doing calculations.so I suppose a precision pass.

dfx-

It's a through ball, but it has to be all along the ground. A forward pass from Xavi basically.

the untitled user

a 'measured' pass would be the closest alternative phrasing.

The Muppet

Frisbee wrote: »

Slide Rule - As in it was measured to perfection, no?

Can't believe the amount of users who have never heard it,

It's a pass played to perfection usually through a couple of defenders.

Dolph Starbeam

mars bar wrote: »

But what's the slide rule?!

It is just a through ball, ball played through into the path of another players run, same thing. I've heard slide-rule pass used a lot but i never actually understood how they gave it that name. They call it a through ball in all the Fifa games so i'll stick with calling it that.