The Oxford English Dictionary now includes famous sayings uttered by Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho.
Both men have had outstanding success playing football, and their enormous contribution to the game is now being acknowledged in an unexpected way.
Along with well-known terminology used by Mourinho and Ferguson, a group of 15 football terms, including “Panenka,” “Rabona,” and the “Cruyff turn,” have been added to the lexicon.
Mourinho, who currently serves as the manager of Roma and has previously held managerial positions with Chelsea, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, and Manchester United, has entered the vocabulary thanks to the slightly humorous phrase he once used, “Park the bus.”
Mourinho first used the term to describe Tottenham’s tactics in a game in 2004, but football fans know that throughout his career ‘The Special One’ has been guilty of doing that himself on more than one occasion.
The phrase is defined as: “To play in a very defensive way, typically by having the majority of outfield players close to their own goal and showing little attacking intent.” Sir Alex has entered the dictionary for the phrase, ‘Squeaky Bum Time’, which he used to describe his team challenging for the title in the closing stages of the Premier League season.
